I've been gone for years. That was WCLV. And to prove my point as soon as it became the Fish, nobody at the church listened because it became too modern.
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1150 WCUE silenced last evening 8 May
- Thread starter NE Ohio RF Monitor
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I've been gone for years. That was WCLV. And to prove my point as soon as it became the Fish, nobody at the church listened because it became too modern.
Good signal AM stations are having a hard enough time surviving these days. Rotten signal AMs like WCUE are doomed. Expect more to go dark.
Thanks for the laugh, I must say this I know that this comment is clearly absolutely satire but it's funny because I actually had a strange dream about such an event.
I sure hope that radio will never actually see such an event but there's is actual stations that truly do struggle so while this comment is totally satire it's not impossible for anything like this to happen in real life
I learned I need to be careful
I learned Some people might not pickup the satire.
The transmitter land is sited right next to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (off of Bellaire Road, accessible from Quick Road). There could be a few decent homes that could be built, or (because the land was resold to "Park Ridge Preserve" out of Barberton, per the RadioWorld story) it could be donated to the NPS.
One of the towers is used for WKDD, which I assume is Vertical Bridge property and wasn't included with the sale?
One of the towers is used for WKDD, which I assume is Vertical Bridge property and wasn't included with the sale?
If I remember correctly, the tower used to be on Sackett ave. [along with the its sister station WKDD] I was there and one of the engineers asked if I wanted to go out to it. I declined, I had to get something else done that day. I do recall him saying it was the only FM station in the area using "circular polarization" from the antenna.
What was WCUE programming most recently?
WCUE was carrying the "Family Radio" religious network anchored by KEAR-AM in San Francisco, CA. It has been owned, since the early 2000s, by Family Stations which is now Loam Media. Ever since its founder's (Dr. Harold Camping's) death, the company has been struggling with a lot of financial issues and has been forced to sell some of its stations, even to secular companies (think KCLM-FM in Santa Maria, CA). It therefore wouldn't surprise me if WCUE-AM is now gone for good.
Family Radio started selling off their stations after Camping's 2011 end of the world prediction, that, based on me being here to type this, did not come true. Notably, 106.9 WKDN in the Philly market (now WKVP), and 94.7 WFME in the NYC market (now WXKB).
Family Radio had it since the 80s. It's only in 2002 they got a main studio waiver for it
Family Radio had owned WCUE since October of 1986 when the former owners "donated" the station to them/it/him.
Also worth noting for @ted chittenden that KEAR isn't the "flagship" for FR and hasn't been for a while. The old Oakland headquarters closed after Camping died and the network is now based in Shenandoah, Iowa. I suppose you could say KYFR there is the "flagship" but it's a pretty meaningless term - it's exactly the same programming on all their stations, just a different legal ID.