Re: More on WPTR

["Douglas J. Broda" <djbroda@mindspring.com>]

It's hard to track Crawford holdings because of a variety of corporate
names for the licenses, but I did notice that Crawford doesn't have an FM
or another AM in Syracuse, whereas it does have an FM in both the Albany
and Rochester markets still running religion, and it has three other AMs in
the Denver market where it's still running religion (KLTT 670, which is
50kw days, KLDC 800, and KLVZ 1220). Maybe that's the reason it's still
religion on 1390 Syracvuse, though of course it may be that they're doing a
rollout and Syracuse is still to come.

BTW, the other standards station I found in the Denver market is Tribune's
KEZW (1430, 10kw/5kw). (Tribune also owns KOSI on FM in Denver, which is a
Lite AC.)

At 04:09 PM 1/11/00 +0000, you wrote:
>As far as I know, Crawford has one more AM in New York 
>State to switch over to the Legends format--1390 in 
>Syracuse, a very good signal, especially since the TX 
>was relocated half a dozen years ago. In fact, if he 
>flips that one, he may have put a Legends format in 
>every market in the country where he owns an AM. Does 
>anyone know what his plans are in Syracuse and whether 
>there are any markets in which he owns AMs but in which 
>none of his AMs is running the format?
>
>One thing he doesn't seem to be afraid of is entrenched 
>competition, although, in Denver, where his KLZ is up 
>against KOSI (I think those are the calls), he has by 
>far the better signal. In Rochester, I think his AM 990 
>is pretty much at signal parity with 950, the 
>established AS station, even though 990 runs 5 kW-D/2.5 
>kW-N vs 950's 1 kW-U.
>