Fybush: Willcox selling WNSH to Costa-Eagle

[Gary's Ice Cream]

The pirate is STILL on the air in Lowell - with a dead carrier (and has been
a dead carrier for over 3 years).  The studio and antenna/tower is located
on Back Central Street.  There is even a sign in the front of the building
advertising that this is the home of WKNE 1570.  The callsign is currently
licensed to a Keene NH FM station but the AM version used to be active in
Georgia (but no longer is).  They have a 100-watt transmitter and despite
continuous protests to the owner he claims that "his engineer" told him that
a 100-watt AM station was covered by Part-15 of the FCC rules (of course he
is off by 1000 times - the legal part 15 limit is 100 MILIWATTS or 1/10 of a
watt).  When the station was actually putting programming (automated
Portuguese) on the carrier he was selling advertising (reportedly for $1 per
spot).  WLLH, the former WCAP owner and a number of private citizens have
all reported him both by phone and in writing to the FCC office in Quincy
but NO action has been taken - the carrier has been on the air for over 10
years now.  It does completely obliterate the WNSH signal for about a 6 - 9
block area.....from the Superior Courthouse to the Mobil Gas Station on
Gorham Street to the LRTA Intermodal Station and to Fort Hill Park.  I know
that Keating Wilcox has also been informed at least 3 times of this pirate
and apparently have also done nothing.
Kinda makes ya think that we should all start up our own 100-watt stations
doesn't it!?!


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 >-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@mail.com>
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>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!