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At least on WSHU's website, they're listed as "WYBC".
http://www.wshu.org/grids/programmain.php
LMA?
http://www.wshu.org/grids/programmain.php
LMA?
The LMA seems to work well for WYBC-FM. Did anyone ever listen to WYBC-AM as a Yale-run station? Quinnipiac University at least did something with their AM 1220 WQUN. Carrying WSHU's talk programming seems to fill in a coverage gap that AM 1260 Westport and their low power translators never quite reached.
Does WSHU now own it? The only call letters you'll probably hear outside of the legal ID are WSHU, but if they're looking to acknowledge breaking the Yale affiliation and to park some heritage calls, I'd suggest WNHC. WNHC-AM 1340 had financial problems in the mid 70s and before they went dark in 1998, but they gave WAVZ competition for years and were a New Haven urban station through most of the 80s and 90s.
It also seems somewhat confusing with all the WSHU signals and two separate services (music & news) on multiple frequencies - plus WSUF getting separate mentions on 89.9 etc. - maybe a little rebranding for one of the services is in order. They also have to compete for recognition with WNPR, which has one brand. I guess it takes a sophisticated audience to figure it all out!
Does WSHU now own it? The only call letters you'll probably hear outside of the legal ID are WSHU, but if they're looking to acknowledge breaking the Yale affiliation and to park some heritage calls, I'd suggest WNHC. WNHC-AM 1340 had financial problems in the mid 70s and before they went dark in 1998, but they gave WAVZ competition for years and were a New Haven urban station through most of the 80s and 90s.
It also seems somewhat confusing with all the WSHU signals and two separate services (music & news) on multiple frequencies - plus WSUF getting separate mentions on 89.9 etc. - maybe a little rebranding for one of the services is in order. They also have to compete for recognition with WNPR, which has one brand. I guess it takes a sophisticated audience to figure it all out!
WYBC 1340 antenna fell over and sat in the 'salt marsh'. They operated under STA with some semi-horizontal wire. They were talking about expenses and buying one of these Valcom ? rubber-duckie antennas.
Seems nobody wanted to upright the antenna at less than a 'fortune'.
WYBC...to me a refreshing mix of modern type 'rock' that you would not hear elsewhere. (the old educational college FM station ?")
Did they fix their antenna ? What's the deal with another WSHU ?
geezzz I'm still crying about WQQQ.
Seems nobody wanted to upright the antenna at less than a 'fortune'.
WYBC...to me a refreshing mix of modern type 'rock' that you would not hear elsewhere. (the old educational college FM station ?")
Did they fix their antenna ? What's the deal with another WSHU ?
geezzz I'm still crying about WQQQ.
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The last I knew, WYBC-FM was in an LMA with WPLR and had an Adult/Urban sound. My memory of 1340 is that it was WYBC-AM, but I don't recall what their format was. Can somebody bring a Floridian up-to-date? I started at WYBC in 1978 when it was a student station at Yale.
Since we are on the topic, since 1340 was once WNHC, did they have any connection to channel six/channel eight? At one time, WPLR was known as WNHC-FM and the TV station was WNHC-TV. It seems odd that the call letters are gone from New Haven.
Mike
The last I knew, WYBC-FM was in an LMA with WPLR and had an Adult/Urban sound. My memory of 1340 is that it was WYBC-AM, but I don't recall what their format was. Can somebody bring a Floridian up-to-date? I started at WYBC in 1978 when it was a student station at Yale.
Since we are on the topic, since 1340 was once WNHC, did they have any connection to channel six/channel eight? At one time, WPLR was known as WNHC-FM and the TV station was WNHC-TV. It seems odd that the call letters are gone from New Haven.
Mike
WNHC 1340 went bankrupt and was then bought by Yale in 1998. Since it had been urban, the last thing Yale wanted was to have it compete against their LMA with Cox on WYBC-FM. They accomplished that goal and managed not to compete with any other station - I have never noticed any documented audience for WYBC-AM since. A Wikipedia page seems to explain WNHC pretty well. And yes, WNHC-AM was on Chapel Street and later College Street in the same place as co-owned WNHC-TV (now WTNH) and WNHC-FM (later WPLR). They each had different owners by 1971.mikedow said:
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shepaug said:
WAVZ is 1Kw ND day and 1Kw directional at night, reducing signal to the west-southwest.
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The new Valcom antenna has been installed on WYBC
I think WSHU is buying time on the station at this time.
I think WSHU is buying time on the station at this time.
Ed B said:
Is it still on W Spring St? When did the new antenna "go live"?
I remember doing some engineering work on that station with Terry Smith back in the late 1980's. We had to shunt the tower to ground, because of the RF coming from 1300 just a 1/4 mile away! 1340's ATU had a specially designed notch filter for 1300. Talk about tight tolerances, with the signals just 40Khz apart, only separated by about 1/4 mile!
Their RF gets into my oscilloscope in my workshop. The 40Khz heterodyne is quite apparent, as well!
At the risk of reviving a stale thread... In response to the question of what they used to have on the air, I listened to WYBC-AM several times (I've lived in the area for about 15 years). For most of that time, it was just running automated random music, probably just to preserve the license. For maybe a year, they had a couple "Conservative" Yale students who did a live talk show. My memory is they didn't have a phone system that could put calls on the air, so it was just them talking. It's unlikely that more then 2 or 3 people ever heard their program. That's the only live thing I ever heard (stipulating that I rarely checked to see what was on)
Sacred Heart does in fact list a schedule for WYBC-AM, but does not list the station on its transmitter list. I just turned on the radio and the BBC is coming in loud and clear (better night time signal than WELI-AM). The station filed a BP in 2009 to replace their old antenna. Because the ground is on "wetlands", that precluded doing any digging - so the new freestanding antenna was just stuck on the existing antenna base to avoid any kind of legal fight.
WYBC-AM is carrying only APM/PRI programming - no NPR programs.
Cox sold/donated WSTC-AM and WLNK-AM to Sacred Heart about a month ago, so WSHU-AM is starting to look like the flagship for a statewide network of AM stations.
Sacred Heart does in fact list a schedule for WYBC-AM, but does not list the station on its transmitter list. I just turned on the radio and the BBC is coming in loud and clear (better night time signal than WELI-AM). The station filed a BP in 2009 to replace their old antenna. Because the ground is on "wetlands", that precluded doing any digging - so the new freestanding antenna was just stuck on the existing antenna base to avoid any kind of legal fight.
WYBC-AM is carrying only APM/PRI programming - no NPR programs.
Cox sold/donated WSTC-AM and WLNK-AM to Sacred Heart about a month ago, so WSHU-AM is starting to look like the flagship for a statewide network of AM stations.
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