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You sure about that, flatcar? Salem's flipped to biz talk in Dallas, Atlanta, Sacramento, Orlando and more.
With "Money Matters Radio" in Boston, aka, "All The Brokered Financial Buy-My-Services Bluster" the only competition in town, maybe Salem figures a combination of Bloomberg News, Ray Lucia, Motley Fool, etc., can make a game of it.
With "Money Matters Radio" in Boston, aka, "All The Brokered Financial Buy-My-Services Bluster" the only competition in town, maybe Salem figures a combination of Bloomberg News, Ray Lucia, Motley Fool, etc., can make a game of it.
I was a student at URI between 1972-74. Back then WGNG was a top 40 station at 550 AM. I could only recieve it when I drove up to the immediate Providence area.
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That 550 in Pawtucket has one of the best low-power signals in the east. It is on a par with the old 800 in Annapolis, 1600 in Sag Harbor, NY, and the old WJTO in Bath, ME at 730.
810 Annapolis MD is still on the air as WYRE, with 250 watts. WLNG-AM got out like a mother with its 500 watts.
It was bought and taken dark along with the 1590 in Waterbury CT so WWRL 1600 could go to 50 kW days. WJTO is alive and well; Bob Bittner owns it and WJIB(formerly WCAS)740 Cambridge. I used to hear 740 with a very listenable signal in Providence.
It was bought and taken dark along with the 1590 in Waterbury CT so WWRL 1600 could go to 50 kW days. WJTO is alive and well; Bob Bittner owns it and WJIB(formerly WCAS)740 Cambridge. I used to hear 740 with a very listenable signal in Providence.
I'm just hoping that Salem removes the IBOC when they take over 550. THAT would definitely help 550 to sound cleaner.
Check out this map on Salem's website. It identifies Providence as the home of a business talk station.
http://www.salem.cc/StationMap.pdf
A sign of things to come?
http://www.salem.cc/StationMap.pdf
A sign of things to come?
N1WVQ said:
There are enough AM stations in RI area. An all news station is the only format that makes sense since all other formats are saturating the southeastern New England region! Furthermore with stations like WPRO AM & WHJJ AM it is not feasible to have 550 become occupied again. Time and time again 550 failed and will continue to do so in RI. RI is a tightly knit listening audience who enjoy local talk show hosts and local programming that WPRO and secondly, WHJJ provides.
No, I'd say oldies ('60s heavy with the original rock & roll from the '50s & a little from the '70s peppered in) would work on 550 but that would skew older so the sales team would have to hit the streets. Awhile back (~2005-2008) I asked the news director of the company I was working for (now defunct in R.I.) if he thought all-news could work in Providence. He said no. There wasn't enough going on to warrant an all-news station. Not to mention the cost of such an undertaking. However, there's a part of me that wishes there was an all-news station in R.I., preferably on 990 (990 News Now). Traffic on the 9s, weather @ :X8:30, national headlines from a network on the hour & half-hour, local headlines 4x an hour.
Yes, for News/Talk, WPRO is the 800lb. gorilla & for good reason. Their news department is as active as any T.V. station's, their hosts are well-known locally & their callsign is well-known. WHJJ isn't much competition anymore, which they could be if they tried. But that's another topic for another thread.
The only station in R.I. that should be doing business talk is a part 15 in the financial district. On any other station it's a waste of a good frequency.
Yes, for News/Talk, WPRO is the 800lb. gorilla & for good reason. Their news department is as active as any T.V. station's, their hosts are well-known locally & their callsign is well-known. WHJJ isn't much competition anymore, which they could be if they tried. But that's another topic for another thread.
The only station in R.I. that should be doing business talk is a part 15 in the financial district. On any other station it's a waste of a good frequency.
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