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Who Deserves 94.1 MHz? Bloomington Market or Greene County?

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Flying-Dutchman

94.1 is the last new commercial channel that can serve the Bloomington area. The
licensee of the Bedford stations has now requested it's allotment to Worthington in
Greene County which would take it out of the Bloomington Market.
2 frequencies are already vacant in Greene County and not even I could keep another
station afloat there.

And, I know how to run stations dirt cheap. Don't you know?
 
Bloomington desperately needs an Adult Contemporary station or Rock station. As long as its done right!
 
Debating whether to put a class A in Oolitic or Worthington is a really null debate...Bloomington wouldn't get much out of it either way.
 
The 94.1 frequency licensed to Oolitic would have a good signal in Bloomington. I'd say
about like 95.1 the frequency I allotted to Nashville or 105.1 the channel I put in Ellettsville.

Many in Bloomington listen to 105.1 and 95.1.
 
I made the assumption the tower would actually go in the "city" of Oolitic. Looking at map data, the nearest you could probably get the tower to Bloomington proper would be near the south end of Lake Monroe, at about 10 miles. Class A at 10 miles would be much more listenable in BTown than the 20 miles I had in mind.

This is one time I should have to taken Bruce Quinn's word for things :p
 
Oolitic is very close to WQRK Bedford's tower. I suspect Dean Spencer the station owner
doesn't want Quinn putting a station in his back yard. I doubt he really wants a Worthington
station. Maybe, he just wants the Flying Dutchman to fly away. What happens next?
 
I too studied Worthhington as a place where 94.1 fit. I chose Oolitic because I like to
build stations that will be able to support themselves and stay on the air.
 
Ur-A-Dawg said:
Oolitic is very close to WQRK Bedford's tower. I suspect Dean Spencer the station owner
doesn't want Quinn putting a station in his back yard. I doubt he really wants a Worthington
station. Maybe, he just wants the Flying Dutchman to fly away. What happens next?
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Dean Spencer is counting the days until he loses a major competitor in WQKC. The QKC sales staff spends about as much time in Bedford as in Seymour. With that big 50KW signal almost halfway between Beford & Seymour, WQKC gives Bedford advertisers as shot at regional coverage rather than deciding which Class A to buy. IMHO, Dean would trade Bruce on 94.1 for Blair on 93.7 any day of the week.
 
This should be an easy open and shut case. In chess it's checkmate. Dean
Spencer and Worthington win. The Bloomington market should not get a new station.
Why?

1. Worthington has more population than Oolitic. The FCC's policy for the last 25 years has
been to allot a frequency to the largest town. Worthington has 350 more persons.

2. Spirit Media from Martinsville has now established a non-commercial station licensed to
Oolitic. So, Bruce Quinn's proposal is no longer for a first service to the community. But,
Dean Spencer's is, for Worthington. http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=WMYJ&service=FM

But here's where it could get interesting-Lately the FCC seems to be siding with money.
If Oolitic and the Bloomington market win, millions go into the US treasury from the auction.
If worthington wins, the frequency will be lucky to bring $2,000. That will cost the FCC
millions of dollars.

So, do you think the FCC will change it's long standing policy and rule for Bruce Quinn,
the Bloomington market, and money? Or, is it Worthington, hands down?
 
I say Bruce Quinn wins a precedent case for Bloomington and Oolitic. Then he sells to AMP
or Oasis like he has done before. Bet, he's already counting the cash in the bank. What was
that he was saying about money lovers and radio anyway?
 
Dawg, that is just the kind of thing Dean Spencer is afraid of. For the Record, I owned WBQR
in Attica for many years before it became WSHP in Lafayette. And, WKLU in Indy for over a decade.
 
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