Fw: Weber chooses flagship for Manchester baseball

[Dan Strassberg]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Weber chooses flagship for Manchester baseball


> I had heard the same thing. Don't know if it's true. But if WSMN goes
dark,
> there might be interesting consequences for the future of the WUNR site in
> Newton (supposedly also the future home of WKOX and WRCA). As everyone who
> reads this list surely knows, the likelihood of any tower construction at
> the Newton site is extremely remote due to the delaying tactics of
Newton's
> NIMBYs. WUNR's proposal to increase its power to 20 kW-U from the proposed
> five short shared towers that would replace the two tall ones at the
Sawmill
> Brook Parkway site would significantly reduce 1600's signal the
> north-northwest. The reason for this part of the proposal is that any
change
> of the type WUNR proposes requires at least a 10% reduction of prohibited
> overlaps. In this case, the overlap between WSMN and WUNR is the result of
> the FCC's tightening (in the '80s, I believe) of first-adjacent overlap
> restrictions. (Such overlaps are grandfathered, but only as long as a
> station continues operating without making any changes.) Anyhow, if WSMN
no
> longer existed, WUNR might be able to increase its power from its two
> existing towers. Using the taller towers, It would take less than 14 kW to
> produce an RMS field equal to what WUNR would get with 20 kW from the
> proposed 200' towers. The limitations on WUNR's power would come from the
> 1590 station in Rhode Island and the 1600 Station in E Longmeadow. (If I'm
> not mistaken, 1590 in the Portland ME area is long gone.)
>
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>
> To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Weber chooses flagship for Manchester baseball
>
>
>
> >
> > What is the future of 1590 though?  I understand that both the land the
tx
> > site sits on and the studio building have been sold.  Not much open
space
> > in or around Nashua where you can build a 3-tower DA, and the NIMBYs
will
> > make any attempt to do so very costly.  That station hasn't made any
money
> > in decades...who's gonna pony up the $ necessary to keep it going?  This
> is
> > another one of those stations where the real estate is worth more than
the
> > license.
> >
>