RE: Update on WCAT

["Peter Murray" <pete@partnercomm.com>]

Matt (and the group)-

I certainly hope that Citadel is smarter than that (operative word there is
HOPE). It does not make good business sense to simply take a station off the
air because it's a little AM daytimer. I'm sure they could find a jibguy who
would be able to take this 2.5KW NDD and make good business sense of it. How
hard would it be to get a change to the license to allow 12W operation at
night, a la WJIB/WJTO? Why not get $100K for it, instead of just bulldozing
this licensed operation?

Obviously, there is more to this than I know. Anyone have any further light
that can be shed upon this? I think any of us would be happy to have Citadel
just hand this license over to us to make a go of it - they obviously don't
see much threat in it.

-Peter Murray (N3IXY)
Pittsburgh, PA (just moved)


----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Osborne <mattosborne1976@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Update on WCAT

> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
>
> > Why was this station going off the air? Can someone
> > please refresh my
> > memory?  Thanks!! :)
> >
> Earlier this year, WCAT (AM) and WCAT-FM were sold to
> Citadel Communications.  My best guess is that once
> Citadel took them over, they centralized operations
> for the stations with their cluster in Worcester.  And
> since the AM was a little daytimer, it did not make
> business sense to Citadel to keep them on the air, so
> they shut them down and as far as I know, the FM is
> still alive and well.  And for anyone within earshot
> of WCAT-FM, are they still running the same satellite
> Hot AC feed (I eblieve its from ABC Radio Networks)
> that they were running in the winter of 2000?  Curious
> to see if Citadel changed that when they took over.
>
>                          Matt Osborne
>                          Hyde Park, NY