About a year or so ago, there was talk of WQSV being sold to some Mexican interests and becoming an all-Spanish station. I have not heard anything about that lately, and at last listen, it does not appear to have happened (yet). Any word on if this is still about to happen?
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I suppose that's good news for a former co-worker of mine, who has gone back to work for him (again).
However, the station is such a joke that even my parents won't listen to it, and they live out here in Pegram, too, about a mile from me.
However, the station is such a joke that even my parents won't listen to it, and they live out here in Pegram, too, about a mile from me.
a few years ago, WQSV was running Paul Harvey via their TRN receiver...without permission.
To get their attention, I would change their receiver (remotely) to silence just as PH was about to speak:
Paul says "stand by for news"...and then SILENCE. WQSV would go to commercial...I'd return PH.
When WQSV rejoined the PH feed...SILENCE. I repeated the procedure until they went back to normal programming.
AFter that, Buddy called WQSV and explained how you had to be an ABC affiliate to run PH (I don't think this was a mystery,
but I'll give CA the benefit here). Amazingly, WQSV quickly had a deal with ABC, and now you know...nyahhh...too easy.
To get their attention, I would change their receiver (remotely) to silence just as PH was about to speak:
Paul says "stand by for news"...and then SILENCE. WQSV would go to commercial...I'd return PH.
When WQSV rejoined the PH feed...SILENCE. I repeated the procedure until they went back to normal programming.
AFter that, Buddy called WQSV and explained how you had to be an ABC affiliate to run PH (I don't think this was a mystery,
but I'll give CA the benefit here). Amazingly, WQSV quickly had a deal with ABC, and now you know...nyahhh...too easy.
reminds me years ago at whin..we would take the feed from wcor in lebanon for the tennessee football games. we had made up a cue sheet matching john wards..and take our breaks and pot down the feed from them to play our own spots..as well as our own station id..being careful not to have their ID slip over our frequency..that was early in my radio days..not sure if it was legal or not at the time (probabaly not lol) the next year we had a legitimate feed from UT..i remember being told..what ever you do..do not let their calls come over the air..what did i know..just glad to be off the sunday morning preacher feature.. :-*
Why does that part not surprise me?romer979fm said:
Did you work for TRN at the time? If so, how did you silence the feed to WQSV and not to anyone else?
firepoint525 said:
Still do (along with WSIX)...as for the silence, each receiver is addressable. Just enter the proper number and make changes.
Since I could hear WQSV off-air, the switching and timing was easy.
I worked at a small town station several years ago (about 25) and we had to get the UT sports feed from WIVK because the owner was too cheap to pay for TRN. Anyway WIVK new some stations were doing this and would drop in ID's at odd times during commercial breaks and it was hard to catch them all.
deltas69 said:reminds me years ago at whin..we would take the feed from wcor in lebanon for the tennessee football games. we had made up a cue sheet matching john wards..and take our breaks and pot down the feed from them to play our own spots..as well as our own station id..being careful not to have their ID slip over our frequency..that was early in my radio days..not sure if it was legal or not at the time (probabaly not lol) the next year we had a legitimate feed from UT..i remember being told..what ever you do..do not let their calls come over the air..what did i know..just glad to be off the sunday morning preacher feature.. :-*
When I was at WCOR (after working for the blue raider sports network at WMOTWCOR was an afilliate of the Blue Raider Sports Network. We tuned our radio to 89.5-FM and played the signal over the air. WCOR didn't sell any spots so we just left it on. We got all of WMOT's PSAs and Promos. I think there was even a station ID or 2 from WMOT.
I was there but wasn't running the board.
knoxbob said:
Sounds like someone I worked for, years ago...Chester Davis/WJKM in Hartsville.. The old fart was too cheap to pay for anything. He got ABC News(Information Net) on the hour from WSIX-FM and ABC News(Entertainment Net) on the half hour from WDKN-FM in Dickson. UT football came from WSIX-AM and late in the season there would be interference on WSIX which was re-broadcast over WJKM. Tennessee news came from WPTN-FM in Cookeville. WJKM carried an afternoon talk show from WLAC with the late Roland Wolfe. Chester had permission from all of these stations to re-broadcast their feeds.....for FREE!! :
When I was at WDXN in Clarksville, I once had to tape Paul Harvey's "Rest of the Story" directly off the air from what was then Kool 100 in Hopkinsville, because our program director had missed the feed(s) (which came during her shift) that day. She informed me that they taped it at 3:00 in the afternoon when she was in New York. I just told her that they were on eastern time there. Fortunately for me, Kool 100 aired Harvey about 15 minutes before we did, so I was able to tape their feed directly off the air on a boombox that we had at the station, and then play it back at the right time (it was sponsored that day, so fortunately I got a usable, airable feed). I was careful not to let Kool 100's spots air on our station!
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But would that stop C.A. from putting the station back up for sale again? Or does he plan to keep it this time?BoyScott said:
Also, the Mexican interests that were eyeing his station will almost certainly look at another station (or stations) in this market.bub said:
Kinda like the way the sports talkers started taking over the FM stations here in town when they weren't able to get WSM-AM.
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I should have mentioned it before on the previous post but when did this deal fall apart?firepoint525 said:
Also, the Mexican interests that were eyeing his station will almost certainly look at another station (or stations) in this market. ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA WHERE THESE MEXICANS ARE GETTING THE MONEY TO BUY THESE SMALL AM STATIONS ? SEEMS LIKE IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR SO..MANY SMALL AM DAYTIMERS HAVE BEEN BOUGHT BY THEM...
Not exctly. Both Ashland City and Ardmore were courted by Spanish buyers and put down 'hold money' but were unable to meet the due date. Don't know how many others there were like that. on the other hand, a FM in East Tennessee did so well changing to Spanish, he sold the AM off and kept the FM and was making money.
deltas69 said:
they may speak spanish...and may originally be from Mexico:
but to purchase a station, you've gotta be a US citizen.
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But if that deal fell through, is the info in the enclosed link a different deal and CA still wants out?
After you hit the link, cursor down to get particulars.
http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/NewsStoryPage.aspx?ContentID=SW5A27MSa4o=&
After you hit the link, cursor down to get particulars.
http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/NewsStoryPage.aspx?ContentID=SW5A27MSa4o=&
bub said:
The buyer got taken on that deal. :
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