> ....... "Top 100 Market NEast AM Daytimer, low dial
> position, low expenses and good population coverage. Stick
> value: $495,000".........
>
> ............Any ideas on who this is??
>
> it's not WJIB and it's not 1600 in East Longmeadow. I think
> I know who it is though, however if thats the case.. it
> isn't worth $495,000.
>
Although 1170 doesn't qualify as a low dial position in my book, nobody has mentioned WDIS. The call sign alone might be worth more than $495k to Radio Disney ;>) I kinda doubt that Al Grady (or whatever his name is) has seen a penny of profit from the station itself in 20 years. A few years back, though, I gather that Grady leased out the towers to a company that in turn leases space to cell providers. He supposedly does make more than enough from the lease to cover the real estate taxes and other expenses. To use the AM towers to host cell antennas, they had to short out the base insulators and install folded unipole AM antennas. The way I heard the story, the company the lessor engaged to do the installation used aluminum wire for the folded unipoles. The high resistance of the aluminum completely wrecked the AM coverage but there were no listener complaints because the station has no listeners. Mr Grady reportedly did make an attempt to get the outfit that put in the folded unipoles to replace the aluminum wire with copper-plated steel, which would have worked fine, but the company told him to perform some anatomically impossible act.
