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.
It’s not just the towers (antenna array). The transmitter goes too.
To put up another transmitter isn’t a huge deal. To replace that array of towers... that’s a huge deal. AM radio stations don’t do squat without at least a large (200’+) tower for an antenna.
Even in Detroit?