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B.B. Lean
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I heard a while back that Entercom is buying WKLU. Is that true? :-[
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"If you find a class A with higher ratings than our Class B We'll buy it?"
"If you find a class A with higher ratings than ...any of ...our Class B's We'll buy it?"
The American Dream. If you can't generate the ratings buy them.
It isn't really just Entercom. Mauer had the stations for years and just barely broke 2's.
"If you find a class A with higher ratings than ...any of ...our Class B's We'll buy it?"
The American Dream. If you can't generate the ratings buy them.
It isn't really just Entercom. Mauer had the stations for years and just barely broke 2's.
TPI was "cursed" by being at the end of the band.
For some time the processing rolled off the high end to have a WIBC like AM sound. What's up with that? Programming has never been anything that would shine. Loved Super Cooper on 13 WIFE but Steve Cooper was "yawn' okay. Looked for an exciting change that didn't happen when the track started. Wow - a TV Commercial. Programming now? An IPOD has the same selection. What makes it special?
Speculation was at the time TPI went "back on the air" that being at the end of the band would make the station hard to find.
Originally was WIFE FM but Vance Hartke did it my way and the License was lost.
99.5 has had some high and low moments. Smiley is probably the only innovative jock in Indy now. The whole package isn't together. One Smiley.
Smiley, I'll listen if you TP Smulyan's house. I'll give you the address. Don't dislike Smulyan at all but would like to see Smiley do something other than the lame ads on now.
Who else works there? Wow- A few tv commercials.
Entercom won't let things slide for years. They will make changes.
For some time the processing rolled off the high end to have a WIBC like AM sound. What's up with that? Programming has never been anything that would shine. Loved Super Cooper on 13 WIFE but Steve Cooper was "yawn' okay. Looked for an exciting change that didn't happen when the track started. Wow - a TV Commercial. Programming now? An IPOD has the same selection. What makes it special?
Speculation was at the time TPI went "back on the air" that being at the end of the band would make the station hard to find.
Originally was WIFE FM but Vance Hartke did it my way and the License was lost.
99.5 has had some high and low moments. Smiley is probably the only innovative jock in Indy now. The whole package isn't together. One Smiley.
Smiley, I'll listen if you TP Smulyan's house. I'll give you the address. Don't dislike Smulyan at all but would like to see Smiley do something other than the lame ads on now.
Who else works there? Wow- A few tv commercials.
Entercom won't let things slide for years. They will make changes.
mobilene said:
Good for her! Nice work.
107.9 was off the air for several years. If you back to 1979 you'd find that frequency silent. You'd also find nothing at 96.3, 93.9 or 106.7. 104.5 was a college station. 97.1 was a Shelbyville station playing Bing Crosby and 99.5 was a Greenfield station airing Euro-ethnic shows on the weekend.
Imagine what the shares for the other stations would like if you subtracted those 7 stations today.
Imagine what the shares for the other stations would like if you subtracted those 7 stations today.
Yep... Remember the bow tie and his overspending on trips and gracious gifts given by lobbyists... He kind of forgot his humble southern Indiana roots (Stendel and Evansville) and thought he was big time....We till remember Vance (barely).. He was a member of my UE fraternity (long before me), but they don't brag about it....????? ???
WIFE owner Burdon gave big time donations to Hartke. This made him a political enimy of the Reich.
Since they couldn't nail him on promotion of Hartke's campaign they had another idea.
WIFE ran a promotion that gave away a car. You send a letter to WIFE and the right answer wins the car. Something simple so everyone knew the answer as i recall.
The problem was they archived all the letters by date received so the winner may have submitted the letter Jan 1 but they didn't open the letters until Jan 20.
Thye kept soliciting letters through the period. In essence they already had a winner and were still soliciting letters.
last song WIFE FM "I did it my way." Frank Sinatra. Jay Reynolds said he could hear the station at each state line. he worked there when it went off. (Jay died a few years ago - One of the WABC Good Guys) Super Power signal apparently like WFBQ.
Since they couldn't nail him on promotion of Hartke's campaign they had another idea.
WIFE ran a promotion that gave away a car. You send a letter to WIFE and the right answer wins the car. Something simple so everyone knew the answer as i recall.
The problem was they archived all the letters by date received so the winner may have submitted the letter Jan 1 but they didn't open the letters until Jan 20.
Thye kept soliciting letters through the period. In essence they already had a winner and were still soliciting letters.
last song WIFE FM "I did it my way." Frank Sinatra. Jay Reynolds said he could hear the station at each state line. he worked there when it went off. (Jay died a few years ago - One of the WABC Good Guys) Super Power signal apparently like WFBQ.
"Chief"...I, too, remember how that signal seemed to be a monster like the old 52kw set up of WFBQ... Richmond to Terre Haute 
!! What a heavy 'Burden' was that promotion, to loose your license for a great AM and all because the FM did 'That Way'????
!! What a heavy 'Burden' was that promotion, to loose your license for a great AM and all because the FM did 'That Way'????I remamber the last night WIFE FM 107.9 was on the air when they lost their license,
"At this time, WIFE FM is ordered off the air by the Federal Communications Commission."
They played a song, something about a dream being crushed. Then, they pulled
the plug and 107.9 was nothing but static for several years. Anyone else remember that
sign off?
"At this time, WIFE FM is ordered off the air by the Federal Communications Commission."
They played a song, something about a dream being crushed. Then, they pulled
the plug and 107.9 was nothing but static for several years. Anyone else remember that
sign off?
I can remember when they were doing country in the mornings live with Reb Porter and calling themselves "CB-108". This was during the CB radio trucker days. I often wonder what would have happened to the station if Burdon hadn't lost the license. It was a very rare occurance in those days for the FCC to pull the plug on a commercial broadcaster. Between them and the old WXTZ, I don't know which one put me to sleep faster.
I lived in Cincinnati at the time & heard the sign off...then Aurora,IL (seems like the calls were WAUR then) on 107.9 appeared in it's place...oh the good old days before there were class A's on class B channels...
ChiefEngineer said:
According to the linked article, originally from the 2/3/75 issue of Broadcasting Magazine, he also illegally donated to Sen. Mark Hatfield, a Republican from Oregon at the same time he was donating to Hartke. Burden not only lost WIFE, but also stations in Omaha and Vancouver WA (Portland OR market).
One might say that "The Reich" (I'm guessing you mean the Nixon Administration?) had something to do with it since Hatfield had fallen out of favor with Nixon years earlier, but by the time the FCC acted, Nixon had resigned almost 6 months previously. Burden's misdeeds regarding Hartke went back to 1964, during the LBJ Administration.
Link: Broadcasting 101
Yes, and Branigan was Gov. (Dem) at the time of the contest controversy...
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B.B. Lean
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Well this is all very fascinating... :
But I'm guessing there's been no meat to the rumor? Lots of chatter about moves in the market, Entercom buying more stations, Emmis moving IBC to the FM, possibly buying another station... flips to sports... there's gotta be someone on here with some inside info to share!
But I'm guessing there's been no meat to the rumor? Lots of chatter about moves in the market, Entercom buying more stations, Emmis moving IBC to the FM, possibly buying another station... flips to sports... there's gotta be someone on here with some inside info to share!
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B.B. Lean
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sounds about right re: Entercom, they've lost 2 PD's and apparently opted not to replace them. I keep reading about Scott Sands taking over programming for all their stations. Can one guy program 3 stations, 2 variations of AC and one AM news/talk? Sounds like they're just looking to streamline and save money, which usually means one of two things - they're cutting losses because sales are weak, or they're saving money to make a purchase. I get the impression they don't really have a strategic plan for the cluster.
B.B. Lean said:
That's the impression I get, too. I don't think they are ready to buy, but rather sorry to have spent all that money. How long have they owned the cluster now? Four years? And they are still struggling with all three stations at the mid to bottom of the ratings. And now they are conserving money by having one guy program all three?
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