Re: WCAT-AM Now Spanish (Ethnic?)

["Steve West" <stevewest106@hotmail.com>]

Sure, WCAT could probably go 24/7 with nighttime flea power.  But, why would 
Citadel do that?  There should be some justification to further erode WLW's 
signal.  Orange barely could support WCAT when it was the only station in 
town at 1000 watts on 1390 daytime.  Now with the Deane brothers doing their 
best to be THE live local station in town with WJDF, there is almost nobody 
who would listen to 700 at night other than to hear something on WLW and 
surely NOT to Hispanic!.

Understand, Orange & Athol are not some metro area.  The number of listeners 
who will even listen to AM for any reason besides news is perhaps in double 
digits.  Certainly not enough to justify a night signal for 700.



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>From: dan.strassberg@att.net
>To: "Steve West" <stevewest106@hotmail.com>
>CC: mattosborne1976@yahoo.com, boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>Subject: Re: WCAT-AM Now Spanish (Ethnic?)
>Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:38:22 +0000
>
>WCAT could now get a few watts at night. The FCC has revised the formulas 
>for
>calculating the location of Class A AMs' 0.5 mV/m 50% skywave contours. 
>This
>change has reduced most Class As' protected service by hundreds of miles. 
>As a
>result, there is now a full-time station on 1030 in a Chicago suburb (WNVR
>Vernon Hills IL). WBZ used to have a killer nighttime signal there. WRYM 
>840
>New Britain CT, which is co-channel with WHAS Louisvile, now runs 125W-N 
>DA-N
>(two towers protecting WHAS). Louisville is closer to New Britain than
>Cincinnati is to Orange. Without a DA to protect WLW, WCAT might get only 4 
>or
>5W at night, but that might be enough to deliver a listenable signal to 
>most of
>the COL.
>
>--
>dan.strassberg@att.net
>617-558-4205
>eFax 707-215-6367


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