A change to 104.1 Mobile

[RollTide]

So they have begun to air liners saying "be listening tonight at midnight for changes comming to 104.1". As of yesterday, 2/28/12, their calls have changed from WYOK to WABD. I can't help but to notice that WABD sounds a whole lot like WABB when you say it fast! I think a CHR resurrection is in store for 104.1 at midnight for Mobile. Will they try to snatch up the current air staff at WABB and try to create a WABB clone using similar sounding calls? Sounds like it to me

 

[oldiesstation]

Sounds spot on to me!

 

[Nate Wesley]

So they have begun to air liners saying "be listening tonight at midnight for changes comming to 104.1". As of yesterday, 2/28/12, their calls have changed from WYOK to WABD. I can't help but to notice that WABD sounds a whole lot like WABB when you say it fast! I think a CHR resurrection is in store for 104.1 at midnight for Mobile. Will they try to snatch up the current air staff at WABB and try to create a WABB clone using similar sounding calls? Sounds like it to me

WABD?

Little desperate, aren't we Cumulus? Then again, we're not exactly dealing with a company known for its creativity.

 

[tomservo]

WABD?

Little desperate, aren't we Cumulus? Then again, we're not exactly dealing with a company known for its creativity.

It seems pointless in this day and age; only us geeks care about calls or city of license. They have an app to re-license to Saraland from Atmore. I guess that signals their intention to target Mobile specifically, but it means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

More curious to me is the app includes a pretty good drop in HAAT from the same tower they're on now. Granted it's only 40 feet but that has me scratching my head. I thought there was only one master FM antenna on the tower.

 

[Groove1670]

More curious to me is the app includes a pretty good drop in HAAT from the same tower they're on now. Granted it's only 40 feet but that has me scratching my head. I thought there was only one master FM antenna on the tower.

They probably own the tower or are getting a better lease deal.

 

[only1moore]

Well, here's more news on this flip...

http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/netgnomes/55881/104-1-mobile-to-fill-wabb-void/#.T05hMUobfbs

 

[macab4490]

Really, i hope those registered domains are not going to be the name of the station. Do they even know CC has 107.3 HIT MUSIC name to it?

 

[secondchoice]

Really, i hope those registered domains are not going to be the name of the station. Do they even know CC has 107.3 HIT MUSIC name to it?

Domain names are like call letters. You can not use somebody's domain name or call letters with out the owners permission. They can be close: WABB vs WABD but not the exact. The domain name severs can only have one IP address for that name.

 

[Bud50]

WABD?

Little desperate, aren't we Cumulus? Then again, we're not exactly dealing with a company known for its creativity.

It seems pointless in this day and age; only us geeks care about calls or city of license. They have an app to re-license to Saraland from Atmore. I guess that signals their intention to target Mobile specifically, but it means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

More curious to me is the app includes a pretty good drop in HAAT from the same tower they're on now. Granted it's only 40 feet but that has me scratching my head. I thought there was only one master FM antenna on the tower.

Zach: Saraland? I live in Satsuma, but can't think of where's a broadcast tower in Saraland....? Any ideas? Bud

 

[tomservo]

The tower (owned by American General) is in Baldwin County and isn't moving. Only the city of license and antenna height are changing.

 

[Rick Rose 2.0]

it was reported that WABB's owners were retaining the intellectual property of WABB so maybe Cumulus is getting the rights to use WABB on the air with a CHR format. Maybe its only WABD temporarily and when EMF changes 97.5's calls that 104.1 will pick up the WABB calls. They would need permission from ABB since 1480 also uses WABB.

 

[Groove1670]

The tower (owned by American General) is in Baldwin County and isn't moving. Only the city of license and antenna height are changing.

Ooops. Didn't see the same tower. Could be a minor mod to let another station upgrade.

 

[tomservo]

The tower (owned by American General) is in Baldwin County and isn't moving. Only the city of license and antenna height are changing.

Ooops. Didn't see the same tower. Could be a minor mod to let another station upgrade.

WZKS in Meridian has an app to increase power and height. It was listed in the WYOK app as the only co-channel close enough to be covered in the technical exhibit. I should have put two and two together! *smacks forehead*

 

[nickp]

if Cumulus bought the intellectual property of WABB and will become 104.1 WABB

 

[Poledo]

WZKS in Meridian has an app to increase power and height. It was listed in the WYOK app as the only co-channel close enough to be covered in the technical exhibit. I should have put two and two together! *smacks forehead*

Why in Gods name would a Mobile radio station lower HAAT to help out a Meridian station???

 

[mrjay]

That's easy.....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

 

[tomservo]

WZKS in Meridian has an app to increase power and height. It was listed in the WYOK app as the only co-channel close enough to be covered in the technical exhibit. I should have put two and two together! *smacks forehead*

Why in Gods name would a Mobile radio station lower HAAT to help out a Meridian station???

What jay said. It's possible there's another station somewhere that is benefiting. Regardless, it's all about the money. There were a lot of checks written to N. Alabama broadcasters last decade to help 105.9 in Birmingham move to 105.5, and to help 97.3 jump out of its little Class A designation to something that could actually cover the city. Not only was money exchanged but in each scenario stations wound up relocating, relicensing and changing frequencies to make it happen.

 

[Poledo]

That's easy.....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Meridian already has too many radio stations and that area of Mississippi and Alabama is poor. 104.1 down here has close to 1 million potential listeners under it's signal.

 

[tomservo]

Meridian already has too many radio stations and that area of Mississippi and Alabama is poor. 104.1 down here has close to 1 million potential listeners under it's signal.

And it will lose none of them by dropping 20 feet.

It could be that it was actually another station somewhere else on the dial that paid them to move. Or it could be any number of technical reasons we don't know about. Heck, the listed HAAT could have been wrong all these years. The application was rather confusing to read. It kept referencing a point in Baldwin County where nothing is, west of Foley on US-98, something about that being the correctly spaced reference point. So maybe the current site is no longer within the current rules and a change of COL to Saraland requires some minor correction. I don't know, I'm not an engineer.

 

[R.D.P.]

To Poledo, you're spot on about this area being poor.

Also you're spot on about Meridian being over-radioed.

They have more stations than they know what to do with them.

And yes I've never lived in that city.

R.D.P. <><