RE: WILD Sign-offs??

["elipolo@earthlink.net" <elipolo@earthlink.net>]

>Original Message:
>From: Paul Hopfgarten paul@03038.com
>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:41:01 -0500
>To: elipolo@earthlink.net, boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>Subject: RE: WILD Sign-offs??
>
>You know about their 30 minute PSSA (wattage low but I don't recall how
>mucH)?
>
>Could be that you're more than 5 miles from Medford TX Site, so when 4:15
>arrives, it appears that WILD cuts out mid-commercial.

Nope, I live in Somerville, just a couple of miles from WILD's Medford TX, 
and I can listen to the daytime 5000 watt AM stereo signal until 4:15, and 
then the 1000 watt mono "PSSA" signal still loud and fairly clear until 
it simply just cuts out in mid-program at 4:45.

Eli Polonsky

>Paul Hopfgarten
>East Derry NH 03041
>paul@03038.com

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of
>> elipolo@earthlink.net
>> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:59 PM
>> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>> Subject: WILD Sign-offs??
>>
>>
>> WILD must have an automatic timer that shuts off their transmitter at the
>> correct time post-sunset, but they don't reflect the sign off with their
>> programming whatsoever.
>>
>> The transmitter often just goes off the air for the night right in the
>> middle
>> of a song. This afternoon, it went off the air right in the middle of a
>> commercial! I wouldn't have wanted to have been that sponsor.
>>
>> I haven't even heard an ID at sign off lately, which I had thought was
the
>> minimum legality.
>
> Eli Polonsky
>


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