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Oldies 700 now Gospel 700

T

Tom0B1

Greetings Friends!

WEEL-AM and translator W261AT (Jalo Broadcasting Inc) have been sold. The new owners are Argie Dale and Bill Price from Louisville, Kentucky (DBA Dothan Broadcasting LLC). Both men are longtime broadcasters in the Louisville market. Applications:

http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101243374&formid=314&fac_num=23614

http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101243374&formid=314&fac_num=23614

The studios will be located at 3385 Reeves Street (Hwy431) in Dothan. This is the little white building adjacent to and just north of Northview High School.

The AM station will be known as Gospel 700 and the associated FM translator (known as 100.1 The Truth) are on the air and testing until the studio construction is completed.

WEEL and W261AT will simulcast during the daytime only operating hours of the AM station. W261AT will operate 24 hours a day with additional local programming when WEEL is off the air. The stations have plans to stream and a new website is coming soon.

Programming will consist of a mix of gospel music and preaching/teaching talk. The station is currently looking for sales persons and DJs.

For sales: e-mail resume to [email protected]
For DJs: e-mail resume to [email protected]

I am still CE and in the process of getting all of the equipment installed. Construction will be finished by the end of the month. Any questions for me e-mail: [email protected]

Thank you.

Tom (O'Brien) Smith
Dothan, Alabama
 
Tom0B1 said:
Greetings Friends!

WEEL-AM and translator W261AT (Jalo Broadcasting Inc) have been sold. The new owners are Argie Dale and Bill Price from Louisville, Kentucky (DBA Dothan Broadcasting LLC). Both men are longtime broadcasters in the Louisville market. Applications:


The AM station will be known as Gospel 700 and the associated FM translator (known as 100.1 The Truth) are on the air and testing until the studio construction is completed.

WEEL and W261AT will simulcast during the daytime only operating hours of the AM station. W261AT will operate 24 hours a day with additional local programming when WEEL is off the air. The stations have plans to stream and a new website is coming soon.

I am still CE and in the process of getting all of the equipment installed. Construction will be finished by the end of the month. Any questions for me e-mail: [email protected]

Thank you.

Tom (O'Brien) Smith
Dothan, Alabama
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Do you have a waiver from the FCC to rebroadcast the AM on that translator???
If not, I would see about getting one.
 
Tom0B1 said:
WEEL and W261AT will simulcast during the daytime only operating hours of the AM station. W261AT will operate 24 hours a day with additional local programming when WEEL is off the air.
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I didn't think a translator could air it's own programming. I thought translators were only allowed to simulcast their parent stations. Am I wrong?
 
You are correct based on current FCC rules. However, since WEEL is a daytime only station, the STA allows the translator to originate local programming at night when WEEL is off the air. Otherwise, what's the point of having the translator? The proposed new rules for translators allows daytime only stations to originate local programming when the parent AM station is off the air. If an AM station gets a FM translator and it has any nightime power at all, the only way the translator can operate is with the AM simulcast. In other words, the AM station could not sign off.
 
Good to hear you have the STA :)

Here's a curiosity question.

Does the local programming originated on the translator when the parent AM station is off the air have to reflect the AM stations daytime
programming? i.e. the AM is gospel during the day, can night time translator programming be of a different format?
 
The way I read the proposed rules, the nightime programming of the translator does not have to be related to the daytime simulcast. In the case of a pure daytimer, from sundown (sign off) to sunrise (sign on) the translator could run a totally different and unrelated format. This would apply to daytime only stations with no nighttime power at all (off the air.)
 
Mr. Price tells me almost all of the programming will be produced locally with live personel. There may be some regional or national syndicated programs and some news may come from a national network. Automation and voicetracking may be used ocasionally. The station is interviewing people for sales and on-air positions. See earlier post for the e-mail addresses for those openings. I do not know any specifics on the exact programming or the number of people they want to hire.
 
Thanks for clearing that up for me Tom. I didn't know about the proposed new rule. It does make sence though. Sounds like a good plan they've got going for the station.
 
If this is the same Argie "Archie" Dale that runs WLOU/WLLV in Louisville, you'd be best to get your money up front from him. He's known in these parts for not paying his bills. From what I understand, Davidson Media Group had to take back over the operation of WLOU and WLLV because Archie didn't pay the LMA fees to them.
 
Whatever you do, DO NOT extend Dale or any of his partners any credit or other advanced considerations unless you want to get burned! Apparently, Dale's years of radio industry scamming and double-dealing have finally cost him his position with Davidson Media. His radio career in Louisville is a trail of pissed-off former employees, unpaid bills, bankrupt operations, and any number of botched schemes.

In addition, his real-estate interests here in the Louisville area have begun to fold. He held himself out as a minority frontman for land and construction speculators so they could take advantage of tax credits and other benefits they otherwise couldn't qualify for. His finances are so bad and convoluted that I really can't see him making a successful go of the Dothan stations. Southeast Alabama, batten down the hatches...here comes Hurricane Argie.
 
No worries friend. The deal fell through early last summer for missing required payments. The stations are in good hands now and doing fine. Tom
 
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