RE: CCU Interested in Xpanded Band

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

But....wouldn't they (CCU) still have to turn in the license to
930AM-Rochester NH at some point....and with 1540AM-Exeter as daytime only,
that would pretty much kill the WGIR/N/P trimulcast....I'm not so sure
they'd move the 1700 alloc to Medford MA...

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of
> dan.strassberg@att.net
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:34 AM
> To: lglavin@lycos.com
> Cc: Laurence Glavin; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: CCU Interested in Xpanded Band
>
>
> If CCU gets approval to move the downstate IL station to
> Chicago, look for the company to try to move the unbuilt
> Dover NH 1700 station to the Boston area. With the
> possible exception of WWRU, which apparently has been
> granted 10 kW-U DA-N, all X-Band stations are ND-U with
> a maximum of 1 kW-N (into a 1/4-wave tower; one west
> coast station with a taller tower has to run something
> like 570W night to compensate for the higher antenna
> efficiency).
>
> The WXKS (AM) site, which CCU owns, would be ideal for
> the 1700 station. There is no better site for an ND
> station to reach the market by day with 10 kW and the
> towers are a little over 120 degrees high at 1700. The
> nighttime coverage would be better than WXKS (AM)'s,
> both because of the ND pattern and because of the _much_
> lower noise on 1700 compared with 1430. Except for the
> fact that so few radios receive X-Band, this would be a
> much better deal for CCU than the (seemingly) never-
> ending quest for a TX site for WKOX's 50-kW-U operation.
>
> Remember George Carlin's Wonderful WINO (1700 on the
> dial--just above the Police calls)? Well, if you live
> near Boston, Wonderful WINO might just be coming to an
> AM radio near you--if you're one of the few people with
> a radio capable of receiving X-Band. I suspect that 90%
> of the radios that can receive X-Band are in late-model
> cars.
>
> --
> dan.strassberg@att.net
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> > Up to now, including last Sunday's LTAR (03/17 in Boston), the Xpanded
> > Band from 1610 to 1710 AM has been regarded as a joke.  But NOTHING
> > escapes the execs at Clear Channel, and they own an Xpanded Band outlet
> > that they want to move to Chitown.  WHTE-AM 1690 is licensed to Johnson
> > City downstate Illinois;  CCU wants to move it to Berwyn, IL near
> > the Big Plum (if NYC is an apple, wouldn't Chicago be a plum?).
> > Gee, doesn't the interest of the biggest conglomerate somehow
> > legitimize the X-Band whether we like it or not?
> > (They also own AM 930 in Rochester, NH with a CP for X-Band.)
> >
> > Laurenc eglavin
> > Methuen MA
> >
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