All Access reports that GHB is selling off WSVM (AM 1490, Valdese) to Radio Emmanuel, Inc, headed by Pastor Elliot Ramos. Price tag is $250k.
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WSVM (Valdese) Has Been Sold
- Thread starter eacalhoun1
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It's likely "adios" to another English-speaking station.
What's the Spanish translation for "Trading Post"?
What's the Spanish translation for "Trading Post"?
We havefour of them here in Columbia and the only one that even does anything right is 95.3/98.3 out of Sumter. I get really irritated at BBN and WMHK because I feel like I am being preached to and always seems like they are begging for money, especially WMHK. They run behind and they cannot seem to figure out that pepole are tired of the same old boring crap.
w00t said:
I would think from the original post that it is going to be Spanish Religious station, mostly with the pwner being Pastor and the name of the company Radio Emmanuel.
Either way this is not anything needed in the area already covered with religious stations, and without getting into political discussions, we also don't need stations with a mission that is at least partly intended to keep their listeners from learning the english language.
Again, just my $.02 worth adjusted for inflation (which pretty much makes it worthless) YMMV.
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gymbeaux120
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Just curious, what could you put on a small AM like WSVM that would work? Like the rest, I hate to see these AM's shrivel up and die.
Young, hungry people looking for a start with solid guidance and LOTS of community involvement. Music could be oldies or country. Heavy on local news.
gymbeaux120 said:
I think what they've been doing (the ABC format "Stardust" turned oldies) sounds great...but GHB has spent no money on the place. I was told by a co-worker who lives in Valdese that for the past few years they won't broadcast the local high school football/basketball games -- after having done so for as long as I can remember. In this case, either GHB just WON'T do the games or there's not enough interest from Valdese and Eastern Burke County businesses to support the high school sports broadcasts. Being the voice of local high school sports--I thought--was the bread n' butter for such small town stations, so I don't undertand why've they've abandoned this.
Now, for my fantasy (if I had gazillions of dollars and just wanted a "hobby" because I could afford it)...I would be a group owner of stations including all of Burke County's stations. To help WSVM, I would move it closer to Morganton. To legally facilitate this, I would change the COL (city of license) of WMNC-FM from Morganton to Valdese; then I would move the WSVM tower to an area on Morganton's east side and change WSVM's COL to Drexel. If I understand how the FCC favors this sort of thing, I would be providing Drexel with its very first broadcast service but not taking away Valdese's and Morganton would still have two AMs licensed to it.
Eric
wncc said:
As much as I wish svm good luck, no, the production work that we need is much bigger.
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Our local newspaper, The News Herald, has yet to publish a story about this. The editor and I had a couple of phone call and email exchanges about this last Tuesday (May 20), but still no story.
Jtudor -- do you know anyone's ear that can be bent at the paper? I would think this is a legitimate (even significant) local story for a station that's been around since 1961.
Eric
Jtudor -- do you know anyone's ear that can be bent at the paper? I would think this is a legitimate (even significant) local story for a station that's been around since 1961.
Eric
eacalhoun1 said:
Eric,
If you have talked to the editor, there is not much else to do unless you want to write a letter to the editor and ask why they are ignoring such a story, maybe they will print it.
The paper is in transition again with the current publisher moving back to Hickory to take the reins as publisher at the Hickory Daily Record. I can give you contact information for him or the regional publisher offline if you want, I don't want to post it publicly. @hickoryrecord.com same user name.
Not necessarily standing up for the paper cause even though I work for the company that owns it, I am still critical when criticism is due.... It might be possible that they are still researching the story, they may be trying to get someone from either the current ownership group, or the proposed owners to comment on the pending sale, or they may be struggling with even getting someone to return a call.
eacalhoun1 said:
Many years ago when WMNC stopped broadcasting basketball games due to the expense, I came up with a plan to just buy the airtime from them and rent their equipment, pay all the expenses myself, and make some big money for myself and one or two others to broadcast the games. No effort at all required on the part of the station, except to flip a switch and put on a self contained broadcast and get paid the stations hourly rate for the time used. they would not go for it "it might confuse the advertisers" ????? Makes no sense to me, but I guess it is not supposed to.
I suspect that the situation is that a lot of owners these days seem to think they can just make money without spending any money. They have forgotten a long standing fact in business that "to make money, you must spend money!". Broadcasting high school ballgames costs money, but has the potential for making big bucks if done right.
I started to run into that sort of policy while I was still at WMNC. The owner there totally refused to spend any money unless he was backed into a corner and had to, just to keep operating. Several times I came up with plans in which the station could have made $5,000 in revenue by spending only $500, maybe less, but they were not interested because they would have had to spend the $500.
It always appeared to me that he number one item in the stations business plan was "Cut costs, Cut expenses, Spend no money for any reason." As opposed to "Serve the community with local programming it wants, sell advertising and make money hand over fist!"
Those two stations in Morganton are an untapped gold mine, almost a license to print money, but they are not interested. They just want to keep their head above water and keep the bills paid, that's all.
If I had the money or a financial backer, I know I could make major money in Morganton with those stations. Unfortunately I don't and unless I win the lottery I doubt that I ever will.
WMNC is a major $$$$$ property
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMNC_(AM) fm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMNC_(AM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMNC_(AM) fm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMNC_(AM)
jtudor said:
Thanks, John. Actually, I called someone else today that I know at the paper (I had forgotten you work for MG) and she said she would see what she could find out. She agreed that this would be a significant story. The issue may be with what you stated in your last paragraph that they may be struggling to get either side (buyer or seller) to comment. I called the Trading Post lady the other day and she said, "I don't know, I just work here." I think she really does know, but is not commenting. HOWEVER, even without securing "official" comments I think the News-Herald could still run a brief story containing the station's history (on the air since 1961); the name of the buyer and seller which is public record via the FCC website; terms of the sale (still from the FCC site); and this is all pending FCC approval. They could also report of the unsucessful attempts (if this is the case) to get comments.
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