Can Presque Isle Support A 50KW AM Station?

[Doug Drown]

What I'm wondering is whether they'll broadcast on 1390.  CFNB operated out
of Fredericton for 70 years
with 50,000 watts on 550 kHz, until the management decided to shut it down
and move everything over to the FM side.  It covered all of eastern Maine
and western N.B.; it could even be picked up in Bangor.  The towers, in
Harvey, N.B., were taken down 2 years ago, but who's to say the frequency
couldn't be allocated to WEGP?

Whether on 550, 1390 or something else, WEGP, with an adequate signal, would
get the whole Fredericton area market as well as Aroostook.  There are
plenty of potential listeners out there.

I've often wondered why northern New England never had a 50-kw AM station of
its own.
Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cooper Fox" <fox893@yahoo.com>
To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>; "Laurence Glavin"
<lglavin@lycos.com>; <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Can Presque Isle Support A 50KW AM Station?


>
> > aside, even 20 years ago, the AM covered a lot of
> > cities and towns in
> > Northern Maine, and the sales dept was trying to
> > sell it like a regional
> > station.  Is there enough business in a bad economy?
> >  That I cannot answer,
> > but the owners must think so or they wouldn't have
> > spent the money...
>
> Right now, you can usually pick them up as far south
> as just north of houlton.  With 50KW they'd cover all
> of Aroostook with a heckuva signal.  I think there's
> enough business in the area...  The citadel cluster up
> there seems to do well.  They'd have the talk radio
> market cornered, too  I believe WVOM is the closest
> talk radio signal.  It's just a matter of running an
> operation with a low overhead.
>
>
>
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