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A New Edition to Sports Coverage This Fall

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Rob

WNCV has announced it would be broadcasting high school football games this season on it's sister station, WFTW. (With a strong emphases to visit I Heart Radio)

So, add that to the mix of stations if anyone is looking for HSF this fall

We got

The Ticket (how many stations he's got now??)
WAAZ FM
WFTW
and perhaps 1.330 out of Milton???

Just thought I'd post this in here since the board seems have died down.

The occasional Saturday daytime game can be heard since WFTW goes to flea power at night. I'm in the red area for signal however, it's total crap here. You need to be by Target to hear them at night

On a side note, WAAZ/JSB said they are "not done" with their upgrades and I know they webcast the Crestview teams at www.waazsports.com

enjoy, Rob
 
In other sports news, it's been posted on the Alabama board that WABB is now part of "The Ticket Sports Network" simulcasting WTKE 100.3 in FWB, 93.5 in Port St. Joe, that AM in DeFuniak and whatever other little stations Hale has along the Emerald Coast.

I wonder what college football team(s) The Ticket will be carrying this year? Seems like it would be pretty hard to get the broadcast rights to Florida, FSU, Bama or Auburn in the Panama City, FWB and Mobile markets. Since WTKE AM 1490 is dead they don't need to worry about getting rights for Pensacola.
 
Note how clean and organized the building is....hmmmmm. Always spot on isn't JW!

CCENG will text ya info Tues. I've been away from this board a bit. Don't want to awaken you or Jenny Woo.
 
Really?? ABB is now owned by Omni??

On the flipside, ABD's signal is being clobbered out here, not sure why but it sounds like 97X is interfering.

If it's just tropo, then it's putting out a hell of a signal to be heard on my Sony XDR. I can go to Destin and the signal would still be booming in, no more. It's at the outlet mall it starts to crap out. I did a bandscan while at the light on 98 and heard KSJ, 100.7 and 97.5, Panama City FMs' were just as strong. Glad we have long lights here...

-Rob
 
Is nothing sacred anymore??
94.3 seems to be off the air (big surprise)

-Rob
 
Zach said:
Actually, I believe a sales agreement was reached to sell WABB to Omni, but not the calls. So the WABB calls will soon be gone if this goes through.
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The published article said that the calls were not included in the Omni deal. It would be absolutely insane for Cumulus not to make an offer to buy the call letters and any remaining intellectual property from the (now deceased) WABB... especially after all the trouble they went through to purchase the 97.5 frequency from the Christians. I expect the call letters for 97.5 to revert back to WABB soon.

Cumulus may have trouble figuring out weather 93BLX or 97.5 WABB is their "mother ship" in Mobile... unless they can figure out a way to make WXBM 102.7 compete in the Mobile market.
 
I think a flip for WXBM would be perfect, too many country stations here. Classic Rock or Oldies would fit in for around here. XBM's signal BOOOMS here. 96.1's signal is still very weak here

-Rob
 
Here's what I don't understand — how will the Dittmans be able to keep control of the call letters when they no longer have a station to park them on? As far as I know, that's the only way to 'reserve' a call sign permanently, by parking it on another property somewhere. Entercom did it in New Orleans by moving the WSMB calls to Memphis temporarily, and Cumulus did it by moving Huntsville's WWFF (Wolf) calls to AM 660 here in Mobile. In fact, 660's WXQW calls originated in Huntsville, as well, and who knows, they could disappear back to the Rocket City one day, too.

If by some way the Dittmans do retain the rights to WABB, do you really think they'd sell them to the company that did an end run to get their FM frequency?
 
The Dittman's have no way to hold the calls unless they have a friend willing to park them on another station. My guess is that a deal to sell the calls along along with all the old jingle packages and whatever else involved with the Heritage stations WABB AM and WABB FM has already been reached. Expect the calls to move to WABD or be parked on some other Cumulus/Dickey radio station before the final sale of 1480.

Clear Channel could also make a bid for the WABB calls and intellectual property for 107.3, which might be the best way to compete with WABD. "WABB is back at 107.3, quit bothering with those posers down at 97.5." It kinda works...

I would also assume the calls might be worth something to Scott Shannon. Don't know if he actually owns any radio stations to go along with his oldies network.

Sometimes when the business is going to happen whether you like it or not, a person just needs to suck it up and play ball. It happened to me 5 years ago... I'm still bitter, but I made money on the deal and gained some new, powerful, "friends" because I calmed down and cooperated even though it was quite obvious that I did not want their money.

The Dittman's can not reserve the calls... See the WKRP story for reference. They either sell or someone's going to be standing at the door of the FCC to apply for the calls the day they become available. It would be stupid for the Dittman's to just let them go for free.
 
Great point.

Small problem - their signal sucks so they would need to keep their height and go back to 97,000 watts. Then, they can be in a position to say "WABD - kiss our butt"

-Rob
 
ESPN is back on 107.3-2. Maybe I'm not paying attention, but I don't think it's been on in awhile. Also, I couldn't pull any HD signal at all from 96.1, while 94.9-2 was back to Foggy Mountain. I forgot 99.9 existed and never checked and I'm to lazy to go out to my car to check it now.

So what's my question? Is there any activity with CC's new 100.3 translator in Spanish Fort?

Does anyone suspect CC (or sub-contractor Red Mountain) my be planning to sell 100.3 to Hale for use as a 1480 translator?
 
poledo said:
ESPN is back on 107.3-2. Maybe I'm not paying attention, but I don't think it's been on in awhile. Also, I couldn't pull any HD signal at all from 96.1, while 94.9-2 was back to Foggy Mountain. I forgot 99.9 existed and never checked and I'm to lazy to go out to my car to check it now.

So what's my question? Is there any activity with CC's new 100.3 translator in Spanish Fort?

Does anyone suspect CC (or sub-contractor Red Mountain) my be planning to sell 100.3 to Hale for use as a 1480 translator?
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If Hale got ahold of 100.3 for WABB it'd have to seriously downgrade to stay within WABB's coverage area, I think.

ESPN has been off of 107.3 for a long while. Months, I think. Weird to hear it back on.

HD has taken a huge plunge. These are off: 92.9, 96.1, 99.9, 100.7, 104.1… 101.5 is on but no HD-2 as it's been for almost a year I think. Just dead air or no channel at all. 88.1 is still on and sounding good. And KSJ is on but the audio quality of the main channel is horrendous and way out of sync.

I hate it that Cumulus has dropped the ball; BLX and DLT sounded great in HD and were the most reliable stations by far. Between that and Cumulus pulling all their stations off TuneIn Radio… Well, to borrow a word from the Mike O'Meara Show… They can ESSADEE. ;D

I pretty much no longer listen to local radio except to note changes. When you've driven away a passionate lover of broadcast radio, that's pretty damn pathetic, pardon my language.
 
Zach said:
If Hale got ahold of 100.3 for WABB it'd have to seriously downgrade to stay within WABB's coverage area, I think.
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Hale has quite a bit of history dealing with Clear Channel. He sold CC 92.5 in Biloxi, He bought 98.1 in FWB and 93.5 in PCB from CC. It wouldn't be to hard to believe he's still working with them. He could easily lease an HD-2 and put up a 250 watt translator in Mobile and a second in Pensacola to complete his Ticket. Not hard to imagine... and I really don't see much value in adding 1480 to his sports "network." Just sayin' as the kids say today.

Look at what Cumulus has done to Mobile, Pensacola, and Atlanta lately... Clear Channel has been just as schizophrenic in Atlanta for a couple years now... Would anything surprise us at this point?


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