[BC] AM still has potential

[Rob Landry]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, richardbrianjohnson at verizon.net wrote:

> I was once offered an AM station license with its equipment with the 
> provision that I move the transmitter site off its millions-of-dollars 
> real estate site. I spent about $5k trying to find a new site. There was 
> no place where the transmitter could put the required FI at the post 
> office in the COL if it was moved.

> Last I checked, it went dark. The real-estate is too valuable for an AM 
> transmitter site.

A client of mine just built an AM station within the Boston city limits. 
It's located on a very small piece of land owned by a construction company 
in the Hyde Park neighborhood, and uses a Valcom whip antenna.

Right now the station is being programmed from a computer, and the only 
voice you'll hear on it is mine (on drop-ins and ID's), but that's going 
to end in a couple weeks when he starts presenting live, local programming 
from a newly built studio co-located with one of his other stations.

Rob