WJIB

[Terry]

I could always pick up HEB-AM in Aroostook County and in New York State.

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From: "John" <jscavo@maine.rr.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:40 PM
To: <markwa1ion@aol.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Subject: RE: WJIB

> I picked up HEB-AM a few times back in the late 70's in East Boston!
>
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> From: markwa1ion@aol.com [mailto:markwa1ion@aol.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 8:47 AM
> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: WJIB
>
> WHEB-750 Portsmouth would have been a "killer" for coverage not only of 
> the
> southern ME, NH, and MA seacoast down to and including Cape Ann but it 
> also
> had a spectacularly loud signal on the South Shore and Cape Cod.  Signal
> strength measurements that I took from West Yarmouth in the '70s put its 1
> kW ahead of 850's 50 kW and nearly in the same league as 680 and 1030.
>
> But a 50 kW in Bangor ?  I'm not sure that the expense would be justified
> for the amount of people served who couldn't get WJTO-730 as well.  If it
> was Bar Harbor instead of more inland Bangor, they'd have a monster signal
> along the entire New England coast as well as parts of Nova Scotia and New
> Brunswick and all the way south to Montauk Point, Long Island.  When St.
> John, New Brunswick (CHSJ) was on 700, they could be heard all day as far
> south as Chincoteague, VA !
>
> But Bangor isn't Bar Harbor (or St. John) in terms of sea gain boost.
>
> What could be a bit cheaper for Bob would be to scoop up West Yarmouth's
> 1240 and/or Plymouth's 1390 to provide the Cape Cod area with programming
> well-matched to its sizeable senior population (who used to have nostalgia
> music on FM but lost that).
>
> Mark Connelly - Billerica, MA
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> <<
> Betcha Hecht & Alonso will happily consider offers for their 750 CP in
> Hampden, outside of Bangor (50 kW-D/10 kW-N DA-N four towers).
> Although the grant date was 1/18/2005, meaning that it should have expired
> two years ago, the CP has apparently been tolled, because my source 
> carries
> a notation that it won't expire until 2029!
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> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> eFax 1-707-215-6367
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> To: <aerie.ma@comcast.net>;
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 2:54 AM
> Subject: Re: I guess holiday music works
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>
>>
>> In a message dated 1/8/2010 10:38:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> aerie.ma@comcast.net writes:
>>
>> I am thinking that if Bob Bitner had been able to buy WHEB, he would
>> have blanketed the coastline on 730, 740, and 750.
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>> Had I been awake and aware of 750's ownership's thoughts at the time,
>> I definitely would have. Absolutely!
>> ---BB
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