[IRCA] REl Michigan radio question (WDOW-WKPR 1440)
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[IRCA] REl Michigan radio question (WDOW-WKPR 1440)

To complete Earl's comment about the Broadcasting Yearbook archive (and a bunch of other stuff!), it's David Gleason's website:
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/

Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897



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Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Michigan radio question (WDOW-WKPR 1440)

Your comments are appreciated, Earl, even if Canada no longer has the penny...took it out of circulation earlier this year.

Saul
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Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Michigan radio question (WDOW-WKPR 1440)
I count these things as new stations only if the new station transmitter coordinates are more than 50 air miles from the old station transmitter coordinates. That's just my personal criteria, but I find it works well in distinguishing between "essentially call changes" and "this really is a new station with a new set of parameters to go after". Notable examples in recent years are the Texas situation on 620 and on 990, Topeka/Kansas City on 1250, Potosi/Troy Missouri on 1280, etc.

Old transmitter coordinates can be gotten from old issues of Broadcasting Yearbook (available in a huge archive somewhere online, I forgot where). New transmitter coordinates can, of course, be obtained from the FCC database.

It doesn't answer your question specifically about this station, but it gives you my opinion-which is worth every penny!

Earl Higgins
St. Louis, Missouri

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:03 AM, Chernos Saul <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I heard WKPR Kalamazoo on 1440 this morning. I've previously logged WDOW in nearby Dowagiac but had never yet logged WKPR till now.

I don't count call changes. But I'm not sure what this situation represents. This info from Wikipedia is the best summary I've found thus far to describe the situation. Curious for any opinions...with thanks.

WDOW (1440 AM) was a radio station<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_station> licensed to Dowagiac, Michigan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowagiac%2c_Michigan>, broadcasting a sports radio<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_radio> format. According to Michguide.com, Kalamazoo Broadcasting (aka Kuiper Broadcasting), owner of WKPR AM 1420 Kalamazoo, is paying $80,000 to Langford Broadcasting as part of an agreement that would take WDOW off the air permanently and have WKPR move to AM 1440 and increase power in November 2010. On March 24, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission> cancelled WDOW's license and deleted the call sign from its database.


Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON

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