Conelrad

[Dan.Strassberg]

Well, for several years in the fairly recent past, the station that I
perceive to be WGBB's principal competitor (currently known as WLIE
Islip 540), had a mostly live and local talk format. But thanks to a
succession of power increases, WLIE, which, even with 250W, had a
killer signal because of its low dial position--despite the horrendous
soil conductivity on Long Island's South Shore--eventually covered
most of Long Island east of New York City by day. And then, even the
phenomenal coverage, which also included a lot of New Jersey (thanks
to the salt water path) as well as Westchester and Putnam Counties in
NY and Fairfield County in CT, eventually proved insufficient. The
station was acquired for $14 million by Principle Radio (WESX, WJDA,
and 1530 in Bridgeport). Like the other Principle stations, tt now
broadcasts brokered Spanish religion.

I have no idea what WGBB is doing. It would not surprise me to find
that it, too, is doing brokered ethnic. Tough to compete with all of
those New York City signals, which are pretty strong on Long Island.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Stephanie Weil"
<stephanie@gordsven.com>; "Bill Dillane" <dillane@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Conelrad


>I can only guess what a delight a small-town 100-watt or 250-watt
> "graveyard" station must have been years ago.  I'm not being nasty
> here.
> Some of my fondest listening memories are of little 1,000-watt WGAW
> in
> Gardner (250 watts at night).  Real home town radio.  I'll bet there
> aren't
> many of 'em doing a full-service format like that anymore.    -Doug
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "Stephanie Weil" <stephanie@gordsven.com>; "Bill Dillane"
> <dillane@sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Conelrad
>
>
>> No, 1440; you are thinking of WGBB Freeport, which was just 100W
>> when
>> I was a kid. Before it became a full-timer, WGBB shared time with
>> several other stations, one of which was WFAS White Plains. The
>> time-share was broken up at the time of NARBA (March '41) and two
>> stations survived, WGBB, which went to 1240 with 100W-U and WFAS
>> which
>> went to 1230 with 250W-U. Eventually, both WFAS and WGBB increased
>> to
>> 1 kW-U, but before that, WFAS moved from a tower not quite atop the
>> Roger Smith Hotel in downtown White Plains to Greenburgh, where it
>> constructed an efficient half-wave stick on which the WFAS-FM
>> antenna
>> was also mounted. The original Greenburgh stick was a
>> self-supporter
>> but it was replaced at some point with the present guyed tower. And
>> now I guess the FM is moving south. 103.9 has been granted a CoL
>> change (to Bronxville, I believe), which may allow a Tx move into
>> the
>> Bronx. I'm guessing that 103.9 will then flip to Spanish.
>>
>> As for 1440 in Babylon; it has applied to change its CoL to Medfod
>> NY
>> at the eastern end of Suffolk County, where it will diplex from the
>> 1580 towers. That move will allow WNSW 1430 to diplex from the
>> Clifton
>> site of co-owned WPAT 930. WNSW has a CP for 10 kW-D/7 kW-N DA-2
>> from
>> the four self-supporting, top-loaded WPAT sticks, which are 225
>> degrees at 1430.
>>
>> And now you know the R-R-R-R-REST of the story!
>> -----
>> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
>> eFax 1-707-215-6367
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Stephanie Weil" <stephanie@gordsven.com>
>> To: "Bill Dillane" <dillane@sbcglobal.net>
>> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:05 AM
>> Subject: Re: Conelrad
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Sun, November 25, 2007 10:56, Bill Dillane wrote:
>> >
>> >> False.  I grew up a mile away from a 1240 tower.  As a young kid
>> >> I
>> >> couldn't
>> >> figure out how this little station in a small city was going to
>> >> save us
>> >> all.
>> >
>> > And there's also little WNYG out of Babylon, New York (on Long
>> > Island).
>> > They've been on 1240 forever.
>> >
>> > Stephanie Weil
>> > New York City, USA
>> >
>>
>