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WAZE goes dark

PTBoardOp94

PTBoardOp94

Earlier this week, St. Louis-based Roberts Broadcasting's troubled WAZE operation ceased operation. WAZE never made the digital transition, but did continue to operate three analog stations and had cable carriage in much of the Evansville-Owensboro IN-KY market until this week.

I have not looked to see if any of Roberts Broadcasting shut down any of their other properties this week.

http://jakesdtvblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/breaking-waze-tv-translators-shut-down.html
 
I wonder if the next CW station will be WTVW 7? They have been independent for a couple of years now.

-crainbebo
 
Kent said:
Didn't Roberts file for bankruptcy not too long ago and put the entire company up for sale?
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Yes, in 2011 because they were taken to court over failure to make payments to CBS TV Distribution, Twentieth Television and Warner Brothers TV Distribution, which resulted in having their properties being removed from Roberts' TV stations, which in turn lead to the stations being put on the selling block. Right now it'll be interesting to see who'll get their My TV/MeTV affiliate in St. Louis (WRBU) and their CW affiliate in Columbia, South Carolina (WZRB), since they're ripe for the picking and could end up becoming duopoly candidates in those markets.
 
From Wikipedia

WAZE's transmitter was located farther south than the other major Evansville stations because of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations requiring a station's transmitter to be no more than 15 miles from the city of license—in this case, Madisonville, which is 50 miles south of Evansville. As a result, the channel 19 signal provided only a grade B ("rimshot") signal to Evansville itself, and was practically unviewable north and east of the city.
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Is it still true that a transmitter has to be withing 15 miles of the city of license?
 
No, the distance is based on the station's signal strength, and with the digital transition there is even more leeway. KTAJ licensed to St. Joseph, MO has its transmitter nearly 50 miles away in Kansas City.
 
When I saw the post title, I was thinking of the FM station in Dawson/Albany, Georgia that had those calls... "92 WAZE the Incredible FM"...
 
Mark said:
Is it still true that a transmitter has to be withing 15 miles of the city of license?
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I'm not sure if this ever was true... thinking about WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis, whose transmission facility at Trafalgar, IN was built in the 70s, and is about 25 miles from WTTV's community of license. The station's original transmitter, near Cloverdale, IN was bulit in the mid 50s, and was about 23 miles from Bloomington.

Nonetheless, the "fact" you quoted appears in WTTV's wikipedia article as well.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Mark said:
Is it still true that a transmitter has to be withing 15 miles of the city of license?
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I'm not sure if this ever was true... thinking about WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis, whose transmission facility at Trafalgar, IN was built in the 70s, and is about 25 miles from WTTV's community of license. The station's original transmitter, near Cloverdale, IN was bulit in the mid 50s, and was about 23 miles from Bloomington.

Nonetheless, the "fact" you quoted appears in WTTV's wikipedia article as well.
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The original (1949) studio/transmitter site was at the north end of the Tarzian property on the near-south side of Bloomington. The reason for leaving Bloomington was to be able to cover Indianapolis - it was the primary NBC affiliate for the market at that time. But Cloverdale was apparently a poor choice since it didn't last long.

They moved their main studios and offices to Indy in 1954, but kept the Bloomington facility operating until sometime in the '70s (it was still being used by the time I left B'town in 1973). It was used mainly for Bloomington-oriented and pre-WTIU Indiana University programming after the mid '50s, and never was equipped for color.

WTTV moved its transmitter to Cloverdale, and from Channel 10 to 4, in 1953, and then to Trafalgar in 1957. Cloverdale is about halfway between Indy and Terre Haute, and about 35 miles northwest of Bloomington. Trafalgar is about 25 miles south of downtown Indy and 25 miles northeast of downtown Bloomington. Bloomington-licensed WCLJ (TBN) and WIPX (Ion) also transmit from Trafalgar, but not on the same tower, AFAIK.

The move to Trafalgar was questioned by the FCC when it first was proposed in 1956, right after WTTV lost its NBC affiliation to WFBM-TV in late 1955; it took WFBM's ABC affiliation at the time. The FCC approved it, but it didn't help since ABC switched to the new WLWI (WTHR) Channel 13 in late '57.
 
No - WDVZ-CA 3 is still on in Greensboro, AL as a repeater of This TV/IND affiliate WVUA/7. And WUVF-LP 2 Naples is on with Univision.

-crainbebo
 
KyDXIn said:
Was WAZE the last analog station in the U.S.?
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I assume you are not talking about translators? There are lots of them still around (analog)
WUMN-LP 13 here in Minneapolis is still analog (its low powered)
 
unclehonkey said:
KyDXIn said:
Was WAZE the last analog station in the U.S.?
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I assume you are not talking about translators? There are lots of them still around (analog)
WUMN-LP 13 here in Minneapolis is still analog (its low powered)
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As is KDTP-LP 48, the Daystar satellator in Phoenix.
 
I think every town has at least a few low power TV stations that still do analog. Off the top of my head, I count four in Milwaukee (7, 38 and the two Weigel LP stations - 41 and 63). The Weigel stations are already digital on their own, and simulcast on the subchannels of their full-power stations. Ch. 38 (MundoFox) is supposedly working on it. Ch. 7 is almost invisible, and last I heard, dumped America One for home shopping.
 
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