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Indiana University's WIUX reaches settlement to leave 100.3 MHz.

According to the FCC database, the construtcion permit for WYGB (Korn Country 102.9) was granted yesterday.
They are now authorized to build the new facilities on 100.3 KHz with 6,000 watts.
The ERP plot is impressive.
Close the book on this one.
 
Kobayashi_Maru said:
According to the FCC database, the construtcion permit for WYGB (Korn Country 102.9) was granted yesterday.
They are now authorized to build the new facilities on 100.3 KHz with 6,000 watts.
The ERP plot is impressive.
Close the book on this one.
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I would close it with one more bit of information: the construction permit for WIUX-LP to move to 99.1 was also issued last week.
 
Not quite! Mr Maru tried to out me yesterday and he guessed wrong. Maru please give me an email
address so you can trace me and see that I am nowhere near your town of Columbus.
Do you really think that I would support the FCC opening up thousands of commercial fly by
night low power FMs as Quinn had advocated? No! but I love to stir the pot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will give you a hint. My station has more power and a bigger stick than yours! This station is
not a toy (LPFM).
And it appears IU did just fine.
 
I'm sure your stick is bigger than mine. I don't own a radio station.
Just a radio. And an intense interest in this business. And a slight working relationship.
As for email, if you want to prove yourself, how about giving me your email address. I will respond and you'll know where I'm coming from.
Since I don't have 'stick', let's talk email.
"You show me your and I'll show you mine".
And I agree that IU did just fine.
So did WYGB
So did WXCH
So did WRKA
So did WRQQ
So did WTHX
So did WQQK
So did WHHT
The only possible losers were the people in Versailles, but they can still receive WSCH (same programming as WXCH).
Like I said in the beginning, everybody wins.
 
Another LPFM has found itself in the middle of the WIUX settlement. An LPFM in Evansville has gotten the WIUX settlement message by way of WLME's new set up that puts them closer to WCFYLP. WLME moves out of the way so another station can move into Louisville. To do that WLME gives up its C class and moves to an A class and to a new transmitter site a lot close to Evansville.

Since WIUX was the only LP to file any kind of FCC paperwork on the big frequency change and city of license swaps, they were the only ones who had any chance of keeping ahead of all of the greed grabs for bigger city coverage by the rim shooters in Nashville and Louisville.

WIUX had a chance to maker some important changes but gave up. Nice lesson plan over there at IU: lets fight for LPFM so we can learn how to give up. Sounds more like something the French would do instead of a bunch of dedicated radio students.
 
No one has mentioned the 15,000 Dollar bribe our State Senator solicited. Bribe paid to IU for the signature on the IUX application.

Senators Lugar and Bayh as well as baron Hill had input on this too.

How much did Cumulus have to spread around to get this done?
 
How do you think that State Senator showd that $15,000 bride on the accounts payable run for our government?
Bribe? Kickback?
I think it was nothing more than a financial grant to help keep WIUX on the air.
The farmers get subsidies, the automakers get subsidies and when the going gets tough, WIUX gets a government grant.
 
The winners and losers in the WIUX settlement:
The Winners
Keith Riesing-he didn't have to shell out a single penny in the deal. Elizabethtown CBC did.
Keith Riesing-He gets his frequncy to do with as he wishes.
Keith Riesing-He avoids coming off looking like some sort of greedy guy who doesn't care about public broadcasting. Hey Keith, I know you are reading this. Looks like you escaped looking like some sort of stoog for Cox and Cumulus.
Marty Hensly-maybe he will get it right this time.
Elizabethtown CBC-nice job. Gave up nothing and got WIUX off the frequency. A little money is not something. But you got them to not just drop out of the 100.3 situation but got them to go away for ever on everthing in return for nothing.

Loosers
Indiana University-for giving up on the last chance to help LPFM before the FCC.
Indiana University-not the home of good bargainers. Had more to work with but chose to take the easy way out.
WIUX-sure that 99.1 is safe and secure?
WCFY-LP Evansville-How come you are not happy to surrender some of your coverage area for the station that moved for the 103.1 Louisville station?
WCFY-LP-for not having the advise that WIUX had concerning future interference.
WIUX-you knew 99.1 was the only open option and that it cold not be applied for by anyone at anytime in the known future, AND that there were no open full service frquencies in Bloomington to find.
The negotiators for IU for not knowing the real deal on 99.1. (Guess when you are as well educated as they were, you don't need to know all the facts.)
Bruce Quinn-everyone in Columbus now hates Bruce because he assisted WIUX get on the air. Hey Keith, be glad that Bruce was not a negotiator in the settlement.

Keith, you should fall on your knees and thank God that Bruce wasn't asked to help WIUX keep 100.3. Bruce was just doing what you were doing in 2005, trying to get a station on the air. No one knew that all of this frequncy change business was going to happen when WIUX got there CP. I would like to know why Bruce didn't apply for 100.3 himself when the big frequency grab for 100.3 started. Bruce, if you are reading this, how about an answer.

I wish Bruce a lot of luck with his plan to put a NCE station on 93.5 in Bloomington. This will be a great chance to punish Bruce Quinn for his assistance to IU. After all, only a bunch of small town failures would go out of their way to cause problems to a future non-commercial station which would cause no harm to your commercial full service, manned 24/7 Columbus station "cluster".
 
Media 1170, your passion and opinions suggest more involvement in this than just an innocent bystander.
But I must say your posting makes no sense.
How do you think Keith Reising SHOULD have come out of this? Should he have had to pay? How much? For what?
I don't have more than a passive relationship with Keith, but he is not a "greedy guy who doesn't care about public broadcasting", so why should anyone think otherwise?
In your first comment you say he was lucky because he didn't have to shell out a single penny? Yet you think he is lucky that nobody thinks he is a stooge for Cox and Cumulus? You're not making sense here. Why would he be considered a stooge for Cox or Cumulus?

Marty Hensley, a winner in all this? He belongs on the losers list as he tried everything in vain to stop this deal from happening. He really thought 100.3 should be his, licensed to Shelbyville.


How can you consider Indiana University a loser?
18 months ago they were transmitting on a low power AM station. Not too long before that they were a carrier current station.
Their new facilities will have roughly the same coverage area as their current 100.3, at no cost to them in any way (as it should be).

As for Bruce Quinn, you say "everyone in Columbus hates him because he helped get WIUX on the air". Name one person in Columbus who hates Bruce Quinn? Name just one. Name someone in Columbus who knows Bruce Quinn has any ties to WIUX (other than the 3 or 4 radio types that read this forum). I had no idea until I read it here. I didn't outside of what I've read here.
The only story in the Columbus paper about Bruce was the one announcing WHUM's move 'to a radio frequency five times more powerful".
The average person in Columbus does not read Radio Info's Indiana board. In fact, most of the "radio people" in Columbus don't read this board.
The fact is, Bruce is a relative newcomer to the city of Columbus and I doubt if anyone outside of radio even knows his wife is the president of a 100 watt LPFM broadcasting from the back bedroom of a house on 12th and Franklin.

If Keith Reising should be glad Bruce was not a negotiator in the settlement, why? How would this have concluded if Bruce had been involved in the negotiations? How do you know what Bruce would have negotiated for?
I have other answers to allegation in media1170's post but the moderators would kill my post or 'move it outside' so I'll leave it at that.
As I posted earlier, now that this matter is nearly done, everyone's a winner.
WIUX is going to stay with a decent signal on FM, Keith is going to get 6KW omni without having to build the CP he had with the stick in Nineveh, Marty Pieratt is going to get to move WXCH to a more robust economic area, where Reising and White River have been setting records in billing (not to mention that the value of WXCH is more than double what it was a year ago). And WRKA will get it's signal increase in Louisville, and the other applicants will also benefit.
Docket 06-77 turned out just fine, at least for those of us who try to find life's cup in half full.
 
Mr Maru,
Do you really think you are talking to Bruce Quinn? Is that what you think? Trying to make this
personal?

There are thousands in the low power cause and this story made national news. It's a bigger world
than just Quinn or Columbus, Indiana.
 
No, I don't think I'm talking to Bruce Quinn. I have no idea who midia1170 is and don't care.
I'm just discussing his very strange post.
 
Winners-losers.
Thought I made it simple enough for even a cave man to understand.

Isn't Kobayashi a character in the movie "The Usual Suspects". I as I recall a con man and crook makes up an elaborate story for the police that satisfies what the police want to hear?

Sorry Miss /Mr. Maru-but I am just a passionate bystander who has been around long to see through the BS.

Riesings name isn't anywhere on the publicly posted settlement agreement which presumes it is on one that is not publicly posted. He is the only one who gains anything of any real value in the settlement and that is simple enough for even a caveman to understand.
 
I just heard about this plight of WIUX yesterday. You all ought to consider yourself lucky that these guys didn't just come in and run you over! The Univesity could see that it's back was against the wall; there's no way anyone could justify spending 10's of thousands to start a defense of a frequency that was assigned for secondary service to a non-com on the com band.

Add this to the list of a low power AM gone to the FM and less than a year later having a problem....yeah it's not pretty, but WIUX had no longevity on the frequency. There's no standing on that cause.

From the looks of it WIUX survives and gets reimbursed for prudent expenses. Consider yourself lucky that the Sparta board gets to live with electricity a little longer and those tape cart machines on the WIUX website get to be "spun" a few more times.

Reality is that this business is never a sure thing and educational radio really needs HELP. The only way that's going to happen and make sure that this doesn't happen to another station down the road is to start making noise towards the policy makers in this country that has allowed for this in the first place, starting at Pennsylvania Aveune and then work your way towards 12th St NW. zip code= 20554
 
I was in Columbus over the weekend and I listened to WYGB 102.9 (KORN Country). They have started promoting the fact that they will be leaving 102.9 MHz for a new frequency, 1003. FM and promised better reception for all.
I called the station and talked to a female who said the move will likely be the first or second week or June.
After looking at the radiation plot, it looks like they will be improving their situation 100%. They are currently 3 KW directional, protecting 103.1 in Versailles. The new facitrlities will allow them to be 6KW Omnidirectioal from their stick on Carr Hill Rd.
It will give much better building penetration in Columbus and add city-grade signals to North Vernon and Seymour (as well as Franklin/Edinburgh). Since 100.3 was originally a 50,000 watt Class B obver in Connersville, there aren't many stations close to Columbus, either co channel or first/second adjacent that will affect their signal. They should really do nicely from Indy to Louisville.
I wonder if they will stay with a produced County format, with no live jocks and very little news. It's worked for mediocre numbers for 5 or 6 years, but with the new plant, you'd think they would try to gain some TSL by providing a good morning show and someone in afternoons. They've always cumed decent, but the TSL was one of the worst in the book, People kept coming back, looking for a reason to stay, but the infrequent 20-in-a-row music sweeps were offset by several shorter sweeps during drive times. There's nothing to keep people listening. In spite of intended loyalty, the dishinfranchised drove to Hank-FM and WKKG.
Come on Keith and Mike, give us something to listen to as opposed to Sean Caldwell liners and an automated temperture/clock machine that is rarely accurate.
 
:D
No, WIUX has not moved yet and according to the people who did the negotiating for the station to get off of 100.3 (none of whom were Keith Riesing) they were good on the on 100.3 till July. If Corn/Korn Country is gonna switch, they better let some know about it besides the part-timer that answers the phones.

Hey Keith/Kobayashi, how bout posting the expected date for signing on 100.3 here in the Indiana Board where someone in Bloomington at WIUX might find it so they can do what they said THEY would do for you: sign off 100.3. Since you were not on the settlement agreement according to the FCC web site, you were the first and best beneficiary of the agreement. Yah, Cox Radio was getting a little impatient with the guys in Elizbethtown about not getting their Louisville rim shot up to full power, but that is a Versailles problem. (wink-wink)

So Keith/Kobayashi, now is your chance to show your are a stand-up kind of guy and not what everyone is saying about you behind your back.

Post your sign-on date for 100.3 someplace other than on the post-it note by the telephone up front by the front door.
 
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