[BC] Complex Pattern Change

[Peter]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 2:08 PM, ACN wrote:

> The 540 is no longer on the air?
>
>> Can anybody provide information (and possibly pictures) of the 9- 
>> tower DA, long since dark, in Muskegon, MI?
>>
>> Same for the 540 in Costa Mesa (well really in the dessert near  
>> Lucerne Valley).

540 is dead and buried ... a long time ago.

It was reliably reported that the ENTIRE purpose for (Saul) Levine  
putting this station on-air, with its Tx site a full EIGHTY-SIX miles  
distant from its COL, Costa Mesa, was to obtain an ex-band allocation  
by use of the so-called "stereo preference" for such allocations.

Levine was, indeed, successful, and he almost immediately "flipped"  
the ex-band allocation to another group, reportedly for middle double  
digits of millions, and which was later moved to an L.A. suburb  
through a "major change" (became KFOX, Torrance), on the basis of a  
"first aural service" to that 'burb.

Levine was "shopping" the towers and Tx of his 540 well before the  
sale of the (uncompleted) x-band allocation was completed (was  
installed, ultimately, on the east tower of KWKW).

The prospective purchaser did not "bite", and, instead, installed all- 
new equipment.

Levine reportedly walked away with $30+ millions.