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New Hampshire Vacant Allocations Auction Feb 2027

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Radio Roadie

The FCC Wants You !!
...to bid on these open FM allocations north of Franconia Notch, even further north of Lancaster NH !!
98.7A Groveton NH
101.5A Stratford NH
Upper Valley
104.3A Enfield NH (20K opens the bidding!)
Northeast Kingdom of Vermont
105.9A Hardwick

IIRC these allocations have been featured on these auctions for years !
 
WLGW (1490 AM/102.3 FM) went "bust" years ago.....
Population/listenership in that part of the country hasn't changed a lot...
Someone with deep pockets MIGHT want to start one of these -- purely for "hobby" purposes...
Pine trees and bears won't pay the bills....!!!:(
 
I actually have an 1490 WLGW bumper sticker.. Lancaster, Groveton, Whitefield.. More like "WL" since that 1490 signal did not venture very far.. 102.3 lives on as WXXS Kiss 102.3 playing "Today's Hit Music & CBS News at the Top of the Hour" with a 25,000 watt signal.
 
I always thought the second "W" in "WLGW" stood for Woodsville.....
It's a bit closer to Lancaster and Groveton.....
Thanks for the 102.3 correction...I forgot that frequency was finally utilized...
 
Vermont's NEK and NH's North Country are so over radioed ! 40 years ago, it was only 106.3 WMTK Littleton and 105.5 WNKV St. Johnsbury as local FM service to those areas. Both featured both kinds of music.. Country & Western.. There was also 103.7 WMOU in Berlin, at low terrain, before the big jump up to Mt Washington. AM 1400 WLTN Littleton was a great example of live, local, and community oriented programming.
 
IIRC.... John and Elizabeth Bowman owned WLTN back in the 60s...
They took turns giving weather info on Channel 11's "NH Weather" show with Pete Kelly, weeknights at 6 PM....
 
Seems to be two groups that own pretty much everything in the NEK and North Country.. Sounds pretty much that the lights are on, yet no one's home. There's only so many places to find advertising revenue... Today's WLTN-AM is automated oldies with a low power FM translator. The only station that sounds fairly decent up there is a fairly new one, 97.3 WCGY, licensed to Jefferson NH, also known as Mountain Country.
 
Sometime this summer I'm going to try to get up to see Dirk Nadon's "new" station in Jefferson.
Dirk was CE at Oldies 99 (WNNH 99.1, Concord) when I worked there back in the 80s.
 
Radio Roadie said:
Vermont's NEK and NH's North Country are so over radioed ! 40 years ago, it was only 106.3 WMTK Littleton and 105.5 WNKV St. Johnsbury as local FM service to those areas. Both featured both kinds of music.. Country & Western.. There was also 103.7 WMOU in Berlin, at low terrain, before the big jump up to Mt Washington. AM 1400 WLTN Littleton was a great example of live, local, and community oriented programming.
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Overradio'd and they all sound awful! It's like radio is stuck in the 90s in the NEK. Barry Lunderville, who's been gone for a while, still owns stations (should have filed a TOC years ago) and NONE of them have a digital footprint. No social media, no web and from what I heard, years ago got nailed by SoundExchange for not paying royalties. The Bruce James/Russ Ingalls stations sound decent, but when you're in an area where all the stations look bad, anything looks good.
 
mrradioguy said:
Overradio'd and they all sound awful! It's like radio is stuck in the 90s in the NEK. Barry Lunderville, who's been gone for a while, still owns stations (should have filed a TOC years ago) and NONE of them have a digital footprint. No social media, no web and from what I heard, years ago got nailed by SoundExchange for not paying royalties.
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How do you have no digital footprint and get nailed by SoundExchange? That's a contradiction, since SoundExchange exclusively handles digital royalties.
 
AFAIK, Lunderville's group, now run by his Son did not get nailed by SoundExchange.. I think Vermont Broadcast Associates settled with one of the music publishing groups, Irving Azoff's, IIRC.. That news was peppered all over the trades.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
How do you have no digital footprint and get nailed by SoundExchange? That's a contradiction, since SoundExchange exclusively handles digital royalties.
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For the record (and I was keeping track of this at the time), most of the Lunderville stations had both websites and streams briefly around 2009/2010. Neither the websites nor the streams lasted very long (I think a year max) and the comment above yours probably explains why. As to Vermont Broadcast Associates, the last time I checked, all of their FM outlets had websites with a few of those sites including streams. I'm guessing that the company is testing to see if adding those streams can help bring in ad revenue though those stations that are streaming (most notably WGMT) have been doing it for a long while now.
 
Lunderville's radio empire has zero websites & social media presence. Almost sounds like a one or two person show keeping everything going. The music on Kiss 102.3 seems on target, wonder what they are doing now that the CBS News top of the hour "Bong" has gone away. Everything else on the radio dial in that area seems about as interesting as dry toast, except for the WNCS rebroadcaster in Danville VT, and the French language stations that can be heard,, 😉
 


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