NorthEast Radio Watch 1/28: Welcome Back WMEX, and We Take On LPFM

[Scott D Fybush <fybush@world.std.com>]

*Back from California (about which more later), NYC (about which a bit
more later), and buried under 19" of snow (about which the less said
the better), we're back for a look at the last few weeks of radio
doings in the Great Northeast, followed by an editorial view of the
other big development, LPFM.

*The big news in MASSACHUSETTS was the long-awaited return of the WMEX
calls to Boston, as Alex Langer premiered his new talk format Monday
morning (Jan. 24) on the 1060 signal licensed to Natick, ex-WJLT,
WBIV, WTTP, and WGTR.  This time around, 1060 is a 40-kilowatt
daytimer running from the WKOX site in Framingham, delivering a
surprisingly solid signal to most of the market.

Programming on the new WMEX begins at 7 AM with business news from the
"Boston Business Journal," followed by an hour of Langer staple
"Health and Fitness Today" with Frankie Boyer.  At 10, WMEX is
offering Marjorie Clapprood, returning to the air after her ouster
last year from WRKO.  The rest of the day continues the Boston-veteran
theme, with Jerry Williams in-house at the new studios on North
Washington Street in Boston, Gene Burns by satellite from San
Francisco (with a 2-4 PM block intended solely for Boston), then Upton
Bell, held over from the talk format's previous incarnation as WRPT
650 Ashland (which now becomes WJLT, J-Light).  

We've already heard the usual carping about WMEX's lack of a night
signal and about the start-up glitches that can plague any station.
We tuned in ourselves (we have ways, you know...) to hear Williams and
Burns already absent from the schedule, Burns due to a scheduled trip
to Alaska and Williams for who-knows-what reason.  And we're concerned
about the lack, thus far, of any up-and-coming talk talent on WMEX,
but we'll commit to this much: Between WMEX's lineup of veterans and
the promotional punch of "FM Talk" WTKK, it's going to be an
interesting year for WRKO...

Elsewhere in the Bay State, we're learning more about the collapse of
Catholic Family Radio's deal to buy Ken Carberry's Carter Broadcasting
stations.  It seems nobody from CFR came to the scheduled November
closing for the $15 million deal, even though Carberry had already
offered two extensions.  Carberry's telling the trades that he still
intends to sell the station group, and he's disappointed it won't be
to CFR, which he saw as an ideological soulmate.  (NERW wonders if CFR
perhaps spent too much on transit advertising for its KDIA Vallejo CA;
we saw bus ads for the 1640 X-bander all over San Francisco!)

Waltham's WRCA (1330) is getting a new owner, as Beasley Broadcasting
pays $6 million for the Spanish-language outlet.  No word yet on
whether changes are in store for the station, though we note that
Beasley understands leased-time ethnic operations (like the company's
WTEL 860 in Philadelphia).

Our condolences to family and friends of Charles "Captain Jack"
Farrell, who died January 21 at age 48.  Farrell made a second career
out of radio sports-talk, doing his "Sports of Call" show at Quincy's
WJDA and Boston's WBPS and WNRB.

And morning man R.J. Malyk is now calling Springfield's WPKX (97.9
Enfield CT) home, after leaving Cape Cod's WCIB (101.9 Falmouth).
Malyk has some new morning competition in Springfield, too: WNNZ (640)
has started running Don Imus, just down the dial from Imus mothership
WFAN (660 New York), which puts an adequate signal into Springfield
most mornings...

*We'll start NEW YORK, for a change, in Binghamton, until now the
second-largest market in the state without a Clear Channel outlet
(Buffalo, of course, being the largest).  Not anymore: Lowry Mays &
company are paying $20 million for the Majac of Michigan cluster that
ranks #2 in market revenue.  Joining Clear Channel, then, are:

-sports-talk WENE 1430 Endicott
-classic rock WKGB 92.5 Susquehanna PA
-AC WMXB 103.3 Vestal (already branded as "Mix" -- no CC tweaking
needed!)
-hot AC, verging on CHR, WMRV 105.7 Endicott
-country WBBI 107.5 Endwell

(NERW thinks this must be one of the larger clusters in which not one
of the stations is actually licensed to the central city in the
market, for whatever that's worth...)

Clear Channel's New York clusters now run seamlessly from Rochester
east to Syracuse and Utica, south to Binghamton, and east again to
Albany, not to mention the huge ex-Chancellor group in New York City.

While we're on the subject, Clear Channel launched its New York State
news network, with reporters for WSYR and WGY filing stories to
anchors based at Rochester's WHAM.  Clear Channel is promising no
layoffs, but the company has lost one veteran anchor/reporter: WGY's
Peter Rief leaves to join ex-WGY talker Mike Gallagher on his
syndicated show.  Across town at CC/Albany, WXXA-TV (Channel 23) has
launched a new 6:30 PM newscast, joining the Fox affiliate's existing
10 PM effort.  And Clear Channel's WQBK-WQBJ and WHRL Albany have a
new OM/PD: Susan Groves comes up from Columbia, South Carolina to
enjoy the wintry weather in Rod Ryan's old job.

We're still not done with Albany: "Legends 1540" WPTR made its debut,
at long last, January 9, kicking things off with Doris Day and "Que
Sera Sera."  Market veteran "Boom Boom" Brannigan is handling mornings
at the Crawford standards outlet.

Moving west to Buffalo, things are changing fast in the newsrooms of
Entercom's WGR (550) and WBEN (930), as the long-awaited consolidation
of the stations' separate newsrooms gets underway.  Entercom's
strategy: make WGR the sports station and WBEN the news-talker, which
means the WGR news operation obsolete.  Starting Monday, WGR morning
host Tom Bauerle (best known now for his, er, probing questions to
Hillary Clinton last week) gets Chris "The Bulldog" Parker (formerly
WBEN's night sports-talk host) as his co-host in AM drive, WGR's Clip
Smith moves to WBEN in the evening, the syndicated Jim Rome show shifts
from WWKB (1520) to WGR, and Kevin Keenan becomes the lone newsperson
at WGR.  The station's longtime news director, Ray Marks, was offered
a move to afternoons at WBEN but turned it down citing family
concerns.  The fate of the rest of WGR's seven-person news team will
be decided over the weekend.  Some will move to WBEN, others will be
let go, and Buffalo will join Rochester and Syracuse on the roster of
one-newsroom towns, at least where commercial radio is concerned.
(Though NERW thinks we ought at least to be glad that WBEN's anchors
will be in Buffalo, not halfway across the state...)

As for the 50kW blowtorch on 1520, well, that's the worst part.  We
hear that as early as Monday, it'll become nothing more than a
simulcast of one of Entercom's Buffalo FMs (either CHR WKSE 98.5 or
hot AC WMJQ 102.5).  What a waste...

Speaking of Buffalo news, the Queen City is about to get a 10 PM TV
news war, if the rumors we're hearing are true.  April 1 is the target
date for WKBW's entry, via soon-to-be-duopoly partner WNGS (Channel
67).  But we also hear that WB affiliate WNYO (Channel 49) is reaching
out to WKBW's competitors, WGRZ and WIVB, for proposals to get a 10
o'clock entry on the air ahead of the WKBW/WNGS offering.  As for the
market's Fox affiliate, WUTV (Channel 29) has been a notorious holdout
in the news arena, even as sister Fox station WUHF in Rochester gets
ready to take its 10 PM news to an hour next month.

Back in Central NY, John Carucci is vacating the PD chair at WOWZ/WOWB
in the Utica market to head west to Syracuse, where he'll take over
the morning drive chair at oldies WSEN (92.1 Baldwinsville) being
vacated by Skip Clark.  So who replaces Carucci?  J.P. Marks returns
to his old job, at least on an interim basis.

Up north, Tim Martz wants to crank up the power on his WVNC (96.7
Canton) through an allocation swap.  The FCC proposal would swap
WVNC's 96.7 for the 102.9 of WNCQ Morristown.  In their new locations,
both 96.7 and 102.9 would be able to boost power from class A (6 kW)
to C3 (25 kW), if the FCC approves.  Another Martz entry, WYUL (94.7
Chateaugay), has been granted a move down from its mountaintop
transmitter site.  WYUL changes from 1.75 kW at 635 meters to a full
50 kW at 137 meters, on a new stick to be shared with another Martz
station that's raising power, WVNV (96.5 Malone), just south of Malone
on county road 25.  (Oddly, for a station largely aimed at Canadian
listeners, the directional pattern of the new WYUL would shoot mainly
to the southeast, away from Canada).

Houghton College has applied for a new station on 88.1, to replace the
religious service the Southern Tier school used to run on 90.3 before
selling that station, WJSL Houghton, to Rochester public broadcaster
WXXI.

On the call letter front: WWHW (102.1 Jeffersonville) loses founder
William H. Walker's initials, becoming WDNB to match co-owned WDNH
(95.3) across the state line in Honesdale PA.

*Back to New England...and it's to CONNECTICUT we go, to find Diane
Smith returning to daily broadcasting on the radio side of the line.
The former WTNH (Channel 8) anchor has signed on with WTIC (1080
Hartford) to co-host the morning show with Ray Dunaway; she'll keep 
doing specials for Connecticut Public TV and writing books as well.

To go with its new "Rock 102" name and format, WVVE (102.3 Stonington)
takes on the WAXK calls; those were last seen on the CP for what's now
WRIP (97.9 Windham NY).

*New calls as well in RHODE ISLAND, as WHRC replaces WDYZ on the Radio
Disney outlet on 1450 in West Warwick.  It's the third go-round in the
region for the WHRC calls (Peter Hunn's FM in the Champlain Valley and
Channel 46 in Norwell MA were the first two), but this time it stands
for Disney character "Hercules," presumably freeing up the "DYZney"
calls for a bigger Mouse market elsewhere...

On the TV side, veteran WPRI (Channel 12) anchor Walter Cryan will
retire in March.  Cryan gave up the 11 PM half of his shift last year
and had been doing just the 6 o'clock show.  WPRI will air a special
on Cryan's career Monday night (1/31) at 8:30; NERW'd love to see a
copy!

*VERMONT's public radio network has figured out what to do, at least
for now, with WBTN(AM) in Bennington.  The little station on 1370 came
along with VPR's purchase of WBTN-FM (94.3) over the winter, and the
locals were concerned that the local news on Southwestern Vermont's
only AM station might disappear in the deal.  

VPR still hasn't decided whether to keep WBTN(AM) in the long term,
but it's also showing some sensitivity to Bennington-area listeners'
concerns.  In addition to installing a new transmitter for 1370, VPR
will break out of the FM simulcast that began Jan. 18 for local news
updates during Morning Edition, including headlines from WBTN's Ben
Patten and Monday-morning commentaries from WBTN veteran Bob
Harrington.  Another WBTN tradition, the morning obituaries, will
continue to be heard each morning at 7:49.

Meantime up in the Montpelier/Barre area, the FCC has approved a
station move that will put a new 50 kW signal in the state capital.
You can thank station owner John Bulmer for figuring this one out; he
obtained the CP for 93.7 in Hague NY a few years back, moved it to
Addison VT, then traded it for 100.9 (then WGTK) in Middlebury.  With
that Middlebury class A license in hand, Bulmer was then able to
persuade the FCC to move 100.9 (now WWFY) to Berlin, Vermont -- as a
class C2 (the equivalent of a full B) allocation!  But wait -- it just
gets better: Montpelier Broadcasting, aka WNCS, opposed the move,
askin instead to open up a new allocation at 100.7A in Hardwick, up in
the hills north of Montpelier.  The FCC hates to send anyone home
unhappy when there's an FM dial to be filled, so Montpelier gets its
class A allocation in Hardwick -- at 105.9 instead.  No word yet on
when the filing windown on that one will be opened...

Still not enough new FM in Vermont for you?  Good, because Christian
Ministries (the WCMK/WCMD folks) have been granted 91.9 in Putney,
too.

*Just in time for the primaries (we'll vote for any candidate who'd
vow to enforce the legal ID rules!), we cross the river to NEW
HAMPSHIRE to find a call change we'd been expecting.  WKXL-FM (102.3
Concord) becomes WOTX to match its new "Outlaw" identity, with the
WKXL-FM calls to replace WRCI on 107.7 in Hillsboro as soon as the
paperwork (or whatever you'd call the new electronic forms) clears.
The observation has been made that until this change, every station
licensed to Concord was using the same calls they signed on with, and
it's true -- except, of course, for Channel 21.

In the Lakes Region, we have it on good authority that Jay Williams is
selling WLKZ (104.9 Wolfeboro) to Tele-Media, which is doing a similar
oldies format just down the road on WNNH (99.1 Henniker).  Could a
simulcast follow?  And could the much-rumored sale of Williams' last
two outlets, WIZN and WBTZ in the Burlington VT market, be next?  (Our
sources say yes...)

New Hampshire Gospel Radio has applied for a new 91.5 in Laconia,
while up north in Gorham, WXLQ's country has given way to NH Public
Radio's WEVC on 107.1.  And can it be true?  We hear the morning show
on WKBR (1250) has moved its studios from WXRV down in Haverhill into
Manchester itself...

*A set of MAINE call letters wasn't gone for long: WCLZ and its AAA
format have returned to the airwaves in the Portland area less than a
month after they were dumped from 98.9 in Brunswick (now WTNP, "the
Point.")  Former 98.9 owner J.J. Jeffrey is recreating the format at
his new station, the former WXGL in Topsham on 95.5, now known as
"95-5 CLZ."  It gets a bit confusing on the Web, where <www.wclz.com>
goes to a WTNP site, while <www.955clz.com> goes to a placeholder for
the new WCLZ.  

Back in Portland, we hear Hal Knight has been pulled from nights at
WPOR (101.9), where he's worked for decades, to run the board for Don
Imus on sister station WZAN (970). 

*And with all that news from the US, it's a good thing it's been a
quiet few weeks in CANADA.  The big news comes from London, Ontario,
where classic-rock CFHK (103.1 St. Thomas) and dance/CHR CKDK (103.9
Woodstock) will be swapping dial positions.  The move puts CKDK's
"Energy Radio" on a lower-power signal, but one closer in to its core
audience within the city of London, while the Hawk's classic rock will
now reach out to more of southwest Ontario on 103.9's regional signal.

Up in Quebec, Radio-Canada wants to add transmitters in Gaspe (90.1)
and Rouyn (89.9) to its "chaine culturelle" (second network) service.

College and community stations in Canada will soon have some new rules
to contend with.  The CRTC has issued a new set of guidelines; the
highlights include a requirement that at least 25% of the broadcast
week be spoken-word programming and a limit of 10% hit music (30% for
stations that train broadcasters).  And you want to talk *real* LPFM?
The CRTC says it'll license stations under 5 watts to colleges and
universities that want to develop radio operations.  

*And now that we've caught up on all the little stuff that's made up
three weeks of Northeast radio, it's time to tackle LPFM.

The facts of the FCC's Report and Order have already been widely
distributed, and you can check them out for yourself at the FCC's
site, or, thanks to Harold Hallikainen, in easy-to-read HTML at 
<http://hallikainen.com/cgi-bin/addlink.pl?http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/2000/fcc00019.doc>.

The key points:

-The FCC will begin licensing 100-watt (LP100) stations this spring
and 10-watt (LP10) stations sometime thereafter.  There will be no
1000-watt (LP1000) service.

-Stations will be noncommercial and licensed for renewable eight-year
terms.  Stations cannot be sold or transferred.

-The FCC will use a point system to allocate contested frequencies to
community groups, based on length of residency, hours of proposed
programming, and amount of local programming proposed.

-There will be no protection for third-adjacent stations; a mileage
table will determine separation for first- and second-adjacent,
co-channel, and IF (10.6 and 10.8 MHz) channels.  

-LPFMs will be limited to one per owner per market.  An ownership cap
will be set at one LPFM to an owner nationwide initially, rising later
to as many as ten to an owner.

-LPFMs cannot be LMA'd to or owned by full-power broadcasters.

-LPFMs must protect all class D licenses and all existing translators
and boosters.

-LPFMs will have to be equipped with EAS decoding equipment, but will
not be required to have EAS encoders.

-There will be no local origination, main studio, or public file
requirements for LPFM.

-LPFM stations will have calls of the form WXXX-LP and KXXX-LP.

-Former pirates can apply if they stopped operating illegally before
February 26, 1999, or within 24 hours if notified by the FCC before that.  

So what, in NERW's opinion, does it all mean?  We're glad you asked...

This is clearly a decision crafted by a committee, and as with all
such decisions, there's no way it can satisfy everyone.  (In fairness,
we're convinced the only way NAB and Eddie Fritts can be satisfied is
if individual station ownership were to be banned outright, while the
lunatic fringe of pirate FM wouldn't be satisfied with anything short
of the FCC publicly announcing it lacks jurisdiction over LPFM.)  Now
that it's here, though, let's look at how it will -- and won't --
further the idea of local community broadcasting that led to its
creation.

We'll start by acknowledging that the FCC did a few things right.  The
initial proposal for LP1000 stations would have created a completely
different beast; a commercial service that would have filled the role
once served by the original class A stations.  There may still be a
place for such allocations, but all sides agreed pretty quickly that
anything above 100 watts isn't "low power," and we're glad the FCC got
the message.  

A hundred watts is a reasonable power for serving a small-to-medium
community, as the many college and community noncomms who already use
such power through grandfathered class D and small class A licenses
can attest.  And in a sense, LP100 is just a way to shoehorn a few
more such allocations into the spectrum.  It's not a panacea -- in
fact, a preliminary NERW study (and remember, your editor was a
history major in college, not an engineer) suggests there's not a
single frequency that could be used by an LP100 in or near Boston or
New York City.  (It didn't HAVE to be that way, but we'll have more to
say in a moment about translator protection...)

Outside those big markets, though, we've found a few promising
frequencies.  Now it's time to ask the big question: who'll end up
with them, and what will the public get from it all?  

We're a little bit concerned about the "institutional" nature of the
FCC's licensing preferences.  By looking to "schools, churches, and
non-profit community groups" instead of individuals to operate LP100s,
the FCC seems to be compelling those individuals to form organizations
to apply for LPFM licenses.  So far, so good...but as brand-new
creations, those organizations will fall behind on the FCC's point
scheme when it comes to "established community presence" (with a few
notable exceptions, like Steve Provizer's Community Media Coalition in
Allston -- but then, there's no open LP100 channel there!).  Even
where there's a strong desire and committment to create such a group,
the May filing window the FCC proposes doesn't leave much time for
organizers to do all the legwork they'd need to form a licensee.  That
leaves us with schools, universities, and churches, precisely the
groups that are already operating most of the full-power noncommercial
stations on the dial.  

Many of the remaining "NCE" (noncommercial educational) licenses are
held by national religious broadcasters, and here we find another
concern.  If you've been reading NERW for any length of time, you know
how we feel about the abuse of the translator rules that's yielded, in
some cases, hundreds of translators around the country carrying the
satellite feeds of single stations in Idaho or Oregon or California.
The LPFM rules don't do enough to prevent this problem from getting
worse.  Here's why:

First, LPFMs will have to protect existing translators.  This seems
contrary to the definition of translators as a secondary service.  It
strains the bounds of logic to accept that a satellite-fed translator
(explicitly barred from originating its own programming) provides
greater service to a community than a local LPFM.  Even where the
translator is local (like the two in Boston/Cambridge, on 96.3 and
101.3), it often occupies the only frequencies on which an LP100 could
settle.  On the other hand, it might not matter, because...

Second, LPFMs can, if they wish, run 24/7/365 off a satellite.  Maybe
we're just being paranoid here, but it's easy enough to imagine the
religious translator networks working hand-in-hand with local churches
to dominate the LPFM spectrum.  As established local entities, the
churches would have little trouble securing LPFM licenses (and in
fact, many churches already serve as "home bases" for satellite-fed
translators).  Giving up a few hours of Sunday morning airtime for
local services would be a small price to pay for the big satellite
groups.  (The FCC seems to think it can solve this problem by
forbidding LPFMs to rebroadcast full-power stations, but the rule
doesn't say an LPFM can't run the same *programming* that a chain's
full-power stations are running, does it now?)

Of course, Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth's statement raises
another question that we hope will draw some attention in the months
to come.  Furchtgott-Roth believes NCE radio operations should be
guided by the same rules the FCC introduced to noncommercial TV in its
decision on the WQEX Pittsburgh case last month.  (If you weren't
paying attention -- and shame on you if that's the case, because this
is important stuff -- the FCC warned religious broadcaster Cornerstone
TV that religious services and individual religious testimony wouldn't
count as "educational" programming if Cornerstone moved its WPCB-TV
from a commercial channel to WQEX's channel *16 allocation.
Cornerstone subsequently pulled out of the three-way deal with public
broadcaster WQED and Paxson.)  

The FCC knows this one is a political firebomb -- just look at the way
the National Religious Broadcasters jumped on the WQEX case -- and is
being especially cautious with religious radio, so we're hesitant to
hope for much of a breakthrough here.  Even the NAB, which has been so
very noisy about the alleged "breakdown of the FM spectrum" by the
creation of LPFM, has been utterly silent about the translators that
are already operating with the same powers and spacing LP100 stations
would use.  Hypocrisy?  Looks more like fear to us. (And we'll close 
this portion by reiterating, as we so often do, that we are in no
way opposed to religious broadcasting per se, just to the way certain
religious broadcasters have tried to monopolize the spectrum to the
exclusion of other voices.)

So where were we here?  Oh yeah, the public.  Maybe we're just being
pessimistic here, but it just doesn't seem likely to us that the
groups most in need of new radio voices (for instance, the Hispanic
community in Rochester, the black community in Syracuse, or the Asian
communities in Lowell) will be able to get organized in time to make
the FCC's May filing window for LP100.  Individuals look to be
largely shut out, for reasons explored above.  And that leaves us with
schools and churches, offering what's likely to be a minor expansion
at best of the existing non-comm primary and translator service.  (In
Rochester, for instance, that's six high school and college stations
and five religious broadcasters.  We need more?)

That, by the way, is the good news.  The bad news comes once the
initial five-day filing window closes -- because a year later,
out-of-town broadcasters can begin applying for the remaining LP100
channels, on the FCC theory that anything is better than an unoccupied
allocation.  What can an out-of-town broadcaster do with a noncomm
license that will serve a distant community?  We're not sure we want
to find out...and we *know* we don't want to watch an overburdened 
FCC actually try to enforce any sort of local-content rules.

What, then, of LP10?  We're a little more hopeful about this service,
for two reasons.  First, LP10 offers the promise of open channels
where they're really needed -- in inner-city neighborhoods and suburbs
where LP100 channels won't fit.  Second, the barriers to entry are so
low: a few thousand dollars for studio and inexpensive transmitting
equipment, a rooftop, and you're on your way.  (Sound familiar?  We
used to call it Class D FM, and if *that* hadn't been wiped out in the
seventies, we might not have needed this whole LPFM mess!)

Our hope, though, remains tempered.  It's one thing to want to start a
radio station.  It's another thing altogether to keep that radio
station running through budget crises, staff infighting (the rule of
thumb here is: the smaller the station, the worse the office politics,
with KPFA a notable exception), and the inevitable realization that
most people would still rather listen to "the hits of today and the
best of the 80s, 90s, and 70s on the official workday station with
less talk and 55-minute music sweeps" than to Whatever-LP.  A few
brave souls will pull it off, and to them we wish only the best of
luck.  As for the rest, we're at least pleased to see that the FCC
will require them simply to turn back the license when they're done
playing with it.  The 1990s were all the evidence we needed of the
effects of radio profiteering and speculation, and it's nice to see
that the FCC noticed, too.

What now?  No doubt the NAB will go to court in another attempt to
prevent the FCC from enforcing the new rules, to which we can only
offer the observation that even the big broadcasters must know there's
something missing in their definition of "community service" if
they're this worried about a bunch of 10-watt noncommercial voices.
As for what happens once the NAB loses in court, as it no doubt will
(you don't win against the FCC, after all) -- well, that will be the
fun part of writing NERW in 2000.

*Next week, we'll look at the things we saw and heard out West and in
a quick jaunt down to the Big Apple...plus all the week's radio doings
from Chautauqua to Charlottetown.  See you Friday!

---------------------NorthEast Radio Watch------------------------
                     (c)2000 Scott Fybush

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