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WIBA downgrade

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From Northpine.com
iHeartMedia applied to co-locate WIBA/1310 (Madison) with WTSO/1070 (Madison). WIBA currently uses 5kW non-directional day and directional night, and would use 4.8kW non-directional day and 1.4kW directional at night from the WTSO site. WTSO’s facilities would remain unchanged at 10kW day and 5kW night with different day and night directional patterns. WTSO uses six towers at night, and WIBA’s nighttime pattern would use four of the towers.
 
I think the fact that there's a lot of housing developments on practically every side of the tower site has a lot to do with this.

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Is iHeart's Madison cluster moving as well? Their studios are at the WIBA site from what I can tell.
 
Nathan Obral said:
I think the fact that there's a lot of housing developments on practically every side of the tower site has a lot to do with this.

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Is iHeart's Madison cluster moving as well? Their studios are at the WIBA site from what I can tell.
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I haven't seen any announced development there yet, but seems likely if they're moving WIBA to WTSO's site that they're clearing the land for some sort of redevelopment and the other shoe will drop once they know they can move the station.

It got me thinking about WHIT's transmitter site near US-14 and Lacy Rd -- I wonder how much longer until we see a similar development there. That land has to be worth more than an AM daytimer now, and maybe MidWest could triplex it with WLMV and WOZN.

Back to WIBA, though ... iHeart's engineering packet (https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101826854&qnum=5120&copynum=1&exhcnum=1) shows the change in nighttime coverage:


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and daytime coverage:

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