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Predictions.......

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Kenny Atkinson

With the exception of Wpro/wean is there nothing left to predict?
ill throw two out there.
1.) WALE will officially be considered off the air for good by FCC.
2.) I want to say Wpro will be at least one talk show host shorter by end of year if they can't find anybody else to cut from another station.

Two Tv predictions if I may....
Frank Colletta will announce his retirement on Wjar.
Second...WPRI will drop COOL-TV for something boring.
 
Kenny:

On Prediction #1: Although AM station licenses aren't quite as valuable as they used to be in ages past......isn't an AM license still worth holding on to? It's not like the FCC is passing them out like free after-dinner mints.

Somewhere in the rules and regs, isn't there still a provision where if a silent station re-appears on the air....however briefly.... before one full year expires....that the license is still considered "active" for another year.

If somehow the 990 "ownership" allows the license to slip away, and expire.....then my already low opinion of them drops even further.
 
I'm wondering IF it's been activated. An oldies D.J. I work with in Woonsocket says he hears a carrier on 990 every so often but that's it. Of course, it could be something else that happens to put a signal on 990 (some electrical device).
 
The FCC has ruled that simply turning on the transmitter and broadcasting a dead carrier isn't enough, so it wouldn't count. A return to air needs to consist of actual programming.
 
The FCC has ruled that simply turning on the transmitter and broadcasting a dead carrier isn't enough, so it wouldn't count. A return to air needs to consist of actual programming.
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I'd like to see chapter and verse, or R&O, on that one.

Last I checked, it was perfectly legal to broadcast dead carrier for an entire hour with just the legal ID at the top of the hour and EAS tests/alerts at the appropriate times.

I know some FM stations used to do that to allow their SCA clients to remain on the air overnight when the station didn't have any staff and didn't want to bother paying for them. This was pre-automation, though. Nowadays there's little realistic excuse not to have SOMETHING on the air, even if there's...AFAIK...no FCC requirement to do so.

In fact, to keep the license alive, they only need to broadcast one legal ID every ten days. No further FCC notification would be required.

Of course, if a station did this and someone filed a petition to deny at license renewal, and had proof of the station's actions (or inactions)?? Well, I would think the FCC might **** an eyebrow at that to say the least.

Although AM station licenses aren't quite as valuable as they used to be in ages past......isn't an AM license still worth holding on to? It's not like the FCC is passing them out like free after-dinner mints.
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Eh. Depends. Directional AM arrays can cost a pretty penny in monthly electricity bills. I can testify to that directly with 1290; it ain't exactly cheap. For any reasonably successful broadcast operation, it's not a crippling cost by any means...but for a total mess of a station with no revenue, then it can get expensive pretty fast. Way more than most folks could possibly subsidize out-of-pocket.
 
Also...and this is very station-dependent...the rent on your land (or even the annual tax bill) can be a fair chunk of change. IIRC the cost to lease the land for 1510 up in Boston was outrageously high (over $20k/mo) because the landlord knew he could get that much if he bulldozed the towers and put in commercial office space to rent. Well, that was before 2007 and the Great Recession, but you get my point: if you don't the land your towers are on, and you're in a tight DA like WALE is, it can be expensive because the landlord knows they've got you over a barrel. And even if WALE owns the land, you still gotta pay the taxes on it. Those aren't too bad for a healthy radio business but it could be painful to pay out-of-pocket.
 
MundoFox comes on in Southeast MA/Providence ,RI area and WGBH 2.1(and their subchannels) ,WBZ 4.1 ,WCVB 5.1 (and 5.2) ,WHDH 7.1 (and ThisTV 7.2) ,Fox 25.1 ,Univision's Ch.27.1 WSBK 38.1 and CW 56.1 comes in stronger OTA in this area as well even with an Indoor TV Antenna.
 
Predictions: 92Pro-FM will flip to Spanish CHR with World Cup Soccer in Spanish coming in 2014!
WJFD-FM will start an HD2 Spanish channel and an HD3 Brazilian channel.
Hot 106 will become Traditional Catholic Radio.
Lite 105 will resume its JB105 Top 40 format from the 70s.
Cat Country 98.1 will start broadcasting in HD.
And WPRO will disappear from the airwaves.
Finally, Spanish 1110 AM will go off and be on the B-101.5 Frequency.

Any questions?
 
kenwood101 said:
With the exception of Wpro/wean is there nothing left to predict?
ill throw two out there.
1.) WALE will officially be considered off the air for good by FCC.
2.) I want to say Wpro will be at least one talk show host shorter by end of year if they can't find anybody else to cut from another station.

Two Tv predictions if I may....
Frank Colletta will announce his retirement on Wjar.
Second...WPRI will drop COOL-TV for something boring.
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Hey number 2. Came true...Andrew Gobeil gone.next years prediction at this time Gene will be off WPRO.
 
kenwood101 said:
Hey number 2. Came true...Andrew Gobeil gone.next years prediction at this time Gene will be off WPRO.
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I'm not sure Andrew Gobeil counts as fulfilling prediction #2. BUT...Now that Michael Graham, late of Boston's now-defunct Talk 96.9 has struck a sort of syndication deal with stations in Worcester, and the Boston suburbs....

#2 COULD come true if WPRO chooses to trim the payroll even further by picking up Michael Graham...time slot will be Noon to 3 pm. starting Feb. 11.
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
kenwood101 said:
Hey number 2. Came true...Andrew Gobeil gone.next years prediction at this time Gene will be off WPRO.
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I'm not sure Andrew Gobeil counts as fulfilling prediction #2. BUT...Now that Michael Graham, late of Boston's now-defunct Talk 96.9 has struck a sort of syndication deal with stations in Worcester, and the Boston suburbs....

#2 COULD come true if WPRO chooses to trim the payroll even further by picking up Michael Graham...time slot will be Noon to 3 pm. starting Feb. 11.
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Ive been reading the Boston thread.I was thinking he is paying for his time on some small network that is regionalized
 
Don't know if he is paying for the time but I wouldn't call WCRN in Worcester at 50,000 watts small. In fact since the demise of WTKK, WCRN has picked up quite a lot of callers from Boston and their nearby suburbs. The addition of Michael Graham to the noon - 3 p.m. slot will only help them gain even more listeners.
 
DavidZ said:
Don't know if he is paying for the time but I wouldn't call WCRN in Worcester at 50,000 watts small. In fact since the demise of WTKK, WCRN has picked up quite a lot of callers from Boston and their nearby suburbs. The addition of Michael Graham to the noon - 3 p.m. slot will only help them gain even more listeners.
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Not to familar with WCRN.Ill take your word for it but I doubt Wpro will pick up Micheal Graham
 
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