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New Call Letters For 1600 Dover?

They have doing that on 1600 for years. So what does the new call stand for? Mega-hertz?

A radio station really should not advertise how unstable it is.
 
Interestingly, his AM station in Ocean City MD, 1590 the former WMHZ is now...............1590 WAMS. According to Radio Locator, 1600 AM is off the air at this point. Didn't mention when it would be back on air. The FM repeaters are apparently operating. Is there some tax advantage to change your calls? I can't think of any other reason than money in someway as to why he'd keep changing them so often. It surly can't be helping him to make his station's a household name.
 
I thought that under the FCC rules, an AM station that uses a FM translator must be on the air to legally use a translator.
In other words, translators cannot originate programming.
 
An FM translator can originate its own programming if the station that its rebroadcasting is day time only (sunrise to sunset only). An FM translator can also carry the signal of another FM translator.
 
MikefromDelaware said:
Is there some tax advantage to change your calls? I can't think of any other reason than money in someway as to why he'd keep changing them so often. It surly can't be helping him to make his station's a household name.
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I think it is because Ocean City/ Salisbury are a rated market and Dover is not. It would make since to get the proper credit for the ratings in OC so they can get the big advertising dollars. God knows they are not going to get that in Dover.
 
WKHZ is in Easton MD 1460, music of your life, according to Radio Locator. So you apparently didn't get the memo. But according to Radio Locator 1590 is now 1590 WAMS and 1600 in Dover is WMHZ along with the FM translators, yet the station's website is WAMS for Dover and FM translators. Go figure.
 
WKHZ Easton is on the KHZ Network and certainly NOT Music Of Your Life (as it was with the old WCEI/WEMD calls). WKHZ switched to WMHZ when the station was sold last year. The KHZ format can now be heard on WAMD Aberdeen (how interesting, so much for local programming there)
 
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