WEIM AM 1280 website is down???
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WEIM AM
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WEIM was an excellent small market Top 40 station in the late 60s/early 70s. Does anybody else remember this???
Maybe they're updating the site to go along with the format change. As posted on the Massachusetts board in November, they went to a Hispanic/tropical music format from 7 p.m.-5 a.m.:
[url]http://www.leominsterchamp.com/news/2007/1116/PDF/page_03.pdf [/url]
In fact, an article in Broadcasting years ago on the decline of AM radio singled out WEIM as an exception to the general trend, having had its most profitable of many profitable years.
[url]http://www.leominsterchamp.com/news/2007/1116/PDF/page_03.pdf [/url]
Time Traveler said:WEIM was an excellent small market Top 40 station in the late 60s/early 70s. Does anybody else remember this???
In fact, an article in Broadcasting years ago on the decline of AM radio singled out WEIM as an exception to the general trend, having had its most profitable of many profitable years.
In fact, an article in Broadcasting years ago on the decline of AM radio singled out WEIM as an exception to the general trend, having had its most profitable of many profitable years.
WEIM is in a good situation... The FM's left town and the two other AM's are preaching. --which makes WEIM the SOLE local radio source for general consumption. All of that for a market of at least 90,000 people!
Time Traveler said:WEIM was an excellent small market Top 40 station in the late 60s/early 70s. Does anybody else remember this???
Didn't live around here back then, but they weren't a half-bad AC thru the 80s either. Jack Raymond's schtik was kind of dated-sounding, but otherwise they sounded much bigger than the market size would imply.
Last time I heard the station (couple years ago), they were just an automated jukebox. Do they have any airstaff now?
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>Last time I heard the station (couple years ago), they were just an automated jukebox. Do they have >any airstaff now?
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They do a very servicable morning drive show. They also do two live shows at 5PM, then 6 - 7PM. They're OK, could be better. The automated stuff during mid day is a pretty weird combination oldies andd Hot AC. I can't see why their listeners would be interested in Hot AC. But it's better than satalite fare - and a NICE change from AM talk!
Also, between 7P and 5A they flip to Spanish. I believe they do live Spanish between 8-10PM.
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They do a very servicable morning drive show. They also do two live shows at 5PM, then 6 - 7PM. They're OK, could be better. The automated stuff during mid day is a pretty weird combination oldies andd Hot AC. I can't see why their listeners would be interested in Hot AC. But it's better than satalite fare - and a NICE change from AM talk!
Also, between 7P and 5A they flip to Spanish. I believe they do live Spanish between 8-10PM.
JIBGUY said:WEIM is in a good situation... The FM's left town and the two other AM's are preaching. --which makes WEIM the SOLE local radio source for general consumption. All of that for a market of at least 90,000 people!
I assume that the other two AM's "preaching" are WFGL 960 (Fitchburg) and WCMX 1000 (Leominster). I was out that way a couple of nights ago and scanned the dial at about 11 PM, and I noticed that WCMX 1000 was on the air playing Christian music. It sounded like they were on a low nighttime power level, but neither the FCC database or Radio-Locator show any nighttime authorization for them at all, and list them as daytime only. Is it legal for them to be on at night?
Eli Polonsky said:neither the FCC database or Radio-Locator show any nighttime authorization for them at all, and list them as daytime only. Is it legal for them to be on at night?
I think you just answered your own question.
They were fined $1500 for filing a late license renewal in the last renewal cycle (filed in February 2007 instead of December 1, 2006), so the fact that they're operating in violation of the terms of their license is no surprise.
dumber than a box of hair said:They [WCMX] were fined $1500 for filing a late license renewal in the last renewal cycle (filed in February 2007 instead of December 1, 2006), so the fact that they're operating in violation of the terms of their license is no surprise.
You are probably right about WCMX not being licensed to operate at low power any later than Chicago sunset BUT you can't be 100% certain. Although the distance from WCMX to WMVP is just 833 miles and the distance from WBZ is WNVR in the Chicago suburb of Vernon Hills, IL is a little greater--894 miles, and WMVP sends about 8.5% more signal toward WCMX than WBZ sends toward WNVR, WNVR is licensed to send the equivalent of about 1W at night toward WBZ. (WNVR's actual night power is 120W into a two tower array that protects WBZ.) So, the FCC might grant WCMX 1W or so ND at night--if WCMX wanted such low night power. It's not clear to me that, given WMVP's substantial skywave in this area, 1W would be enough for WMVP to produce a listenable signal at the end of its own ground radials, but the option to operate legally at night might be available to the Leominster station.
DanStrassberg said:You are probably right about WCMX not being licensed to operate at low power any later than Chicago sunset BUT you can't be 100% certain.
Yes I can be certain. The terms of their current license are posted in the FCC's AM database. They do not contain any post-local-sunset authority. Having it available and actually getting it licensed are two separate issues.
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