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Maine End of the Zone

newsbot2 said:
The new owners paid $500K, less than other offers King received. The sale doesn't include the station building, so they'll have to start from scratch after the LMA ends.
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That depends. It says they didn't buy the building, but they likely bought all the gear. They could just move it to their restaurant. The article doesn't mention the IP or tower.
 
TheBigA said:
That depends. It says they didn't buy the building, but they likely bought all the gear. They could just move it to their restaurant. The article doesn't mention the IP or tower.
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Google street view shows the towers in the back yard of the building at 861 Broadway, Bangor ME which looks like it was purpose-built for the radio stations.
 
I'm sure that land is worth a few bucks, looking at it from Google maps. If some group bought the license for WZON, I'm sure they could find an AM stick a to relocate the signal to.
 
Radio Roadie said:
I'm sure that land is worth a few bucks, looking at it from Google maps. If some group bought the license for WZON, I'm sure they could find an AM stick a to relocate the signal to.
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Remember, to preserve night time operation they need several towers or reduce to very, very low power.
 
The New Chico said:
Actually, WZON only has 1 tower now. 5000 days and 620 at night. But the question is what commercial use does it really have anymore?
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King couldn't make money with it in the 1980s and tried to run it as listener-supported in the early 90s. The question is if there was any point when it was commercially viable since it was WLBZ.
 
I think it was viable until he stopped trying to make money on anything other than WKIT.
He stopped doing local sports (and the talent became the competition)
He lost the Red Sox
He installed an HD transmitter that doubled the electric bill.

Up until 10 years ago there was someone in the building 24/7. Then he laid his part timers off and started carrying daily syndication like Alice Cooper.
He's done nothing but lose people at the station for 10-15 years.
His midday guy leaves so the morning show host on the talk station fills that slot.
His morning guy retires and the midday guy fills that void, bringing the midday guy back.
The evening guy retires and is replaced by syndication, that was already running overnights in place of a live body.

The new guys have already lost their morning show co-host.

If you thought it was paradise, it's not.
 
mrradioguy said:
I think it was viable until he stopped trying to make money on anything other than WKIT.
He stopped doing local sports (and the talent became the competition)
He lost the Red Sox
He installed an HD transmitter that doubled the electric bill.

Up until 10 years ago there was someone in the building 24/7. Then he laid his part timers off and started carrying daily syndication like Alice Cooper.
He's done nothing but lose people at the station for 10-15 years.
His midday guy leaves so the morning show host on the talk station fills that slot.
His morning guy retires and the midday guy fills that void, bringing the midday guy back.
The evening guy retires and is replaced by syndication, that was already running overnights in place of a live body.

The new guys have already lost their morning show co-host.

If you thought it was paradise, it's not.
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It reads like a horror nov——aw good grief
 
CTListener said:
It also put the station on a band that people advertisers target actually listen to.

He was late to the party on that. Many stations got rid of live talent overnight and, in many cases, outside of AM and PM drive, 20 years ago.
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It did however put his rimshot Class A on a subchannel and translator that covered the metro.

As for getting rid of live talent. Money doesn't matter to King, he's worth a half a billion dollars. He can operate those stations just on residual checks.
 
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