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WNBP sold, changing?

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Looks like changes coming to WNBP 1450 (and // 106.1) Newburyport according to this post on facebook by their oldies DJ Dave Macaulay (was "Dave Mack" years ago on WNSH):

"Todays ROCK AND ROLL OLDIES PARTY is bittersweet. Radio station WNBP has been sold. As of Monday Night/Tuesday Morning at midnight all programming changes. My show and all others are GONE! But here's the good news...I have found a new home for the show. After I take a few weeks of vacation from the show it will resume Labor Day Weekend on WHAV-LP in Haverhill, Ma on 97.9 and the station streams at WHAV.NET. A few details still need to be worked out but it looks like the time will be 3-6 as opposed to the current 4-7."
 
What happens to their Sister radio station in Sanford, Maine? 1220AM & 102.3FM "THE LEGENDS!"

Is that station also being sold?
 
Supposedly local company named Joppa bought WNBP..I know there's an LPFM in the town nicknamed Joppa Flats radio, maybe them?
Other stations, not sure of fate.Deal in January w WNBP and the Sanford and Exeter* stations had some kind of involvement with "Aruba Capital Partners'

*--WXEX 1540 and 92.1. i think
 
raccoonradio said:
Supposedly local company named Joppa bought WNBP..I know there's an LPFM in the town nicknamed Joppa Flats radio, maybe them?
Other stations, not sure of fate.Deal in January w WNBP and the Sanford and Exeter* stations had some kind of involvement with "Aruba Capital Partners'

*--WXEX 1540 and 92.1. i think
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Port & Aruba merged. Aruba has some sort of ownership share in Port Broadcasting now.
 
raccoonradio said:
http://www.newburyportnews.com/news...cle_917fc46a-c453-5100-9166-86f19e1817fc.html

>>last week, Damon was told that Port Broadcasting, the current owner, had sold the station, and that he would no longer have a job. The Daily News could not get confirmation on who was buying the station but was told an announcement might be made Tuesday.
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Tellingly, perhaps, there are no comments on the article yet. You'd think that if WNBP is the beloved local institution we're supposed to believe it is, there'd be SOME reaction to the story -- especially since it's on a newspaper's website, which should attract readers that fit WNBP's demographic profile.
 
ctlistener said:
tellingly, perhaps, there are no comments on the article yet. You'd think that if wnbp is the beloved local institution we're supposed to believe it is, there'd be some reaction to the story -- especially since it's on a newspaper's website, which should attract readers that fit wnbp's demographic profile.
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wow! Bloomberg!
 
http://raccoonradio.freehostia.com/Air/WNBPend.mp3 The end of WNBP's music format and the very start of a simulcast of Bloomberg Business Radio. New owners. Unstable stream, so some dropouts.

The article may have just been posted an hour or so ago so who knows.

Falconi said some of the station personnel will turn up on the LPFM at 96.3 (Joppa Flats radio).
Not the best signal
 
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raccoonradio said:
Falconi said some of the station personnel will turn up on the LPFM at 96.3 (Joppa Flats radio).
Not the best signal
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Well that is what LPFM is all about, limited signal, less than 5 mile radius IIRC

Ask Tim Coco at WHAV LP, a great sounding and well run station, but there is only so much you can do with the limitations of the LP license.

Well now we know how the battle of the translators ended, Bloomberg wrote a check for a cool million, getting Beasley off the hook for a potential decrease in power or at least the expense of fighting the Port Broadcasting claims that they are being interfered with.

For the moment, the FCC still has a main station rule, and a warm body or two has to be there, I wonder if that is going to be done?

I'm not mad about this, but I am p*ssed off that what had been a hard working community station ( and one I listened to) became another useless station.

I know... I know.... radio is a business, Oldies is a dying demographic, etc etc etc.,

104.9 WBOQ must be thrilled.

I'm not.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Well now we know how the battle of the translators ended, Bloomberg wrote a check for a cool million, getting Beasley off the hook for a potential decrease in power or at least the expense of fighting the Port Broadcasting claims that they are being interfered with.
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I don't think Beasley was ever in jeopardy of having to decrease power or fight a lawsuit. Port wouldn't/didn't have the pockets for a lawsuit. And I'm sure the engineering folks at Beasely made sure that they are operating within parameters.

The specs on the WRCA Translator have been filed for a long time for public comment....and the station is operating according to the specs.

If translators are allowed any sort of protection (and I don't know that they are), it's withing the "red zone".

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W291CC-FX

Again, so many stations would love to have a frequency all to itself.....and WNBP enjoyed it for a period.

But they are not entitled to "clear channel" status.

But, what do I know...I never in a million years thought that Bloomberg would but WNBP....LMA, yes....purchase, no!
 
The North Shore used to be where the "old money" was in the Boston area (people who made their fortunes in the 17-1800's and held onto it). So a financially-oriented radio station serving that area may not be a bad idea. It's too bad to lose a local station, but money is where the money may be for the station.
 
inorm99 said:
No, I heard from someone who heard from people that Beasley is perfectly happy with what they got.
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I'm sure they are.

As for the person that wants them to "upgrade", if there was any way to "upgrade" there would be a class rated station on that frequency, not a 99 watt translator.

1) WCOD has to be protected. They are on 106.1 Their fringe pattern is everything to the east of 95 from RI up into Quincy.

2) first adjacent WFNQ has to be protected. They are on 106.3 and the translator is making it to within 5 miles of their Hudson NH transmitter site. I can show you pictures where I can see the Hancock/Pru and the WNDS/WFNQ towers from my house. Bill Binney is not going to sit idle while some translator interferes with his station, and with the 75 million he got for taking WNDS dark, in addition to his own cash, he has the money to make an issue out of it.

3) They can't blow the soon to be Bloomberg owned translator co-channeled on 106.1 off the air, and they are doing a pretty good job of making it up into the North Shore. WCOD comes across the water and into Cape Ann, I don't think they have an argument that that is in their protected contour, but you never know.

4) the Amesbury towered translator has to protect a station in Maine, and since it is a straight shot over water to get to that station, that is covering as much real estate as it is ever going to IMHO.

So much for the concept of translators revitalizing the AM band by helping small AM's become more viable with an FM allocation.

So far the only example of that being what intended to be done are Bob Bittner's stations and soon to be ( I hope) WJIB's translator, assuming the pirate can be evicted.
 
MRBIboredop said:
I'm sure they are.

As for the person that wants them to "upgrade", if there was any way to "upgrade" there would be a class rated station on that frequency, not a 99 watt translator.

1) WCOD has to be protected. They are on 106.1 Their fringe pattern is everything to the east of 95 from RI up into Quincy.

2) first adjacent WFNQ has to be protected. They are on 106.3 and the translator is making it to within 5 miles of their Hudson NH transmitter site. I can show you pictures where I can see the Hancock/Pru and the WNDS/WFNQ towers from my house. Bill Binney is not going to sit idle while some translator interferes with his station, and with the 75 million he got for taking WNDS dark, in addition to his own cash, he has the money to make an issue out of it.

3) They can't blow the soon to be Bloomberg owned translator co-channeled on 106.1 off the air, and they are doing a pretty good job of making it up into the North Shore. WCOD comes across the water and into Cape Ann, I don't think they have an argument that that is in their protected contour, but you never know.

4) the Amesbury towered translator has to protect a station in Maine, and since it is a straight shot over water to get to that station, that is covering as much real estate as it is ever going to IMHO.

So much for the concept of translators revitalizing the AM band by helping small AM's become more viable with an FM allocation.

So far the only example of that being what intended to be done are Bob Bittner's stations and soon to be ( I hope) WJIB's translator, assuming the pirate can be evicted.
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Maybe Bloomberg can purchase WFGL and its CP for a "monster" translator out of Fitchburg at 250 watts
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W258BH-FX&s=C
 
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