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Washington DC WTSD AM 1190 Goes Silent - End Near ?

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RF101

Unfortunately when WAGE folded on 1200 and WANN 1190 frequencies "were combined" it generated a future scenario where no AM would remain on 1190 or 1200 in the DCR area. This might be the case now.
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Request for Silent STA
Potomac Radio Group Inc
WTSD, Leesburg VA
Facility ID Number 54876
REQEST FOR SILENT STA
On or around January 5th, the LMA that WTSD operated under expired and the owners of WTSD were not
successful in securing another LMA or purchaser for WTSD. Therefore, due to severe financial
diƯiculties, WTSD cannot sustain operations at this time, and the owners have made the decision to take
the station dark, on or around January 14th until such time that another LMA or purchaser is secured.
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The station is owned by the Potomac Radio Group but operated by iHeartMedia. iHeart had been using it to clear Fox Sports Radio in Market #8.

It's 50,000 watts by day but just 1,200 watts at night. The three-tower array directional antenna is in Ashburn VA, about 20 miles west-northwest of Washington. Daytime it covers all of Washington. But after dark, it's too far west to adequately cover DC or its eastern suburbs.

iHeart owns WUST 1120 for its BIN news service. Would iHeart let it diplex on WUST's towers?
 
You think automakers are ticked off now that Uncle Sam wants to force them to keep putting AM radios in vehicles (in the nanny-state delusion that people's lives will be saved because they'll tune to a station on a band they never listen to for info on a tornado or an atomic bomb), wait 10 years, maximum. That required bit of old technology will be useless in much of America outside of a few major cities.
 
Gregg. said:
The station is owned by the Potomac Radio Group but operated by iHeartMedia. iHeart had been using it to clear Fox Sports Radio in Market #8.

It's 50,000 watts by day but just 1,200 watts at night. The three-tower array directional antenna is in Ashburn VA, about 20 miles west-northwest of Washington. Daytime it covers all of Washington. But after dark, it's too far west to adequately cover DC or its eastern suburbs.

iHeart owns WUST 1120 for its BIN news service. Would iHeart let it diplex on WUST's towers?
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70khz is to oclose to diplex with any reasonable audio bandwith and it would be to oexpensive. Plus, its not the tower stuff thats too expensive.. the owners just dont operate it themselves..... they own 1540 or did in philly and it was all leased time
 
Bongwater said:
Well at least it's something decent. The fact the Russians had a propaganda outlet on the air in DC made my blood boil.
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No different than the Chinese on 690 blasting into SoCal from Tijuana.
 
davideduardo said:
No different than the Chinese on 690 blasting into SoCal from Tijuana.
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Here's the difference; We didn't license XEWW. And they don't broadcast Putin's lies in English to budding American communists. They served as an affiliate of Chinese state-run media bullying Chinese ex-pats in Southern California. Broadcasting Xi's lies to a community that once lived under his party's rule back in China.

I don't like that either. But the Chinese government already had an example of a defense in WZHF. Which was already airing Sputnik when XEWW came on.

But I'm of the opinion if one is allowed to run 24/7 butt-naked Russian propaganda in the very shadow of the US Capitol, on a station licensed on American soil, they should at least register as a foreign agent.

I mean, come on, Reagan would be breakdancing in his grave if he knew Sputnik was on the air in Washington DC. (And XEWW.)

But I think XEWW is one of those things the State Department deals with. But we really can't do anything. The last time we had a radio war with Mexico, a lot of guys (and goats) got pretty messed up. We just don't want to start that again.

But we also don't want Xi bugging everybody in Southern California either. But with XEWW, that's an international tightrope, and it would take brighter minds to sort out than mine.

But within US borders, yes, we can filter out the problem. Because we have for many, many years before Sputnik came to DC.

It's also what bugs me about 100% foreign ownership proposals. How can we do this if we can't even make trade deals with a longer life than most insects anymore?
 
I am not pro-Putin and not pro-China but I am for Freedom of Speech. I suspect the greatest number of listeners either have is when a group gets all up in arms about it and makes a noise. Otherwise nobody listens.
 
WZHF was Sputnik only as a feeder for the FM 105.5 translator, where listeners would actually hear it. Before that it was on WKYS HD3 for a little bit.

China Radio International was on 1190 for around 10 years (2011-2022). Both operations bought the airtime, never owned the signals.
 
In the mid-90s AM 1030 ran Arabic if I recall, they even relayed a bit of BBC. Of course, 1120 New World Radio had a block of morning drivetime French from Radio France International.
 
RF101 said:
In the mid-90s AM 1030 ran Arabic if I recall, they even relayed a bit of BBC. Of course, 1120 New World Radio had a block of morning drivetime French from Radio France International.
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740 Boston even ran 2 hours of paid programming from RFI way way back in the late 90s and early 2000s
 


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