Now It's New Castle AM1550 That's Dark

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Never has sounded good since it signed on, either,--no audio has ever passed those towers above about 4khz,--but it is back on, and has been for months. New Armstrong transmitter, I'm told.

Btw, station is owned by Cumulus, so money was never a real factor as some mentioned. Cumulus could/can afford anything it darn well wants to--and Armstrong certainly is not as pricey as Continental was or Nautel is. The town, however, is a ghost town, and the AM signal barely covers it during the day, and does not get out to the whole county at night--essential in farm communities. Not sure if anybody listens to it except for high school sports which the county cannot hear, but you can get the FM almost to the Ft. Wayne city limits and west as far as half-way from Indy to Terre Haute. I would not have had a problem with letting the AM go dark, except for refusing to carry sports from the COL on the FM. If you want no responsibility for the COL, then get the COL changed. Which probably should have been done a decade ago, when local businesses could no longer afford the rate card.


Wait... let me see if I get this right? FM, large regional signal, doesn't carry local sports so... change city of license? Gues I bet you're an owner with that level of rationale? lol