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WGLD

spoke with an engineering person at WSBA, and right now the target date to get WGLD on the air using it's new tower is aroung March 15. still hearing from the powers that be that no definite format has been selected yet.
 
They have signed up for Dan Patrick and I hear they tried very hard to pry ESPN away from WOYK. ESPN told them to get lost, knowing full well that they're safe on 1350 and could be gone in a year (or less) on 1440. So 1440 will try Fox or Sporting News and will have a 0.1 share and no money. Smart. Very smart.
 
maybe not Sutton---but what's Curt Hart doing these days...?
 
Wouldn't surprise me if the independent baseball team ended up on 1440 eventually.
Also, look for the WGLD calls to be redeployed to FM somewhere in the Cumulus world.
(Indianapolis has a "WARM 93.9" that could use WARM; WGLD came from their cluster there)
 
WARM for AM is still in use in Scranton at the old station Susquehanna owned, now a Citadel owned station. WARM-FM is obviously 103.3 in York. Whatever is in Indy has different call lettters, not WARM though it may be called that.
 
vetguy said:
WARM for AM is still in use in Scranton at the old station Susquehanna owned, now a Citadel owned station. WARM-FM is obviously 103.3 in York. Whatever is in Indy has different call lettters, not WARM though it may be called that.

Warm in Indy hasn't changed calls from the ones it had during the talk format yet. While I wouldn't expect Cumulus to move the WARM-FM calls off of 103.3, remember that Susquehanna put them on WSBA-FM after WARM-FM 99.7 in Atlanta became WAPW. I'm not sure about the WARM calls in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre; 590 may have been WARM before Atlanta had the calls on FM. I'm thinking 99.7 was WARM-FM instead of just WARM, but I wouldn't put any money on it.
 
WARM in Scranton has always been WARM, even before Susquehanna's ownership. They bought it from the Scranton family, among whom was William Scranton, one-time Governor of Pennsylvania. There even was a short-lived WARM-TV in the 1950s. There was never a WARM-FM in Scraton, however. While the same call letters, with -FM or -TV attached, could be used by co-owned stations in the same market, this was not allowed for co-owned stations in separate markets until the 1980s. Now, of course, stations owned by completely different companies can use the same calls by agreement, but there can still be only one station of each type, AM, FM or TV, using the calls.

As I recall, the FM in Atlanta was WLTA, and renamed WARM-FM when it flipped to soft AC. Although 103.3 in York called itself "WARM," it was still WSBA-FM until the Atlanta station changed format and calls to WAPW. Several of Susquehanna's easy listening FMs flipped to soft AC in the 1980s and adopted the "WARM" name, although their calls were often variations like WRRM or WWRM. The exception was WMGS in Scranton, which they called "Magic" so as to differentiate it from the AM.
 
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