And RCS's gSelector, too. Both music scheduling and program automation. They have a traffic system, but I don't know what stations or groups use it.
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And RCS's gSelector, too. Both music scheduling and program automation. They have a traffic system, but I don't know what stations or groups use it.
And you still listen. Which proves something I've known for a long time: People will put up with a lot of crap to get something they really want.
I've often felt this way myself, but it's not likely, as iHeart spent a small fortune upgrading the transmitter and antenna system to 50 KW highly directional day and night. Their 6+ numbers are usually very, very low.
David,
Once again, thank you for this information, which was certainly an eye-opener to those of us on the outside looking in.
If our current economy continues as it is, the value of a low-rated station with a deficient signal will be beaten by economics. I suspect iHeart had other ideas when they upgraded, but it is not working out.
They were still Clear Channel then. I think they overestimated the potential audience for conservative talk in Boston, and that they could pull them away from the mainstay WRKO. I guess they also wanted a "50,000 watt" station in Boston to air some of the programs that their syndication distributes that were on WRKO (then owned by Entercom).
Maybe...iHeart has done this in several big cities, including KEIB in LA, where they put all the syndication on one station, and the local talk on the other. The results have been about the same in all the markets, where the local talk substantially out-draws the syndication. Then again, the all-syndicated station doesn't do as much local promotion, and is sometimes fraught with technical issues, as is the case here.
I usually change the station or shut it off at this point, maybe dropping back in later when I know the program will be underway again.
I have to ask the question -- could the 750 Saw Mill Brook site be redeveloped as housing, or -- being so close to the Charles River -- is it protected wetland?
On one hand, you'd be talking about silencing three low-profile AMs (or pulling a WMEX with them)... on the other hand, there's got to be a good chunk of change to be made from building and selling a handful of new homes in Newton. The recent sale price of WKOX 1430 for $0 can't be making this proposition less attractive.
iHeart launching a network of some 15 or so
black oriented stations; announcement tomorrow. They're blowing up conservative talk in Atlanta and prog talk in SF.
https://radioinsight.com/alert/1898...tations-stunting-ahead-of-new-network-launch/
Eli P says the stunting for this new network appears to have replaced The Breeze on WJMN 94.5's HD2
black oriented stations; announcement tomorrow. They're blowing up conservative talk in Atlanta and prog talk in SF.
https://radioinsight.com/alert/1898...tations-stunting-ahead-of-new-network-launch/
Eli P says the stunting for this new network appears to have replaced The Breeze on WJMN 94.5's HD2
The towers are literally in the trees and woods in a wetlands reservation, with a driveway to a small transmitter house. It's probably protected, I'm not sure. I'd think even more trees would have to be cleared to build a sizable housing complex.
1430 WKOX doesn't transmit from there, it's at the Medford/Everett line on Route 16.
I wouldn't want to see the original occupant of those towers taken down, 1600 AM WUNR (previously WVOM and WBOS), it has been serving Boston's ethnic communities with brokered programming for many decades, probably the most consistently successful brokered ethnic station in the Boston area. 1330 is now Bloomberg's thing for programming, and feeds an FM translator that covers the metro almost like a full-power station from the Hancock.
As of today, WJMN 94.5 HD2 is running the "Black Information Network", and it's now on the RDS display too.
Soft-rock "The Breeze" appears to be gone.
Don't know what kind of promotion this will get.They could run spots on sister stations like WJMN, WKAF, WXKS, WRKO or WBZ AM..or maybe they will have word of mouth or people discovering on their own.
The stations that flipped are AM except for one in Norfolk VA.The 910 in San Fran is well known.Ratings of stations that flipped had been lackluster. How many people have or want
an HD receiver to get this here in Boston?
Aircheck trader I had in the past, from Dallas, was interested when I mentioned 96.9's R&B mix on their HD2.He asked if that was online.
I said no, you'd to live here and get it on an
HD radio.Same with this- -although I would
think iHeart will put the national feed on their app.
The stations that flipped are AM except for one in Norfolk VA.The 910 in San Fran is well known.Ratings of stations that flipped had been lackluster. How many people have or want
an HD receiver to get this here in Boston?
Aircheck trader I had in the past, from Dallas, was interested when I mentioned 96.9's R&B mix on their HD2.He asked if that was online.
I said no, you'd to live here and get it on an
HD radio.Same with this- -although I would
think iHeart will put the national feed on their app.
Checking iHeart's Hartford/New Haven cluster, there is no change. The Breeze is parked on country WWYZ's HD2. A country station's subchannel would be an unlikely landing spot for BIN. CHR WKSS continues with Pride Radio and WKCI continues with hip-hop. Maybe one of those will be flipped?
(Note: If all-sports WUCS is using HD at all, its signal is too weak here 20 miles south of Hartford for my radio to detect it.)
The site has been there at least 50 years, and long had only the 5 kW WUNR / WBOS 1600 kHz signal. Maybe a few homes would fit - Newton zoning shows it as SR3 residential, but it also appears to be within the protected wetlands area in Newton and West Roxbury bordering the Charles River. However, the Newton residents nearby would probably welcome anything that would get rid of nearly 100 kW directed right into their homes from the low rise 5 tower array.
I believe the site has been there for 72 years, and that it was the original site for 1600 AM WVOM, that became WBOS and then WUNR.
It was just two towers for 1600 AM until Clear Channel began construction of the current five tower site in 2006. On completion in 2009, 1200 WKOX (now WXKS) and 1330 WRCA moved there, along with a power upgrade for 1600 WUNR.
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