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Boston AM For Sale?

  • Thread starter Laurence Glavin
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Laurence Glavin

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Over at the Northern New England board, there was a link to a site with the URL:

http://www.radiostationsforsale.net

Third-from-the-bottom (unless the site is changed anytime soon) is a listing for Boston AM outlet WITH AN UPGRADE IN PROGRESS! Hmmm...could this refer to WKOX 1200, WRCA 1330 or WUNR 1600?
 
Laurence Glavin said:
Hmmm...could this refer to WKOX 1200, WRCA 1330 or WUNR 1600?
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I don't think it refers to WKOX because, if I'm thinking of the same item as you are, it refers to a professional format and leased time. AFAIK, WKOX's Rumba format is NOT leased time. Moreover, I presume that the reference to a "professional" format means business talk. That suggests either WBIX or WBNW. I guess it also could mean WXBR--the former WBET in Brockton. If you go through the listings, you will see TWO items from which you might conclude that both WBIX and WBNW are being shopped around. Moreover the item I think you are referring to is so badly written that it is unclear whether the upgrade in question is a signal upgrade or a studio upgrade. With WKOX leaving Mt Wayte Ave, WBIX might be upgrading its studios--taking over the part of the building that WKOX previously occupied.

The idea that Alex Langer might be trying to find a buyer for WBIX is reinforced by another item, which absolutely has to be Langer's CP for a high-power (27 kW-D/1.<something> kW-N) six-tower AM 1140 in Greenville (Providence) RI.
 
DanStrassberg said:
With WKOX leaving Mt Wayte Ave, WBIX might be upgrading its studios--taking over the part of the building that WKOX previously occupied.
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I think WKOX is really already out of the Mt. Wayte studios. While CC is the landlord, WKOX has been run out of Medford since the launch of liberal talk in 2004, and the sign out front now promotes Langer's stations rather than "WKOX News Talk 1200" (which I believe was their format circa 1995).

Last I'd heard, WBIX is waiting for WKOX to move transmission facilities to Newton so that an HD unit for 1060 can be put where 1200's main setup is now.
 
I don't have any idea what station the post is referring to but I do know the old WBET in Brockton is for sale. The last I heard, they were asking 750K for everything including the land the transmitter is on. A local station broker has the listing.

I think it would take a longtime to make that 750k back. Considering the problems Beasley is having I am sure they would sell 1330 for the right price.

Is Herbert Hoffman still alive? If he isn't who owns WUNR his daughter?
 
encarta95 said:
Last I'd heard, WBIX is waiting for WKOX to move transmission facilities to Newton so that an HD unit for 1060 can be put where 1200's main setup is now.
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Are they also going to put HD on their night transmitter in Ashland, or will WBIX only run HD in the daytime?
 
Eli Polonsky said:
encarta95 said:
Last I'd heard, WBIX is waiting for WKOX to move transmission facilities to Newton so that an HD unit for 1060 can be put where 1200's main setup is now.
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Are they also going to put HD on their night transmitter in Ashland, or will WBIX only run HD in the daytime?
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Not sure about Ashland, though I'd be very surprised if they did HD on the night transmitter, given 1060's limited night coverage as well as overall problems with AM HD at night.
 
wavelength9 said:
I don't have any idea what station the post is referring to but I do know the old WBET in Brockton is for sale. The last I heard, they were asking 750K for everything including the land the transmitter is on. A local station broker has the listing.
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That's the old WOKW, WAMK, WATD, currently WMSX 1410 in Brockton that's listed for sale for $750K, not the old WBET 1460, which is now WXBR.

WXBR may also be for sale again, though if it is, there's no price mentioned. I thought they were just bought a couple of years ago.
 
I used to work for then-WOKW. It is located in a converted house, in a residential neighborhood.
If an owner were to live in the house (cutting his living expenses), sell off some of the industrial-zoned
land (near Brockton High School and Rte. 24) where the towers are, out back, and make a few
bucks on the airtime... possibilities...
 
Thanks for the correction Eli. I can never keep those 2 Brockton stations strait.
 
WLYNgm said:
I used to work for then-WOKW. It is located in a converted house, in a residential neighborhood.
If an owner were to live in the house (cutting his living expenses), sell off some of the industrial-zoned
land (near Brockton High School and Rte. 24) where the towers are, out back, and make a few
bucks on the airtime... possibilities...
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1410/Brockton, it's a real "fixer upper". When I first visited the old WOKW/1410 back in 1973, it was a real showpiece of a station. It was well-maintained both "on-the-air" and off the air. The original 2-tower array (built in 1961) was meticulously maintained and well groomed (with plenty of "barefoot grass" in the field between the towers). Fast forward to 1990, it was a king sized mess with full sized trees and brush located where a well maintained lawn once stood. Technically, it wasn't much better. Haven't been there since then. But, who ever buys this station, had better really love radio! It has great potential, mind you, but it ain't gonna be cheap. Bon chance!
 
1410, WOKW, Brockton

I worked for them 1980-81. I left there when a group from New York bought it from the Sanft family, who owned it at that time. (It was then a "full service", local station) They were totally arrogant, those new owners. They knew absolutely everything - just ask them! This, despite the fact that none of them had any broadcast experience at all. They had a wonderful programming concept: weather radio. Huh? Give the weather every ten minutes... I believe the station went dark a year or so later, after they ran it into the ground. Sometime in 2008 (maybe was late 2007...) the station was sold at a bankruptcy sale...
 
Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:
1410/Brockton, it's a real "fixer upper". When I first visited the old WOKW/1410 back in 1973, it was a real showpiece of a station. It was well-maintained both "on-the-air" and off the air. The original 2-tower array (built in 1961) was meticulously maintained and well groomed (with plenty of "barefoot grass" in the field between the towers). Fast forward to 1990, it was a king sized mess with full sized trees and brush located where a well maintained lawn once stood. Technically, it wasn't much better. Haven't been there since then. But, who ever buys this station, had better really love radio! It has great potential, mind you, but it ain't gonna be cheap. Bon chance!
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From the "Can You Top This" Department:

However bad 1410 Brockton may be, it CAN'T possibly be worse than 990 WALE Greenville (Providence) RI ;D
 
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