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Silent AM 860

AMRocks

AMRocks

Looks like the tower site was more valuable than the license. That's not uncommon anymore. From Radio Insight:

Beasley Media Spanish Tropical “Playa” 860 WAEC Atlanta has gone silent as Beasley Family Towers Inc. has sold its 17.2 acre tower site to housing developer Toll Brothers to construct 105 townhouses. Terms of the sale are not publicly available.

radioinsight.com

FCC Report 6/16: Beasley AM To Give Way To 105 Townhouses

FCC Actions Following a federal appeals court victory by the NAB and others in 2022, the FCC has revamped the
radioinsight.com radioinsight.com

Admin edited to include link.
 
So is 1100 also silent? They diplex from the same site. Since 1100 is owned by Davis Broadcasting and is the base station for their FM translator, they have to be moving to another site.
 
AMRocks said:
Looks like the tower site was more valuable than the license. That's not uncommon anymore. From Radio Insight:

Beasley Media Spanish Tropical “Playa” 860 WAEC Atlanta has gone silent as Beasley Family Towers Inc. has sold its 17.2 acre tower site to housing developer Toll Brothers to construct 105 townhouses. Terms of the sale are not publicly available.

radioinsight.com

FCC Report 6/16: Beasley AM To Give Way To 105 Townhouses

FCC Actions Following a federal appeals court victory by the NAB and others in 2022, the FCC has revamped the
radioinsight.com radioinsight.com

Admin edited to include link.
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Is Beasley going to move 860 to another tower, or just surrender the license? WAEC would have to reduce night power if they're going to a single stick because their 500W night signal is highly directional E-W. https://fccdata.org/?call=waec&facid=&city=&state=&ccode=1&country=US

I know the residential real estate market is on fire, but this doesn't look like a very attractive place to build townhomes, sandwiched between I-20 and what is probably a floodplain.
 
If you build just about anywhere in GA and want city or country water, sewage, and electric power, you have to take into consideration floodplains, streams, and runoff. Someone eventually will figure out how to build homes on piers that the home is out of the flood plain (to make insurance coverage possible) and market the area underneath the homes as a covered carport. Since apartments are residential, piers and trusses would be within 50% of footers and slab floor first floor construction. If Beasley was smart they would have had the land checked for floodplain issues. A first year Geology student should be able to read the US Geological Survey's amazingly accurate 100 year flood plain maps for most of the habitatable land in the Contenial US which the last time I checked the insurance companies use too IIRC FEMA (or some other lettered Federal agency) had grants to "lift" houses above flood level in New Orleans. (A few homeowners took the money an never had their homes fixed but that is another thread).
 
According to the STA application, the station went silent on 6/10/2024. None of us noticed until Radio Insight posted the news on it's weekly FCC update. With no FM translator, there was probably nobody listening anyway.
 

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BarryATL said:
According to the STA application, the station went silent on 6/10/2024. None of us noticed until Radio Insight posted the news on it's weekly FCC update. With no FM translator, there was probably nobody listening anyway.
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And in reality it may have been off the air much longer. I had someone inquire to me privately about its status when it was off the air in March. Now whether it came back between then and June, I don't know.
 
I am not sure of the value of a third tier AM station in Atlanta, but I wonder could it be moved somewhere to "feed" a translator? Of course it most likely would be downgraded to a D on another frequency. The COL is Atlanta so changing it to a COL with no stations shouldn't be impossible. 1260 was moved from Cartersville to East Point
 
secondchoice said:
I am not sure of the value of a third tier AM station in Atlanta, but I wonder could it be moved somewhere to "feed" a translator? Of course it most likely would be downgraded to a D on another frequency. The COL is Atlanta so changing it to a COL with no stations shouldn't be impossible. 1260 was moved from Cartersville to East Point
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That seems to be the real "value" the station might have...some kind of nominal AM signal to feed an FM translator that someone can manage to shoehorn in. They could even stick with the currently-licensed day and critical hours nondirectional power (provided it doesn't move too much), and downgrade the night power to less than 100W or whatever would be the equivalent if it were a class D daytimer and not a class B.
 
secondchoice said:
If you build just about anywhere in GA and want city or country water, sewage, and electric power, you have to take into consideration floodplains, streams, and runoff. Someone eventually will figure out how to build homes on piers that the home is out of the flood plain (to make insurance coverage possible) and market the area underneath the homes as a covered carport. Since apartments are residential, piers and trusses would be within 50% of footers and slab floor first floor construction. If Beasley was smart they would have had the land checked for floodplain issues. A first year Geology student should be able to read the US Geological Survey's amazingly accurate 100 year flood plain maps for most of the habitatable land in the Contenial US which the last time I checked the insurance companies use too IIRC FEMA (or some other lettered Federal agency) had grants to "lift" houses above flood level in New Orleans. (A few homeowners took the money an never had their homes fixed but that is another thread).
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With two towers there's a decent amount of real estate to be had. If the homes are creatively located, they could be built just out of the floodplain with the roads, driveways, back yards, amenities, etc. in the floodplain. And they are building townhomes--if there is no living space at ground level, then they can build in the floodplain, as you describe.

In my old subdivision there were some lots that were unbuildable because there was a mostly-dry creek that flooded sometime in the last 100 years. Others were still buildable but the houses had to be placed just so.

Again, not the most attractive site, but they are building homes in the craziest places these days because people will buy them.
 
jabba17 said:
Is Beasley going to move 860 to another tower, or just surrender the license? WAEC would have to reduce night power if they're going to a single stick because their 500W night signal is highly directional E-W. https://fccdata.org/?call=waec&facid=&city=&state=&ccode=1&country=US

I know the residential real estate market is on fire, but this doesn't look like a very attractive place to build townhomes, sandwiched between I-20 and what is probably a floodplain.
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Keep in mind, the Beasley Family Towers, Inc is owned by the Beasley family, not Beasley Broadcasting (the publicly traded company). Beasley Broadcasting won’t benefit from the land sale unless Beasley Family Tower paid to terminate the lease.
 
If you look at their stock, BBGI, not too attractive. I totally understand the family getting some coin. IMHO There is a real estate and rent bubble. Sooner or later their will be a correction. My family is seriously considering selling some rental properties too.
 
secondchoice said:
If you look at their stock, BBGI, not too attractive. I totally understand the family getting some coin. IMHO There is a real estate and rent bubble. Sooner or later their will be a correction. My family is seriously considering selling some rental properties too.
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That may be the case…but several (all?) of the owners of Beasley Family Tower are officers and/or directors of Beasley Broadcasting. They have a fiduciary responsibility to Beasley Broadcasting shareholders.
 
Cutting expenses or termination of money losing operations IS in the interest of shareholders. It was smart of the family to retain the antenna property for themselves.

IMHO Since there is not a FM translator with this station, and it really can't cover the Atlanta market, there is no value to continuing operations if it can't generate enough sales to make some money.
 
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