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Post by thelegacy on Oct 2, 2018 18:54:55 GMT
Another license down the drain. #14 this year is
WDCD 1540 kHz, Albany, NY voluntarily surrendered and canceled as of Sept. 28.
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Post by sparepart on Oct 2, 2018 20:56:03 GMT
Another license down the drain. #14 this year is WDCD 1540 kHz, Albany, NY voluntarily surrendered and canceled as of Sept. 28. Stations silent more than 2 months: www.fcc.gov/media/radio/silent-am-list |
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Post by Boomer on Oct 2, 2018 23:38:56 GMT
I've had several AM signals go off air in my region in the past few years.
It's not that they really needed to go off, it's that management was a problem.
A radio company will sell a station to a new or smaller company, but they will keep the land that the station sits on, and the new company pays monthly rent to broadcast from there. That's dangerous, because it takes time for a station to start to make money to even pay their note.
Another scenario is turning a station off because it competes with other stations a company owns in an area. Turning it off doesn't let someone else have it and becoming your competitor.
I see more of this than stations simply not being needed.
I'm not sure about the deathwatch, there are still thousands of AM stations on the air.
Boomer
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Post by mark on Oct 3, 2018 4:37:47 GMT
Looked at the list and then looked at the list of FM stations that went silent in 2018 and the FM list was almost 2X larger!
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Post by Boomer on Oct 4, 2018 1:03:13 GMT
I can see that Oldies Mark, and since there are double the number of FM stations on the air, the AM statistic doesn't seem as dire.
Nothing to argue against what Legacy is saying though, reading that WDCD was 50 kilowatts, so it's the loss of a big time signal.
Radio-Locator shows that their FM is still operating, 5 kw at 100 meters, not what their AM coverage probably was, but still getting Albany and Schenectady in the circle.
At least the area still has 810 WGY on the air with 50 kw.
Boomer
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Post by cthuskyman on Nov 1, 2018 2:43:57 GMT
Another license down the drain. #14 this year is WDCD 1540 kHz, Albany, NY voluntarily surrendered and canceled as of Sept. 28. Stations silent more than 2 months: www.fcc.gov/media/radio/silent-am-list Wondering which of these stations would be interested in selling ownership rights? Not that I have the money to buy a station right now....but it's a thought. Perhaps, sometime, I could actually do it. |
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