Dream a Little Dream with Me...

[txradiochick]

You hit the lottery. Which stations do you buy and what do you do with them? Are there any "perfect" stations out there that you wouldn't change a thing about? If so, why?

Just thought this might make a nice diversion in your day....crawling back under my rock now....

 

[KlunkLetter]

If $$ wasn't an object, and I didn't have to report to any shareholders, 'LS and the former SuperCFL in Chicago would be my first two choices. They would be my playland and I would return them to the 50,000 watt, music playing, blowtorches they were.

 

[DG02816]

If money were no object, I'd buy these outlets, in no particular order:

WALE 990 Greenville/Providence RI. .I'd fix up the transmitter site first and replace the bad tower, sample loops, repair the transmitter, and get it back to 50 kW. I'd do a jazz/swing format with lots of audience involvement and remotes.I'd also dump the calls and get the original WLKW calls back.

Next on the list would be one of my present employers, WVCH 740 Chester/Philadelphia PA. I'd move the studios into a decent building, upgrade the studio from its present controlled chaos situation, and build out the station's CP.
Probably wouldn't need 50 kW to blanket cover the Philadelphia area. 10-20 kW would do fine during the day, and 5 kW(if possible) would work at night. I'd put in high speed Internet so we could have backup by downloading programs from the ministries we air, as well as have the satellite capability. New studio equipment and automation would be a must, as well as the ability to do call-in shows.

Last but not least, I'd go after a small station in SC, WABV Abbeville. Place needs work bigtime.

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia

 

[u-j]

If I can play Devil's advocate, what would you do about the limited number of listeners on the AM band? Or would you also invest in a time machine?

 

[Dighton Rockhead]

If money were no object, I'd buy......

WALE 990 Greenville/Providence RI. .I'd fix up the transmitter site first and replace the bad tower, sample loops, repair the transmitter, and get it back to 50 kW. I'd do a jazz/swing format with lots of audience involvement and remotes.I'd also dump the calls and get the original WLKW calls back.

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia

I agree with the basic thrust of your "dream", but I think I might do it a bit differently:

If Craig Healy's theory is right, and there is some sort of masssive rock formation between the "PCB Dump" in Burrillville, and Providence that interrupts ground conductivity, then you'd be wasting that precious lottery money by doing anything at all at the "PCB Dump".

Why not instead try to work out a deal with Alex Langer to co-locate 990 with his soon-to-be built 1140 AM Construction Permit on that parcel of land in Greenville just west of US Rt.44 that he's secured? Better yet, a co-location deal with RI's NPR outlet WRNI-1290, at thier Douglas Avenue Providence location?

At either location, you probably wouldn't need to run 50KW in order to blanket RI and Southeastern Massachusetts......somewhere from 15 to 25KW would probably be more than enough......Which reminds me......I would try to get the pattern modified from the current S-SE direction, which of course dumps most of the RF into the Atlantic Ocean, into a more useable E-SE
direction, which would do a much better job at covering Southeastern Massachusetts and the near Cape Cod area......part of what Holland Cooke would call "giving Southeastern Massachusetts a hug".

I'd do the Jazz/Big Band/Swing format as you would......but also try to mix in a lot of the great sounding new stuff that you would hear on WJZS 99.3 "The Bridge"......which reminds me......for calls, I'd see if I could get the calls from Rhode Island last prominent Jazz station WOTB. Failing that, a re-cycling of the calls WEAN, or WRIB would suffice. I guess I don't really see the same value to the WLKW calls that you do, but that's just me.

dr

 

[MikefromDelaware]

If money were no object, and no stockholders to answer to and it has to be AM radio stations, then I'd buy 50KW 1210 WPHT in Philly and make it a radio entertainment station playing Oldies from 1955-1975 with no disco (by day from 5am - 8pm with live local DJ's also ABC Information Radio Network hourly news ) then from 8pm - 10pm I'd air radio drama's both old one's from the 1930's- 1950's, also the CBS radio Mystery Theatre that aired in the 1970's, also modern day radio dramas from NPR, if available, the CBC (Canada) and BBC (England). From 10pm-1am Jim Bohannan from Westwood One. From 1am - 5am ABC Radio Oldies.

The second station I'd buy would be 610 WIP in Philly and would make it a CCM/Praise Music station where we'd air a wide selection of CCM music including CCM Gold from the 1970's-1990's as well as today's top CCM music. In the rotation would be a wide selection of Praise Music from 1970's - today. We'd air SRN news, and only have Bible teaching shows intersperced for example: 5am - 10am morning drive time CCM/Praise with traffic/weather/SRN/local news. 10am- 10:30am a top quality Bible teaching show, 10:30am-12noon more CCM/Praise/SRN/weather. 12noon local newscast, 12:30pm a top quality Bible teaching show, 1pm more CCM/Praise/SRN/weather, 3pm a top quality Bible teaching show. 3:30pm - 7pm afternoon drive time (same format as morning drive). 7pm Christian radio dramas, Adventures in Odessy, Unshackled. 8pm - 10pm CCM/Praise/SRN , 10pm - 10:30pm a top quality Bible teaching show. 10:30pm- 5am CCM/Praise/SRN.

The third station I'd buy would be AM1290 WWTX in Wilmington and make it a ABC Unforgettable Favorites format 24/7 with one of the ABC radio newsfeeds, local news/weather/traffic.

 

[mbatchelor]

I'd buy KJSL in St. Louis - Switch the calls back to KXOK, and program 50s/60s oldies.