Re: [IRCA] WITH 1230 move to the Internet

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott:

	What you are saying does sound like what is going on.  However, I do 
question the move to all Internet.  I doubt they had that many 
listeners in DC to begin with and their internet audio feed sounds 
terrible. The whole concept of local stations going to the internet 
and staying viable is beyond me.  Going to the internet alone means 
that the station joins the 100,000's of other audio feeds out there. 
That means instead of being one of say 25 to 50 options (on AM and 
FM), they become just another webcaster.  I even tried streaming 
audio myself with old time radio programs. With all the people out 
there trying webcasting, how is a station like NewsTalkDC.com going 
to compete?

	WRBS started their programing with an ID at 1500 EST 12/22 as far as 
I can determine.   WITH with Dennis Prager was on during the 1200 to 
1500 slot and WRBS was on at 1500.  

On 24 Dec 2006 at 1:01, Scott Fybush wrote:

> The 1230 facility's not going off the air. It's been sold to another
> religious broadcaster, which operates WRBS-FM 95.1 in Baltimore, and
> either is already back on the air as WRBS(AM), or will be very soon.
> 
> All that's happening here is Salem cashing out of a marginal market 
> where it only owned one station and had little hope of buying more to
> create the sort of clusters it prefers to operate (like KPDQ AM/KPDQ
> FM/KFIS FM/KTRO FM in Portland).
> 
> The back story here is that Salem had already pulled its news-talk 
> format (Bill Bennett, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, etc.) out of the DC
> market a year or so ago, when it flipped WABS 780 to religious talk as
> WAVA(AM). While that programming continued up the road in Baltimore on
> WITH, Salem was already heavily promoting the "NewsTalkDC.com" webcast as
> a way for DC-area listeners to hear the format. (The WITH signal doesn't
> get into the DC market, day or night, with any kind of listenability.)
> 
> So while Salem loses some over-the-air listeners by getting rid of the
> WITH broadcast signal, it keeps the webcast listeners in DC, and pockets
> some cash by selling the WITH license to WRBS, which will probably move
> the religious spoken-word half of its programming to 1230 and turn 95.1
> into full-time contemporary Christian music.



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