WABI/WAEI-Bangor- Heritage AM StationTo Close Down?

[Dan.Strassberg]

Hecht and Alonso (Hecht being Charlie Hecht, who engineered WQOM's and
WSRO's upgrades) held an expired-in-2011 CP for 750 kHz 50-kW-D/10-KW-N DA-N
in Hampden ME (near Bangor). This facility, if built, would have been
Maine's most powerful AM. Was the station never built because the permittees
realized that they could never recover the construction cost if they tried
to sell the station after it was licensed? Or did this CP fall prey to any
of several possible scenarios, among which are land acquisition, NIMBYs, and
zoning? If the Hampden station existed, moving WAEI to its site would still
have required the addition of one tower, but in this case, the host
station's directional array would have had four towers and the new tower
could have been placed somewhere near the center of the parallelogram,
avoiding the gymnastics of trying to locate appropriate spots for the tower
and ground system at the WZON site.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M. Casey" <map@mapinternet.com>
To: <Jibguy@aol.com>; <lglavin@mail.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: WABI/WAEI-Bangor- Heritage AM StationTo Close Down?


> According to Wikipedia, Blueberry Broadcasting took the station dark as of
> Sept. 1.
> And Radio-Locator has deleted it from the listings.
> Anyone here know anyone at Radio-Locator?
> In all cases like this, it sure would be nice if they left the technical
> information up at least until the license is turned in to the FCC.
>
> The tower land issue looks grim. But, with the economy in the slow state
> it
> is, I can't imagine that another piece of land is out of the question.
> Better yet...how's the possibility of diplexing with another station?
>
> Mark Casey
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Jibguy@aol.com>
> To: <lglavin@mail.com>;
>
> In a message dated 9/12/2013 2:16:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> lglavin@mail.com writes:
>
> WAEI-AM  910 in Bangor, ME has requested approval to go silent for the
> time
> being  until
> a buyer can be found, and if not, then turn in the license. WAEI is  the
> former WABI-AM, a 5,000-watt fulltime
> facility in the second largest  market in the state that came into being
> in
> 1924.
>
>
> The tower site is the problem.  It is being re-designed or sold, and  the
> 2
> towers to be taken down. typical scenario.... "the land is worth more than
> the station".  In this case, it's quite true, as the area the towers are,
> is in one of Bangor-area's mall development areas. - I really hope this
> great  heritage station is purchased. (I'd do it if I had the time, and if
> my
> wife  would let me!)
> -----jibguy
>