Rodney Ho posted this yesterday: https://www.ajc.com/blog/radiotvtal...uring-pandemic-crisis/92hOpTe1Ea9Fxr7gN93qMN/
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1010 AM WTZA To Relaunch As A News/Talk Station
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Seems like there would have been some sort of due diligence inspection. That would have been done when the station was sold. If this "tower problem" is as bad as is claimed, it would have been discovered. On the translator side, that signal probably has limited "upgradability" since it is a relative new comer to the translator game.
Know what is in that water before you jump in head first.
Know what is in that water before you jump in head first.
Your post reminded me of a story from several years ago. A friend who owns some small stations in the Macon area purchased the license for an AM station in Ft. Valley, GA. The studio/office building and tower had been foreclosed on so they weren't included, just the license.
The tower and building were auctioned off, and they were purchased by a former mayor of Ft. Valley. He thought he'd purchased a radio station but then found out he needed a license. And my friend quoted him a ridiculously high price and raised it every time the former mayor agreed to meet it.
Then my friend needed to get the station on air to keep the license. He knocked on the doors of pecan farmers in the Ft. Valley area. He found a farmer who let him string his antenna across a couple of nut trees and put transmitting equipment in the storage shed along with a component that played a loop of gospel music.
The former mayor, who was still after the license, realized the station was on but could not find where it was coming from.
You could buy the station for the price of your car. Maybe work out a trade.
Ha, are they planning on putting it back on>>>???
You could buy the station for the price of your car. Maybe work out a trade.
What did the old WIMO 1300 out of Winder go for? And they have a decent FM translator on 107.1.
They are planning on SOMETHING. Currently playing repeats online:
https://talkofatlanta.com
while testing equipment during some breaks.
(maybe just TeAZing us...)
They should. The "talk" there wasn't particularly interesting.
You could buy the station for the price of your car. Maybe work out a trade.
Sure, you could buy the station, but you'd also need about a years worth of operating expenses. No ones buying time on a station that no one can pick up -- especially when everyones business is dead in the water right now.
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WIMO (now WJBB) used to carry @lex J0ne$. And Al Hardee used to do oldies on 1010 when it was WGUN on Saturday & Sunday afternoons.
But I missed WTZA this weekend. I can listen to re-runs of the weekday shows since I didn't hear them all during the week.
They seemed like they had a good client lineup but who knows what the spots were going for. Maybe a dollar-a-holler.
But I missed WTZA this weekend. I can listen to re-runs of the weekday shows since I didn't hear them all during the week.
They seemed like they had a good client lineup but who knows what the spots were going for. Maybe a dollar-a-holler.
You could buy the station for the price of your car. Maybe work out a trade.
What did Entercom get for Quixie? That was a pittance and that was for a Class B station. IIRC they got less for WQXI than Weber got for Class D WCFO before that.
While on the subject of Entercom and Class B AMs, would Entercom unload WAOK? It's about the same quality of signal based on numbers (more night power but a tighter pattern), but higher up the dial, and about the same ratings as The Zone had at the end (but about to get slaughtered by 92.9). Of course, WAOK probably has a more loyal following and less competition than a sportstalker.
IMHO this is (was) a programming or financial failure.
The technical issues with the AM were just and excuse. They could have filed for and engineering STA and ran @ 25% (or more) power. The FCC is very flexible with these as long as you keep them informed. Looking at the 60db coverage for 102.1, they might be covered by the 20 or 25 mile 60 db area that every translator for an AM gets no matter how crappy the AM coverage is. I just wondering if a shunt fed system would work at 50 KW? I know they work at lower powers.
The technical issues with the AM were just and excuse. They could have filed for and engineering STA and ran @ 25% (or more) power. The FCC is very flexible with these as long as you keep them informed. Looking at the 60db coverage for 102.1, they might be covered by the 20 or 25 mile 60 db area that every translator for an AM gets no matter how crappy the AM coverage is. I just wondering if a shunt fed system would work at 50 KW? I know they work at lower powers.
Shunt feeding was used, internationally, by quite a number of higher powered stations in the past. At one time, all the over-50 kw stations in Mexico City were shunt fed, including ones like 250 kw XEW and 100 kw XEB. I saw shunt fed ones in Argentina and Colombia at the 50 and 100 kw levels, and was told of several in Venezuela and Chile, too.
Why stop there? How about a marketing failure? Kimmer should have bought everyone in Atlanta an AM radio, tuned to his station, and told them to listen.
Even then, they'd still try to find a way to switch it to 750.
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