Re: Albany speculations

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 04:25 PM 1/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I would also like some input as to the future of WIZR, AM 930 (currently
>satellite standards), from Johnstown.  WIZR has been sold with WSRD to
>Albany Broadcasting, and I wonder what will become of it.  It either might
>get sold off, being of no reach to the Albany market, or become a simulcast
>of WROW-AM, bringing them out to Fulton and Montgomery counties better.
>
Sounds reasonable to me. WROW has a great signal daytime and not a bad one
at night (only 1 kW night), but it's directional up and down the Hudson
Valley. If the competition really is WGY, whose 50 kW ND signal emanates
from a better-than-half-wave stick west of Schenectady, running WIZR//WROW
makes some sense. WGY is essentially local all the way to Utica. WIZR would
make WROW local at least part way to Utica--during the day anyhow.

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