I've been called a lot of names here...
bingbangbo said:
Holland Cooke, you're probably the most professional person here. What do you think?
"Professional" is a rare bouquet for THIS crowd to toss ANY consultant!
But seriously...
I've not been following the WALE saga.
Which stick is that, the on-again-off-again 990?
B-tier AMs -- especially those with plum mid/low dial positions -- may live again, after some sort of tech renaissance. Otherwise, unless they're foreign language or some other uber-affinity niche, it's tough. Transmitters are merely distribution systems. Transmitters with iffy footprints are an even trickier proposition.
Someday, AM transmitters may be able to do something else. I say "someday," given the egg HD Radio is laying.
Twenty years ago, we had this very conversation in the newsroom at WTOP, after one of our on-air folks had theorized, in The Washington Post, that "in 20 years, they'll be using AM radio to hail cabs."
Fast-forward to present day: Let the record show that:
1. AM radio lives, and
2. the channels being repurposed for com are analog TELEVISION channels. Next February, when you Turn to Ten, you'll see dead air.
RE WSAR: I'm also behind-the-curve there, though I think I've spotted posts about personnel change there lately (?). If I'm WSAR, I am:
1. all-about The South Coast,
2. crowing about Red Sox baseball (loudest AM stick in its area with the games), and
3. PRAYING for new Massachusetts casinos.
