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Why did I think it was Bath, OH for WWVA? That's just 10 miles away. Maybe the proposed tower location was Bath? Maybe because that's where Carl E. Smith was based?

I heard there was a big clamor from Wheeling area citizens and Country Music fans against relocating WWVA.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
I heard there was a big clamor from Wheeling area citizens and Country Music fans against relocating WWVA.
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For all the good that did -- WWVA ended up dropping the Wheeling Jamboree a few years later, anyway. It's now on a 6-watt LPFM (WWOV-LP). WWVA is now all syndicated right-wing talk and brokered religious programming.
 
Did the FCC have the Exhibits or was it before they started putting them on their website? I know some from 2003 never had the Exhibits. This was 2004. I don't remember seeing anything that addressed WCUE 1150. When WCXI 1160 Fenton, MI went to 15000 watts Day, they had measured conductivities in the WCUE 1150 major lobe, which pulled their contours way in from M-3 prediction.

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Schroedingers Cat said:
Wouldn't WCUE 1150 have been displaced if WWVA 1170 had moved?
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What little I remember about WCUE is that they had nighttime signal that looked like this: WCUE-AM Radio Station Coverage Map

Didn't help that they had to drop from 5,000 watts to 500 at night. I can remember that there was literally a 10 mile wide swath through south Akron where you could pick them up and that was it. They were a rumor either side of that. I believe their nighttime signal was to protect WWVA & WRVA. IF WWVA had moved to Stow, I think WCUE would have been doomed. Wouldn't be surprised if iheart bought them and turned in the license to eliminate any problems.

I do know that for the little amount of time that I was there that I was able to pick them up where I lived in Medina county at night so I knew there was a problem. I called and told the DJ on air that they were still broadcasting the daytime signal at night and his response was "Not my problem" [when it literally was since he had to take hourly readings of the transmitter]. Lasted about a week until I was told that one of the stations [either WRVA or WWVA] called and complained about it. Don't think they ever called the FCC about it, think they just called station management and bitched about it so it was fixed.
 
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boiseengineer said:
When the Major Modification first came out the engineering package included everything.
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Did you download it by any chance? I've started downloading some that I am afraid will disappear. The FCC website seems to be in permanent "transition". And the change is often not good. Moore's Law should apply. It's not like they have a bulging file cabinet anymore, and the FCC Engineers have to rescue some potentially useful old files from dumpsters.
 
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Wouldn't WCUE 1150 have been displaced if WWVA 1170 had moved?
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It's been a while, but yes, I believe part of the plan also involved buying out WCUE.

There was also some talk (but never an application) around moving 1170 into Pittsburgh instead, and also about moving 1200 from New Castle down into Pittsburgh.

Those moves barely made any economic sense in the early 2000s. They wouldn't make any sense now.
 
fybush said:
It's been a while, but yes, I believe part of the plan also involved buying out WCUE.

There was also some talk (but never an application) around moving 1170 into Pittsburgh instead, and also about moving 1200 from New Castle down into Pittsburgh.

Those moves barely made any economic sense in the early 2000s. They wouldn't make any sense now.
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Glen Clark also prepared an application to swap WIXZ, now WGBN, 1360 McKeesport and WAVL, now WXJX, 910 Apollo around.
 
FCC Action
"Conclusion/Actions. For the reasons set forth above, IT IS ORDERED that the informal objection filed by Albert Adam David on December 23, 2023 (Pleading File No. 227653) IS DENIED and the modification application for AM station WMVP, Chicago, Illinois (WMVP), filed by Good Karma Broadcasting, LLC on August 16, 2023 (Application File No. 219464), IS GRANTED."
 
boiseengineer said:
FCC Action
"Conclusion/Actions. For the reasons set forth above, IT IS ORDERED that the informal objection filed by Albert Adam David on December 23, 2023 (Pleading File No. 227653) IS DENIED and the modification application for AM station WMVP, Chicago, Illinois (WMVP), filed by Good Karma Broadcasting, LLC on August 16, 2023 (Application File No. 219464), IS GRANTED."
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So another of the once 57 Class I-As and Class I-Bs will be downgraded. What will Downers Grove get, another condo sub with huge stairways, 3 times as high as a New York brownstone, to get to the front door, or a high density high rise development?
 
fybush said:
It's been a while, but yes, I believe part of the plan also involved buying out WCUE.

There was also some talk (but never an application) around moving 1170 into Pittsburgh instead, and also about moving 1200 from New Castle down into Pittsburgh.

Those moves barely made any economic sense in the early 2000s. They wouldn't make any sense now.
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I remember the chatter about moving WWVA closer to Cleveland, but the talk of going to Pittsburgh might have pre-dated me joining this board around 2004. Glad it stayed right where it is.
 
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