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ACK! From this week's NERW (http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html)
*We'll start the rest of the week's news in MASSACHUSETTS, where EMF Broadcasting, the California-based religious broadcaster that's also one of the fastest-growing groups in the industry, is poised to buy WSMU (91.1 North Dartmouth) from UMass Dartmouth.
The $700,000 deal won't mean the end of WSMU, though. The university's been sitting on a construction permit for a more powerful signal on 89.3 from the same location. That signal (which now has the calls WUMD) will sign on with the WSMU calls when EMF takes over 91.1 for its satellite-delivered "K-Love" contemporary Christian format, already heard in the region on WKMY (91.1 Winchendon) and WKIV (88.1 Westerly RI).
(And we hope that whoever it was at UMass Dartmouth who came up with the idea to "recharacterize" WSMU's application to simply move from 91.1 to 89.3 as an application for a new station on 89.3, thus making 91.1 available for sale, gets a big bonus from this...)
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I always figured that 91.1 would be sold off and the existing crew migrate to 89.3...but I'd rather see even WBUR or WUMB simulcast on 91.1 than it go K-Love. At least with WBUR or WUMB there's some semblance of local programming on there.
I wonder if 91.1 could be physically moved west to cover more of Rhode Island...?
*We'll start the rest of the week's news in MASSACHUSETTS, where EMF Broadcasting, the California-based religious broadcaster that's also one of the fastest-growing groups in the industry, is poised to buy WSMU (91.1 North Dartmouth) from UMass Dartmouth.
The $700,000 deal won't mean the end of WSMU, though. The university's been sitting on a construction permit for a more powerful signal on 89.3 from the same location. That signal (which now has the calls WUMD) will sign on with the WSMU calls when EMF takes over 91.1 for its satellite-delivered "K-Love" contemporary Christian format, already heard in the region on WKMY (91.1 Winchendon) and WKIV (88.1 Westerly RI).
(And we hope that whoever it was at UMass Dartmouth who came up with the idea to "recharacterize" WSMU's application to simply move from 91.1 to 89.3 as an application for a new station on 89.3, thus making 91.1 available for sale, gets a big bonus from this...)
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I always figured that 91.1 would be sold off and the existing crew migrate to 89.3...but I'd rather see even WBUR or WUMB simulcast on 91.1 than it go K-Love. At least with WBUR or WUMB there's some semblance of local programming on there.
I wonder if 91.1 could be physically moved west to cover more of Rhode Island...?