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FCC Visits SW Indiana

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ChiefEngineer

Stopped by the WYNG studios in Evansville.

This is REALLY Good. WYNG has been in Evansville for 15 years. Yes, everyone knows this.

But WYNG 94.9 is licensed to Mt. Carmel, IL. Evansville is outside of the city grade service contour of WYNG. No studio waiver either.

The WYNG STL license provides coordinates at Evansville which is where it is licensed.

For the past 15 years the station has had a sign at the college in Mt Carmel showing this is where their 'main studio" is located.
Even paid the engineer for WVJC to be the "General manager" so they had meaningful management presence.

The "studio" can't originate programming. The "manager" didn't manage anything.

Wouldn't the FCC know that the studio has to have an stl and WYNG only had one stil license...in Evansville?

When will they visit other Russ Withers stations?
 
ChiefEngineer said:
Stopped by the WYNG studios in Evansville.

This is REALLY Good. WYNG has been in Evansville for 15 years. Yes, everyone knows this.

But WYNG 94.9 is licensed to Mt. Carmel, IL. Evansville is outside of the city grade service contour of WYNG. No studio waiver either.

The WYNG STL license provides coordinates at Evansville which is where it is licensed.

For the past 15 years the station has had a sign at the college in Mt Carmel showing this is where their 'main studio" is located.
Even paid the engineer for WVJC to be the "General manager" so they had meaningful management presence.

The "studio" can't originate programming. The "manager" didn't manage anything.

Wouldn't the FCC know that the studio has to have an stl and WYNG only had one stil license...in Evansville?

When will they visit other Russ Withers stations?
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Since it has been like this for 15 years, and Withers just bought the station, sould the fine also affect the previous ownership??
 
You wrote:
Since it has been like this for 15 years, and Withers just bought the station, should the fine also affect the previous ownership??

And I replied:
Does not work that way. Comish fines the licensee and that currently happens to be Withers. Can Withers come back against the former owner? Yes, but not likely. When you buy a business, radio station, bait shop or shoe store, the buyer must preform "due dilligence". That is, the buyer, if he has any intelligence, will look for any material weaknesses and/or potential pitfalls in the business before the purchase. I'd say, the situation you describe, is a weakness.....
 
ChiefEngineer said:
The "studio" can't originate programming. The "manager" didn't manage anything.
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The studio not being able to be put on the air is an issue. The inspector needs to talk to the people at the "main studio" and watch them fail to put something on the air to test that problem. (If the FCC issues a NAL the station can still explain the manager's incompetence if it is only a matter of them not knowing or having the skills to flip the right switches.)

Managers that don't manage anything work for radio stations with studios that originate programming as well. There are a lot of minimal management stations around.

ChiefEngineer said:
Wouldn't the FCC know that the studio has to have an stl and WYNG only had one stil license...in Evansville?
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Perhaps they are using a STL that doesn't require a license? If one can call up on a phone line and put the phone audio on the air it could serve as a studio to transmitter link.
 
Douglas B. said:
You wrote:
Since it has been like this for 15 years, and Withers just bought the station, should the fine also affect the previous ownership??

And I replied:
Does not work that way. Comish fines the licensee and that currently happens to be Withers. Can Withers come back against the former owner? Yes, but not likely. When you buy a business, radio station, bait shop or shoe store, the buyer must preform "due dilligence". That is, the buyer, if he has any intelligence, will look for any material weaknesses and/or potential pitfalls in the business before the purchase. I'd say, the situation you describe, is a weakness.....
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That is not necessarially true from a legal standpoint. Yes the buyer must do due dilligence, however the previous owner if intentionally witholding such information could be held liable in civil court.

Also the facts of the case as presented here are not completely accurate, WYNG may have been in Evansville for 15 years, but until the last couple of years the call letters were on the frequency 105.3, not 94.9.
 
I think there is some confusion here. The "15 years" comment refers to when WYER-FM dropped it's AC format that targeted Mount Carmel, changed calls to WRBT, and adopted a classic rock format that targeted Evansville. That was in the fall of 1989. They opened an office in Evansville and bought billboards and TV advertising there.
 
FCC should also visit WUEV...interesting how WUEV is the 7th highest revenue generating station, according to the Ken Mills Agency. Five years ago station wasn't allowed to seek underwriting or "gifts". Five years later and with only one full-time employee they are generating over 250 K?

Hmmmm...no commercial radio station carried the Aces this year. Wonder where the "underwriting" money went. Station or Athletic Dept.
 
I've not once heard a paid ad (cough "underwriting message" cough) on WUEV in the time I've been listening to the station - although I've never listened during a sporting event.
 
Who purchased 94.9 and moved them away from Mt Carmel, Aiken or Connoisseur? Regardless, the first few years 94.9 had its studio located in Henderson before moving to 41 and Lincoln.
 
As long as Charlie is visiting the market do you think he will notice a few of the signals serving the community at excessive modulation levels?
 
"...Who purchased 94.9 and moved them away from Mt Carmel, Aiken or Connoisseur?..."
It was Connoisseur, Larry is one of the few broadcasters in the area that has never owned 94.9.

You are correct about the limited number of places where one can learn the craft these days. Nevertheless, reading ONE liner card an hour and watching a hard drive seque songs and Scott MacAllen liners for the other 59 minutes and 10 seconds is hardly a live shift of any kind.

BTW, I, too, wanted to hear the Hooters girl today, so I left work early and drove down south of Terre Haute to take a listen. Sadly, all I heard was an intern type (guy) reading a liner about some kind of mix ("less, better mix, more mix, today's mix, etc."). I did, however, hear Frankie Avalon's Venus in the middle of a bunch of 1990's soft rock. Was it a mistake or was it part of the format?
 
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