Has anyone listened to this station? How do they sound? 80's, 90's, NOW huh? Who owns them?
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kirkiefan
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The new logo is cool....the new site is a bit boorish.
Only three jocks...sounds like typical 'MVR to me.
(remember Joe Budisch,The Wireless Wizard and Mike Baumer back in the day?)
Still no fulltime news department since the switch to "Hits"? Horrors!
What would Dean Sr.have done? He would be appalled in his grave if there's no news department!
Two "Hits" DJs last year had a fight at a honky tonk down the road last year and supposedly lost their jobs because of it.
Their computer guy resigned a year ago as did sportsmen Jack Kramer and Jeff Bray who stated up an internet station featuring all local high school sports this past fall....when no sports is on its classic 60s/70s/80s hits without jocks.
http://www.scoresbroadcast.com
BTW:
Dean Jr.is no longer running the show at Hits. Loretta,the sales manager took over.
And what about AM-1080...What's the OFFICIAL story there since that November 2000 storm that took it down? I doubt that WOAP will ever go 24/7 after all those STAs the past several years...WTIC still has dibs to remain the way it has always been....it's not gonna happen for WOAP....and 'MVR-AM is still off the air?
Something just doesn't sound right in "'MVR country."
Only three jocks...sounds like typical 'MVR to me.
(remember Joe Budisch,The Wireless Wizard and Mike Baumer back in the day?)
Still no fulltime news department since the switch to "Hits"? Horrors!
What would Dean Sr.have done? He would be appalled in his grave if there's no news department!
Two "Hits" DJs last year had a fight at a honky tonk down the road last year and supposedly lost their jobs because of it.
Their computer guy resigned a year ago as did sportsmen Jack Kramer and Jeff Bray who stated up an internet station featuring all local high school sports this past fall....when no sports is on its classic 60s/70s/80s hits without jocks.
http://www.scoresbroadcast.com
BTW:
Dean Jr.is no longer running the show at Hits. Loretta,the sales manager took over.
And what about AM-1080...What's the OFFICIAL story there since that November 2000 storm that took it down? I doubt that WOAP will ever go 24/7 after all those STAs the past several years...WTIC still has dibs to remain the way it has always been....it's not gonna happen for WOAP....and 'MVR-AM is still off the air?
Something just doesn't sound right in "'MVR country."
kirkiefan said:
The FCC ruled a few months ago that WTIC has to switch to its directional antenna at Hartford sunset, with no protection for the extended daytime operation it was enjoying. The WMVR(AM) license was cancelled and callsign deleted back in December 2001. And WOAP now holds a CP to build out its move and power increase, granted 11/5/08.
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kirkiefan
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Thanks for this information. Please give us some official FCC links that document this change on this board pertaining to WOAP's long awaited
upgrade grant and WMVR-AM's closure.
I might add that God did answer WOAP/WCAR's prayer after all....it didn't look possible after their financial struggles and repeated STAs to remain silent indefinately....that's a big surprise!
I read your " Dayton AM Towers" story and questioned it remembering Steve Baker's WHIO-TV story of the storm that took one of the AM towers down.....it was not mentioned in your article.
...and to that effect (and with all due respect Scott) I stand corrected.
Thanks again.
upgrade grant and WMVR-AM's closure.
I might add that God did answer WOAP/WCAR's prayer after all....it didn't look possible after their financial struggles and repeated STAs to remain silent indefinately....that's a big surprise!
I read your " Dayton AM Towers" story and questioned it remembering Steve Baker's WHIO-TV story of the storm that took one of the AM towers down.....it was not mentioned in your article.
...and to that effect (and with all due respect Scott) I stand corrected.
Thanks again.
..yeah I read that Fybush story too and that line of the station "turning off the AM transmitter for good" also seems to run contrary to Bake's story on Newscenter 7. I watched Steve's story on the day that happened in November 2000...and has left us all hanging ever since. The Wikipedia WMVR article says "the future of" that AM station is uncertain on account of WOAP's struggles,STAs and their fight with the FCC.
May Dean Sr. rest in peace.
With his widow Ida now owning the station,it would make sense that she should consider to sell it to WPTW's new owner Miami Valley Radio LLC and Ida can have a well deserved rest trying to fill her husband's shoes. Since" PT" hasn't had an FM since selling off WCLR to Cox,it would also make sense for the rival stations to merge under the banner that WMVR first used: "(Wonderful) Miami Valley Radio."
May Dean Sr. rest in peace.
With his widow Ida now owning the station,it would make sense that she should consider to sell it to WPTW's new owner Miami Valley Radio LLC and Ida can have a well deserved rest trying to fill her husband's shoes. Since" PT" hasn't had an FM since selling off WCLR to Cox,it would also make sense for the rival stations to merge under the banner that WMVR first used: "(Wonderful) Miami Valley Radio."
It's been eleven years since I took that picture of WMVR, and thus eleven years since I've set foot in Sidney, so I can't really speak to the precise fate of the AM 1080 towers. If WHIO-TV says they came down in a storm, I have no reason to doubt that; I didn't see the channel 7 story that's being referred to here, either. (Honestly, having done 300 or so "Site of the Week" installments since that 2002 piece on Dayton, I'd completely forgotten having written about WMVR at all until this thread popped up!)
Here's what I do know: if you go to the FCC's AM Query or to the fccinfo.com search page (a far better way to dig into the FCC CDBS database than the FCC's own search tools) and search for WOAP, you'll see the 50 kW CP it was granted last fall.
If you search for WMVR(AM), you won't find it, because it no longer holds a valid license. But type in "DWMVR" as an AM callsign search and be sure to check the "include archive records" box below the callsign box, and you'll get what's left of WMVR(AM) from the FCC's records. Click on the very last record that comes up, and under callsign history you'll see that it changed from "WMVR" to "DWMVR" on 12/13/2001. That's what the FCC does when it cancels a license and deletes a callsign.
Even if that hadn't happened, WMVR would still be gone with the wind, for two reasons: first, it never filed for license renewal in the 2004 renewal cycle, so its last valid license expired 10/1/2004; second, it was around that time that Congress mandated that the FCC automatically cancel the license of any station silent for 12 consecutive months, which 1080 certainly has been, and then some.
As for WTIC's forced downgrade, I covered that in NorthEast Radio Watch last fall:
http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2008/081110/nerw.html#ct
Hope that helps shed some light...
Here's what I do know: if you go to the FCC's AM Query or to the fccinfo.com search page (a far better way to dig into the FCC CDBS database than the FCC's own search tools) and search for WOAP, you'll see the 50 kW CP it was granted last fall.
If you search for WMVR(AM), you won't find it, because it no longer holds a valid license. But type in "DWMVR" as an AM callsign search and be sure to check the "include archive records" box below the callsign box, and you'll get what's left of WMVR(AM) from the FCC's records. Click on the very last record that comes up, and under callsign history you'll see that it changed from "WMVR" to "DWMVR" on 12/13/2001. That's what the FCC does when it cancels a license and deletes a callsign.
Even if that hadn't happened, WMVR would still be gone with the wind, for two reasons: first, it never filed for license renewal in the 2004 renewal cycle, so its last valid license expired 10/1/2004; second, it was around that time that Congress mandated that the FCC automatically cancel the license of any station silent for 12 consecutive months, which 1080 certainly has been, and then some.
As for WTIC's forced downgrade, I covered that in NorthEast Radio Watch last fall:
http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2008/081110/nerw.html#ct
Hope that helps shed some light...
the station sounds like crap.what happen to all the jocks?when i came to sidney i listen to the station but this time all i heard was 2 guys.joe and scott.what happen to all the weekend guys?the weekends did sound great,that sunday nite show was good if you like old music like i do.the show they had on sat nite was great as well who was the jock his name is bean he made the show sound big market and who did his liners?
I am personal friends with many of the jocks that "USED" to be on WMVR including Bean, Scotty, and Bryan.
It hurt to see all them let go and be out of jobs in this rough economy simply because of the magic of automation and voice tracking on saving money.
BUT... as of all small market stations WMVR should be "live and local" all hours of the day and night, take request at the drop of a hat
and show care to the community it serves. I agree that there should be more on-air personalities, but I do think the music is decent
as it appears WMVR is trying to fill the void of Z93 in the upper miami valley, and I do think they are doing a decent job at that.
It hurt to see all them let go and be out of jobs in this rough economy simply because of the magic of automation and voice tracking on saving money.
BUT... as of all small market stations WMVR should be "live and local" all hours of the day and night, take request at the drop of a hat
and show care to the community it serves. I agree that there should be more on-air personalities, but I do think the music is decent
as it appears WMVR is trying to fill the void of Z93 in the upper miami valley, and I do think they are doing a decent job at that.
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