It may not if he puts the WADO antenna on the WABC tower.
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John Catsimatidis Will be Acquiring another Station
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It may not if he puts the WADO antenna on the WABC tower.
When New Yorkers (meaning New York City people) refer to their state, they usually call it "New York state." "New York" usually means the city. What NYC station says "New York City" rather than "New York" in its legal ID?
Interesting.. .from my west coast perspective, it seems the legal id should include CITY, so as not to confuse with state. NY state is afterall, officially named New York, and not New York State.
Assuming he did...
He'd have to downgrade WADO to a low enough power (perhaps 10KW day/1KW night) to be able to operate non-directionally, since WADO is currently a DA2 which would necessitate constructing at least one more tower on the Lodi site, possibly two (or more) to form both the day and night patterns. WABC's Lodi site is large, but probably not large enough for that, considering there's also WABC's 10 Kw aux tower. Maybe the 10K tower is already in the perfect position for WADO's needs. Perhaps it could get relocated to that hypothetical "perfect position" so that WADO's daytime signal could be diplexed, and that 7200 watt nighttime pattern could get downgraded to something low enough (5KW? 1KW?) to operate as a non-directional during nighttime hours. It hardly seems worth it for an upper-end station on a band that's already dying.
The official name of San Francisco is "The City and County of San Francisco", though the only people who use that terminology are government officials, legislators and their staffs, attorneys and government geeks. (God, I'm starting to sound like "Charles Everett".
) When was the last time you used that nomenclature? I haven't in years, and my own wife used to work in the Mayor's office. So don't read too much into New York CITY verses New York STATE.I'll try not to...but still. 🤔
Emmis owns WEPN-FM, NOT Bloomberg. Bloomberg only owns Eleven-Three-O WBBR.
Yes I know. Where did I say Bloomberg owns 98.7. What I said is they might BUY it, thus making 1130 expendable.
Fitting, for a big supporter of the president who promised to "drain the swamp".
The way you wrote it, it sounds like Bloomberg owns it.
"Perhaps Bloomberg is making a change to 98.7"
I'm not a new poster here. I think everyone, including you, knows that I know who owns 98.7.
If they make a change, then they either have to buy it or LMA. Either way, they won't need 1130.
There is no such place as "New York City", speaking strictly in a legal sense. The full name of the city is "New York", and accordingly the official community of license on file with the FCC is "New York".
I read it the same way as RolyPoly did and it caused some confusion for me reading through the thread. It wasn't actually until I saw his comment that I figured out what the facts were.
I figure you'd know who owns 98.7, but that doesn't change my confusion from the ambiguous wording, which is what I think RolyPoly was getting at.
Okay, now on with the thread...
I would beg to differ. The official name the city is "The City of New York" That is how the city government officially calls itself. For people that live there, it's just New York. Many people who live in the "outer boroughs" call Manhattan "the City", as in, I'm going into the City on Friday night. Look at a copyright notice on any government website. I'll save you the time:
© City of New York. 2024 All Rights Reserved,
NYC is a trademark and service mark of the City of New York.
But what 50kw station elsewhere is for sale and in a city he would be interested in?
I doubt that the “real” 50kw stations like WGY 810 and WHAM 1180 are for sale and the limited signal 1520 is not very attractive.
On AM you don’t put an antenna on a tower. That is FM. On AM, the tower is the antenna.
WADO is highly directional. It can not be “put on” the single WABC tower without adding several additional towers..
Do we know what format he would want to put on this station? I'm as curious about that as what the signal would be if not more so...
He seems to like music from the past. Could the format be like WABC on Saturday night, but 24/7?
This is what I'm wondering... Especially considering it sounds like he wants another AM signal. It wouldn't make too much sense for him to program it with another news/talk format that would compete w/WABC and from what I know about him, oldies doesn't seem to be out of the question. Would be real interesting to see how a format like that would do in 2024. He's certainly got the $$$s to throw at it...
Cats’ & Sid’s entire segment is available to listen to. The bluster really gets going at about 13:30.
Cats is smart enough not to say much. But he says a little. Still, as others have pointed out, we’ve been down this path before.
Cats and Sid, 11-11-24
Takeaways:
Cats is smart enough not to say much. But he says a little. Still, as others have pointed out, we’ve been down this path before.
Cats and Sid, 11-11-24
Takeaways:
- “It’ll be like the minor league team of WABC.”
- “It could happen by January, the latest.”