Wasn't there a 5 or 6 figure "minimum" bid? Then you had to build it. No wonder nobody bid. Assuming there isn't a significant land cost, somebody might bite. Most likely IF the 770 CP is ever built some kind of Salem style programming.
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WEW's 105th anniversary
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That was in January 1958, when the station's DJs claimed they were breaking records on the air. The station later, um, clarified that by saying the unwanted records would be donated to charity. The Globe-Democrat's Pete Rahn wrote on January 16 of that year (a Thursday):
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Just for the record, I don't believe the "wanton destruction" ever did take place. The crash of shattering discs heard on KWK on Monday and Tuesday was, in my opinion, a "symbolic" sound effect achieved by the breaking of wornout or faulty 12-inch waxings.
Naturally, station officials won't admit to that, simply because they feel such an admission might take some of the steam out of the "record breaking" publicity gimmick.
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The gimmick happened during an in-between period when Thomas Convey was selling off KWK-TV to CBS and was, it later became evident, shopping around the radio station. The radio station was sold in June of 1958 to interests associated with WEMP in Milwaukee, who were the geniuses behind the later "treasure hunt" contest that lost the station its license.
The best quote, I think, came from Bob Hyland at KMOX: "I feel that it is wrong to suppress any one type of music, besides, you just can't do it. St. Louis teen-agers, as well as adults, will listen to what they want when they want it". (in the Globe-Democrat, January 15)
AM in St. Louis is a non-factor. The conversion of WHHL to KMOX-FM just put a bow on it. KMOX's stellar performance in the 1980s and 1990s simply covered up the fact that all the other AMs were struggling. Some found niches, but even those ran out of runway after a while.
WEW wasn't going to be able to keep the lights on with Bosnian programming forever. Those refugees arrived in the 1990s; their kids are now adults and probably don't have much interest in that sort of thing.
(Yes, this thread is about WEW, last time I checked)
How many AMs in STL have translators?
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You'd have to have an FM translator and, even then, your audience would be limited. For example, a translator high up enough on the Kenrick Seminary tower might get you into a little bit of St. Charles County, where much of the metro growth has been for the past few decades, but it's probably something that few people there would find, or even find listenable. Of course, this is theoretical, since other translators and LPFMs now are camped out on most if not all of the channels available for low-power broadcasting.
Whether Birach will pursue another CP is not something any of us here would know. Moreover, whether very low-effort programming with minimal return would recover the costs of building the thing is highly questionable.
There's some ambiguity in what I can find, but just focusing on translators that would cover most of the "core" of the metro (St. Louis City, St. Louis County), I come up with:
KFUO (LCMS), KATZ (iHeart), KSIV (Bott), KHOJ (Covenant), KTRS (the former KSD).
There may be a couple of others; I'm also not counting stations truly based on the Illinois side of the metro, such as WBGZ in Alton.
Other possible slots are taken up with LPFMs and translators for HD-x channels.
Someone who's actually in or near the St. Louis area may be more helpful here.
Bott has both AM and FM outlets in St. Louis. Are they being programmed separately? If not, then why keep an AM at all unless you have terrain blockage with the FM or the AM can be received at a greater distance than the FM. And, more to the point of the last response, why have an AM translator at all inside the city unless (again) there is terrain blocking somewhere.
KSIV is on 1320 kHz and has an FM translator on 95.9 MHz. That station is commercial, while non-commercial KSIV-FM is on 91.5 MHz and programs the Bott Radio Network.
there is zero difference in type/style of programming between 1320 and 91.5.... both carry christian talk/preaching
there is zero difference in type/style of programming between 1320 and 91.5.... both carry christian talk/preaching
And, from what I can tell, KSIV-AM is simulcasting the programming of KSIV-FM. Even though the AM license is a commercial one, it is being operated as a non-commercial station.
The FM and AM didn't simulcast in the past. Both stations carried Christian teaching, though the AM had been run locally. The FM had been promoting itself as "Bott Radio Network" when it took over the 91.5 MHz frequency from KSLH--which had lent/leased (?) its signal to Webster University for a brief time in 1994.
There was a time I remember hearing ads on KSIV-AM, such as Weber Chevrolet, though they may have chosen to operate as a non commercial station now.
If KSIV-AM has a translator on 95.9, it would be redundant to simulcast with a 100 kW FM now.
St. Louis has several open spaces for HD subchannels, if the owners of those stations chose to lease them. WBGZ has an unusual arrangement with Hubbard's WIL to program an oldies HD-3 feeding an Alton, IL translator on 94.3 MHz.
Our analog dial is heavily packed, several with duplicate programming from Covenant Radio on multiple frequencies (90.3, 92.7, 95.1, 96.7, 102.9).