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As of this afternoon we are ESPN on 590 AM. Just thought I would let everyone know that might be interested. The rest of you guys can hit delete....

cceng over and out
 
This is so nice but there no ESPN Radio here in Tallahassee seems like ESPN Radio going to Clear Channel Radio little by little.
 
CCENG, A little off topic, but in your geographical area, what's up with the sale of the Oyster stations? I would have thought they would have sold for a bit more.
 
Tibbs...we were doing "Music of Your Life"....as far as the sale price of Oyster is concerned.....as Clnton said, "it's the economy stupid".....you are lucky to get 2 -5 times cash flow right now.
 
Man, I am sooo out of touch. Way to busy. Aug 1 cceng,,,, find me a multiple-less freq.) what was the final price for Oyster(s). Dunno how they ever really did make that much, but they were interesting to listen too.
 
Tibbs2 said:
never mind, just looked it all up....wow....beyond the economy CCENG! That's ALMOST a steal.
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Town of 2,000 in a county of 11,000. Even if you slap it together as the Apalachicola-Port St. Joe Metroplex, you've still only got about 25,000 human beings and just a handful of businesses--even less if you subtract the ones targeting touristas... and the ones that have a monopoly ("We don't have to do no stinking advertising").

Kinda like the Buxton-Hatteras thing up on the OBX (Tibbs, we're always on the wrong thread)! Cool places for rich guys to hang around and play radio... do a little fishin'... do a little drankin'... and burn money!
 
Well spoken. I learned the hard way that being in paradise is way to expensive! Even in a "major" tourist area...PCB and / or Destino. Back in the day, we did bill about $50-60k a month (obviously a few months dropped, etc.) but that still left minimal profits if the winds of change happened. My guess is it's tough to bill that these days for most stations in those markets cause theres a million signals. You are r i t e about Appa. It's easier to just stand on a street corner and beg for change for beer. Plus, the OBVIOUS ain't touristin that far east. Why miss all the action from the rusted wheelchairs, RNR? Hell. That was positive.

On a good note ---- finally, a real oil collectin vessel hath arrived ... maybe that Oyster radio investment won't be totally trashed.
 
Hey CW, back in my New Orleans days I would drive over to the Mississippi Coast on the weekend for some beers... ah, I mean I would do a signal check run. Anyways, I remember catching NASCAR on 590. Now that it's sports, will the races be (back) on?
 
I don't know what they have in store.....I know we will be doing some high school football....not sure about NASCAR....hope everything is going good for you Paul. 590 has a great signal up and down the coast.....at night you can listen to it like a local in Port St Joe and Apalachicola because of the pattern.

eeeng
 
Thanks Charlie. Still having a blast installing RDS encoders across the country. Y'all have a great July 4th and watch out for that there "earl" in the Gulf.
 
That's right Roddy....We lease the old Sunny 98 studios to WLTG 1430.....the 590 transmitter site is also there. They even use the old Sunny 98 audio board ;)

cceng
 
Charlie, is that the old Harris Medalist board that WLTG is using? 'Cause if it is, that thing was showing its age when I worked at Sunny in 1987. It was actually WDLP's board until you switched the wires and put that studio through to 98.5's processing, and put the automation for WGNE over on the AM.

David Nolin
 
I took the CQUAM off line about 6 or 7 years ago......got zero calls about it....I have an AM stereo receiver in my personal 94 GMC pickup (my trusty hunting truck).....and 2 of those Sony portables that would do AM stereo.
 
cceng said:
I took the CQUAM off line about 6 or 7 years ago......got zero calls about it....I have an AM stereo receiver in my personal 94 GMC pickup (my trusty hunting truck).....and 2 of those Sony portables that would do AM stereo.
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That's a shame, or it was until the flip to sports. Is it extra work to keep the stereo gubbins working properly or something? I've always wondered why something that doesn't really mess up the mono signal much would be turned off in droves.

I just took a trip from MS to CA and found zero AM stereo stations along the way. I still have WLNO New Orleans and WRNE Gulf Breeze listed as stereo on my site but I'm sure they're off now, too. :(
 
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