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WBIX ownership, format flip poised to occur much sooner than first announced

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DanStrassberg

The FCC daily e-mail digest for (I think) last Thursday, August 26 announced that the application for transfer of the WBIX license to Holy Family had been granted. Nevertheless, I continued to believe that the actual closing of the sale would take place on November 1 as originally announced and that neither the new WQOM calls nor the new EWTN programming would be heard until then. I figured H-F needed the extra time to scrape together the $1 million that is due to Alex Langer at closing. Also there is an issue with an application to modify WBIX's CP to increase its D power to 50 kW and give up its dual-site operation. The original CP, which was granted several months ago, used all five towers at the Ashland site. With the modified CP, WBIX would use, by day, only three of the five towers at the site. So far. I have seen no indication that the modification of CP has been granted.

There had been speculation that many of the brokered-time programs on WBIX would stay put under the new ownership. That seems not to be the case, however. Apparently, the existing shows have to be gone by Monday September 13. So far, I have heard only one program announce where it will be heard. Tom O'Brien, the technical market analyst--the guy who sounds as if he has completely taken leave of his senses and without a doubt has completely taken leave of the English language--will move his (two hours, I think) of totally unintelligible gibberish to WBNW et al on 9/13 at 4:00PM.
 
maaaaaaan who remembers WADN 1120 "walden 1120" with its crunchy folk format..
 
DanStrassberg said:
So far, I have heard only one program announce where it will be heard. Tom O'Brien, the technical market analyst--the guy who sounds as if he has completely taken leave of his senses and without a doubt has completely taken leave of the English language--will move his (two hours, I think) of totally unintelligible gibberish to WBNW et al on 9/13 at 4:00PM.
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Very interesting move on Tom's part Dan....weird, just as we get into the season where the signal for WBNW won't really be heard pretty much after 4p because it goes to night power. Is Tom O'Brien desperate at this point do you think Dan? To go and pay for air-time when no persons but the people in Concord will hear u.....very odd??!!
 
OreoJoe417 said:
Very interesting move on Tom's part Dan....weird, just as we get into the season where the signal for WBNW won't really be heard pretty much after 4p because it goes to night power. Is Tom O'Brien desperate at this point do you think Dan? To go and pay for air-time when no persons but the people in Concord will hear u.....very odd??!!
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WBNW streams. If you are so inclined, you can listen just about anywhere on the Web. But I believe that O'Brien has his own stream, so it is unclear that WBNW is bringing much of anything to O'Brien's party. But then again, Tom O'Brien obviously hasn't a clue about what broadcasting is all about. His goal seems to be to reach _only_ HIS people--the ones who can make any sense at all out of his totally arcane and completely inscrutable vocabulary. He obviously delights in being understood only by HIS people. I've so far figured out only one thing--a "little baby" means a stock. When he says that the market is going downtown, is that good or bad? I have no clue--and he is careful to provide none. I'm not one of HIS people, so he doesn't give a damn about me. If I were Armstrong, I'd deliver a stern lecture to O'Brien: "Either you start doing your program in English or you will have to find another station. I like your money; your checks don't bounce, but we don't do foreign languages at WBNW. You are driving my audience away--and driving a lot of them crazy in the process."
 
DanStrassberg said:
I'm not one of HIS people, so he doesn't give a damn about me. If I were Armstrong, I'd deliver a stern lecture to O'Brien: "Either you start doing your program in English or you will have to find another station. I like your money; your checks don't bounce, but we don't do foreign languages at WBNW. You are driving my audience away--and driving a lot of them crazy in the process."
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I like your thinking Dan....though, u might be one of the only smart people left who actually believes that Armstrong cares about anything else other than Money....especially other people's money! And you are absolutely correct,I imagine none of them give a damn about you....unless you have some money of course... ::)
 
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