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WDUQ is for sale

Parttimer said:
This is entirely about the Catholic administration of the university objecting to some of NPR's content.
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If they object to the NPR content, all they have to do is drop the affiliation. Not sell the station.
 
Down here in the land of cotton, pythons and gators, you get used to just tons of conservative faith based broadcasters using up all but two dial positions in the lower FM band and now sprouting repeaters all over the place like kudzu. The AM band is practically owned by Salem. I thought it was neat that Pittsburgh had only WPIT and WORD. Oh well. Looks the radio dial in the Burg will soon be like any city where the Stars and Bars still fly (on I-4). They got 98.3, 106.7, and I guess maybe WDUQ and who knows what is next.
 
At least 98.3 plays music. 101.5 also plays music all weekend, more or less.

1080 is religious, and 1590 is Gospel (as also was 1510, before it went dark).

I'm surprised Salem has never tried to add a meaningful night signal to WPIT.

C.
 
730 is a Mexican clear channel so they are limited to what they do. I guess they could move the xmtr. south of the city and direct the signal north. However, 740 in Toronto would limit them also. Besides, it would cost too much for very little return.
 
Well excuse me! I forgot the killer bees, fire ants, poisonous toads, trucks with plastic testicles hanging from the rear bumper, mega fireworks stands, and you know, it's just like the opening theme to HBO's True Blood . Actually, I love the weather !. Raht now its 32 degrees in Ybor City. But this has nothing to do with radio. Sorry.

"It's 11 PM!, Do you know where your parents are !"
 
hypwr said:
730 is a Mexican clear channel so they are limited to what they do. I guess they could move the xmtr. south of the city and direct the signal north. However, 740 in Toronto would limit them also. Besides, it would cost too much for very little return.
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There's also a 730 in Montreal, which would probably be trouble. Still, if they did enough to upgrade WPIT to a Class B (that is,
put up another tower, maybe two, and get to 250 watts nighttime), that would cover the immediate city decently and seem to
be worth the effort.

C.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
Down here in the land of cotton, pythons and gators, you get used to just tons of conservative faith based broadcasters using up all but two dial positions in the lower FM band and now sprouting repeaters all over the place like kudzu. The AM band is practically owned by Salem. I thought it was neat that Pittsburgh had only WPIT and WORD. Oh well. Looks the radio dial in the Burg will soon be like any city where the Stars and Bars still fly (on I-4). They got 98.3, 106.7, and I guess maybe WDUQ and who knows what is next.
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MsMusicRadio- I don't believe any town in Florida flies the "Stars and Bars."

The "Stars and Bars" is, of course, the first flag of the Confederacy, which is not the one commonly used to show southern pride that the NAACP hates so much.


What I believe you are discussing is the Confederate Naval Jack, the flag that Florida modeled their own state flag after with the St. Andrew's Cross, and that Florida's own Lynryd Skynyrd uses as a logo.

I always felt those that would demonize the flag were often those who knew next to nothing about it. Getting the name wrong is one example.

Or, I could be wrong and you could be speaking of the first flag of the Confederacy and not the one based on the square flag Gen. Beauregard designed to differentiate his armies in battle.

But I do not know of any instances of this flag being flown in Haines City. In fact, I think the Naval Jack isn't all that popular there, either.
 
TheBigA said:
Parttimer said:
This is entirely about the Catholic administration of the university objecting to some of NPR's content.
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If they object to the NPR content, all they have to do is drop the affiliation. Not sell the station.
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Just passing along what I've heard.... I think the issue has made the administration feel they don't want to be in the the radio "business"....
 
Pratte4Life said:
MsMusicRadio said:
Down here in the land of cotton, pythons and gators, you get used to just tons of conservative faith based broadcasters using up all but two dial positions in the lower FM band and now sprouting repeaters all over the place like kudzu. The AM band is practically owned by Salem. I thought it was neat that Pittsburgh had only WPIT and WORD. Oh well. Looks the radio dial in the Burg will soon be like any city where the Stars and Bars still fly (on I-4). They got 98.3, 106.7, and I guess maybe WDUQ and who knows what is next.
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MsMusicRadio- I don't believe any town in Florida flies the "Stars and Bars."

The "Stars and Bars" is, of course, the first flag of the Confederacy, which is not the one commonly used to show southern pride that the NAACP hates so much.


Maybe I'm confused about how many Confederate flags there were, but someone put up a huge "Confederate flag" on private property on I-4 near the I-75 junction. The County begged him not to do it cause of tourism issues, but they could not stop it. It flies in Tampa which is really not reflective of the community. Tampa Bay is not really a center of Confederate history like my old home town of Richmond Va. Richmond also is loaded with faith based broadcasters. Central Virginia Public Radio got one station after a contentious battle with TV 6, but now AFR gets two and other groups I can't name have repeaters all over the dial. There is a big one out of Fredricksburg with I think one million repeates right in Richmond. Only one LPFM (97.3) has gone to a secular broadscaster. but I think WNRN from c'ville has one now.
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The papers and the station's Web site say the university is working with WDUQ management, the Pittsburgh Foundation (according to the Trib), "representatives of the foundation community" (wduq.org) and Public Radio Capital, a non-profit funded by the Ford Foundation, among others, to take the station independent of the university.

The call letters for the student station at Duquesne are WDSR. Sorry for the transposition in an earlier post.
 
We have over a dozen religious stations in the Cleveland area, including a 50,000 watt (day and night) AM, a full class B on an commercial frequency, a 5KW Salem and a 5KW Gospel. Those are all Cleveland city licenses. In the burbs and outlying areas there are scores of stations. Plus EMF has dropped in probably 5 or 6 LPFMs in the metro counties.

Now I see that WDUQ might be sold to a group who may take it religious.

Unless you have a market like NYC or LA or Chicago, Boston, etc where there are a great diversity of non-English speaking people spawning foreign language radio stations, markets like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, etc will probably be dominated by religious stations (especially on AM) over the next few years.
 
Interesting that it's unconstitutional for the government to establish a national religion. But religious groups can use the federally regulated airwaves for missionary purposes. These are the seeds of a potential conflict.
 
TheBigA said:
Interesting that it's unconstitutional for the government to establish a national religion. But religious groups can use the federally regulated airwaves for missionary purposes. These are the seeds of a potential conflict.
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Not really. The airwaves may be regulated by the government, but they are owned by the public. I'll grant you that many
people and companies don't act that way, but it's the law.

There is even a Baha'i station somewhere in the Carolinas.

C.
 
WDUQ is for sale because the Catholic Diocese got burned big time by the blow up over pulling the Planned Parenthood sponsorships last year. It cost the diocese several large benefactors. The diocese told Duquesne to look into the sale because it did not want a repeat performance of the whole mess and could not find a way to guarantee that with the station's NPR affiliation. The school decided that it could not afford to run the station without the NPR affiliation and the monies that come with it.

NPR is rounding up interested parties to buy the station and run it. None of them are religious and all, to this point are local. There are two large philanthropies involved to this point and discussions with at least two more. There have also been unofficial discussions with WQED.

No other local colleges are interested at this point because they can't afford it.

Its too important to NPR to lose an affiliate in a top 25 market. They are going to make sure that this deal gets done the right way.
 
Snafu said:
The school decided that it could not afford to run the station without the NPR affiliation and the monies that come with it.
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You write a lot of fiction?

Money does not come with an NPR affiliation. In fact, it's the other way around. It COSTS money. Affiliates pay a fee to carry NPR shows.
 
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