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Savannah/Brunswick what happened to 630 in Savannah?

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Wasn't there a station on 630 in Savannah, at one time?
I think it was WSAV, where did it go?
I thought there was a post here at one time about it shutting down, but I looked & did a search for it and found nothing.
 
secondchoice said:
Could someone buy these translators or do they go thru the next auction?
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The AMs did not have FM translators. The AM licenses have been cancelled for five years now and do not go through the auction process. The FCC would have to open a new filing window for AMs and there is a 0 to 5 percent chance at best of that happening.
 
lanceventa said:
The AMs did not have FM translators. The AM licenses have been cancelled for five years now and do not go through the auction process. The FCC would have to open a new filing window for AMs and there is a 0 to 5 percent chance at best of that happening.
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Would those chances improve with a regime change in January 2029, or is the negative attitude toward throwing another lifeline to AM owners that misread their tea leaves and passed up the chance to get an FM signal the last time prevalent in both political parties?
 
I doubt there will be an AM translator window anytime in the future. Generally speaking, anybody that could get a translator did. Those that didn't mostly learned there was nothing available on their locally crowded FM dial. One can always buy an existing translator.
 
lanceventa said:
The AMs did not have FM translators. The AM licenses have been cancelled for five years now and do not go through the auction process. The FCC would have to open a new filing window for AMs and there is a 0 to 5 percent chance at best of that happening.
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I was asking about the translators that was mentioned in the article. According to FCCdata both are listed with a D before the call letters, which I thought meant deleted. Did Cumulus let these translators "die"? If so will they ever auctioned off. One would the cloud company would put them on a HD 2 or 3 off of one of their existing FMs.
 
secondchoice said:
I was asking about the translators that was mentioned in the article. According to FCCdata both are listed with a D before the call letters, which I thought meant deleted. Did Cumulus let these translators "die"? If so will they ever auctioned off. One would the cloud company would put them on a HD 2 or 3 off of one of their existing FMs.
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The translators were never licensed. They had CPs that went unbuilt. As they were received during the "AM Revitalization" proceedings, they were to be permanently married to the AM license so when the AMs were surrendered they would have been as well.
 
Was Cumulus in Bankruptcy then? I forget the timeline?

One would think somewhere in the Cloud company empire they would have a spare transmitter or two. Even better they could have bought TIS (type) transmitters and filed an STA for the AMs at low power like several stations have. It's not a top 100 market, but a translator especially in a coastal "plain" with generally flat terrain could have some value.
 
secondchoice said:
Even better they could have bought TIS (type) transmitters
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The article Lance posted says in part:

"The company at the time told the FCC it was consulting with its engineers to determine if the transmitter can be repaired or if it needed to be replaced.

Rather than make the repairs the company has turned in the licenses for both stations back to the FCC."
 
secondchoice said:
Was Cumulus in Bankruptcy then? I forget the timeline?

One would think somewhere in the Cloud company empire they would have a spare transmitter or two. Even better they could have bought TIS (type) transmitters and filed an STA for the AMs at low power like several stations have. It's not a top 100 market, but a translator especially in a coastal "plain" with generally flat terrain could have some value.
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Right on the coast, those signals would've been hammered with tropospheric ducting most of the year. Particularly 96.9 with strong signals in both Charleston and Jacksonville. The 60dBu contour for the translators were barely going to cover downtown Savannah let alone the suburbs.

The costs of building them out to get around a 1 share at best isn't cost-effective. Cumulus as it is had too many full-power FMs in Savannah to fully monetize as they sold 102.1 WZAT to K-Love in 2019 as well.
 
lanceventa said:
Right on the coast, those signals would've been hammered with tropospheric ducting most of the year. Particularly 96.9 with strong signals in both Charleston and Jacksonville. The 60dBu contour for the translators were barely going to cover downtown Savannah let alone the suburbs.

The costs of building them out to get around a 1 share at best isn't cost-effective. Cumulus as it is had too many full-power FMs in Savannah to fully monetize as they sold 102.1 WZAT to K-Love in 2019 as well.
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Cumulus got rid of their Albany GA cluster and gave to First Media Services on December 15th 2020 for $450,000. It wouldn't surprise me if they were going broke back then.
 
Holly Dea said:
Cumulus got rid of their Albany GA cluster and gave to First Media Services on December 15th 2020 for $450,000. It wouldn't surprise me if they were going broke back then.
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Who is "going broke" First Media or Cumulus? I was under the impression that the Cloud Company had screwed their lenders enough thru the courts to operate several years. I know nothing about First Media, but IIRC the Albany cluster had an EBDITA of over $5,000 a month which would give a ROI north of 12%.
 
secondchoice said:
Who is "going broke" First Media or Cumulus? I was under the impression that the Cloud Company had screwed their lenders enough thru the courts to operate several years. I know nothing about First Media, but IIRC the Albany cluster had an EBDITA of over $5,000 a month which would give a ROI north of 12%.
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Cumulus is the one I said was going broke
 


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