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WROR: Monday morning at 7:20 am........

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WMC2006

"A major announcement concerning the Loren and Wally morning show".

Which will be what:

-A new contract? I'm guessing likely. Loren and Wally have been together for 30 years. Time for another 5 years? Or maybe just 2 or 3?

-Retirement for one or both of them? I doubt one would continue on without the other. If one goes, they both go and Tom Doyle too.

-Or....perhaps WROR is about to become the next "Mike" and they are all being pushed out.

Thoughts?
 
WMC2006 said:
"A major announcement concerning the Loren and Wally morning show".

Which will be what:

-A new contract? I'm guessing likely. Loren and Wally have been together for 30 years. Time for another 5 years? Or maybe just 2 or 3?

-Retirement for one or both of them? I doubt one would continue on without the other. If one goes, they both go and Tom Doyle too.

-Or....perhaps WROR is about to become the next "Mike" and they are all being pushed out.

Thoughts?
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Given that it is at "7:20", most likely some contest/event.
 
Wasn't there an attempt to build a radio station near Boston on 720, possibly licensed to Billerica? Just imagine if WCAP hadn't already built out its current array at 980 and moved to 720 instead. More people would "get it".
 
720 to Billerica was indeed a possibility at some point. Also there has been a CP for a station on
that freq. in Claremont NH area (Bob Vinikoor) but it fell to BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing
Anywhere Near Anything) as Bob Bittner has called it.
 
It's pretty interesting that AMs were proposed in New England for the non-directional lower-c clear channels out of Chicago: 720, 780, and 890. But aside from a station at 1000 kHz in Canada (apparently no longer on-the-air), no station on WMVP's frequency seems to have tried to go full-time because WMVP's array yields a much stronger signal to the ENE than the NDA's in Chitown.
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R: the last time I visited Chicago, I was able to pick up WBZ-AM late at night (month of November) on my Walkman-style radio.
 
..................They`re going to start playing more varied music than the same 420 songs.


one can only hope.
 
Laurence Glavin said:
It's pretty interesting that AMs were proposed in New England for the non-directional lower-c clear channels out of Chicago: 720, 780, and 890.
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According to the FCC's AM Query facility, there are two AMs on 780 in New England. Both are listed as licensed but I don't know whether either is on the air. Both are nondirectional Class Ds with low-power night service and both are in northern (some might say central) Maine. One is in Rumford, not far from the New Hampshire border. The other is in Monticello, almost right on the New Brunswick border. One station runs 10 kW-D from an antenna nearly 1/4 wavelength high; the other runs 5 kW-D from an antenna well over 1/4 wavelength high. The two stations are 182 miles apart.

The most interesting difference between the Monticello and Rumford facilities is the night power. Monticello 60W; Rumford 18W. That difference must be almost entirely attributable to Monticello's greater distance from WBBM. Were it not for the relatively short spacing to now-dark CKXX (in Dartmouth NS--near Halifax; dark or not, CKXX requires protection), the Monticello station could be a Class B with a pretty simple (two tower) DA and 1 kW-N. The night signal would be almost entirely in Canada in a rather sparsely populated part of New Brunswick, making the expense of building a DA pretty much of a waste.
 
Rumford is definitely on the air at 780; Monticello has operated on 780 but I'm not sure it's doing so at the moment. Both have been frequently reported by DXers at sunrise/sunset.
 
Jimmy128 said:
The announcement was the release of a CD of "Townie" songs by Tom Doyle.
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I figured it was going to be something like that. ::)
 
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