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Bloomberg 1200 format change soon

CTListener said:
Can't iHeart just say "Screw it. AM is dead" and abandon it?
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I get his point. Mine is that an AM with 3 towers is more expensive to run than FMs with one. Making it a donation would be a cruel joke.

But no, iHeart can't abandon it. They are a legal licensee, subject to the law. If they abandon it, they get fined. The FCC knows where they live.

iHeart has a bunch of these boat anchors, and they're stuck with them.
 
Any licensee can return its license to the Commission for cancellation at any time.

It doesn't cancel any existing fines that might be outstanding, but it doesn't create any new fine, either.
 
TheBigA said:
Those are non-profit FMs. 1430 is a for-profit AM, with very expensive tower and transmitter costs. Can't just rig up a yagi on the roof of your school.
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My point was 1) Schools are dropping FM's that have very little real estate overhead due to the cost of regulatory compliance, no school in their right mind is going to take an AM even if it is for free.

2) as I said, very few students care about radio, schools are just as happy to do streaming where the only cost of any significance is the music licensing costs.

We know how expensive the tower is, all we have to do is look at one of the factors that got WILD 1090 sold off not so long ago, they owed the company that owns the tower out in back of the old KISS108 studios ( now Total Traffic's facility iirc) a huge sum of money they had no chance of ever paying back. Not as much as the NYC Pacifica station owes the Empire State Building folks, but still a significant sum.
 
A school that got an AM _for a time_: WBTN 1370 Bennington VT

Wikipedia: "The WBTN stations (w/ FM 94.3) were acquired by Vermont Public Radio in 1999. VPR was mainly interested in WBTN-FM and had no interest in operating the AM station, and sold it to Robert Howe in 2000. Howe donated the station to Southern Vermont College in 2002. In 2008, WBTN was purchased by Shires Media Partnership."

WBTN is now a community-supported non profit station http://wbtnam.org/
 
TheBigA said:
Speaking of stations turning in their licenses, here is a list of the latest, including a college-owned FM:

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/139663/fcc-report-2-25-seven-stations-surrender-licenses/
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R.I.P WQAC "The Duck." Maybe Quinnipiac University's WQAQ can think about using that imaging now.

Personal note: I worked for a paper in Arkansas for 3 years and became familiar with a little AM, KWAK, which was in Stuttgart, which called itself the Duck Hunting Capital of the World. Ducks were big business there, and the championship duck calling contest is still held there every November. Anyway, KWAK, which you'd think would call itself "Quack" or "The Duck," did nothing of the sort. The man in charge there at the time didn't like that imaging and told his DJs never to call it "Quack." Occasionally, "K-Wak" was allowed, but most of the time it was either just the call letters read straight or "The Sporty 1240," playing on the station's heavy schedule of local high school sports.
 
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It’d be nice if they could just throw a canned oldies feed of some kind on 1430 just to have something on the air while in the trust. They put basic feeds of smooth jazz and Christian music on the stations placed into a trust in Seattle. It would fill a hole in the market... and who cares about demos for a signal they’re trying to get rid of...
 
True though not much if any of that easy listening is from the past few decades. Some of the songs would have been heard on oldies stations..Bittner has played stuff like The Hustle, I'd Like To Teach the World to Sing,etc

And just an hr ago I heard A. Hammond's "It Never Rains in Southern Calif."into Ray Charles "Hit the Road Jack"...into some 40s/50s instrumental.So, some "oldies" (and some even older)
 
Will the switch of WXKS 1200 definitely occur tomorrow?

Anyone know if the switch will definitely occur tomorrow, and will they simply take the current program schedule of WKOX 1430 and move it there? And do they have their own website yet? I remember they were having some issues with their signal years ago and that was a reason for their simulcast on WKOX 1430, so is their signal better now to cover the entire Boston area?
 
Prog talk was 10/2004 to 12/2006. 1200 and 1430 simulcast. 1200 changed COL to Newton and changed tower and power before conserv talk in 2010. iHeart websites are like wrko dot iheart dot com though I think WXKS was using talk1430 dot iheart dot com. There already may be a talk1200.iheart etc

Tomorrow as I understand it is when 1430 lineup moves to 1200. 1430 is in a trust so don't know yet it 1430 does simulcast, something else, or goes silent but iHeart isn't controlling them what with the trust, right?
 
As of this morning 1430 is music in Spanish.Still Bloomberg on 1200 and 94.5 HD2 ("on Bloomberg 106.1").Maybe talk switch at noon?
 
... there it is conserv talk 9 am WXKS 1200 and WJMN 94 5 HD2 Boston's New Home For Conservative Talk
@bostonradio tweet:
Talk 1200 is debuting at 9am this morning. Glenn Beck 9-12, RUsh 12-3, Hannity 3-6, Buck Sexton 6-9, Mark Levin 9-Midnight, Ben Maller 2-6pm, Clay Travis 6-9a
 
That was some kind of equal emp. opportunity statement. They forgot to update it.

On social media etc the slogan is "Rush has moved to the left". Ha, on the radio dial that is.

The site is http://talk1200boston.iheart.com or talk 1200 boston dot com
Talk1200. iheart is the mothership in San Antonio, I think. In the logo there is a small "AM" in the second 0.
(Jay Severin fan when he went to "Rush Radio 1200" some years ago: "So, 1200, that's like, AM, right?"
 
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