WBIX going Catholic

[Peter Q. George]

The 1060 facility seems to be hexed.  Ever since Garabedian tried to become a major player in upgrading the-then daytimer WGTR to full-time, THAT was when it never quite "made the grade" again.  WGTR was a great full-service 1000 watt daytimer that really had a following in the Metro West.  It was a good format.  But when it tried to be a "50,000 watt" (yeah, right) all-news station, with WEEI pretty much owning THE franchise in Boston, 1060 never worked again. It never got a full operating license due to its' highly unstable directional pattern.  WBZ was always on their necks claiming interference.  It was to become a walking disaster. Let's see... WBIV, WSTD, WTTP, WMEX, multiple brokered formats with very little results, and of course the famous WBIX scandal...... well... 1060 has not been quite a "stellar player" in it's 38 years of existence. Hope the Catholic operators have got some money to do something with that poor station.  A little prayer
 might be appropriate.  Bon chance.    

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
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--- On Mon, 7/12/10, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:

> From: Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>
> Subject: Re: WBIX going Catholic
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Date: Monday, July 12, 2010, 11:20 AM
> On 7/12/2010 11:15 AM, Dan.Strassberg
> wrote:
> > So what does Holy Family have on WHIC? Some Protestant
> stations are
> > pretty lively, but there are a lot that, like WEZE,
> are deadly dull.
> > The same is likely true of Catholic stations.
> 
> WHIC (and its sister station WLOF in Buffalo) are largely
> EWTN programming, as are most of the Catholic stations that
> have been growing like crazy in the last few years.
> 
> I am not a frequent listener, and am ill-qualified to
> render a judgment on their programming.
> 
> > OTOH, Holy Family did build out WHIC's CP, which may
> or may not mean
> > that they would do the same with WBIX's CP to move its
> day site to
> > Ashland and, despite an increase in daytime power to
> 50 kW, give up a
> > large chunk of daytime coverage in order to save the
> cost of renting
> > the separate day site. Also, how is WHIC's technical
> operation? WBIX
> > will be pretty complex even if it can operate from one
> site. Requires
> > an owner who is really committed to maintaining the
> facilities.
> 
> Holy Family had to build out WHIC's CP - they'd already
> lost the old 1460 site and were operating on a very
> temporary lease at the 950 site a mile or so to the west.
> The WHIC facility is a pretty simple one: a 3-tower 5 kW
> (equivalent) DA-N.
> 
> They did a nice job on it, and it actually gets out better
> than the old facility did.
> 
> At the same time, I've heard all kinds of rumors about Holy
> Family not having a lot of cash in the bank, so where
> they're getting $1 million in cash to buy WBIX and operate
> it is somewhat beyond me.
> 
> s
>