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[Don78]

quote author=Tibbs2

Is this possibly a CC publicity stunt?
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I'm guessing it was a WHIN publicity stunt.

 

[voicenky]

Cumulus is just a business and when businesses don't do well for WHATEVER reason, they need to cut expenses to survive. Don't lie...you'd do the same if you had no other choice. Personnel is easy to control. They probably did what they had to in order to survive. Sure, good people got canned. This is radio...it happens to all of us. I wish them well but my guess is they went into this business knowing that it's extremely unpredictable when it comes to longevity.

For the record, the conversations I've had with the Dickey's have been pleasant, cordial and very informative...and yes, I've been let go before also. I dealt with it. Radio is in survival mode right now and we probably will get to the point where every daypart will be automated and every station function will move to some big corporate office. Local radio will virtually disappear until one day, some yahoo will crack open a mic when their satellite fails and lo and behold, local radio will be reborn. Until then, this is how it's going to be. My suggestion, find a different career if this upsets you. Either that or...be patient and then be the yahoo who figures out local radio sounds good again.

Well said. this from a now. for 3 days, former employee that felt the budget ax in another market by the same brand name.

 

[scottwmro]

Boy this would have been news on here if it was Monday Night Football and WHIN was juicing up that power.
More importantly, Chris...Buddy's a cheerleader? We know why we all really watch football. ;D

Tibbs,
There would be no more "WHIN" juicing up the power anymore. They got a letter from the domanate "Class A" station, WINS-AM to not be operating at 5 KW or 1 KW at night. They have been informed to operate thier authorized 47 watts at night. Somebody told me the FCC paid them a visit, but I think that was just a rumor.

Just because they are WHIN, doesn't give them the right to break the rules!

Gallatin has another station breaking the rules, WYXE-AM 1130. They have been staying on WAY PAST their sign off time. They do have a post sunset of 10 watts, that 2 hours after sunset. I have called Pastor Hurson that is over the station and told him that they MUST lower power to 10 watts at 4:45 (this Month in November), or shut it off.

What's the deal with some of these station owners, program directors, etc. Why must we break the law? Mr. Sadler, you want to comment on this?

Since George McClintock (who was at WNQM) has not been monitoring the band making sure the stations are behaving themselves around here as far as technical rules go, I've been doing it. George caught Corky Albright at WQSV in Ashland City not cutting his power at night.

WVOL is operating on 1 Tower at night at 1,500 watts. They are authorized at 5,000 watts, daytime to protect the station in WEEN-AM, Lafayette, TN and a station in, WHVO-AM Hopkinsville, KY. They are to go to 6 towers at night with the majority of the signal going south towards the Gulf. Right Now, I can hear WVOL in Gallatin at night with 1 tower and 1,500 watts.

As far as I'm concern, you can call me an ------ for making these comments, but if we are going to clean up the AM band, stations MUST follow the law during the nighttime hours. I just got a field strength meter, and I know what stations are doing during the nightitme hours

 

[Nock]

Anybody east of town catch the signal at 105.5? Heard someone who sounded like Cheech preaching jesus and marriage counseling Friday night. Came in loud in clear Mt Juliet to Donelson. Was trying to find a clean frequency to tune my XM in and ran across it.

Nock

 

[scottwmro]

Anybody east of town catch the signal at 105.5? Heard someone who sounded like Cheech preaching jesus and marriage counseling Friday night. Came in loud in clear Mt Juliet to Donelson. Was trying to find a clean frequency to tune my XM in and ran across it.

Nock

That is a licensed translator for a religious organization. I forget the name of the church now, but it is a legal FM translator. They do have a license to broadcast in the Lebanon area.

 

[Nock]

Anybody east of town catch the signal at 105.5? Heard someone who sounded like Cheech preaching jesus and marriage counseling Friday night. Came in loud in clear Mt Juliet to Donelson. Was trying to find a clean frequency to tune my XM in and ran across it.

Nock

Come on Tibbs, I left you the bait === you going to take it? Little slow on the trigger

Nock

 

[scottwmro]

Anybody east of town catch the signal at 105.5? Heard someone who sounded like Cheech preaching jesus and marriage counseling Friday night. Came in loud in clear Mt Juliet to Donelson. Was trying to find a clean frequency to tune my XM in and ran across it.

Nock

Come on Tibbs, I left you the bait === you going to take it? Little slow on the trigger

Nock

Nock,

The FM station you are questioning is a translator licensed to Lebanon, TN. It's call letters are W288BG, and is owned and operated by Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls, Inc, located in Twin Falls, ID. In thier application filed in December of 2003, they claimed they were rebroadcasting KWAZ-FM in Twin Falls, ID

My personal opinion is this, why in the world would the FCC grant such an application? This was done, in my opinion by politics. Translators are suppose to just rebroadcast a local signal that has poor reception within a Class A, B, or C FM station's fringe coverage area. This is highly inmoral of Calvary Chapel. Someone should file to have that signal removed, but that's just my opinion, which the government doesn't give a damn about.

 

[Nock]

How much coverage should a translator cover? Lebanon to Opryland seems strong. You lose WANT in the same area.

Nock

 

[radiodood]

What does any of the last few threads have to do with Cumalouse?

 

[scottwmro]

How much coverage should a translator cover? Lebanon to Opryland seems strong. You lose WANT in the same area.

Nock

Nock,

It varies from situatuion to situation. Typically, a translator is just to fill in what I call "a white area" that the FM signal doesn't cover well or at all. Translators fall under part 74 of the commission's rules, not part 73 that full power/full service AM & FM station fall under. The FCC has just now realized that translators have gotten out of hand to whom they should be licensed to, especially these big ministry organizations that do not own a full power FM station in a given market. Maybe, just maybe, the new administration will look more into this problem and grant more LPFM stations, especially 10 watt LPFM's like the Clinton administration promised.

I think there should me more LPFM's, especially 10 watt FM's and LPAM stations should be taken under consideration. All this pirate broadcasting would die down if the Congress would stop, think and don't listen to the NAB and the TAB, as well as other state broadcaster associations that seem to have big money to send up lobbiest to stop this type of broadcasting.

And hey radiodood, Cumulus is now a dead issue. Be thinking about the future than the past. How come YOU have not thought applying for an LPFM?

 

[Tibbs4]

Nock

Nock,


I think there should me more LPFM's, especially 10 watt FM's and LPAM stations should be taken under consideration. All this pirate broadcasting would die down if the Congress would stop, think and don't listen to the NAB and the TAB, as well as other state broadcaster associations that seem to have big money to send up lobbiest to stop this type of broadcasting.

And hey radiodood, Cumulus is now a dead issue. Be thinking about the future than the past. How come YOU have not thought applying for an LPFM?

Hey Scott--- you're making real sense here. You think big money has anything to do with big radio and Congress? Wait til they bail the big-C's out.
As for a LPFM --- All Disco All The Time W750ARBMST

 

[scottwmro]

Nock

Nock,


I think there should me more LPFM's, especially 10 watt FM's and LPAM stations should be taken under consideration. All this pirate broadcasting would die down if the Congress would stop, think and don't listen to the NAB and the TAB, as well as other state broadcaster associations that seem to have big money to send up lobbiest to stop this type of broadcasting.

And hey radiodood, Cumulus is now a dead issue. Be thinking about the future than the past. How come YOU have not thought applying for an LPFM?

Hey Scott--- you're making real sense here. You think big money has anything to do with big radio and Congress? Wait til they bail the big-C's out.
As for a LPFM --- All Disco All The Time W750ARBMST

Tibbs,

I hope that C.C. and the Cumulus die off, including Saga, Salem, etc. These FM's should be local, not some engineering outfit pushing an FM signal as close as they can to a metro market. It has now proven it is failing idea, and it's all the government's fault. Just maybe, the new administration will give radio back to thier local communities. Studios should be in the City of License.

Now in our ecomomic situatuion, for all you guys wanting back on the air or wanna be jocks, that's going to be a tough task. Our Country is at a point of economic disaster and NO STATION, will be able to hire live D.J.'s around the clock and have someone at the facility 24/7. If that happens, this defeats the idea of localism and will cause many stations and many FM's to go dark.

Some of you think radio stations is a business where a station can just print money. That is NOT ture! Layoffs are happening everywhere and businesses are closing thier doors and unempolyment is on the rise. This new administration can't fix this problem in four years, but give it time. For now, some sort of automation has to be in place at small stations. No small AM daytimer can be staffed 24/7. The owners of stations like mine, we (me & my wife) will do it ourselves, even if me and my wife have to move in the station.

As a matter of fact, we are looking for some land to move WMRO to a new site where we will build a house and a small building for the station, all on one piece of ground.

 

[Don78]

this makes me wonder "is there a station in Nashville that is staffed 24 hrs?" some have syndicated programming (After Midnight and John Tesh for example), some sound like voice tracking (sound live but never give time or temp) and some just automate. Is any one Live and local (excuse the borrowed phrase) at night any more?

 

[scottwmro]

this makes me wonder "is there a station in Nashville that is staffed 24 hrs?" some have syndicated programming (After Midnight and John Tesh for example), some sound like voice tracking (sound live but never give time or temp) and some just automate. Is any one Live and local (excuse the borrowed phrase) at night any more?

I thought WSM-AM was. I can tell you that WJXA (Mix 92.9) is because my consultant engineer's wife works there. There is NO voice tracking at 92.9, even during the show on Satellite Programming is on the air. WJXA is fully staffed and if the automation on 96.3 Jack stops, there is somebody there to restart it, according to my consultant engineering. Clinton Hopper, Chief Engineer at 92.9/96.3 is on call 24/7.