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WILD SOLD?...ACCORDING TO LOCAL SUNDAY TALK SHOW HOST, YES!

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Early Byrd

Have I missed something, or has no one yet reported on the sale of WILD?

Yesterday (Sunday), I happened to listen to WILD's long time Sunday afternoon local talk show, "Families Do Matter", and the host, Larry Higginbottom, said that yesterday's show would be his last, as WILD had been sold as of June 1st.

Anybody have more info?
 
Can't find anything yet on various sites incl. WILD's own Twitter & Facebook, FCC page,
etc but interesting if so (Mentioned this to Mark S of bostonradio watch, maybe he has heard
something about it)
 
Early Byrd said:
Have I missed something, or has no one yet reported on the sale of WILD?

Yesterday (Sunday), I happened to listen to WILD's long time Sunday afternoon local talk show, "Families Do Matter", and the host, Larry Higginbottom, said that yesterday's show would be his last, as WILD had been sold as of June 1st.
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I think what he meant to say is "..sold——pending FCC approval——..."! ;D

Perhaps an LMA beginning June 1st?
 
Radio-One Boston
Effective Wednesday, June 1st 2011, Syndication One will no longer carry 'The Warren Ballentine Show and Keepin' It Real with Reverend Al Sharpton.' Thank you for listening to News Talk 1090 WILD-AM for the last 5 1/2 years. Find out tomorrow when the New 1090 WILD-AM debuts.
 
CTListener said:
Or a legit home for the overmodulated Haitian preaching now featured on the pirate frequencies?
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actually there are legit haitian programs on 1510,1550 and 1600

and illegit ones on 1620, 1640, 1680, 1710 (who claims to have been operating continuously since 1989 - Radio Soleil)
 
Of course post-sunset, people will continue to hear programming from the city that gave us film directors Barry Levinson and John Waters... what with Orioles baseball and such,
WBAL 1090! "Funny, WILD seems different after dark" :)
 
Music Safari? Playing the Cure? The announcer, Neil Jones, didn't say the call letters, he just said "Music Safari is being played on a great list of stations." I would think that if they turned off the transmitter that I would be hearing WBAL in Baltimore, but since it is coming in loud and clear I guess this is the new format… which is "music from around the world." Don't know if this is the format for all day or if it is just a brokered show.

The official end of an era… RIP WILD 1090 AM
 
:'( Entercom should buy them. Make them into Urban AC and broadcast "The Touch" Citadel Media Networks
or change 93.7 to "Funkytown 93.7"
W I L D 1090 was one of the stations I grew up listenning to
sad :-\
 
As of 9:29 AM here in Beverly a dead air signal
Storm-related?

WILD is a daytimer only--if Entercom bought them they could poss. do the Touch, yes--
as for 93.7--here's the deal: they are a success with what they're doing and you don't
fix what ain't broke. Not unless you want to lose money. Broadcast licenses are worth
millions of dollars, potentially, and you don't intentionally change something which could
bring about LESS money. If Mike's ratings plummeted, their most likely option would be a
WEEI simulcast. Funkytown 93.7 is not likely, though you certainly can get it if you
plunk down about $40 and get one of those Ibiquity HD portables. Funkytown IS on 93.7.
On HD.

http://www.star937fm.com/

Mike does well for them sales-wise and ratings-wise. People want to listen. People want to advertise. And if Entercom changed it, there would be a lot more people demanding
"Bring Mike Back" than there are saying "Bring Back Star". Again, look at the ratings.
(And if you could see the 25-54s they're probably even better.)
 
N1WVQ said:
China Radio International. At least, that's who has Music Safari.
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My guess is that the government of mainland China is leasing the time from the outfit that will buy WILD from Radio One, once the FCC approves the purchase. Until the sale goes through, that means that the Chinese are sub-leasing the signal from the primary lessee. The Chinese government is very well off financially. Sounds as if Radio One finally landed someone who was willing to pay the outrageous price R1 demanded for WILD.
 
Regarding the shows mentioned above (Ballantine and Sharpton), the Radio-One Boston
Facebook page says the following:
>>If you want Warren and Sharpton to remain in Boston, help Warren and Sharpton keep their important shows in the City of Boston concerning African-Americans. Call tomorrow
(gives number, website address)

http://www.facebook.com/1090WILDAM?sk=wall

A post below it says that an Atlanta station had taken those 2 shows off the air a couple yrs back and it took efforts by listeners to restore them. Then there's the post quoted above saying the 2 shows would no longer be on, and "tune in tomorrow" for the "all new 1090 WILD". Which, again as of 10:53 AM, is a dead air signal with occasional
noise from T-storms. (This was also occurring before 10 am, when Tom Joyner was supposed to be on...Joyner's name hadn't been mentioned in the message about the other 2 shows going off in Bos.)

--The Facebook page gives a link to a Cleveland station (WERE 1490) which is currently running Ballantine. (I took a tour of a radio station group in Cleveland some yrs ago and WERE was one of the stations. I don't know if it was Radio One at that time or a diff company. WERE was at 1300 at the time; moved in '07 to 1490)
 
raccoonradio said:
... the "all new 1090 WILD". Which, again as of 10:53 AM, is a dead air signal with occasional
noise from T-storms.
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I just tuned in at 10:58 AM, which is now twenty minutes ago. It sounds like WILD is broadcasting at very low power, perhaps their usual post-sunset half-hour power that they normally use between sunset and when they completely leave the air a half-hour past sunset. It's a low-power "post-sunset authority". Those are not listed in the FCC database, so I don't know the wattage, but I believe it's well under 100 watts and would probably not reach the upper North Shore, but I'm in Somerville just a couple of miles from the transmitter so I can hear it.

I heard an ILLEGAL ID at the TOH. "WILD 1090 AM Boston". As far as I know, it's still not legal to say the frequency between the call letters and city. Then, I heard an English-language but Chinese produced newscast, and there seems to be a English-language but Chinese produced talk show on now.
 
Ouch, I turned my AM loop antenna and now it comes in just fine here in Beverly

Talk show: "like, none of them have money to spend..."... "IMF"... "the question about how much that aid package is going to be..."
etc
 
http://www.bostonradiowatch.com

They are running China Radio International--leasing

>>Starting today, WILD 1090 is taking world news from a Chinese perspective, more specifically China Radio International (CRI), featuring news, music, language lessons and human interest stories from China live from Beijing. CRI which is leasing airtime on WILD's daytime only-signal will be heard every day from sunup to sunset.
WILD is owned by Maryland-based Radio One and has been featuring syndicated news/talk programing geared toward African-American audience since January 2006.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
I just tuned in at 10:58 AM, which is now twenty minutes ago. It sounds like WILD is broadcasting at very low power, perhaps their usual post-sunset half-hour power that they normally use between sunset and when they completely leave the air a half-hour past sunset. It's a low-power "post-sunset authority". Those are not listed in the FCC database, so I don't know the wattage, but I believe it's well under 100 watts and would probably not reach the upper North Shore, but I'm in Somerville just a couple of miles from the transmitter so I can hear it.
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I don't know about the wattage/power being low, but the programming modulation is extremely weak/poor (and has been since before at least 6:30am).
Also, as we are in that area of the dial, 1.030-WBZ has been IBOC-free since before 4:10am....using their alt. xmtr? Heh, time for the towers to be repainted? ::)
 
If anyone is wondering, the last song that WILD played before it's demise as we knew it yesterday evening was "Is It Really Love" by the New Edition. Just as it has been doing, the station abruptly went of the air in the middle of the song without any station identification.
 
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