Postscript on WBIX--that mysterious $4 million

[Scott Fybush]

The Sewell Street towers are registered to:

METRO-BOSTON BROADCASTING, INC. DBA = TOWER SITES, LIMITED
8411 PRESTON ROAD, SUITE 870
DALLAS, TX 75225

Oddly, the contact e-mail address given in the ASR registration is for 
Grady Moates, the contract engineer who handles WAMG, among other stations.

A cursory Google search on the Preston Road address turns up something 
called "Collective Jewels" in that suite.

I'm trying to recall which incarnation of 1060 (or 890) did business as 
"Metro-Boston Broadcasting"

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At 08:46 PM 11/18/2004 -0500, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>I estimate that the cost of acquiring the then-dark 1060 CP, buying WRPT
>(which was then licensed to 1050 and had to be moved to allow the 1060
>signal upgrade from the WKOX site), upgrading WBIX's daytime signal, adding
>the night signal, and operating 1060 as WMEX for about a year probably cost
>Alex Langer about $4 million give or take. I wonder whether Langer might
>have retained ownership of WBIX's transmitting facilities--albeit not the
>land or towers. The daytime site and towers belong to Clear Channel and the
>night site and towers belong (I think) to Mega--unless Mega leases the
>Sewell St site from somebody else.
>
>If Langer retained ownsehip of the transmitters, phasing uinits, and the
>buildings that were added at Sewell St in connection with the night signal,
>the dollar figures in my previous message would all kind of make sense.
>
>--
>Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
>eFax 707-215-6367