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1110 New Format
- Thread starter amos1001
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Well there appeared to be something wrong with the analog audio feed. The signal appeared to be there, but just dead air. As there seemed to be RDS info, but no audio. But the HD feed was working and would lock on. For at least an hour this morning then the analog audio returned. So in the fringe there was no analog fallback when the HD signal dropped out. So if you did not have an HD Radio, then for a while you were out of luck.
True, on all of the above. Re: 1110, I still hate to see it go, as it appears that's what will happen, whenever it does. I'd love to see someone put something up there, but if/when that actually happens, things still won't be the same. Of course, they haven't been the same for six months, but we thought at the first, that something new/good was in the works.
But what about their claim that, yes, 1110 will have a new format, it's coming, bear with us?
Can't speak to 610.
BTW I believe their corporate name is Urban1. Stock symbol UONE. They still have some value in their stock around $6.70. stock price. They have done better than the big three operators.
UONE still has to protect WBT FM from someone putting on Republican or Trump Talk in the Charlotte Market. If they turn in the license, someone like Hickory 1290 could take the channel and with their existing towers probably put a decent signal and cover most of Charlotte.
There is no open filling window for NEW AM stations so if the 1110 license is turned in it can't immediately be rebuilt. A sale would be a faster solution to rebuilding at a new site with existing towers. In the case of a sale you may get some useful equipment like a transmitter, remote control, some caps and coils. Makes me think they are keeping it running to shop it around.
Maybe do some sort of LMA with WHKY and basically let them run the station, with WBT's owner still retaining possession of it?
It depends on the offers they get for the land at both sites. There is some kind of split of the sale price for WBTs site. I doubt the folks in Hickory would do an LMA unless they had a set price they could buy out U1 at the end of the contract. You want something you control before you make any investment. Unless U1 tries a TIS after the 1110 and 610 lose their site those licenses should die and someone should just file a construction permit from a close AM station and get a better signal.
But what I think is right and what happens doesn't always happen.
There is no such thing as "just file a construction permit."
No other station in the region can just move to 1110 from another channel. That's considered a major change if it's more than 3 channels away, and the FCC does not accept major change applications for AM and likely never will.
If someone like WHKY were to buy the 1110 license, they could theoretically file a minor change to that license to move it to another site.
But the expense of building out a new high power AM facility is likely in the low seven figures, and there's just no economic case for spending that kind of money with no path to a return on investment.
No other station in the region can just move to 1110 from another channel. That's considered a major change if it's more than 3 channels away, and the FCC does not accept major change applications for AM and likely never will.
If someone like WHKY were to buy the 1110 license, they could theoretically file a minor change to that license to move it to another site.
But the expense of building out a new high power AM facility is likely in the low seven figures, and there's just no economic case for spending that kind of money with no path to a return on investment.
Could WHKY buy the license and keep using the existing WBT transmitter and towers, changing the calls to WHKY and abandoning their present frequency (perhaps selling their own license to someone else)?
At this point, if Jack FM can play what he wants, radio geeks can play what WE want on 1110 khz. Let us buy out time, brokered and all, to play anything and everything, from Navajo powwow music to Jack Benny old-time radio. It might even spark a 0.1 in the PPM.
Otherwise, I have a handful of smooth jazz CDs they could play on shuffle.
Otherwise, I have a handful of smooth jazz CDs they could play on shuffle.
The whole point of why WBT is in the position it is in is because the land is worth more for redevelopment than it is for continued broadcast usage.
No. They wouldn't have a nighttime signal.
We did and apparently, they chose to get out of Dodge, so to speak.
Me either, all from this armchair, of course.