[BC] Dead air or no air...

[Scott Fybush]

WBRadiolists at aol.com wrote:

> I found WARE in Radio-Locator, but not WDEW. I see that WARE is an AM, so 
> what was with WDEW that it got no calls for a rather valuable prize? That's sad. 
> :(

The license that was WDEW is now WNNZ, but there's little similarity 
between the two: WDEW was a daytimer on 1570 in Westfield, Mass., with 
something like 500 watts that barely even reached the 15 miles to 
Springfield. (Rich Wood or Richard Johnson can probably correct me on 
the power level.)

It became WLDM, and then, circa 1990, owner Curt Hahn got a CP to move 
it to 640 with 50 kW days and fairly minimal night power. It now 
blankets western Mass. and parts of eastern NY during the day, but it's 
owned by Clear Channel and leased out to public broadcaster WFCR 
Amherst, which runs NPR news programming on it.

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