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SAVANNAH AM CP ON 1520

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Witchlover

Does anyone have any information, supposition or barber-shop gossip on the construction permit issued to HILL & GLOVER BROADCASTING, LLC for an AM station on 1520 kHz with a six-tower array? I find those multi-tower arrays fascinating, and I hope this one doesn't fall through before it actually gets on the air.
 
Witchlover said:
Does anyone have any information, supposition or barber-shop gossip on the construction permit issued to HILL & GLOVER BROADCASTING, LLC for an AM station on 1520 kHz with a six-tower array? I find those multi-tower arrays fascinating, and I hope this one doesn't fall through before it actually gets on the air.
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Fascinating they are but I predict this one will never see the light of day. The costs involved in building a multiple AM directional array in a market where the top rated AM is way behind a bunch of AM signals simply doesn't make economic sense.

I think the future will see very few AM directional stations being built so look around at the ones we have today and that's probably what we'll have in the future less many who find their large transmitter site acreage is worth more sold and developed than the AM station is worth...especially in markets like Savannah where AM doesn't do very well.
 
Agreed. There is a site on Constantine Road listed as the location of the antenna towers. Would any company go to the expense of doing so much engineering work if there did not exist a firm plan to follow through and build the station? As to the condition of AM radio in Savannah, IMO things did not go downhill until local owners sold all of the stations to out-of-towners who have no real understanding of the market -- and frankly don't care about anything that doesn't fit their formulae for managing stations. I think the FCC sounded the death knell for local AM when they did away with the old 7, 7 & 7 ownership rules.
 
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