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1110 New Format
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But still a long ways from the '560' thread with 54 pages and over a thousand posts, and continuing.
560 is another AM with an unknown future, in a large cty, with a ton of history.
based on the fact that the loop started the first day of the january book, i am guessing it will last the complete book and the new format will begin on the first day of the february book. (edit: i believe the first day of the feb book is feb 5) until then this thread will be like a breaking news story with no new facts to report: just repeating what's already been reported. i don't think it'll be 6 weeks.
yes, we are still beating an already dead horse. and i'm sticking with my prediction that it's about to get real up in here the first week of february.
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Almost a nitpick, but a Sunday (1 February) would be kind of a strange day to roll out a new format. Monday, the next day, would make more sense.
While I have by now tired of trying to read the tea leaves, I have also wondered if they've let 1110 lie fallow this long, to try and "kill" it in the eyes (ears?) of the listeners, and to clear the slate completely, so that 1110 can be rolled out as a brand new station (probably with new calls as well, though I have to think we would have evidence of that from the FCC records, anyone know?).
While I have by now tired of trying to read the tea leaves, I have also wondered if they've let 1110 lie fallow this long, to try and "kill" it in the eyes (ears?) of the listeners, and to clear the slate completely, so that 1110 can be rolled out as a brand new station (probably with new calls as well, though I have to think we would have evidence of that from the FCC records, anyone know?).
Yet that 560 thread PALES in comparison to the Lamptimer thread
I expect to see @LamptimerFan jump in at any moment. Lol
Already did a page or two ago
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I hope that you are right!
Oh, I don't hope they go that route. But it is what makes the most sense to me. I expect a call letter change as well. WBT-FM will almost certainly become WBT.
I guess we've heard the last "eleven ten - WBT" jingle. But things change. No more "Park and Shop time" either. No more Hello Henry. No more Ty Boyd. Not only that, but no more Jay Thomas or Boo Barron or Scott Slade or Robert Murphy or Larry Sprinkle or Jack Gale on 610. "All good things gotta come to an end, And it's the same with the wildwood weed"
But I do think it will happen. It just makes sense for Radio One. Could I be wrong? Sure. Many predict syndicated conservative talk, but I don't. That could work, sold as a combo. But I just don't see them doing that, especially after blowing up 1110. If that were the case I think they'd already be promoting it on 107.9 as one big happy WBT with the national hosts on AM and the local hosts on FM.
We'll see. I'm wondering how the redirect loop will do in the January book. I guess the arbitron/neilsen encoder is still running on 1110. (I know zero about how PPM works, maybe someone can explain encoders and ratings especially on a simulcast.)
Each licensed station, including HD2 and beyond channels and their stream , is given a separate identity and digital encoder.
Only stations that are 100% simulcast or close to that are allowed to request "single line reporting" where two or more simulcasts are combined. The individual station data is not disclosed publicly if a station ops for SLR.
I alluded to this upthread. If new call letters were requested for WBT-AM, would we know about it yet? Would it be in any FCC filings to which the public has online access? I looked on one FCC database and didn't find anything.
Anybody know? Or will it come as a surprise to us all on Day One, assuming there is a call letter change?
We would know if they were requested. You can find out via the application search at the FCC website. Just search WBT, and, if a calling request has been filed, it will be there.
It might wait to file until after it makes the change (assuming it plans to do that, anyway).
There is no "WBT-AM". An AM can only be three or four base letters with no hyphen and suffix. FMs can be either just the calls or the calls plus "-FM"
More than likely. It's better to "hide" the calls in a fast Top of the Hour ID and file for a change later.
Back a half century ago, you had to notify every station in your coverage area of proposed call changes about a month (IIRC) in advance. Of course, that meant all your competitors got a hint about what the station was going to do.
I changed Beautiful Music WSRA to all-salsa WZNT years ago. Anyone who read the trades knew that we were going to be "Z-93" (in Spanish) and assumed we would be all hits of some kind. So in overnights, we "tested" the format from Midnight to 6 AM for a month, playing all the wrong salsa album cuts and stiffs. When we launched, everyone "across the street" had decided we had no clue about that music and they ignored us... until the first book showed us #1 with double the share of the next station. By then, it was too late for anyone to adjust.
Back then, call letters did matter, and were used more on the air and, particularly, in local sales
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I posted in another thread the other day about how to access the FCC Daily Digest. Two of the files liked from it each day are applications that have been recently filed and actions taken on applications.
If WBT (AM) did apply for a call letter change, the request would turn up in the application list file.
You can access each day's Daily Digest from that link, and they maintain archives of the previous issues going back to 1994. You can also sign up at the link above to receive it via e-mail; either way, it is a simple text-based file with links to the official documents.
I actually thought of that as I wrote. True, the calls are simply "WBT". I realize that AM stations do not have "-AM" as part of their calls, though it might be used colloquially (but not as part of the TOTH ID), such as in station lists in newspapers (is that still a thing?) or for marketing purposes.
I phrased it that way to clarify that I was talking about the AM station. Probably should have just said "WBT 1110".
I don't suppose there's any way to search those Daily Digests, that you would actually have to open each day's and read it. Is that right?
Thanks for the memories. I remember where I was that day, too. I was in elementary school (third grade, I believe it was) and I remember our principal coming over the PA system with the news. I was in college on 9/11 and after classes, I of course went to the station and pulled my (at that time) afternoon shift. I remember churches I had never heard of in the area, calling in saying they were open for prayer that night, etc.
Romans 11:33-36 KJB
Josh
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
It wouldn't do any good to search the DD itself, as it only consists of links to documents, and not the contents of same, which is probably why the FCC never set up a search function for it.
Here's a link to today's issue, so you can see what I mean.
'KSF is licensed to Old Fort, but was 'LOS FM at one time or other. I believe 'MIT was licensed to Mount Mitchell long before Graham bought it, hence the call, even operating from Winston-Salem at one time, but I could be wrong.
Romans 11:33-36 KJB
Josh
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