Can Presque Isle Support A 50KW AM Station?

Laurence Glavin lglavin@lycos.com
Tue Apr 19 16:41:00 EDT 2005


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
>To: "Cooper Fox" <fox893@yahoo.com>, "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>, "Laurence Glavin" >lglavin@lycos.com>, boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
>Subject: Re: Can Presque Isle Support A 50KW AM Station?
>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:02:12 -0400

> 
> 
> 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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When you think about it, for a long time there weren't many in Southern
New England:  Boston had only three in the days when 1510 was 5K;
Hartford had one, and the 50K in Providence later on was 
VERY directional. Aside from  a 1A license like that of WBZ,
the advantage a 50K signal had in big cities was the ability
to override interference from tall buildings,  high-voltage
electricity and communications devices like TVs.  

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