Patrick Martin wrote: > Bill, > > Now that sounds strange. I would think they would have more listeners on > 1230. Maybe a sign of the future for others too? We can hope.
The 1230 facility's not going off the air. It's been sold to another religious broadcaster, which operates WRBS-FM 95.1 in Baltimore, and either is already back on the air as WRBS(AM), or will be very soon. All that's happening here is Salem cashing out of a marginal market where it only owned one station and had little hope of buying more to create the sort of clusters it prefers to operate (like KPDQ AM/KPDQ FM/KFIS FM/KTRO FM in Portland). The back story here is that Salem had already pulled its news-talk format (Bill Bennett, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, etc.) out of the DC market a year or so ago, when it flipped WABS 780 to religious talk as WAVA(AM). While that programming continued up the road in Baltimore on WITH, Salem was already heavily promoting the "NewsTalkDC.com" webcast as a way for DC-area listeners to hear the format. (The WITH signal doesn't get into the DC market, day or night, with any kind of listenability.) So while Salem loses some over-the-air listeners by getting rid of the WITH broadcast signal, it keeps the webcast listeners in DC, and pockets some cash by selling the WITH license to WRBS, which will probably move the religious spoken-word half of its programming to 1230 and turn 95.1 into full-time contemporary Christian music. s _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
