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Some help please?

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littlelarry

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I get confused easily and don't understand everything sometimes, old age, shoot me.

I do a query on the fcc site when Im bored about louisiana stations, see if any changes are coming.

I did one today and WIST shows up with a new application but I can't figure out what it actually means lol.

Is RFLA around? He knows all the techie stuff. Or anyone else who understands the fcc, cause i dont.

Thanks for the help, just tell us what it means in english please lol ???
 
Re: Some help please - WIST nighttime app.

It's an application to put their nighttime transmitter site on the northshore; the net result being that the nighttime signal would be pointed back into civilization versus most of it being wasted into the Gulf, the marsh or aimed at Tierra del Fuego. Good job WIST!

Paul E. Burt
Doctor_Technical
 
Thanks for the kudos little larry

Yeah as Doctor Technical said, apparently They are broadcasting 5kw nighttime and having to null hard north and south (WTIX is directional day and night with most signal at night going east and west)

They want to put a 3 tower directional in Lacombe at night and go down to 2kw at night but propose to serve the New Orleans area better by 20% by doing this as most of the signal will be concentrated Southwesterly.With no change in Daytime pattern.

The application is very new (within last few days)
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...xt=25&appn=101205152&formid=301&fac_num=74090

But this is the first step... basically for those who don't know, this is WIST asking the FCC to move nightime across the Lake... So don't get your hopes up of WIST at night on the northshore just yet.

I know there are something like 2 Amers wanting to move into NOLA area right now (applications on file but FCC hasn't acted in years...

Including a New station on 570AM using 250 watts from Mandeville (2004) Ownership would be apparently same owners as WIST

WOMN in Franklinton was wanting to move to the city but instead was granted a 50kw cp for Frankllinton earlier this year (Pittmann) with a major directional toward the city

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=Womn&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

RFLA
 
WIST comes in clear here in livingston at night now. no static at all. I listen to Savage sometimes.
 
Thanks for the info RFLA. Seems like a good idea if, and that's probably a very big if, the FCC allows or approves. Does it matter that they are already in the market and not looking to do a "move in"?
 
From what I know, The FCC is more forgiving for current stations to move a little than it is assigning new spectrum.

Whereas it supposedly will serve the southshore better, it would be to convince the FCC that moving the transmitter 30 miles away and reducing power would actually put more power and not just trying to make 690 a northshore station.

But what's weird is the FCC to these moves so personally I think it will be a wait and see for a few years... I know of some that tried to move but still has the application on the books 3 years later, KCIL proposed to the FCC earlier this year to move from Houma (pop 30,000 but surrounding total would be closer to 75,000 and growing from New Orleans people moving out of the city) to Jean Lafitte (population of 2000 or so) and was recently granted the Construction permit as they say Houma's a dying town.....???!?!?!?!??!?!
 
1350 AM when it was WSMB should have tried that years ago. Of course now, it doesn't matter. No use listening to the 10:30 am news at 6:30 pm, and the morning trafic report in the afternoon! Crazy is what it is. I wish they'd do something with 1350 AM or just shut it down so I can reassign my button in the car.

But then again, reassign it to what?
 
I guess it would be cheaper to move to lacome than to rent a boat, barge and crane to repair the Chalmete site. Out of the four towers, number 3 and 4 were destroyed, number 1 is cut in half, and only 2 is still standing. If somebody could check or knows about it, but I think wist is only using tower 2 at half power on an STA.
 
What a historical site. They actually used to broadcast from the Chalmette site at times, betcha Oldie King has some stories about DJ's hangin' in 'da swamp in 'da parish...I picture Skinny wrestling an alligatress with a bouffant doo, wide white belt and thick black curly frame glasses 'dere dahlin'...
 
Ah yes, Wayne, the legendary WTIX studio/Xmtr site on Paris Road...I think they were operating in "the swamp" from '64 or so, till mid-'67.

Actually, my first broadcast on 'TIX was on Tuesday, October 24, 1967 (hmmm...a 40th anniversary coming up). They had *just* moved to 332 Carondelet St., 4th floor, within the previous few weeks and you could still smell the fresh paint, new carpet and pine wood in the office and studio. I felt like I was in paradise...there I was, a young 21-year-old snip working with Buzz Bennett, Skip Broussard, Jon Reed, Ken Bowen, Robert Mitchell, in the best year for music in the '60's...truly a dream come true!

But, no, I didn't work in the swamp. I just missed it by weeks. I did visit it several times though to meet the DJs and pick up a few prizes I won. Then Skinny joined TIX after me, in 'early '69 I believe, so he didn't work there either.

The only one who is still in town and alive who worked on Paris Road is Bobby Reno.

The DJs I worked with when I first started at TIX had quite a few stories about working in the Chalmette studio in the early-mid 60's though. Now you have to realize, that area was still "the woods" quite removed from the "city" of Chalmette. One had to drive down a wooded path off Paris Road to get to the ... wooden pier over the water ... that led to the studio/Xmtr site.

My good friend Ted Green, who was the engineer/fill-in DJ back there told me many stories of the DJs who would bring their shotguns to work and shoot snakes and alligators from the pier while their records were playing. Some even brought crab nets to crab on the pier during their shifts.

My favorite story was about some midday DJ who worked out there, and this guy had had some disagreement with Corinne Berthelson (a wonderful lady), the wife of legendary TIX GM Fred Berthelson. There was a crossover country novelty song out then in '65 that TIX played, called "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" by Little Jimmie Dickens, and this DJ intro'ed it by dedicating it to Mrs. Berthelson. Unfortunately Fred was listening as he was driving around. He returned to the studio in a rage, threw the record in the swamp and fired the DJ.

I have talked with quite a few very well-known singers from that era who passed thru N.O. back then on promotional tours who still remember WTIX as "that radio stration in the swamp".

Once or twice after during the TIX studios stay at 332 Carondelet Street from late '67 to approximately 1989, it would have its studio-xmtr line whacked by nearby construction work and we would all have to drive out to Paris Road and do our shows for a day or two from that (by then) empty, stinky studio, from a table with a cheap Radio Shack board and two cheap turntables. So, yes, I guess technically I worked out there, but a couple of days in that empty crypt was enough. Besides, by that time, the land had been filled in a little, civilization was beginning to encroach, and the pier was gone, so we couldn't even shoot or crab.

To this day my heart goes out to any DJ who might have to do his show in an emergency from any Xmtr site.
 
Ah yeah....I remember the "Teddy Go Round," guess I'm showing my age...happy 40th TIX anniversary BTW...I spent the formulative years listening to you and Skinny on the Mighty 690. I used to come stare in the window of Carondelet, and even did a newspaper article in the Brother Martin Crusader on Skinny ala 1974...and I created a film study short in high school featuring the Chalmette transmitter site...what great memories (but not of that damn pontoon bridge where the green monster is now...that bridge scared the hell out of me as a kid). Thanks for sharing 'em with us King! Oh yeah, I think Bobby Reno still treasures a prize from the swamp, but I'm clueless as to why he still wears that nutria atop his head...
 
visited the swamp a few times when the old timers worked at TIX.I started in Dec 67 in the new facility at 332.But it seemed like one time we lost power or phone line downtown and some of the jocks had to go to the swamp.lucky for me the power came back at the studio just in a nick of time.Man i was really dreading the possibility of broadcasting from the Paris rd site.RF
 
I only worked from the TIX xmtr site in Chalmette one time and then I found an old compilation LP of various artists and let it track...I recall the "powers that were" disapproved of my programmng choice...I remember telling them I just couldn't adjust to change.
 
Skinny, good to read your post.hope all is well your way.have not talked to you in years when you were a rep for WB. i unloaded my stations, someone wanted them worse than me.ha.. Skinny could do it all even a good news reader.i still have that old air check of you reading news on my shift. MR SMOOTH, you are one of the best.Ray Fisher
 
yes, Wayne it was fun.i found out it's always good to proof read.got in the middle of a story and it was garbled, just BS'd my way out of it.and the end of the newscast i said this is Gray Barker instead of Ray Fisher. Later when we asked listeners for favorite news readers Bob Mitchell got one that said Gray Barker. Still talks about it till this day.i bet Bob Walker heard about it.Anyone know where Jon Reed is.He's the only one i worked with that i don't know where he is . Boy were those the fun days of radio...
 
Boy, I really enjoyed the trip down Mammary Lane with all of you above. I've got a couple of stories. First, when I was a listener and a wanna be I listented to TIX for 3 days straight and won the "Top 40" Hits. When I got there, I was truly amazed. Ron Martin took me to his music library and said he didn't have some songs, but he would give me anything I wanted. So I got about twenty hits and a big box of everything else I wanted. It made my show from my bedroom (using one turntable and a peg board as my board) sound a lot better. Now, a news story. I was hired at NOE to watch the transmitter. I was told to do the news. It began: "WNOE, PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM IN N.O" I would hit the echo chamber and give the City, I needed to sneeze,thot I was hitting the cought button, hit the echo & my cough went on for ions.I couldn't stop laffing. I told Greg Mason and Cleve Bryant that I hated news. Next night they put me on 2-5A playing songs, the next night I moved to 10P-2A and then ... But my best news story was about Ben Shirley, the news director. I was coming in to do 6A-9A, Ben arrived about 4A and started drinking, by the 6A newscast was sloshed and grabbed anything to read --- it was an old UPI stock market report --- he went for 5 minutes, passed out and that was his last newscast. Thanks all of you.
 
"OLdies Station", Thanks for the kind words....John Reed just retired as PD, OM of WFLS and others in Fredericksburg, Va...I spoke with him not too long ago and he's doing quite well.
 
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