Fybush: Willcox selling WNSH to Costa-Eagle

[Doug Drown]

As an ex-Bay Stater long in Maine, I'm curious: With the exception of 
WCAP and WNBP, are all the AMs in the North Shore and the Merrimack 
Valley now broadcasting in Spanish?    -Doug


Quoting lglavin@mail.com:
>
>  >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@mail.com>
> >To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> >Sent: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 11:41 am
> >Subject: Fybush: Willcox selling WNSH to Costa-Eagle
>
> >Scott Fybush said in today's North East Radio Watch (  
> http://www.fybush.com )
>
> >that Keating Willcox isn't just leasing WNSH
>
> >to Costa-Eagle for Spanish programming, simulcasting the 800/92.1 combo in
>
> >Lawrence area, he's selling it to them for $400,000. A "Power 1570" logo
> appears
>
> >on the page Costa-Eagle has up. 
>
> >http://power800am.com/
>
> >At least the 1570 they mentioned is a legit station. Awhile back 
> wasn't there a
>
> >pirate in the Merrimack
>
> >Valley (Methuen?) at 1570?
>
> >Certainly a Hispanic audience out there, and the 30,000 watt 
> directional signal
>
> >can do well (85w at night I believe though). 
>
> The pirate I recall being mentioned at 1570 in the Merrimack Valley was
> supposedly
> in Lowell.  WNSH is NON-directional.  Early in the process of 
> upgrading WNSH in
> terms
> of its signal strength, also including shutting down WPEP in Taunton, 
> there was
> a
> proposal to go to 50,000 watts with a directional antenna.  I'm sure 
> the people
> who
> live in the homes near the Endicott College campus would have loved 
> that!  There
> might
> have been a Oak Park District NIMBY group if that had gone forward.  
> As it is,
> 30,000
> watts out of a runt tower can't be much fun if a person living nearby 
> tried to
> listen
> to anything in the upper AM band. Yikes...I hope Costa-Eagle doesn't try to
> morph this deal
> into running 30K on 1570 out of the current 800 tower in Andover!  There goes
> WWZN for me!
>
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