Keener 13 was a Detroit legend. When I lived there the station was playing Motown Gold, which is a vast improvement over its current lineup.
This Minority Media Foundation is going to have one helluva time getting this station back up without towers. That’s a very expensive proposition. My bet is this station never returns to the air.
AM radio stations are facing the same fate as drive-in movie theaters. The real estate that their towers sit on has become more valuable than what they could ever make selling ad time to a dwindling audience.
The demise of Keener 13 (Tiger’s Flagship).
Probably a good thing tho since it was currently a “LibTalk” station (so they were going broke!).
I guess I’m wondering how anyone would cost effectively rebuild a 6 tower array even with the core license being donated.
Again, as in Columbus, OH, where lib talk just dies, this is another signal hampered station that would struggle with just about any format.
I always go back to the Boston example of how well conservative talk does on a signal hampered station. Clear Channel’s 1200 AM frequency was a bust with Rush as it’s anchor. Being on AM is tough these days. Not being a blow torch signal is even tougher.
Not sure I see the problem.
Have Jessie shakedown Google for servers and bandwith, Apple Itunes for music, have the lib talkers donate their shows to this important cause and let Obama broadcast it to the installed Obamaphone base on taxpayer money.
That’s new American Capitalism isn’t it?
I need to get hired by a lib think tank. I’d be a millionaire overnight.
(The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council)”
...”minority” anything makes me ill. I stop reading when I see sh&& like this. Besides, the good news was in the headline!
It is too bad that clear Channel is shutting down WDTW AM 1310. Keeping that station on the air could be a real public service. These people need somewhere to vent. If they keep all that hate bottled up in side of them they could become very dangerous. After all a vessel building up steam without a vent will eventually blow up. :>)
Gee, local small business doesn’t buy ad time during lib talkers who are generally trashing the successful entrepreneur. Who would have guessed?