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Someone is selling...

I'm checking my Lottery tickets right now.............
 
solicitation from website said:
PRICE REDUCED to just $450,000 . This AM/FM radio station is located in a surrounding county to Rochester. It's perfect for that first ownership opportunity,or for an investment in partnership with a local broadcaster. The tower site is owned, as is the studio/office building. The station can significantly increase its advertising base by expanding service to nearby communities. Broadcast professionals estimate that sales could be doubled over the next 2 to 3 years with a strong local sales effort. The owner is not sales oriented. He is retiring after many years. He will provide financing with a minimum down payment of $150,000. It is VERY rare that an AM/FM combination becomes available at a price under $750,000. A very experienced radio station manager who has never worked at this station IS available to help you in this project, IF needed.
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Let's see:
(1) Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Wayne, Cayuga, Yates, Steuben and Schuyler counties
(2) AM-FM
(3) Owner retriring

Who's the sleuths here. My bet is Savage or Fybush comes up with a facility in 60 seconds and wins the American Tourister luggage and gift certificates to Big Bobs. (That's 'Bobs,' with one 'o.')

Whenever I read a solicitation like this, the skeptic switch automatically flips to "on, set to 10." The line "the owner is not sales oriented" brings to mind a Gordon Brown operation (WSAY, WNIA for the unknowing.) The buyer might have to sink another one third of the purchase price into the facility. Of course, it could be pristine... just like that '93 Olds with the cherry body and interior that's been sitting in your neighbor's driveway... the one all the neighbors know needs a tranny, valves, brakes and struts.
 
Scott Fybush said:
Sure sounds like something, oh, 55 miles or so due south of here on I-390... :D
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Okay lets see. 55 miles to the south of Rochester on Route 390 could mean the station is located in Dansville, or perhaps Hornell. I'm not sure if Warsaw has an FM station

The station can't be located in Bath because Bath is farther away than the 55 miles mentioned by Scott. Certainly the station for sale is not in Corning because that city is around 100 miles away from Rochester.

I sure hope it's not WYSL, because if it is, then I'm offering my resignation now.
 
Does this explain Savage being MIA for awhile ;D

Only HE can re-appear and quench this rumor mill!!
 
Mark_Giardina said:
Okay lets see. 55 miles to the south of Rochester on Route 390 could mean the station is located in Dansville, or perhaps Hornell. I'm not sure if Warsaw has an FM station

The station can't be located in Bath because Bath is farther away than the 55 miles mentioned by Scott. Certainly the station for sale is not in Corning because that city is around 100 miles away from Rochester.

I sure hope it's not WYSL, because if it is, then I'm offering my resignation now.
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WYSL is only 20 or so miles from here, and its FM is about 4300 feet away. Bath and Hornell are not in "a surrounding county of Rochester." Technically, Warsaw isn't, either...
 
Scott Fybush said:
Mark_Giardina said:
Okay lets see. 55 miles to the south of Rochester on Route 390 could mean the station is located in Dansville, or perhaps Hornell. I'm not sure if Warsaw has an FM station

The station can't be located in Bath because Bath is farther away than the 55 miles mentioned by Scott. Certainly the station for sale is not in Corning because that city is around 100 miles away from Rochester.

I sure hope it's not WYSL, because if it is, then I'm offering my resignation now.
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WYSL is only 20 or so miles from here, and its FM is about 4300 feet away. Bath and Hornell are not in "a surrounding county of Rochester." Technically, Warsaw isn't, either...
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So that leaves Dansville which is around 50 miles to the south of Rochester, via Rt. 390. I know because I travel to Corning on a regular basis to see relatives.

BTW WYSL is 33 miles from my house to Avon, if that matters. ;D
 
Savage said:
BTW y'all, check out one of our two new logos on the site, www.wysl1040.com.

Note: no mention included for 1400AM or 93.9FM (just keepin' it on-topic......) ;)
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The "9" in 92.1 looks like it's smiling, which is very good!

Effectiveness of this subliminal technique was proven by Heineken through use of the "smiling e" in the famous logo seen on their beer bottles. Read more about this here:

http://www.dinesh.com/history_of_logos/beer_logos/heineken_logo_-_design_and_history.html

http://www.heinekeninternational.com/alfredheineken01.aspx

I toured the museum at their old Amsterdam brewery several years ago, and one thing they point out is that their beer sales really took off after the "e" was modified by Alfred Heineken. He is also credited with the quote "In the end, life is all about advertising".

Perhaps this sounds crazy, but a good logo can be very effective if the right psychological tricks are used.
 
To Savage : Like coffee, nothing like a bad rumor to wake ya up!! ;D Welcome back
To Freebrid: If I didn't know you better, I'd think you saw those "e"s smiling after a couple of those cold puppies!
(nice cover doing the "research" with links and all!! :D)

SO, who's taking the deal? Someone here has to ante up.....
 
If in fact the AM & FM in Dansville is on the block, the "reduced" price appears to be a bit thick. The Livingston county population is 63,000 and the population of Dansville is slightly more than 4 thousand. Dansville is at the southernmost tip of the county, bordering Steuben county, population 96,000. The AM is 1kw on 1400, the FM a 6k Class A on 93.9 (shoehorned next to Buffalo's Class B 93.7 WBLK) and covers only portions of Livingston and Steuben counties. Hornell, Perry, Geneseo and Bath aren't "automatics" in the 60 dBu. You're buying ears and body count as much as stick value, good will and trailing cash flow. No doubt somebody will think it's workable, but if I were looking I'd keep walking.
 
Actually, the daytime power of WDNY AM is only 880 watts (but 1 kw at night when it gets trounced by those other spirits in the graveyard) and the FM predicted coverage is equivalent to 3 kw at 100 m HAAT, not 6 kW. So I would also question the "full power" claim.
 
Wouldn't anything involving WASB also include WRSB? The latter is actually a solid signal over a wealthy-ish suburb (Canandaigua) and a pretty decent rimshot into a lot of Rochester proper.

Oh what I wouldn't give to have WRSB carry the Red Sox! ;D Well, maybe not THIS season...ugh...
 
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