Isn't It Time?

[alw]

I doubt that 1520 would be sold to anyone (Bflo., Roch., Mineola or otherwise) who would look to program it with any format that might compete with any of their properties in Buffalo or Rochester.

At one point they to make us an offer. They wanted to make a clean trade-
KB for WNED-FM.

No thank you!

 

[Bob1370]

The things that made me wonder if Entercom itself might want to move the station into the Rochester market are, one, WHAM is vulnerable to a big signal competitor, two, a blowtorch talker would fill a big hole in Entercom's current cluster offerings (even if they had to dump the poorly rated WROC to make room for it) and three, it might work well technically while getting that station out of any possible competition with WBEN no matter who ends up owning it five years down the road. Moving the whole thing 70 miles eastward probably reduces interference to most of the stations affected by it, either co-channel or adjacent channel, and lets them make the most of that 50,000 watt Class A license without hurting WBEN. Toploading the towers or building taller ones on any new site (closer to 5/8 wave electrically, about 30 degrees taller than what they have now) would reduce skywave further while groundwave was more favored. I can see them in Rochester running a 50 KW DA-2 with a looser daytime pattern, then pulled in to something like the current night pattern after you hit Oklahoma City sunset an hour after dark.

I don't know if they could get away with that--but they'd have to be crazy not to think about it and research the possibility, because a change like that could well pay off, and make that signal make money again.

 

[Element9]

The things that made me wonder if Entercom itself might want to move the station into the Rochester market are, one, WHAM is vulnerable to a big signal competitor, two, a blowtorch talker would fill a big hole in Entercom's current cluster offerings (even if they had to dump the poorly rated WROC to make room for it) and three, it might work well technically while getting that station out of any possible competition with WBEN no matter who ends up owning it five years down the road. Moving the whole thing 70 miles eastward probably reduces interference to most of the stations affected by it, either co-channel or adjacent channel, and lets them make the most of that 50,000 watt Class A license without hurting WBEN... I don't know if they could get away with that--but they'd have to be crazy not to think about it and research the possibility, because a change like that could well pay off, and make that signal make money again.

No. It cannot. It won't. It's a non-issue to Entercom. Professionals who know the technicalities and realities of the situation have analyized it on this board every time the discussion arises. It's 2009. Accept it. Respectfully, exasperatedly. -9-

 

[Mike Sheridan]

I doubt that 1520 would be sold to anyone (Bflo., Roch., Mineola or otherwise) who would look to program it with any format that might compete with any of their properties in Buffalo or Rochester.

At one point they to make us an offer. They wanted to make a clean trade-
KB for WNED-FM.

No thank you!

Now that has got to be the funniest thing I have ever seen! WNED with 105KW at 710 feet is a prime signal above prime really. Oh yea I'll bet Entercom wanted to trade!