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moving stations in like ptt and 104.7 and froggy may be a mistake

kenhawk1160 said:
I'm familiar with that one, Clarke. That's the old WBEM frequency, which had been licensed to Windber. It was a 2.5 kilowatt daytimer that has been off the air since 1991. I think the last owner who had it was David Rod Wolf, who just sold his WRTA-AM news/talk station in Altoona to Ed Sherlock's group. I'm not sure what all they did formatically with WBEM when it was on the air, but I don't suspect it was much.

I don't see this move from 1360 to 910 for WPTT as happening. Larry Schrecongost told me that when the article was printed in the paper announcing the change, he had no idea of it. I felt he'd be the first to know since it directly impacted WTYM. Since Renda spent more than a million dollars to buy the FM in Greensburg, with only a stick and license, they still have a studio buildout to do. With the expense of that, they're not going to have the money for this, which would be an easy seven figures.
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I believe Hank Baughman owned 1350 Windber for a little while.

Where did you see/hear Renda's purchase price for 107.1 Greensburg? Everywhere I have read, it's said "terms not disclosed."

Also, I don't see any signs of "Sam" in the just-released ratings.

But, it's early.
 
I don't know the exact figure of the WGSM transaction, other than it was over a million dollars. What I do know is that it was an outright purchase, and not an LMA.

I say we might see a little more SAM activity in not the next book, but the one after. My fiancee and I were coming back from Idlewild Park last night and on our way to dinner at Red Robin, we saw two billboards promoting SAM. It's going to take a little while for that station to regain momentum, since it's been gone from Greensburg for so long. It's going to take some getting used to for Greensburg having its own local station again. The timing was good...real estate speculators are calling that Route 30 corridor of North Huntingdon-Irwin the new Cranberry Township insofar as development.
 
kenhawk1160 said:
I don't know the exact figure of the WGSM transaction, other than it was over a million dollars. What I do know is that it was an outright purchase, and not an LMA.

I say we might see a little more SAM activity in not the next book, but the one after. My fiancee and I were coming back from Idlewild Park last night and on our way to dinner at Red Robin, we saw two billboards promoting SAM. It's going to take a little while for that station to regain momentum, since it's been gone from Greensburg for so long. It's going to take some getting used to for Greensburg having its own local station again. The timing was good...real estate speculators are calling that Route 30 corridor of North Huntingdon-Irwin the new Cranberry Township insofar as development.
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That should put 620 in good stead. People there hear us on their fillings. ;D

It'll be interesting to see if Westmoreland County listeners give up the Pittsburgh stations for one that is primarily satellite-delivered, particularly when there is already another station doing well in the format (96.9).

"Z-107" was an interesting little station but never seemed to get ratings, and the signal has been moved further out of town since then.
 
A good point. I think they're dwelling on their past success with Lucky 106.3, which had a strong presence in Greensburg, despite it being a Blairsville station. While this station didn't show up in Arbitron either, (to my knowledge it didn't) it was on in a lot of offices. I remember when working there when we did our giveaways, we had tons of people listening in the courthouse or in county agency offices in Greensburg.

Lucky seemed to do OK, despite being on the bird virtually its whole existence. When Renda bought it, it was doing almost twice the monthly billing it was when I was there in 1993-94. I think what had a lot to do with its success was the local news, features like Jobcast (got lots of calls from people who said we either helped get them or their kid a job...usually the latter) and the Luckyland Agenda. Jukebox Saturday was the REAL moneymaker, though. When John Longo got the contract for the Pittsburgh Penguins, he decided to move that show from Saturday night to Saturday midday. We promoted the move heavily, and when we moved the show, it was like we were in that time slot all along...we barely saw a dip in either listenership or revenue. In fact, after the move was established, we got a LOT more requests for remotes and even picked up some additional clients. Now that JBS is on Sam 107.1, that'll be the shot in the arm to lend SAM some credibility. Tony Michaels has a HUGE following with both that show and his band "Top Cats". Very likeable guy and very hardworking...probably one of the best managers I've ever worked for.
 
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