Re: [IRCA] 1140 Greenville RI

["Dana Puopolo" <dpuopolo@xxxxxxx>]

Alex has a good site locked up and plans to build a four tower array on it. Al
Wormus is working on the pattern as we speak. It will be at least a kW full
time.

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:40:30 AM EDT
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@xxxxxxx>
To: <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>Cc: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	"Craig Healy"
<bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	"DANA PUOPOLO" <dpuopolo@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 1140 Greenville RI

Probably the best person to ask--assumung you can get any info from him--is
Dana Puopolo. I don't know if Dana reads this list or not, but he is a good
friend of Alex Langer's and has worked for him on several projects. I also
think that Dana currently lives in Rhode Island. The application, which is
available from CDBS, certainly LOOKS as if Alex is serious. The app is
signed by Elmer Steinglass of Carl Smith Consulting in Cleveland. AFAIK, the
firm is widely regarded as one of the top two in AM DA design in the US.
(The other is duTreil, Lunden, and Rackley in Sarasota.) To get in under the
1/31/04 filing window, the app was originally filed for ND operation with 1
kW-D and 223W night but was refiled (maybe in its current form or maybe not)
about a year later.

I do not think there would be problems with WTTT 1150 in Boston. There would
be normally prohibited overlap with WBBR but the FCC has sanctioned such
overlap between so many New York and New England stations in the area east
of Naragansett Bay that I think it's a foregone conclusion that the
Commission would not reject the 1140 app for that reason. But could the site
be assembled at an acceptable cost and could local zoning approvals be
secured? I wouldn't hold my breath. Maybe a diplex with 990 would work, but
if I'm not mistaken, the 990 site is quite a way further north (in
Burrillville), and from there, 1140 would probably not be able to deliver a
(15.09 mV/m) NIF signal to Greenville.

Alex has another pending application for a complex six-tower array not far
away. He has proposed to move his WSRO 650 Ashland MA (currently 250W-D/9W-N
ND-U, diplexed with WKOX and WBIX from the WKOX site in Framingham MA) to
Lexington MA and to move the Tx to a six-tower site on the east side of
Route 1 in Wrentham MA from which it would run 5 kW-D DA-D. Wrentham is
close to the RI border almost 40 miles south of Lexington! I have never
thought that Alex was serious about the WSRO move because it requires about
60 acres of land and it would not surprise me if the land at the specified
site would cost him $1 million/acre.

WSRO has found a pretty nice market niche. There is a large community of
Portuguese speakers in eastern MA, many of them in Framingham, and WSRO's
brokered programming in Portuguese serves them well. The Tx move to Wrentham
would bring still more Portuguese speakers in southeastern MA into the
coverage area. But enough to justify spending $60 million on land? I doubt
that VERY much! Would Alex be able to make a go of the Provdence operation?
Perhaps he would run it // with WSRO. The signal MIGHT be good enough by day
in Fall River and New Bedford to serve the large Portuguese-speaking
communities there.

Anyhow, the WSRO app is currently mutually exclusive with an app for 650
from Steven Wendell in Raymond ME. Wendell also has two apps for New
Hampshire, one on 540 and one on 870. Wendell has a LONG history of applying
for low-on-the-dial directional AMs and being unable to build them for a
variety of reasons. His longest running CP, for WKNJ 550 on the New York New
Jersey border, must have kicked around for 20 years before the FCC finally
deleted it.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@xxxxxxx
eFax 707-215-6367












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