WWZN-AM Temporarily Off-the-air

[Laurence Glavin]

I know this happens to a lot of stations that don't have auxiliary transmitters, but for the record, WWZN-AM 1510 was off-the-air from 11:00 am Tuesday until this writing 12:30 pm. WIZZ came in surprisingly well, no interference from WWKB...Drudge reported last week that sunspot activity is picking up.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I know this happens to a lot of stations that don't have auxiliary transmitters, but for the record, WWZN-AM 1510 was off-the-air from 11:00 am Tuesday until this writing 12:30 pm. WIZZ came in surprisingly well, no interference from WWKB...Drudge reported last week that sunspot activity is picking up.

As of 3:00 pm, WWZN was back on-the-air...this can happen to any station, but with WWZN, you have to wonder if their check to the electric company bounced?

 

[MarcB]

but with WWZN, you have to wonder if their check to the electric company bounced?

Peter Davidson has a lot of money. Counting his other group Davidson Media Group, he owns over 40 stations, so I doubt the check to the electric company bounced.

 

[DanStrassberg]

but with WWZN, you have to wonder if their check to the electric company bounced?

Peter Davidson has a lot of money. Counting his other group Davidson Media Group, he owns over 40 stations, so I doubt the check to the electric company bounced.

OTOH, he did temporarily take dark 50 kW (-D/5 kW-N) 990 in Providence because he claimed (in his FCC filing for authority to temporarily remain silent), his engineers could not explain why the power bill was so high.

 

[Dighton Rockhead]

OTOH, he did temporarily take dark 50 kW (-D/5 kW-N) 990 in Providence because he claimed (in his FCC filing for authority to temporarily remain silent), his engineers could not explain why the power bill was so high.

There is no connection whatsoever between Davidson and the 990 signal in the Providence market, and never has been. The deal years ago for Davidson to buy 990 was never finalized.

A careful review of the FCC records will show that the station is owned by Cumbre Communications, 79 percent of which is owned by one Peter Arpin.

Peter Arpin also owns 100 percent of ADD Media Group, which owns the licnese to Povidence market rimshot signal 1320 WARL.

 

[jlehmann]

There is no connection whatsoever between Davidson and the 990 signal in the Providence market, and never has been. The deal years ago for Davidson to buy 990 was never finalized.

I thought there was some kind of connection between 990 and Davidson's 100.3. Don't they, or didn't they have studios in the same location?

 

[Dighton Rockhead]

I thought there was some kind of connection between 990 and Davidson's 100.3. Don't they, or didn't they have studios in the same location?

For a couple of years or so, Davidson's 100.3 FM and 102.7 FM (which has since been sold off) had been sharing studio space with Cumbre Communication's AM 990.

At the same time, all three stations were being LMA'd to a local group. with Spanish programming on 100.3 and 990, and an attempt at a jazz format on 102.7.

Very recently, Davidson moved 100.3 out of that studio on North Main St. in Providence, and now shares studio space with Clear Channel's cluster at 75 Oxford St. in Providence.

 

[blamethemayo]

so i guess if i wanted to listen to some infomercials yesterday, i would have been out of luck.