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Is WYXC Cartersville still on the air

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CompleteGame

Couldn't tell from their website.
 
Did you try tuning your radio to 1270 AM and giving a listen?
 
Application for STA to remain silent file 1/30/10, indication the station went silent on 1/4/10.

Application for STA granted 3/30/10

FCC list of Silent stations does include WYXC.

I doubt if "Complete Gain" could hear the station where he lives even when they were on the air. I think I live closer than he probably does, and I couldn't.

You need another station, Complete Game. Maybe this one has your name written all over it.

Get it and I'll drive over a couple of times a week and perform the janitorial services. Then I can tell my friends I'm back in the radio business.
 
I was just looking at the table and saw:

WTJH EAST POINT GA 11/29/2009

This date is getting close. Does any body know the plans?
I think this station is a closer drive to most of this board's readers. Somebody should do the impossible and make a go of it.
 
I drive through that area almost every day...1270 is silent. The tower and studios are located on US 411/GA 61 (Tennessee Street) a couple of blocks from the US 41/US 411/GA 20/GA 61 intersection. A Wal-Mart (where I worked on the overnight remodel for three months earlier this year) is nearby.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
You need another station, Complete Game. Maybe this one has your name written all over it. Get it and I'll drive over a couple of times a week and perform the janitorial services. Then I can tell my friends I'm back in the radio business.
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Would it pay more than cleaning up after the elephants at the circus? ("What -- and give up show business??")
 
amlover said:
A friend of mine is actually trying to buy the station. We'll see.
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You know someone who wants to buy a failed AM station, and can afford it?!?!?!?!

Please ask him to call me. I have some magic beans I'm trying to sell.
 
I happened to drive by their studios last Friday. The place looked abandoned, the grass was tall and taking over and the signal was silent.
 
A friend of mine is actually trying to buy the station. We'll see.
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I wish him luck - and it's not ridiculous to think he can succeed. My WCHM (and other role models like WNEG, WDUN, etc) is proof that quality still wins at the community level. Even on 1kw AM.
 
CompleteGame said:
A friend of mine is actually trying to buy the station. We'll see.
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I wish him luck - and it's not ridiculous to think he can succeed. My WCHM (and other role models like WNEG, WDUN, etc) is proof that quality still wins at the community level. Even on 1kw AM.
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I agree. There is still room for carrying high school sports, local talk and news, local churches on Sunday, maybe some syndicated sports and talk, and full service. Just don't broker the time into glorified infomercials or have a schizoid, religion/nostalgia/local talk/brokered time schedule like WGUN.
 
I don't know if there is any such thing anymore as a "Normal Small Market" but Cartersville is unusual for radio.

No commercial FM licensed to the market. Obviously well covered with FM signals from Rome, Dalton and some Atlanta.

And the surviving AM station is operated as a not-for-profit... much in the mold that an LPFM might function. There is a strong religious FM in town.

Whoever acquires and brings back to life WYXC faces a daunting task. The American listening public today does not seem to have this built-in homing device which nudges people to think: "I must listen to something in my hometown!" Small town radio has always needed that homing device to get them over the top. But in Cartersville the two non-profits are going to reap some of that automatic audience.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
I don't know if there is any such thing anymore as a "Normal Small Market" but Cartersville is unusual for radio.

No commercial FM licensed to the market. Obviously well covered with FM signals from Rome, Dalton and some Atlanta.

And the surviving AM station is operated as a not-for-profit... much in the mold that an LPFM might function. There is a strong religious FM in town.
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The AM is WBHF 1450, which is operated as a commercial station (although owned by a nonprofit) with adult standards music when other programming is not broadcast. The FM is WCCV 91.7, which is rebroadcast on dozens of translators within 100 miles of Cartersville.

In Cartersville (where I am at as I type this), I can get WDEF 92.3, WDOD 96.5, and WUSY 100.7 Chattanooga on my car radio crystal clear. 95.5, 97.1, and 106.7 come in terrible in spots, but clear in others. 105.7 also has problems despite the transmitter being only 15-20 miles away. The Atlanta 100kws come in clear for the most part. The Rome Radio Partners stations (South 107, Q102, 93.5 Life) come in clear (better than the Atlanta stations) and lock in as local stations, as well as WGPB 97.7. My radio has problems picking up AMs (including 750) unless you are close to the transmitter, but 1450 comes in fine.

Yes...if you have a decent radio, you have options. WSB being on 95.5 makes the point that you have to be on FM to survive. Whoever buys WYXC will have to add an FM translator (10 watts or less will suffice). WTJH/Calhoun has an FM translator at 101.7. WEIS/Centre, AL has one on 100.5. The station will have to have an FM presence.
 
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