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freebooter

Note action by FCC on 10/26 to grant construction permit to Cary Simpson for AM on 1490 kHz licensed to Lemont.....1000 watts daytime, 270 watts at night with transmitter on First Avenue in College Township (at rear of Centre Concrete lot).
.There were originally three applicants who filed in January of 2004. These matters obviously take some time.
 
We have reached the point in radio history when everyone on earth except Mr. Simpson understands that if he goes ahead and builds this little AM he will never see a dime of that money again. The station would never make a penny's worth of profit. It would be like building a new typewriter factory. State College already has a half-dozen stations without any spots. The last thing it needs is another one.

Don't do it, Cary.

If he feels compelled to tackle a radio construction project, he should move 1340's stick down to Bellwood. Slap a new xmtr and ground system on that SOB and you'd have a perfectly good little Altoona signal. Maybe make a buck. Not much more than a buck, but...
 
That "typewriter factory" idea doesn't sound that bad. Believe it or not, there are still some folks out there that like the good old fashioned dependable virus free typewriter. I still do my orders to my vendors the old fashioned way and most all of them don't mind doing it for me. The fry wagon runs on the "old school ways" and so far it seems to be working. Last summer and early fall were great seasons and I can't wait until spring. I could work 80 hours a week if I wanted to and still not supply everyone with fries the way they should be. Ask Satelite Man...talking about bellying up to wagon. I thought he and Servello were going to run over each other. The fry business is like the radio business...FOLLOW THE FLOORMAT AND DON'T GET THINGS TOO DANG COMPLICATED AND DISCONBOBULATED".
 
I was listening to 1340 and was very amused to hear the identical AC satellite format that Mix 94.7 is running. Even more amusing was listening to it on 100.7 FM and realizing that the AM has better quality than the FM!
 
That 100.7 is like a fuzzy black & white tv signal. I switch to WTRN every morning till 1pm while mix 94.7 is local. I'd sooner listen to the Tyrone radiator station those hours. And you just can't get local news delivered like Vergie Werner does on wtrn. If you get real lucky you may hear Cary Simpson running a contest live on the air. Of course, you only get to hear his side of the phone conversation, but talk about great radio. WOW! Hey Fry, will you be doing the tradition deep fried turkey in front of the 'radio campus' studios next Wednesday. If so please don't let Dave Berber do a live broadcast of the turkey hitting the oil. That was just bad radio.
 
I'm not sure I'd bet against Cary, as an AM 1490 probably will have a pretty good signal and just might be a good alternative at least to the State College/Bellefonte AMs, especially as I could see a simulcast of WTRN or something similar on an AM 1490.

Then again, I'm not sure I'd bet on a sign-on date for AM 1490, simply because we are talking a start-up AM.

Ergo, I'd say AM 1490 could be a success ... if Cary actually gets it on the air.
 
I think he will, especially if he gets a hold of Port-to-belly to put that tin can on the ether! GREAT engineer!!
 
Concrete has always been the best conductor for AM signals, and with 270 watts at night on the most jammed of the "graveyard" channels, it will boom out over select chunks of Happy Valley. Well, maybe not all the way to South Atherton, but it will blast a city-grade signal into Woodycrest.

And, yes, a carbon-copy of WTRN is just what State College has been yearning for--it's in all the research. Carbon copies? Oops. There's another typewriter reference...
 
Mod Rod Wolfe of WRTA-Altoona radio had the best idea. A ship's mask for an antenna. That was back when radio was radio. I'm sure that Satellite Man is familiar with the "ship mask" technology.
 
fryman said:
Mod Rod Wolfe of WRTA-Altoona radio had the best idea. A ship's mask for an antenna. That was back when radio was radio. I'm sure that Satellite Man is familiar with the "ship mask" technology.
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Aargh, Pirate Radio 1490! I can hear it now--similar to The Revolution, but with peg legs and eye patches... and more static?

Regardless, I must apologize for my Antenna Site Faux Pas. Got my First Avenues/Streets mixed up and didn't properly translate the Centre Concrete clue (aside from recognizing concrete's superior AM conductivity). We're talking right across College Avenue (more-or-less) from the former palatial studios of the much-missed Revolution. (So, sorry Woodycrest--it is indeed Lemont that will be super-served by those crankin' 270 night-time watts). Easy STL shot.

And no Alternative Rock competition, anymore. Still got them tunes loaded?
 
The worst thing was to have been a daytimer and hearing the competition say "we don't rundown at sundown". Shades of WEND Ebensburg.
 
Today Scott Fybush (Fybush.com) reports the assignment of call letters WSCE for Cary Simpson's new AM 1490 in Lemont. It is disappointing that the letters "SC" are a part of the call. While it's obvious State College in the center of the market and That State College must be sold for the new station to be a success, it would be better of Lemont were better represented in the calls.
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I believe the calls should have made reference to the word "Nittany" for the mountain at the foot of which Lemont sits. I do also believe there are some sports teams in the area that make use of the word Nittany. WNTN, WNTI, WNTY would all make sense. How about the foot of Nittany reference, as WFON.
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Does anyone care about calls?
 
WSCE. So what's it stand for? "State College's Extra" station, The One Nobody Needs? Maybe it's "State College's Elite" station, to reflect their Classical Music format. The perfect choice for a graveyard AM.

But it would've been nice to have something tied a little closer to real State College culture. Like WPBR or WMGD. Or WDUI.
 
freebooter said:
I believe the calls should have made reference to the word "Nittany" for the mountain at the foot of which Lemont sits. I do also believe there are some sports teams in the area that make use of the word Nittany. WNTN, WNTI, WNTY would all make sense. How about the foot of Nittany reference, as WFON.
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Does anyone care about calls?
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WFON - Fon Du Lac, WI
WNTN - Newton, Mass.
WNTI- Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
WNTY - Up For Grabs!
 
Insider info says WSCE will go buy the on-air brand name of SEE 1490.
You've all seen the 'KOOL' play on sunglasses. WSCE SEE 1490 will instead use big, thick Joe Paterno glasses as their brand mark. You talk about local marketing. I understand the mascot choices are Mr. Magoo, or if an agreement can be worked out between JoePA, PSU and The Allegheny Mountain Network a JoePa looking character will be created wearing khaki pants and white socks...SEE! If all that fails the back up plan is SEE will become Si' radio, the first spanish station in the market.
 
allnitesatelite said:
Insider info says WSCE will go buy the on-air brand name of SEE 1490.
You've all seen the 'KOOL' play on sunglasses. WSCE SEE 1490 will instead use big, thick Joe Paterno glasses as their brand mark. You talk about local marketing. I understand the mascot choices are Mr. Magoo, or if an agreement can be worked out between JoePA, PSU and The Allegheny Mountain Network a JoePa looking character will be created wearing khaki pants and white socks...SEE! If all that fails the back up plan is SEE will become Si' radio, the first spanish station in the market.
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All JoePa All The Time! 24/7/365 recordings of Joe's press conferences, old radio shows, interviews dating back 50 years. Should work as well as anything else they could put on the thing...
 
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