Re: WBPS off the air

[Ron Bello <RBello@BelloAssoc.com>]

Could they be working on the night-time service of 1060 WBIX ?


At 12:17 PM 12/11/02 +0000, Dan.Strassberg@att.net wrote:
>"Boston's Talk Party," WBPS 890 AM Dedham, has been Boston's Dead-Air 
>Party for
>at least the last 36 hours or so. Sometime Monday, the program feed must have
>gone down, because 890 was broadcasting an open carrier when I left work at
>around 7:00 PM Monday. That continued overnight and presumably must have
>continued for at least part of Tuesday. When I got into my car to drive 
>home at
>about 8:30 PM Tuesday evening, my first reaction was, "they're back." But I
>started to wonder when the news contained several items about Chicago. 
>Yup, it
>was WLS, clear as a bell, even under the trackless-trolley wires in Watertown
>Sq. The open carrier was gone. (If Boston really is outside of WLS's 0.5 mV/m
>10% skywave contour, last night must have been one of those 1% or 2% nights;
>WLS's signal--which was darned near fade free--had to be AT LEAST 3 mV/m in
>Watertown Sq.) This morning, the open carrier is back, although I did not
>notice a pattern change just now at 7:00 AM.
>
>I wonder whether this is a technical problem or whether the outfit that is
>LMAing 890 from Mega and broadcasting all of those far-right-wing talk shows
>has failed to come through with its latest lease payment.
>
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