[BC] Goodbye Local Radio-pass me the Kleenex

[Scott Fybush]

As a frequent visitor to Fort Wayne (my wife's from there), let me say 
that the WOWO night signal is actually still quite good in all the parts 
of the Fort Wayne market that matter. My father-in-law lived for a few 
years way up in the northeastern corner of town, about as far from the 
site (which is 20 miles southwest of Fort Wayne in Roanoke, Indiana) as 
you can get and still be in the city, and WOWO came in fine there after 
dark.

Of course, WOWO's still protected (by everyone except WLIB, whose signal 
is aimed completely away from Fort Wayne) exactly as it was when it was 
a class A signal. The noise floor will rise, probably pretty 
substantially, when all the other eastern and midwestern 1190s settle 
their long-running dispute with the Commission and get their night power 
increases, making 1190 just another broken-down ex-clear channel, much 
like 1200 is in the east at night now.

On the other hand - and I say this as one of the distant WOWO listeners 
who tried to fight the downgrade back in the mid-nineties - it's not as 
though there's anything on WOWO now that merits the big night signal. No 
local news overnight, nor even anyone in the building to break into the 
syndie stuff (the same syndie stuff that's on every big AM at night 
these days) in the event of an actual emergency.

*sigh*

s

DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
> Yep.
> 
> They are now 9800 watts, with a 3 tower rotten pattern that covers no one at
> night.
> 
> here: 
> http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WOWO&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
> 
> and here: 
> http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/279427-1897.pdf
> 
> Note the broad null towards NYC in the front of the pattern. Specially
> designed to allow WLIB to go night time.
> 
> -D
> 
> 
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:46:37 AM PST
> From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Goodbye Local Radio-pass me the Kleenex
> 
> 
> Innercity bought WOWO for the purpose of taking it from class A to class 
> B. Once, done thier NYC station WLIB got a 30 KW night allocation. They 
> then sold WOWO.
> 
> R
> 
> 
> Bob Barnswatts wrote:
> 
>> didn't wowo also get a power reduction so someone somewhere else in a more
> populous area could have an increase?  Was that the same loving owners?
>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>>
>> On 2/26/2006 at 10:44 AM Douglas B. Pritchett wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> For me, it was the early 80's. Westinghouse sold our local WOWO to Price 
>>> Communications made up of a bunch of Wall Street types. First thing they 
>>> did was go office to office and ask people what they did. Now, remember, 
>>> these Price people were not broadcasters. They were looking at this like 
>>> any other business. First they talked with the promotions director. She 
>>> explained what she did. They handed her her termination and final check. 
>>> Then next door to the traffic director. She explained what she and her 
>>> assistant did. (done by hand, no computers there yet). They fired her 
>>> assistant. Then to engineering. 3 man shop. One studio guy, 2 RF guys 
>>> for the 50KW directional. Fired two more. Then the sales coordinator. 
>>> Air staff? Kept most, but wanted to take the station off the air after 
>>> 10pm because "no one listenes after 10pm".
>>> The next book the station lost nearly 40% of it audience. Sales were 
>>> down about the same. And they just couldn't figure it out.
>>> Next time out, the Price people fired the GM.
>>> Oh.....that'll fix it.
>>> Station has only now recovered.
>>> Gotta love it.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Douglas B. Pritchett
>>> Fort Wayne, IN
>>> dpritchett1 at comcast.net
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>
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