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WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY WRMO (FM)?

J

JIBGUY

Commercially-licnsed. It's only 130 watts, but it has an engineering study saying it could upgrade to 6,000 watts, and perhaps 25,000 watts; the latter two which would cover Ellsworth & Bar Harbor/Acadia Park, Maine to different degrees. A chance to do your own thing on the coast of Maine. If interested, please contact Mike - [email protected]
Disclaimer: I'm just a messenger, without any financial interest, nor acting as a broker.
 
JIBGUY said:
Commercially-licnsed. It's only 130 watts, but it has an engineering study saying it could upgrade to 6,000 watts, and perhaps 25,000 watts; the latter two which would cover Ellsworth & Bar Harbor/Acadia Park, Maine to different degrees. A chance to do your own thing on the coast of Maine. If interested, please contact Mike - [email protected]
Disclaimer: I'm just a messenger, without any financial interest, nor acting as a broker.
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Hmmmm. How's about WJTO-FM! If I had the $$$$$$, I'd buy it myself. But........ :)
 
I know this is the Boston board and not the NNE but...

I'm surprised the station lasted as long as it did. 130 watts in rural downeast maine...how many people were within it's listenership OTA? a few thousand, maybe? It did stream, which helps a little. As long as things stay the same, it's not going to be a profitable stand alone FM, unless someone has deep pockets to change it engineering wise. It needs to be paired up with an owner that has a profitable group of stations, or income elsewhere.
 
Mainedude2007 said:
I know this is the Boston board and not the NNE but...

I'm surprised the station lasted as long as it did. 130 watts in rural downeast maine...how many people were within it's listenership OTA? a few thousand, maybe? It did stream, which helps a little. As long as things stay the same, it's not going to be a profitable stand alone FM, unless someone has deep pockets to change it engineering wise. It needs to be paired up with an owner that has a profitable group of stations, or income elsewhere.
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But doesn't shutting it down a station automatically make the station less valuable than if it was still in operation? I'm sure the electric bill was minimal. Shutting down should be the last resort. What kind of operation is WRMO? Was it live, live assist, satellite.....? I'm hoping someone from that local area will step up to the plate and do something with it. You can do a lot with very little, trust me... I know. I hope it comes back soon. The last thing they need up there is another K-Love robotic repeater or some clone of someone else. They'd be better off in the meantime (IMHO) to grab a PC, load in Zararadio (automation), put all of the music, PSA's and special programming on it and keep the station alive until they decide what they eventually do with it. The station would be more attractive to potential buyers alive than dead. Good luck, WRMO.
 
The electric bill on that wattage is minimal, but while you are on the FCC books as being operational you have all the added expenses such as the required phone line, required staffing levels, being open during " normal business hours" for that all important public inspection file access, etc etc etc.

If the station isn't pulling in enough revenue to cover it's fixed costs, it's time to file for a suspension and try to sell it for whatever you can get for it before the FCC pulls the plug on you.

I wonder if that station has an exemption for a main studio near the C.O.L.?
 
MRBIboredop said:
The electric bill on that wattage is minimal, but while you are on the FCC books as being operational you have all the added expenses such as the required phone line, required staffing levels, being open during " normal business hours" for that all important public inspection file access, etc etc etc.

If the station isn't pulling in enough revenue to cover it's fixed costs, it's time to file for a suspension and try to sell it for whatever you can get for it before the FCC pulls the plug on you.

I wonder if that station has an exemption for a main studio near the C.O.L.?
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The station is way, way up in Maine. What could it be worth? They are selling a 130 watt station not a 6 or 25KW station. It all sounds nice but you would be paying a higher electric bill with an increase in power on top of what it would cost to do it. I don't think the economy right now could support it.


The station already applied for an STA to remain silent and it is owned by a trust. Mike was operating it under an LMA and planned to purchase it but the economy probably killed the deal. He was pretty much rinning a commercial LPFM in sparsley populated area.
 
See if China Radio International (CRI) is interested in a brokerage. They are buying time, for their English-language broadcasts, all over. Probably looking for the business dollars and the tourist dollars.
What's the audience demographics around there?
 
More than just summer... in the Mid-Coast region, it's 6 months here and 6 months in Florida or Virginia, plus the summer-only crowd from NYC or Boston or Connecticut. At least one third of WJTO's (Bath) audience are all of the above folks.
 
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