Fybush on FB: WMSX wants to move to Dedham

[MarcB]

All of our programmers have a contract, for a specific length of time, with
specific terms. This protects them from that time being sold to somebody
else, and their program being taken off the air arbitrarily. Most of our
programs are long term contracts.

I believe you, but I have a question. If someone were to come along and purchase WLYN/WAZN from Multi-Cultural Radio, can't they void all programming contracts?

 

[NHRadio]

AFAIK, a new owner can void them but isn't required to. Depends on how the purchase and sales agreement is worded. Jeff knows more than I on this.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

Both stations - WLYN and WAZN - are currently making money, and neither are
for sale at this time. Full disclosure: I used to work for what is
now WMSX (then was WOKW, 1980-81) and MRBI bought WAZN from Alex Langer.
Ah, the Circle of Life!

 

[DG02816]

Rather surprised Langer didn't try to go after reviving the 1270 CP that was supposed to go on from N. Dartmouth. Had Edmund Dinis been able to do this, WJFD would have gone to an English-language format. But I bet the Karams' making 1400 Portuguese probably makes 1270 moot.

 

[Dighton Rockhead]

Rather surprised Langer didn't try to go after reviving the 1270 CP that was supposed to go on from N. Dartmouth. Had Edmund Dinis been able to do this, WJFD would have gone to an English-language format. But I bet the Karams' making 1400 Portuguese probably makes 1270 moot.

The other thing that might complicate a possible 1270 for North Dartmouth is that since that original CP expired some years ago....Providence's 1290 was granted a power upgrade to 10KW both day and night.

And......Speaking of the Karams'......Weren't they part of that whole NIMBY and BANANA resistance that made it impossible for Edmund Dinis to get a transmitter site approved in the area for the CP?

 

[DG02816]

I would not be the least bit surprised.

 

[pariho2013]

If I read yesterday's (7/1/2013) NERW correctly, Langer is NOT planning a 650//1410 simulcast, though he IS planning to program 1410 in Portuguese. Are there really enough Portuguese speakers in the "upgraded" 1410's coverage area to support such programming and to bring in enough revenue to pay for the three staffers and the separate (from 650) studio/office facility in Hyde Park that Scott says Langer will construct?

Portuguese makes sense on 650 with the Brazilian community in Framingham, but I think it would make less sense on 1410 in Dedham/Hyde Pk.

 

[jlehmann]

Hopefully 1410 eventually goes leased Haitian. It would be a service to the rest of the broadcast community if it cut down the number of pirate stations, many of which are Haitian.

 

[CTListener]

Hopefully 1410 eventually goes leased Haitian. It would be a service to the rest of the broadcast community if it cut down the number of pirate stations, many of which are Haitian.

But would they be able to get away with distorted, overmodulated religious ranting -- the lifeblood of Haitian pirate radio -- on a licensed station? And if they had to tone it down, would the targeted audience listen?

 

[wickedwritah]

Hopefully 1410 eventually goes leased Haitian. It would be a service to the rest of the broadcast community if it cut down the number of pirate stations, many of which are Haitian.

1410 could have remained in Brockton and gone leased Haitian.

 

[inorm99]

If 1410 goes Haitian ( Kreyol) then Langer should move it to Miami, or Port Au Prince.
In Boston it should be local, English, and urban

Hopefully 1410 eventually goes leased Haitian. It would be a service to the rest of the broadcast community if it cut down the number of pirate stations, many of which are Haitian.

1410 could have remained in Brockton and gone leased Haitian.

 

[N1WVQ]

Hopefully 1410 eventually goes leased Haitian. It would be a service to the rest of the broadcast community if it cut down the number of pirate stations, many of which are Haitian.

1410 could have remained in Brockton and gone leased Haitian.

They should have.

 

[DanStrassberg]

1410 could have remained in Brockton and gone leased Haitian.

As I recall from earlier postings in this thread, WMSX lost its two-tower site in or near Brockton. It just may have turned out that that situation made the Reedville move make sense. A new site had to be found, and considering how hard it is to find AM sites that pass muster with all concerned (especially with neighbors), it may have made the most sense to move to an area with the greatest available population density (that is, to serve the largest possible population with the limited signal that is possible with all of the signals that hem in a 1410 in this area). Still, I can't believe that Langer would be thinking of running Brazilian Portuguese from Reedville if he weren't already running Brazilian Portuguese from Mt Wayte Ave.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I believe there is a large Haitian-American community in the Mattapan section of Boston and part of Milton, so running Haitian Kreyol programming on 1410 once it's transmitter moves would make some sense.

 

[wickedwritah]

FYI, Dan, it's READville, not Reedville. Nitpick from a Boston resident. <g>

 

[reelyreal]

If 1410 goes Haitian ( Kreyol) then Langer should move it to Miami, or Port Au Prince.
In Boston it should be local, English, and urban

Why didn't you put up the money, then?

 

[frnkp2000]

WXBR 1460 will probably go all Haitian before WMSX does. They've already started some Haitian programming.

 

[HHH]

"If 1410 goes Haitian ( Kreyol) then Langer should move it to Miami, or Port Au Prince.
In Boston it should be local, English, and urban"



Go tell that to WUNR 1600 who have made a tidy living broadcasting non-English programming for around 50 years.

 

[NHRadio]

If 1410 goes Haitian ( Kreyol) then Langer should move it to Miami, or Port Au Prince.
In Boston it should be local, English, and urban

Should it? If it's such a slam dunk, lease it and make it so. Apparently you know everything about Boston radio so it should be easy for you to make gobs of money.

And I always thought it was spelled "Creole". Am I wrong?

 

[DanStrassberg]

FYI, Dan, it's READville, not Reedville. Nitpick from a Boston resident. <g>

Sorry. I wasn't sure of the spelling and I didn't take the trouble to add "(or whatever)" after the misspelled name of the neighborhood. Let's see if I can remember the correct spelling the next time Readville comes up. Don't bet on it, though!