WOSU-AM to leave Air Today

[xmusicmatt]

I wonder what prohibits them from using the night site as the day site too? Just use one tower @ 5kw instead of 6 @ 720 watts.

If anyone can pull it off -- they can .. They have one of the top notch engineers in my opinion as their contract engineer.

That explains why St Gaberal Radio was able to get on AM820 so quickly and without any technical problems and/or glitches.
That were using Greg Savoldi as their consulting engineer. He was a guest on their local show at 5:00PM for the sendoff of
WVKO-AM. Yes, he is certainly one of the best broadcast engineers in the country.

He sure is! (I met him once when I worked for CC Marion many years ago) Top notch and very professional. I think it's also the reason that when St Gabriel took over 1580 WVKO things audio wise improved.. He had a hand in that too. I am guessing he also had a part in their new studio when they moved from Bethel Rd to off Henderson.. They have a very nice (lower end but great professional audio console -- they had at Bethel been using a Mackie Mixer) and they also changed from Simian to I think Nexgen (or maybe player101 cant tell from the photos) .. so needless to say for a small radio operation St Gabriel takes things seriously!

 

[gabigley1]

Rick Dau has a good point below. So, how many University-owned/run stations are still left on on AM? Also, I wonder how many
University-owned/run stations own a combination of AM/FM/TV stations? Since tOSU sold 820AM, they don't fit in that category
anymore.

Subject: Re: [IRCA] Gabriel Annunciating on NPR

With the EWTN programming moving down to 820, that should make ID'ing WHLY in
South Bend a little easier, as I believe they are now the only station on 1580
running EWTN. I still need both WHLY and WVKO (which were easy back in Iowa
City!) here.

On the downside, however, I'm saddened to see WOSU shut down operations on
820. University-owned/run stations are getting fewer and fewer on AM, and
we've just lost another one (I don't count KUOM-770 or KVCU-1190, which are run
by the students and not by the university itself).

73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

There is, of course, the Rochester operation which occasionally features my good friend Scott Fybush - WXXI(AM) 1370 (NPR/etc. news/talk), WXXI-FM 91.5 (classical, with a simulcaster and quasi-sister second FM) and WXXI-TV 21.

 

[AlexBrowne]

Rick Dau has a good point below. So, how many University-owned/run stations are still left on on AM? Also, I wonder how many
University-owned/run stations own a combination of AM/FM/TV stations? Since tOSU sold 820AM, they don't fit in that category
anymore.


WILL-AM-FM-TV in Urbana, Illinois, licensed to the University of Illinois. WILL-AM is on 580.

 

[fybush]

There is, of course, the Rochester operation which occasionally features my good friend Scott Fybush - WXXI(AM) 1370 (NPR/etc. news/talk), WXXI-FM 91.5 (classical, with a simulcaster and quasi-sister second FM) and WXXI-TV 21.

We're not university-owned, however, and neither are our neighbors down the road in Buffalo, WNED-AM/FM/TV. But there's still Iowa, where two university-owned Iowa Public Radio signals (WOI 640 Ames and WSUI 910 Iowa City) are on AM. OMW should also vividly recall WBAA 920 at Purdue in Indiana (my right elbow still does!). The University of Florida has WRUF 850 in Gainesville, but it's a commercial sports outlet. And I think the Jefferson Public Radio group in southern Oregon/northern California is university-licensed - it has several AMs among its large batch of signals.

More recently, the University of Massachusetts at Boston has added two AMs to its WUMB network: it owns WFPB 1170 on Cape Cod and supplies programming to WPNI 1430 in Amherst.

I'm sure I'll think of several more the second I hit "post"...

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Ah, I totally missed his "University owned" comment, and was just concentrating on pubcasters that still have an AM side...

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

OMW should also vividly recall WBAA 920 at Purdue in Indiana (my right elbow still does!).

A graceful fall.

 

[almaniac27]

WHA 970 in Madison, Wisconsin is owned by the University.