[BC] WLW my take

[Rob Atkinson]

When WLW was at 500 kw, they behaved like a network of one station.   That 
was because they could.  They were 100% original programming, attracted big 
names, and had a large studio complex.   the "Nation's Station" slogan was I 
think the top off.   My understanding was that originally the 500 kw was an 
experiment.  You would assume under the circumstances that they would 
quietly conduct field strength measurments for a year or two at different 
times and seasons all around the U.S. and within the day g/w, then submit 
the results and FCC would decide if the 500 kw auth. should be made 
available to other 1-As.  but no, they exploited the situation and kept 
getting renewals of the special authorization for the "experiment."   It's 
not surprising the other 1-As seethed over this. If i were a licensee 
providing top quality programming on my 50 kw, i would have been unhappy 
about this also.   It's too bad it was handled this way but oh well, it's 
all moot now.

rob atkinson
st. charles IL


From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] WLW
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:22:35 -0500

------ At 01:13 AM 12/19/2005, khcs at juno.com wrote: -------

>Well, it was "The Nation's Station" but to suggest that they had listeners 
>all over the nation would be stretching things quite a bit.

The standard claim for 50Kw stations was that they served 38 states.

Rich

Rich Wood
Rich Wood Multimedia
Phone: 413-303-9084
FAX: 413-480-0010

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