Re: NERW-WNTY partial format change

[mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

>NERW wrote:
*There's been a partial format change at WNTY (990) in Southington,
CONNECTICUT.  The station's airtime from noon until midnight is now
leased out to Spanish-language programmers who run it as "La Brava
990," apparently the same ones who used to program WMMW (1470 Meriden)
until its recent sale.  Our listeners in the area report WNTY isn't
ID'ing after 5PM, and appears to be using its 2500-watt day power long
after it should switch to 80 watts at night.  WNTY's adult
contemporary format stays in place from 6AM until noon, at least for
now.<<

        To be fair, WNTY appears to have been operating with day power at
night at least some nights basically since it got the night license a few
years ago, so it's not new with the group that now has leased it. At times,
its sign-off has been as early as 7,8, or 9 p.m. and never much past 10
p.m. regardless of the time of year and it seems to have just left the day
power on. So what would be new would be staying on much later in the
evening (midnight) on the day power. When it has run the New Britain AA
baseball games, particularly, it appeared to leave on the day power
consistently and sign off right after the game (but as late as 10 p.m. or
so). The NERW news on this station also raises the question of whether that
AA baseball will need a new radio home this season.

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