Radio Insight reports WVCH 740/W277DL in Chester has been sold to Conservative talk show host John Fredericks for $500,000.
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WVCH (740-AM/103.3 FM) Chester sells for $500,000
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Watch out WFYL, might be coming for your bottom tier shows. And they have a real signal! 
Somebody needs to give Bongino a home in “Philly.” 🤣
That's a really good price for what is essentially a daytimer. Interesting that the 95.3 translator W237EH is not mentioned; that seems like it should be the most valuable of the bunch.
They dont own the translator
Good chuckles, DXingRadio and Abraham!
Back near JFK Airport in Queens, WVCH used to give semi-local WGSM 740 (on Long Island) fits. That was back in the feverish DXing days, when both stations were 1000-watt omnis. When WGSM raised to 5000 watts -- and later to 25,000 watts --
-- they had to pull it in toward Chester.
Here's venerable WVCH:
Courtesy of Radio-Locator. You'd have to scroll down to the 'View Daytime Coverage' to get the maps. I've had problems getting the actual maps to 'take' in some instances. Our bunch DXed from the top of the 'o' in 'New York'.
How long back did WVCH cease using their 'At this time, WVCH concludes its 8015th broadcast day;, by the way ?
Back near JFK Airport in Queens, WVCH used to give semi-local WGSM 740 (on Long Island) fits. That was back in the feverish DXing days, when both stations were 1000-watt omnis. When WGSM raised to 5000 watts -- and later to 25,000 watts --
Here's venerable WVCH:
Courtesy of Radio-Locator. You'd have to scroll down to the 'View Daytime Coverage' to get the maps. I've had problems getting the actual maps to 'take' in some instances. Our bunch DXed from the top of the 'o' in 'New York'.
How long back did WVCH cease using their 'At this time, WVCH concludes its 8015th broadcast day;, by the way ?
Either upon an LMA starting, and the sale contract would have that in there.. or upon closing after FCC approval.. so as soon as monday, or early next year.... all depends, i havent read the contract
Why on earth is 103.3 having a translator? Does it interfere with WPRB, which can be picked up throughout the city and surrounding areas?
If you look at that translator's coverage you'll see it's laughably squeezed in-between WARM-FM and WPRB.
It really only covers West Chester/West Goshen well.
wibgradio99
Banned
the AM daytime signal is the best 1kw I ever witnessed, I can easily receive them at the shore....I never remember them this strong in the 60s when they were MOR from the Wolf building.
Are you sure you aren't referring to the Long Island 740 which shoots a portion of it's 25kw right down the Jersey Coast? It has always been a mainstay during the daylight hours up and down the coast as has 1100 WHLI and WALK. 1kw on 740 can perform very well but up against WNYH it doesn't quite hold up...
@Radio411 : I had been remiss in my one trip to Atlantic City on a gambling bus from up here. I took the tour bus and was shovelled out right by a casino door with my roll of courtesy quarters ...... walked through the place to the oher door on the beach ..... bought some gooey sandwich and DXed ..... had a nap, and caught the bus home. Like you, though, I wasn't surprised at the Long Island stations that came in very well. WLIM 1580 and WGBB 1240 were there. But I didn't check for the 740 one. I must've had bus lag.
I CAN state that WNYH Huntngton's null away from Chester is quite real. Driving north on the S.O.B.* from Hicksville to Syosset, the wife and I could not get a clear signal from 'WGSM/WNYH' on the car radio. The electromagnetic / directional inbreeding was hysterical. And we couldn't've been more than ten miles from their four sticks and their 25,000 watts.
I s'spose only WIBGRadio can state whereabouts on the shore he was. And wouldn't there be about 300 square miles of unfriendly geology in the way?
One other note: An engineer at 1580 in Patchogue claims he was getting a stronger signal from WGSM 740 than from WLIM -- in BETWEEN WLIM's two towers at the time. Dunno how true that is, but Huntingrton 740 obviously sends full blast that way.
* 'S.O.B' is the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
I CAN state that WNYH Huntngton's null away from Chester is quite real. Driving north on the S.O.B.* from Hicksville to Syosset, the wife and I could not get a clear signal from 'WGSM/WNYH' on the car radio. The electromagnetic / directional inbreeding was hysterical. And we couldn't've been more than ten miles from their four sticks and their 25,000 watts.
I s'spose only WIBGRadio can state whereabouts on the shore he was. And wouldn't there be about 300 square miles of unfriendly geology in the way?
One other note: An engineer at 1580 in Patchogue claims he was getting a stronger signal from WGSM 740 than from WLIM -- in BETWEEN WLIM's two towers at the time. Dunno how true that is, but Huntingrton 740 obviously sends full blast that way.
* 'S.O.B' is the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
wibgradio99
Banned
I was in sea isle city around 1pm back in the 90s and it was wvch, I know the long island 740 which is a great catch in atlantic city.
WVCH had a CP at one time to go 50KW.
<<< WVCH had a CP at one time to go 50KW. >>>
That's very interesting. I had no idea! Apparently they applied back in 1989 and then filed to "reconsider" 10 years later in 1999...
That's very interesting. I had no idea! Apparently they applied back in 1989 and then filed to "reconsider" 10 years later in 1999...
BP-19860131AC | CP TO INCR PWR TO 50KW; INSTALL DA-D AND CHG TL: 3359 RIDGE PIKE, LOWER PROVIDENCE TWP, PA 40 09 59 75 24 34 MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION UNDER SECTION 1.1305 *PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION FLD ON: 07/19/99 |
The potential for reconsideration wouldve been filed by them after the FCC turned down the applicaiton for one reason or another
IIRC this application was filed to diplex with a proposed 950 Khz application with then WPEN. As we know WPEN abandoned this idea and utilized the then 860 WTEL site. I don't know if this woulld officially be a "Diplex" as WTEL was daytime only and WPEN would have been nighttime only. In theory the site never would have been used for both signals at the same time. Strange details.
Exactly...
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