Thanks, Steve.
I was just curious.
Didn't think there'd be room for another news./talk station in that market
anyway.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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> They used to simulcast; then they did a separate broadcast for awhile.
> But,
> the AM station went dark probably fifteen years ago.
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>
> Steve:
>
> And Steve, here's another question for you:
>
> Whatever happened to WITL A M on 1010 AM?
>
> I swear that, when I was traveling through the Lansing area several years
> ago, I couldn't find them.
>
> They used to simulcast with the FM country station, but were nowhere to be
> found, last I checked.
>
> If you want to take this off list, I can be reached via my private e-mail
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> 73 from tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:59 PM
> Subject: Re: slightly off topic, but maybe of interest to some
>
>
>> Yeah, that happened probably at least three years ago. We have the same
>> problem here; Shitadel Broadcasting dominates the market, with another
>> groups
>> of stations fighting to survive. When WJIM was Oldies; we had some
>> really
>> competition for the Sports market with one station simulcasting on FM
>> most
>> of
>> the time; except when they broadcast two different games. That was nice
>> as
>> the little AM peanut whistle sports station here is almost unhearable at
>> night
>> on this side of town. It was one of those stations given a 24-hour
>> license
>> back in the 80's and probably runs 100 watts at night.
>>
>> Anyway, that little station which is part of Citadel, used its market
>> dominance to drive the other two stations to different formats. One
>> became
>> smooth Jazz, which is nice; and the other took over the Oldies market
>> with
>> a
>> syndicated place from Colorado. It is on 92.1 but doesn't have a huge
>> coverage area.
>>
>> Steve
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