Oh, on the 1270-directed-to-WDLR/1550 site linked above, the streaming audio is local...not just the "True Oldies Channel" bird feed. I'm hearing local liners for 1270.
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1270 Wuco format change
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I spoke to someone at Saint Gabrial. They said the call letters are in process of being changed to WQTT. They are waiting for the transfer application to be filed next week. The call sign change will be done con-current with the filing. They are identifying at the top of the hour as WUCO-Marysville. They can call themselves anything they want as long as they identify at the top of the hour as WUCO. I too worked for Mark Litton and Robb Case in the early 90's at Hot-105 and KISS-FM. I found them to be good, competitive/cutting edge operators.
mikenci said:
That is exactly what I expected them to do and I was going to post last Saturday. Also, Saint Gabrial Catholic radio may then reserve the old WUCO calls when/if they are able to purchase WVKO-AM 1580.
Saint Gabrial Catholic radio paid about $250,000 for WUCO 1270 about five years ago. How much will Saint Gabrial Catholic radio get for the
station? There has been a lot of repair work made to the WUCO tower site since Saint Gabrial Catholic radio purchased the station.
If you go to this youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMc_IlBGbD4 and 3:00 minutes into this clip, they talked about their expansion plans for their radio network a couple of years ago.
Their expansion plans aren't going to good. The two FM stations in in Southern Ohio they were going to build in 2008 and 2009 aren't on the air yet and they even took their Mansfield station, WFOT off the air. Also, their planed coverage expansion of 1270, which won't happen of course, would have had significantly move coverage area of Central Ohio then WVKO-AM, the only station on the air at the present with
their Catholic programing.
gabigley1 said:
Why would they want to do that? WUCO stands for Union COunty...get it? St. Gabriel didn't want to be associated with Union County when they were IN Union County. And why would Litton change those heritage calls to WQTT? What does WQTT stand for, anyway? We Quit Talking in Tongues?
And St. Gabe will never be able to purchase WVKO. They can barely make the LMA payments, although the money they get from the WUCO sale will keep them afloat for awhile. Until, that is, a legit buyer comes along, which one will eventually.
Rusty Blades said:
St. Gabriel radio hasn't decide if it will change the call letters of WVKO-AM 1580 once they purchase the radio station. They say they WILL purchase the station in the future. Not everyone agrees with that statement. The reason I thought they may want to
change the call letters of WVKO-AM 1580 to WUCO 1580 when/if they purchase the stations is because of personal sentimental reasons.
WUCO 1270 was the first radio station they(St Gabriel Catholic Radio) owned. Now, I was surprised they sold WUCO 1270 in the first place
but they have to do it to generate cast to say on WVKO-AM and/or to purchase 1580-AM.
I didn't realize the call letters for 1270 WUCO where considered such historic call letters. Would Litten have any real reasons to keep the
WUCO call letters? Maybe he would prefer to identify with Columbus instead of Union County?
Why would you want to keep a set of call letters that have failure connected with them. No one has had any sucsess operating this station. It has been in Bankruptcy at lease two times that I know of. Just trying to set up accounts with the WUCO call letters has to be a challange especially if someone had been burned by the station in the past. I hear they are co-locating with the Marysville Truibune Newspaper. It sounds like they plan to be very Local.
mikenci said:
This is their application, filed with the FCC on December 24, 2009. Click here: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101347418&formid=314&fac_num=29636
and scroll down to Attachments #4. There you can download the sales and LMA agreement.
They are selling the station for $225,000 dollars, about the same amount of money they paid for WUCO about four/five years ago. Of course, the WUCO transmitter site was broke down back then. The station was then sold last October after the WUCO transmitter site was fixed. WUCO 1270 increased in value after their
tower site was fixed.
Rusty Blades said:
I didn't expect them to sell WUCO-AM at all but the bad economy changed that. If you check the sales agreement, they(St. Gabriel Catholic Radio) are retaining the rights to the WUCO call letters which will
then probably go over to 1580 AM. I think they want to hold onto the WUCO call letters for sentimental reasons. After all, WUCO was the first station in their radio network, so why wouldn't it have some
sentimental value to them?
Should say, the WUCO call letters which will then probably go over to 1580 AM if St. Gabriel Catholic Radio is ever able to purchase WVKO-AM 1580.
CatFM said:
Apparently the sale of WUCO 1270 AM from St. Gabriel Catholic Radio to ICS is off. Last Friday, St. Gabriel Catholic Radio filed a Notification of Non-consummation with the FCC.
Click both links to view the Notification of Non-consummation:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1370553
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101370553&formid=905&fac_num=29636
This is the second station in the Columbus area to file a Notification of Non-consummation. WRFD also filed one at the end of last December.
gabigley1 said:
Does this mean its reverted back to Catholic programming? or is the oldies still going?
Nothing for sure now BUT they say WUCO is again for sell. At present it is still Oldies and they(St Gabriel Catholic Radio) still have a LMA with ICS.
What is interesting is that ICS is airing announcements on WUCO 1270 where they are asking their listeners on input for future local programing,
like local Marysville High School sports programing.
What is interesting is that ICS is airing announcements on WUCO 1270 where they are asking their listeners on input for future local programing,
like local Marysville High School sports programing.
gabigley1 said:
St Gabriel must be pulling a card out of the Benard book.. keep LMAing it until someone offers to purchase it.
xmusicmatt said:
During the last week, the sale of WUCO to ICS has gone from a Notification of Non-consummation, to a Extension of consummation, and now to a consummation.
WUCU was finally sold to ICS as of yesterday. Click here for the Consummation notice from the FCC:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1371390
St. Gabriel Catholic Radio told me, "The ICS purchase of WUCO is a dynamic process" last Monday. Since they filed a Notification of Non-consummation with
the FCC, I thought the deal with ICS was not going to happen.
So, it looks like Oldies is here to stay on 1270 WUCO.
I heard oldies with a pretty decent signal on 1270 around 3:30 this afternoon on the north shore of Buckeye Lake. I was in something of a hurry so I couldn't stick around to get an ID. I was surprised to hear it mostly because WUCO's signal should not be heard around here during the day (nor, would I think, at night). Pattern out of whack or was I hearing something else?
They were probably on the night pattern ( 2 towers ) it protects WXYT to the North in Detroit but is pretty much open in all other directions, If they were on day pattern you would not have gotten it that far away as they us seven towers on days to protect a station to the East in Cambridge that's assuming that station is still on. I ran a proof on the day pattern in 1999 and found little to the South East. Night time though was another story.
CaptBob92 said:
Usually in my experience, WUCO has been tough to hear daytime as close as Dublin, less than 15 miles line-of-sight. There's not a noticeable improvement until you're practically within sight of the towers on 33. If that WUCO signal gets out well at night, it's pretty clear well into the metro. I think the Cambridge station still is on 1270, but where I live (southeast side of Buckeye Lake) it's tough to hear daytime and impossible at night. WUCO barely gets out here at night.
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So is it going to "officially" switch to the new callsign soon?
This True Oldies format is GREAT. I was waiting for one of these to come around the area after hearing an affiliate while in Bozeman, MT (93.7)
Their selection of music is great and doesn't ignore the late 50s/early 60s like the stale/watered down "KOOL GOLD" format on 104.3 or the even worse "Mojo" format on 1250 WashingtonCH. Plus Scott is a great DJ. It's great having a real oldies channel in the area again, perhaps the first since Oldies B97 flew the coop in 2001.
Oldies used to do good in C-bus. It can again. I just wish 1270 was stronger although it's been working here in the west side of Columbus in the daytime lately lol.
Their selection of music is great and doesn't ignore the late 50s/early 60s like the stale/watered down "KOOL GOLD" format on 104.3 or the even worse "Mojo" format on 1250 WashingtonCH. Plus Scott is a great DJ. It's great having a real oldies channel in the area again, perhaps the first since Oldies B97 flew the coop in 2001.
Oldies used to do good in C-bus. It can again. I just wish 1270 was stronger although it's been working here in the west side of Columbus in the daytime lately lol.
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