WPEP going dark (but now, WVBF serves Taunton)

[Jeff Lehmann]

I checked today, and apparently 1530 is only running one ex-WPEP show
between 9 and 11 AM, the rest of the day it's still the TIC blind reading
service. 1570 is still on the air, with foreign language programming,
probably Portuguese.

Jeff Lehmann
Hanson, MA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf
> Of Dan.Strassberg
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:51 AM
> To: Eli Polonsky; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WPEP going dark (but now, WVBF serves Taunton)
> 
> Except the FCC does not license nighttime-only AM stations and there
> is no indication that they could be prevailed upon to start doing so.
> My guess is that they could not be--a number of people in the Media
> Bureau would surely adopt an "over my dead body" stance, and you can
> kind of see why: allowing nighttime-only AMs would open the floodgates
> for perhaps thousands of applications. OTOH, there is a precedent for
> allowing Class D AMs to operate multiple low-power on-channel
> nighttime transmitters.
> 
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> eFax 1-707-215-6367
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eli Polonsky" <elipolo@earthlink.net>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:32 AM
> Subject: RE: WPEP going dark (but now, WVBF serves Taunton)
> 
> 
> > WPEP 1570 had been broadcasting at night with 227 watts.
> > Since the power increase for WNSH is for daytime only,
> > I don't see what would prevent WPEP from continuing to
> > broadcast on 1570 as they were, at nighttime only. It
> > would beat 2 watts from Middleborough (which could also
> > continue).
> >
> > They would have to run some sort of promos on 1530 in
> > the daytime instructing listeners in the Taunton area
> > to turn their dials up a few clicks to 1570 at sunset.
> > Listeners who tune in for specific evening programs on
> > WPEP would already know that they're there. If they air
> > things like local evening school sports games, those
> > could be promoted beforehand as being on 1570.
> >
> > WPEP could come on at sunset, when WNSH powers down
> > to 85 watts, and could stay on until sunrise on the
> > following morning, then instructing listeners to tune
> > down to 1530 for the morning show. If WPEP did that,
> > it may be the only nighttime-only AM station in the
> > country, as far as I know.
> >
> > EP
> >
> >
> >