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AM 1000 and AM 1460

J

johnbasalla

While driving near E. 55th and Woodland, I checked on AM 1000 and heard nothing but hash. I recall hearing some faint sound there a while ago. The call letters used to be WCCD who was licensed in Parma, but now, according to the radio-locator site, the WCCD calls are tied to AM 1460 in Painesville. Meanwhile, the WABQ calls are for 1460 in Parma, Ohio. Both stations have the same Painesville mailing address. Both have Construction Permits to lower power. The station in Parma will continue to be a daytime only operation.

WABQ in Parma is listed as owned by DE Media LLC (Dale Edwards?)
WCCD in Painesville is listed as owned by Radio Advantage One LLC.
Both of the above have different telephone numbers and no website.
Only WABQ has a street (mailing) address listed in radio-locator. It's in Painesville.

Dialing into AM 1460 yielded nothing but off-the-air hash. In Cleveland, I should be able to hear the station based in Parma.
 
Have you called or emailed the station?

I doubt anyone involved with these stations are regular posters or readers of this site. There is some postings with the FCC which are accessible on the FCCdata.org site.

BTW are the FM translators on? Sometimes operators "forget" that the AM HAS TO BE ON for the FM translator to be on.
 
It is very confusing with so many local AM stations recently swapping call letters - 1000, 1300, 1460 and 1490. I believe 1460 is still in Painesville although I thought they were planning to move to a tower in or near Mentor. Not sure what's going on with 1000. Their tower used to be in North Royalton, but they sold the land a few years ago. They had planned to move to the WHK site in Seven Hills, but I don't think that happened. They might be on a tower somewhere on the east side. Not sure how they can do that since 1000 is licensed to Parma.
 
I glanced over the FCC data stuff. They mentioned an ATU they are having trouble securing.

IMHO Unless they can secure a FM translator that covers most of Cleveland, this is going to be hard financially playing a form of traditional Gospel. They could try something unique like the "hip hop / rap" Gospel or something secular.
 
They both are non profit, so any move to a secular format is unlikely. I thought they already had translators in Cleveland and Painesville.
There seems to be a movement to change FCC rules and allow certain translators to stand alone without an AM signal. That would be a break for stations like these and WELW that are struggling with expensive to repair or maintain AM facilities.
 
IMHO the 1490 station might * have some value under current rules. One tower not hard for colocation, no directional equipment or multiple tower land expense, for someone needing an AM to feed a translator. I still believe renting an HD 2, 3 or whatever would be cheaper but sometimes they aren't available.

Another far fetched possibility is to move 1490 to give "service" to a COL so a FM could move it's coverage out of it's City of License. That would have to be whenever the filing windows open up so someone would have to be willing to wait a decade or two. I personally feel if you have that much money to invest in "possiblity" you could buy something better now. However there is an old saying "a fool and his money."

*Another old saying "mites grow on chickens' butts"
 


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