Housing To Be Built On WSMN-Owned Land

[John J. Francini]

Well, as someone who lives a couple of miles from WSMN's towers and 
studios, I guess I have mixed feelings about this.  I welcomed their 
format shift to "The Tiger" two years ago, because it meant a local 
signal for Red Sox broadcasts. WEEI's signal turns to hash after dusk 
around here, and WGIR 610 Manchester is no better.

(WEEI needs to buy a 50KW FM blowtorch in this area, just as they did 
in RI, but that's a rant for another day.)

In any event, WSMN carried the games, so I listened to them. Nothing 
else that they had - especially the stock-picking business talk 
during the day - was interesting to me.

This year, even though their web site claims they're still in the Red 
Sox network (as does the Red Sox site), they haven't carried a single 
game.

Without carrying something useful, I consider WSMN to be merely a 
source of front-end overload that I have to drive past two or more 
times a day.

Interestingly, I noticed a couple of days ago that WSMN's aging, 
faded sign by the road on West Hollis St had been knocked over. 
Couldn't tell if it was from the wind or from a car.

John



At 22:05 -0400 4/29/04, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>  Mark Watson wrote:
>>   Today's Nashua Telegraph reports that the Nashua Zoning Board of
>>Adjustment has approved a plan to a 40 unit single family housing
>>development to be built on land located at 502 West Hollis St., land that is
>>owned by the 1590 Broadcasting Corporation, who own WSMN (1590 Nashua) and
>>upon said land the station's studios and transmitter site are located. The
>>article doesn't mention anything about how this will affect the operation of
>>the station. One would have to guess that if the station isn't moving it's
>>transmitter site, then these folks who buy these new houses will have a 3
>>tower directional array to look at. Or is this the end of WSMN? There really
>>isn't much land left in the area to build a new 3 tower directional.
>
>
>I can't imagine that a 40-unit single family housing development 
>will leave much space for a 3 tower DA unless there's a lot more 
>land to this parcel than immediately meets the eye.  The impression 
>I got from a group of people who were brokering time on WSMN was 
>that the tower site was coming down and a new one was needed.  They 
>seemed pretty naive about the whole thing and seemed to think that 
>diplexing off WKBR's site (in Goffstown...outside of WSMN's current 
>lobe) was an option.  Given that WSMN has never made any money for 
>anyone my guess is that 1590 will soon be a thing of the past.  Even 
>if they DID have the resources to find & construct a new site, the 
>gov't red tape and NIMBYs would tie the process up for years.

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John Francini <mailto:francini@mac.com>
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