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Goodbye to WDOD-AM, Chattanooga -- On the Air Since 1925

secondchoice said:
radiorob2.0 said:
It makes me wonder if someone was to offer Bahakel $500 over the market price of the land would the station still be on the air?
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NO!!
From Bahakel's view this is a good thing. They save a little on the power bill. If they sold it as a station, someone might have made a go of it, and might take a slice out of the radio ad dollar pie decreasing Bahakel's revenue. If I had the station I would try Comedy like Cumulus did in KC. With a a 10 year note the monthy payment is around $3,600, postive cash flow should be expected.

If the other clusters in Chattanooga start to kill off their AM's too (the excuse will be to save money but really less competion) then you have an anti trust issue.
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Good luck proving that in court!!.
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Comedy on AM?? I saw the blurb about comedy radio in Kansas City. Who would listen? Really??

Yes...people under 30 and 40 listen to AM but only for sports talk programming and mostly the better educated.

Yes...talk and sports are migrating to the FM dial faster than ever before, but AM still works in some markets that do it right. See Cincinnati. But as long as owners are going to half-@$$ programming on an AM, then why bother.

AM can still be useful in some markets. Information. News. Sports Talk. Sports Games. Religious programming. Christian talk. Classic Country. Programming for black adults age 50+. Oldies. But once the perception of AM goes down the toilet in any market, then will it ever come back?
 
Maybe AM operators took bad advice from consultants telling them to go ahead and go talk while they still had a valuable and marketable brand since they were going to lose before long anyway or to just sell out because some schmuck who didn't know what he was doing was offering more than what the station would be worth in a year or two.
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From what I remember, most music AM's stuck with music way too long. Into the early 90's. When they finally took the plunge into talk, somebody else in town had Limbaugh and it was already too late.
 
Chattanooga terrain makes all AM stations save for WFLI-1070 licensed to Lookout Mountain very signal handicapped. And that is daytime power at that. Even the mighty WFLI must power down to 5KW at night. No AM station can fully cover Chattanooga 24/7 so FM caught on early in the market. FYI.
 
smedge2006 said:
What do you make of this? WDOD's lawyer has now asked the FCC to give BACK the license:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=26496
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Interesting! You never know... If I were them, I would have attempted to re engineer the thing to work at their other AM location south of there what is now (or was) WDEF on 1370, then turn in the 1370 frequency if they must,  or possibly operate it class "D". It would be almost impossible to get 1310 to diplex with 1370. The 1370 frequency is a lot more cluttered at night and much deeper nulls than 1310. The old 1310 frequency also enjoys a very low night interference limit. You hope these people think these things out but as stated, you never know.....
 
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