WACQ 1130 Carrville, Alabama defaulted on a loan for $494,662.16 and now the lender is taking over ownership of the station according to FCC filings. WACQ operates daytime only on 1130, with 25K during certain daytime hours, but is limited to 1KW two hours after sunrise and 1KW two hours before sunset. In the past year attemps to sell the station failed. Radio in the River Region is tough these days, last year it was the bankrupcy of Bluewater and now the repo of WACQ.
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WACQ 1130 Repossessed
- Thread starter busterluck
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Hey Buster,
Give it a rest. There is nothing similar between the Bluewater reorganization and the repossession of WACQ. The investors in Bluewater believed in the operators, and in fact reinvested in the Company. The WACQ investors basically took the keys. BTW, rumor has it that the new landlord if WACQ is bidding in Auction 91 for the Coosada FM. Interesting huh?
Give it a rest. There is nothing similar between the Bluewater reorganization and the repossession of WACQ. The investors in Bluewater believed in the operators, and in fact reinvested in the Company. The WACQ investors basically took the keys. BTW, rumor has it that the new landlord if WACQ is bidding in Auction 91 for the Coosada FM. Interesting huh?
Zach said:
I believe I heard them yesterday. I know for a fact WACQ still was on air as of Sunday.
-Travis
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However I'm too busy with:
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6. And working on my return to radio broadcasting to do that.
I have a full plate, as you can see and don't have the time to flame someone on this site.
If I did, it would make me look stupid in the end.
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P.S. Hope WACQ will have continued success, once they get this issue behind them. I'm rooting for you all the way AM 1130/101.1 FM.
However I'm too busy with:
1. My writing career (Creating, Passing Out and Purchasing Bible Tracts to Pass Out)
2. Keeping a large number of yards cut (This includes my Home Church)
3. Making sure that everything is working right at my home Church (Sinks, Toilets, Lights, Fuses, Circuit Breakers, Heaters and Air Conditioners)
4. Helping our older members get their basic breakdowns and needs taken care of
5. Tending to my family's medical needs, when the situation calls for it
6. And working on my return to radio broadcasting to do that.
I have a full plate, as you can see and don't have the time to flame someone on this site.
If I did, it would make me look stupid in the end.
Yeesch, someone needs to get a spine and grow up. (So-Called Know It All's)
R.D.P. <><
P.S. Hope WACQ will have continued success, once they get this issue behind them. I'm rooting for you all the way AM 1130/101.1 FM.
Mr. Gower, aka Rick Peters misses the point of the post. With the take over of WACQ and last years Bluewater bankrupcy, this post only was meant to show how hard it is to operate any radio radio station these days financially. Also in the Montgomery market, WIQR in Prattville has been off the air for several weeks. Troubled waters indeed in radio.
I had to chuckle at something I read on their website: "WACQ Radio 1130 is consistantly ranked as the #1 AM Station in the Elmore, Autauga, Montgomery counties survey". And how was this survey conducted, by writing on a napkin in the morning DJ's house?
WACQ is a dead station walking; stations like these serve no real purpose anymore. Instead of being a 25KW daytimer frontin' its way into Montgomery, it should be at 'local channel' engineering with 1000 watts day and night to cover Tallassee or Tuskegee. In fact that's what I'd do with a lot of these daytimers, save for the ones that must protect clear channel stations.
WACQ is a dead station walking; stations like these serve no real purpose anymore. Instead of being a 25KW daytimer frontin' its way into Montgomery, it should be at 'local channel' engineering with 1000 watts day and night to cover Tallassee or Tuskegee. In fact that's what I'd do with a lot of these daytimers, save for the ones that must protect clear channel stations.
For my entire life we have watched station owners get with the consulting engineers and wiggle and squeeze to get more and more power for these daytimers.... back when more power equals more advertising equals more profit.
O.K. So 1130 has to sign-off to protect Shreveport. This is the era when the owner and the guy with the slide-rule may need to get creative and see if they can slide sideways one or two channels and maybe get some night time hours and cut back on the daytime power.
What the one poster was saying, it doesn't matter whether this stations has 1,000 watts or gets special permission for 750,000 watts, it's natural market is one or two little towns that can only produced a limited revenue.
Cut the power back. Cut the expenses back. Make some money. Have some fun. That needs to be the 21st century way for a lot of AM stations. Maybe some FMs also.
O.K. So 1130 has to sign-off to protect Shreveport. This is the era when the owner and the guy with the slide-rule may need to get creative and see if they can slide sideways one or two channels and maybe get some night time hours and cut back on the daytime power.
What the one poster was saying, it doesn't matter whether this stations has 1,000 watts or gets special permission for 750,000 watts, it's natural market is one or two little towns that can only produced a limited revenue.
Cut the power back. Cut the expenses back. Make some money. Have some fun. That needs to be the 21st century way for a lot of AM stations. Maybe some FMs also.
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