Maybe it’s on its low night power in the daytime, but even that is usually better than it is now.
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Something up with WLYN 1360 AM/WAZN 1470 AM - Multicultural Broadcasting?
- Thread starter mysticnitekatt
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Maybe it’s on its low night power in the daytime, but even that is usually better than it is now.
Hearing a Haitian (religious?) program on 1470 WAZN last night and this morning.
It’s not on 1360 WLYN that’s still playing the canned oldies/classic hits feed.
It sounds like they’re selling airtime on one of the stations anyway.
It’s not on 1360 WLYN that’s still playing the canned oldies/classic hits feed.
It sounds like they’re selling airtime on one of the stations anyway.
Between Spanish and Haitian programming, it sounds like 1470 WAZN is now brokered out 24/7. 1360 WLYN is still airing the canned oldies/classic pop hits feed from NYC.
Wondering where the 1470 programming is originating from? I know that the local studios and office for the two stations in Woburn was closed and padlocked about a year ago, and the only two local employees laid off. The canned music feeds since then were fed directly from MRB headquarters in NYC to the transmitters here in Lexington (1470) and Lynn (1360).
I guess they could air locally purchased Boston area brokered programming without any local studios or personnel if they made the brokerage arrangements with Boston area producers remotely from their NYC headquarters, and then had the producers send files or streams of the programs to NYC, where they would send them back here to the transmitter of the local station they sold their airtime to.
Or, have they (re)opened any local office or studio?
The other possibility is the ethnic programming may be national rather than local.
Wondering where the 1470 programming is originating from? I know that the local studios and office for the two stations in Woburn was closed and padlocked about a year ago, and the only two local employees laid off. The canned music feeds since then were fed directly from MRB headquarters in NYC to the transmitters here in Lexington (1470) and Lynn (1360).
I guess they could air locally purchased Boston area brokered programming without any local studios or personnel if they made the brokerage arrangements with Boston area producers remotely from their NYC headquarters, and then had the producers send files or streams of the programs to NYC, where they would send them back here to the transmitter of the local station they sold their airtime to.
Or, have they (re)opened any local office or studio?
The other possibility is the ethnic programming may be national rather than local.
Usually in a time brokerage situation, the lessee has to provide their own studio facility for their programs, and deliver the programs to the lessor in an agreed-upon manner.
The main studio rule has been repealed, so there is little incentive for Multicultural to re-open a Boston office.
The main studio rule has been repealed, so there is little incentive for Multicultural to re-open a Boston office.
It's been almost a year since they shut down local operations for both channels - it was early December last year.
According to wikipeida, WLYN is 700 watts daytime and now 76 watts nighttime and WZAN is 1,400 watts daytime and 3,400 watts nighttime, which might explain why WLYN is still canned 60's-70's music and WZAN has gone back to brokered/leased time - WZAN is the stronger station.
According to wikipeida, WLYN is 700 watts daytime and now 76 watts nighttime and WZAN is 1,400 watts daytime and 3,400 watts nighttime, which might explain why WLYN is still canned 60's-70's music and WZAN has gone back to brokered/leased time - WZAN is the stronger station.
Eli Polonsky - as a former manager of a brokered time station, I can tell you anybody buying a few hours a week is doing the program from their studios and using the internet to get the program to the station. If I recall Arthur had a system where payment was made and a code generated on the receipt. The code was the password to enter that station's computer that had your program times programmed in. When your time occurs, the computer switches to your connection and you do your program. There is not really a reason for human intervention and everything can occur from the home office and you'd never know.
1470 WAZN is back to the canned oldies/classic hits as of yesterday.
As I recall, the 18th of December is the first anniversary of the local shut down and start of the canned oldies-classic hits formats.
WAZN 1470 AM has been off the air for several days - has it gone dark?
I’m receiving it right now in Somerville, playing canned oldies/classic pop hits of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Loud and clear here on night power/pattern. The day power/pattern is weaker here.
I haven’t heard it off the air recently. Are you sure you’re just not getting reception? There are some severe “nulls” in their directional patterns, especially toward the northeast, west-southwest.
The directional array may not be working properly, and/or overall power may not be up to what it should be.
I’ve thought it was off air at times, but then found I was getting a very weak signal where it should be fairly strong.
What are the daytime and nighttime patterns of the station? It was coming in weak ar 3am last night in the Everett/Chelsea/Revere area...WLYN of course was nice and strong (But we're on a hill...)
The day power of WAZN is supposed to be 1400 watts, mostly beamed northwest (toward Burlington, Lowell, etc…) from its Lexington transmitter site, with some beamed southeast (toward Boston, Watertown, etc..).
The night pattern is supposed to be 3400 watts mostly beamed southeast (toward Boston, Watertown, etc..) and due south (toward Waltham, Newton, etc…).
Neither one beams much signal of WAZN northeast toward the North Shore or the towns you were listening from. You’re near the WLYN tower on the south side of Lynn just over the bridge from Revere, so that comes in well where you were even on low night power (WLYN is not directional).
But also WAZN’s transmitter or antenna patterns may not be working properly.
WAZN doesn't come in the daytime, which is odd as it has in the past...
....and on a side note WMEX durring the daytime is week, but stready, but has interferance...
WAZN sounds like they may be operating on lower power than they should, and/or their directional patterns may not be working properly. It’s weak here in Somerville in the daytime where it used to be fairly strong. You’re almost twice as far from the transmitter just north of the same direction, so it’ll be weaker there.
I don’t hear daytime interference on WMEX, but their modulation is a little low, maybe overcompensated for being too high and distorted a few weeks ago.
The best I can tell they haven't filed anything with the commission. It's been 5 plus decades since I took the FCC tests but IIRC you are supposed to within 90 to 105 percent of licensed power.
I was lucky, I never had to file a STA. I worked at stations that always had a decent inventory of spare parts and or had their old tube transmitters as backup if you had to order something.
It sounds kind of muddy, like they are using a narrow band filter(?) to increase selectivity.
WAZN has not had a local studio, local office, or any local staff for over a year, just the leased local transmitter site in Lexington airing audio sent from its parent company’s headquarters in NYC.
I’d guess they must have an on-call engineer up here who can come to Lexington if called for maintenance or repairs, but they don’t own the site so I don’t know if they can store anything there.
Do they have sales folks?
I don’t know, I knew the former local operations manager, he and the local GM were the only two local employees when the parent company in NYC closed the local studios and operations over a year ago.
I don’t know if they had any local sales people just working on commission or anything, but not as employees. Also I don’t know if they have anyone trying to sell in Boston remotely from NYC.