[BC] X-lators for Daytimers (WAS:NAB Newsletter)

[Bailey, Scott]

  Bill Barry the former owner of WCRT (was WAMB), told me that he wrote
a letter ever day to the commission to persuade them to give him a FM
translator at night, due to the Cuban interference. This was mid to late
80's.  He was granted 75 watts on 106.7. Dickie Brothers Broadcasting
(now Cumulus) had an application for a full Class A on that channel.
When Lou Dickie fired up on that channel, Bill was told to turn it off.
Bill went back to the commission, pulled some strings, and got 98.7 for
his nighttime translator.
 I was told that Bill had political pull in the FM Branch of the
Commission. It's kind of funny that down the road from that FM
translator, about 15 miles or so, he & his daughter in law has majority
interest in a full Class A (WANT-FM), on 98.9. He and a few other put
that station on in the mid 90's.

Scott

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mark Humphrey
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [BC] X-lators for Daytimers (WAS:NAB Newsletter)

On 7/19/06, Bailey, Scott <SBailey at nespower.com> wrote:
> Willie,
>   What bugs the crap out of me is WCRT-AM (1160) in Nashville is 1 KW
at
> night, 2 tower directional, and I'm 30 miles outside downtown
Nashville,
> and I can here them at night, but THEY have a FM translator.

I've always wondered what kind of political connections the former
owner of that station had, in order to "deserve" a waiver for the FM
translator.

IIRC, the 1160 callsign was WAMB when the translator began operation
back in the '80s (while Reagan was in office) -- so was the owner at
that time a major Republican campaign donor, or what?

Mark
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