Has WDIS DISappeared?

[Dan.Strassberg]

I have no information on whether WDIS is or is not still on the air, but I
have it from a reliable source that, a month or so ago, the owner, Al Grady,
tried to get UMass, which owns and operates WFPB, the co-channel daytimer on
Cape Cod (Falmouth, isn't it?), to buy WDIS. Apparently, the WDIS
tyransmitter site has been sold and the new owner plans to drop the two
towers. UMAss apparently had no interest in buying WDIS--and even if it were
interested, finding a new site that meets all of the technical and zoning
requirements would take forever and would cost a fortune with zero
likelihood of a return. Since WDIS never made money (all the money that came
in in the last decade or more came from leasing space on the towers for
communications antennas), never had a raison d'etre (except maybe to keep
the WDIS calls out of Disney's hands), and never should have been built, it
appears that the station will soon be treated to the legendary "two in the
hat" (one for each tower;>).

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 3:34 PM
Subject: Has WDIS DISappeared?


> There are reports that WDIS-AM 1170 in Norfolk, MA is no longer
> on-the-air. The usually reliable
> radio-locator.com, which seems to display the fact that any given station
> is off-the-air as rapidly
> as the FCC itself lists it , and fcc.gov lists it as an active station as
> well. There's at least one media
> entity that might LIKE to acquire the WDIS call letters if it goes away.