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what's up with WEUS?

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austingrace

Hey guys. I heard something about the lma being over with the people that were leasing weus. what's on the signal now? anyone know what format they are goign to take? i'm here in brandon near tampa so i cant' get the signal. thanks for all the help.
 
vary interesting... we'll just have to see how this one goes.
 
810 is on-air....listening a short time today I heard instrumental music... then, a doom-&-gloom preacher.
 
From what Bob posted on his website originally (cflradio.net) the details are what they are, and nothing more is known yet. Stay tuned.
 
Recording them (WEUS) for the last two hours and find no legal IDs. No broadcast company mentioned...ie Communicom, Star Development Group, Salem etc. Who's putting the current product/programming on WEUS? Is the Communicom Gemeral Manager Doc Burkhart still part of WEUS? According to wikipedia Carl Como Tutera is running things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEUS
 
Sounds right. And even if Salem isn't buying, I'm sure a Spanish broadcaster will.
 
Was in Orlando yesterday and turned it on around 4-5 PM. VERY choppy - music for 90 seconds, station ID playing during music, then part of a satellite show, then more music,... A real mess. Somebody needs to learn to run the equipment soon before they run everyone off.
 
as of yesterday they were once again referring to themselves as "The Big 810" and playing oldies. They had a talk show from 3-4, brokered programming 5-5:30, and were playing religious music at night. It really sounds like a cluster f*** right now.. The legal id is hitting no where near the top of the hour, songs are repeating VERY frequently (I listened to the music collectively about 2 hours and heard "Mellow Yellow" three times), and satellite religious programming would randomly cut in for about 30 seconds... the station as it is now would be an embarrassment to Greenville Alabama :p

Hopefully they can get their act together.. I do enjoy the oldies
 
Oldies again? Are they rolling with Scott Shannon?
 
As of yesterday(Tuesday Feb 16): Bobby DePew is gone -- mostly oldies until 11am; The Guetzloe Report from 11am-noon (local political talk); Linda Durre from noon - 1pm (local "lifestyle talk"); some gibberish called "For the People" I believe, from 1pm - 3pm (syndicated); the People Power Hour from 3pm - 4pm (local political talk); some combination of oldies music and leftover religious programming from Communicomm days until 6pm; a repeat of the People Power Hour at 6pm; Haitian brokered programming from 7pm until 3am; I dunno after that.

Supposedly Star is going to program the station as a talker; rumors also that it will be mostly brokered programming. Still others are saying the station may go dark for awhile until all the bugs from Communicomm's disasterous running of the station can be fixed. Anybody's guess so far, I suppose.
 
Here's my take on the WEUS situation. Apparently the move was swift. Carl Como Tutera gave Communicom a 3 day notice to vacate. For the last year or so they have been offering 30 minute brokered slots as low as $50. My guess is Commnicom thought they could just open their doors and advertising would come flooding in. They monitored other Christian stations and began calling on their clients offering them outrageously low rates on brokered time out of desperation.

Star has taken over and told most if not all their clients that the rate they currently have for brokered programming will be raised at least $160.00 per 30 minutes, double and triple what many of them are currently paying, which is less then what many low wattage stations charge for comparable time.

Tutera got scared of WOCL and made a bad move. WOCL is nothing like what WEUS had on the air. Now the little amount of listeners they had are running away from the station because it has absolutely no identity. When they had it in Oldies it was begining to make a little traction in the market and had presence. Now it is basically another WOKB, masking themselves as a certain format for ratings and agency purposes (If they ever get enough numbers again to get that kind of business), but selling to anyone and everyone under the sun.

Best Of Luck to Tutera and his son, because they are going to need to do a lot of shovelling to get out of the crap they are in...
 
It appears WEUS is operating at reduced power during the day. Signal is extremely weak in Sanford during the day when it was not before (compared to sampling them 6 months ago). Is Star still operating out of the studios Communicom had in Altamonte Springs?
 
Don't know about reduced power; about a week ago I could pick them up damn near to I-4/Hiway 27 in my car before noise made it too unbearable to listen. Not sure about the other direction.
 
This station will NEVER be a ratings getter so whoever owns it should put on what brings in the most revenue.
 
If that's the case, it might as well flip to a spanish format.
 
Yesterday I was traveling from Clermont towards downtown Orlando and their signal was terrible as close as 2 miles from the transmitter. Why even waste the money for the electric bill when it is not audible over half the area is is supposed to serve
 
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