Any guesses who will try and snag this?
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DISNEY DITCHING WBWL/JACKSONVILLE
- Thread starter ThatGuyOnTheRadio
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Doesn't Chesapeake-Portsmouth (the "we're not Salem" group run by relatives) already have this lined up for WBOB?
According to Scott Fybush on his Northeast Radio Watch page:
Disney will pull the plug on WDDZ (550 Pawtucket) Providence, RI. and WDZK (1550 Bloomfield) Hartford, CT. on Thursday night at midnight. (Two other Disney AMs, WDRD 680 in Louisville, Kentucky and WBWL 600 in Jacksonville, Florida will also be silenced.)
Then what happens?
Disney will pull the plug on WDDZ (550 Pawtucket) Providence, RI. and WDZK (1550 Bloomfield) Hartford, CT. on Thursday night at midnight. (Two other Disney AMs, WDRD 680 in Louisville, Kentucky and WBWL 600 in Jacksonville, Florida will also be silenced.)
Then what happens?
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Will the last one out of the buillding please turn out the lights!
RD/JAX has benn bleeding money for the past two years>
RD/JAX has benn bleeding money for the past two years>
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LMA in place, conservative talk radio it is -- effective immediately 
This should be interesting. I can hear them every day here in the Charleston area, and maybe they can make a challenge at WOKV.
Radio Disney signed off in Jax Thursday evening and Talkradio 600 WBOB signed on at 6am on Friday.
Here's the headline that appeared earlier today here:
Jacksonville's conservative-talk "WBOB" migrates from 1530 to 600 AM
This part of the story seems incorrect:
"Meanwhile, the buyer hopes to proceed with plans recently submitted to the FCC to reduce nighttime power from 5,000 watts to 1,800 watts and and quit using two of its five towers. There would be no change in the daytime power of 5-kw, using just one tower".
According to the FCC search area, a construction permit was issued a month or two ago to go to the 3-tower array - Disney has already made it happen. The 2 towers were taken down months ago and AM 600 was operating on a non-directional lower power (actually a killer nighttime signal locally) - until they could configure the new directional pattern -they haven't been at 5kw nighttime for sometime now. If anything, one would think Chesapeake-Portsmouth would rather beef-up the nighttime stick with that signal from Cuba present here at night, especially with a talk format.
Here's the headline that appeared earlier today here:
Jacksonville's conservative-talk "WBOB" migrates from 1530 to 600 AM
This part of the story seems incorrect:
"Meanwhile, the buyer hopes to proceed with plans recently submitted to the FCC to reduce nighttime power from 5,000 watts to 1,800 watts and and quit using two of its five towers. There would be no change in the daytime power of 5-kw, using just one tower".
According to the FCC search area, a construction permit was issued a month or two ago to go to the 3-tower array - Disney has already made it happen. The 2 towers were taken down months ago and AM 600 was operating on a non-directional lower power (actually a killer nighttime signal locally) - until they could configure the new directional pattern -they haven't been at 5kw nighttime for sometime now. If anything, one would think Chesapeake-Portsmouth would rather beef-up the nighttime stick with that signal from Cuba present here at night, especially with a talk format.
On the FCC page on top left go to "search" - then scroll down look to the left and and click on AM search, on next page fill in state and city then click on AM Query (detailed output + CDBS links), then under that hit submit data. The first radio station to appear will be WBWL 600 kHz, then click on application list, then on the application list results click on the "application" that was GRANTED 06/30/2010. Then scroll down to Exhibit 17 - Nighttime Allocation and Coverage Considerations. There you'll find a description of what's been done and some diagrams and a map of the old and new nighttime signal plot. From talking with some engineers, and from living close to the southeast null, I can tell you with certainty - the 1800 watt 3 tower array has been activated. Signal used to be much stronger at night here only a couple of weeks ago.
I don't think there's any advantage to lower power at night. It was probably a simple matter of economics for the Disney company. When Disney took down the two westernmost towers in the 5-tower array, it appears they got the STA to go non-DA at night with 1200 watts, and initially intended to reconstruct the towers and restore the full 5kw. As it became clear they were starting to phase Radio Disney out of some medium markets, they most likely didn't want to spend the bucks to restore the 5 - tower set up - so they applied for and got a directional array with 3 towers approved - less expensive - right?
Is buying out WSJS and eliminating that NNE null an option?
No way, WSJS is a heritage station in Central North Carolina.
Was. Maybe not so much now. Post-Limbaugh, maybe Curtis Media would throw them in when they sell off WPTF. I would think with their connections in North Carolina, the "Chesapeake Portsmouth" crowd would be looking into this.
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