Or he could just keep us guessing, put WECK on both frequencies, and use "The Big IF" as a positioner!
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Buffalo Cumulus sells AM to Buddy Shula
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1270 is still acting as a repeater?
As Gordon McLendon learned when he took 1400 against 1520!
Buddy appears smart, hes got pretty easy access to two good engineers, including the one who did WCJW's translator work. and hes made a format work that wouldnt work in many other places or be nearly as successful. What would make it better? bigger/more signals.
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That sounds pretty solid, SRG, until you realize that instead of paying to move the WECK calls to 1270 and changing 1230 to WUSW, he's now paid for a change on 1270 to WUSW and would then have to pay again to swap the two. There are certainly owners out there that would be foolish enough to do such a thing and never even realize they just threw good money out the window for nothing. Buddy Shula doesn't strike me as wasteful or foolish in any way.
The call letter chance costs are.. well pocket change.... and if he moved WECK calsl to 1270 right away, wed know what he was up to
I think it's like $200. A rounding error in a successful station's budget.
Perhaps he wanted to watch the soccer
Ya know, in the midst of all this speculation, did anybody notice that Buddy didn't say they wouldn't go talk? It seems to me that he just said that they wouldn't go news/talk.
Whether anyone has guessed correctly or not, I suspect Buddy is enjoying that so many people are talking about this AM station that nobody has ever even mentioned for years.
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I've talked to him several times during the course of this thread, and he is amused by it.
Great, that's what we live for!
I guess you were right.
Patriot To Arrive In Buffalo
After acquiring Conservative Talk "Talk 1270" WHLD Niagara Falls/Buffalo for $150,000 in May and flipping it to a temporary simulcast
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Yes, Yuenke was finally right about something. His affiliates couldn’t wait to get out of there to do real radioI guess you were right.
Patriot To Arrive In Buffalo
After acquiring Conservative Talk "Talk 1270" WHLD Niagara Falls/Buffalo for $150,000 in May and flipping it to a temporary simulcast
Yuenke is right about everything except how to run a radio company. Hopefully he can milk the government contract handouts he gets with the cab company
In the meantime, let radio be handled by people who know what they are doing.
He could put Howard Stern on and nobody would hear it .
He is trying to turn WBER into a 5KW that will barely cover Buffalo. Good luck with that.
Guess there was something to all of this back on May 21
Sometimes what is obvious is the right answer. I don't understand why Buddy was denying the fact he was going with talk, unless there was some contractual obligation.
Station owners don't often announce format plans far in advance. Or at least until they're ready.
That's true. Having said that, lies hurt your credibility. Just saying nothing on a vague “stay tuned” is usually the better strategy.
I’m sure the majority of people who might be bothered by Buddy's approach don't read this board and will never know, though.