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WVOX now up for sale?

I'm not privy to the inner workings of the O'Shaughnessy family, but selling the stations and not wanting to sell the tower site and building after the stations are gone doesn't make sense to me. Unless they have a particular reason to hold that property for a while longer and just want to collect rent on the building and tower for now.
 
Barry said:
I realize this sale was inevitable, but it has an end of an era feel to it. WVOX was the last station in Westchester County that had local content, other than WHUD 100.7 FM. And WHUD, though licensed to Peekskill, is actually located to the north.
WFAS 1230 AM carries network talk shows (in a digital format most radios can't receive), and the others retransmit religious networks.
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Sad indeed:
50 years ago, Westchester was home to several (live and local) AMs: WFAS 1230 and WVOX 1460 served the southern portion of the county; WLNA 1420 on the northern end (Peekskill/Ossining); WVIP 1310 called Mt. Kisco home.
And across the river, Rockland residents had WRKL 910 and WKQW 1300.
All were vital sources of local info.
When I grew up, WFAS 'closed the schools' in the event of severe winter storms -- not WOR, not WINS or WABC.
I know, it was a different time, a different world.
Radio, especially locally focused radio, still mattered.
 
OldiesMaven said:
I know, it was a different time, a different world.
Radio, especially locally focused radio, still mattered.
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At one time, radio was itself new technology. Then the internet and cell phones came along. They changed everything.

Nothing is as it was 50 years ago.
 
Since WVOX is being donated to an entity which will then sell it right away to the ultimate buyer, will there need to be a second transfer agreement submitted for F.C.C. approval?
 
Barry said:
Since WVOX is being donated to an entity which will then sell it right away to the ultimate buyer, will there need to be a second transfer agreement submitted for F.C.C. approval?
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absolutely. .any transfer of control of more than 50.1 percent requites some kind of notification to the fcc
 
The station is back on the air.
It is playing A/C type music. There was an ID: “This is WJZZ Montgomery, and WVOX New Rochelle.”
This seems rather odd, as I don’t think the two stations are under the same ownership.
 
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Barry said:
The station is back on the air.
It is playing A/C type music. There was an ID: “This is WJZZ Montgomery, and WVOX New Rochelle.”
This seems rather odd, as I don’t think the two stations are under the same ownership.
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and WJZZ is Jazz Radio...
 
Barry said:
The station is back on the air.
It is playing A/C type music. There was an ID: “This is WJZZ Montgomery, and WVOX New Rochelle.”
This seems rather odd, as I don’t think the two stations are under the same ownership.
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The owner of WJZZ (a non-commercial station in Montgomery, NY) is an engineer. It's quite possible that he's been hired to work with the new WVOX owner. Thus he's probably piping in programming from his station while the new owners get their operation up and running,
 
luperm said:
The owner of WJZZ (a non-commercial station in Montgomery, NY) is an engineer. It's quite possible that he's been hired to work with the new WVOX owner. Thus he's probably piping in programming from his station while the new owners get their operation up and running,
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Jeff already uses the very talented Tom Driggers but maybe Tom couldnt make an east coast trip. Dennis Jackson who runs WJZZ, is as luperm said, a talented broadcaster who does RF/engineering type stuff too.
 
WJZZ is Bud Williamson, not Dennis.

I'm told this is just placeholder audio to keep the signal alive for the moment. I wouldn't read anything more than that into any of this.
 
WJZZ had left the air in August 2018:
https://www.facebook.com/HudsonValleyPublicRadio/posts/pfbid02eTJNe4TiNxBjpkdZ9eNC57SdNM8XeocFDgx3r3ZCrTN8SGpvJ17ZdCawoDXJrxJxl

Hudson Valley Public Radio filed a application on August 2nd, 2023 with the FCC to renew the station's license:
hudsonvalleypublicradio.com

Hudson Valley Public Radio WJZZ

hudsonvalleypublicradio.com hudsonvalleypublicradio.com

FCC Public Files for WJZZ-FM:

Specifically renewals:

and Special Temporary Authority (most recently 8/21/2023):

From the FCC License + Management System, WJZZ applications:

Application Search Results « Licensing and Management System Admin « FCC

FCC License Modernization
enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov
 
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WJZZ was off the air so much during its prior license period that the FCC granted them a one-year renewal, rather than the usual 8 years. We’ve seen it before, off the air for 364 days, come back on for a few days to keep the license from getting canceled, then off again for another 364 days. The FCC in its short-renewal letter pointed out that WJZZ was not on the air for 37% of its prior license term.
The station has supposedly been on the air now since mid-February 2022, but operates with an STA because they’ve lost their licensed TL.
And not that the FCC cares about the programming, but at least on the WVOX simulcast, it sounds like there is some secondary audio mixing with the pop tunes being played. A mess, on AM & FM.
 
Ex-RadioTV said:
WJZZ was off the air so much during its prior license period that the FCC granted them a one-year renewal, rather than the usual 8 years. We’ve seen it before, off the air for 364 days, come back on for a few days to keep the license from getting canceled, then off again for another 364 days. The FCC in its short-renewal letter pointed out that WJZZ was not on the air for 37% of its prior license term.
The station has supposedly been on the air now since mid-February 2022, but operates with an STA because they’ve lost their licensed TL.
And not that the FCC cares about the programming, but at least on the WVOX simulcast, it sounds like there is some secondary audio mixing with the pop tunes being played. A mess, on AM & FM.
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Several stations have been donated to the MMTC and ended up getting deleted anyway.
 
Voicetrack of Reason said:
Several stations have been donated to the MMTC and ended up getting deleted anyway.
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Has any of the MMTC stations been capable, under any ownership, of becoming viable either as a for-profit or community station?
 
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