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Renda gives away 1360

Parttimer said:
The other Urban broadcaster (I thought it was Inner City, someone corrected me earlier but I forget who it was) lasted just a few months. And again, WAMO was still around.

I am rooting for you guys but unless you can get a translator, I think your best bet would be to find some ministries that want to buy some blocks of time.

The new WAMO proves what can be done with the right translator, as the rules allow them to be a virtual Class "A" if maximized.
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Inner City wanted to purchase WHAT in Philly. WURP came along with the deal. They tried to run it from Philly with local sales. After about six months they pulled the plug on WURP and focused on WHAT. WHAT was billing around $3M a year which isn't bad for a 1KW AM. If they could have billed anywhere close at WURP, they would still have 1550.

WAMO found a translator in Ohio and made three or four moves to get it to Pittsburgh. The FCC stopped long moves and froze applications for new translators. We will continue to attempt to find one. For now, we promote our audio streams when you can not pick up WZUM. I use my iPhone and connect to the car radio via Bluetooth to listen in the car at night. It sounds better than Sirius and XM.

As for block programming, that isn't something we are looking to do in bulk. We have a couple special programs coming in the near future like high school football.
 
sparks said:
It sounds better than Sirius and XM.
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IMHO The OTA radio industry, no matter what the size of operator should be thankful that Satellite radio has the "tin can" sound thanks to poor audio compression rates.
 
secondchoice said:
The OTA radio industry, no matter what the size of operator, should be thankful that Satellite radio has the "tin can" sound thanks to poor audio compression rates.
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OTA radio is free. It also has a much greater opportunity to be local thsn satellite radio.

Without Howard Stern, I suspect the number of S/XM subscribers would be much lower.

C.
 
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