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WECK Buffalo Owner Buddy Shula Acquires WHLD Niagara Falls, N.Y.
He turned a one-lung AM station at 1230 AM into a successful oldies outlet in the market. What are his plans now that he has his hands on AM 1270, currently a conservative talk format? So far, this Buddy isn't sparing a dime about what he'll do with his newest acquisition, which is easier to get in the GTA than WECK or any of its FM rebroadcasters.
But not always by much.
"WHLD uses a five-tower array for 5kw during daylight hours and 1kw at night, using a directional two-pattern signal. This puts a signal over Niagara Falls and Buffalo in addition to St. Catharines, Ont., and much of the Greater Toronto Area."
Shula has turned dross into gold before. It will be fun to see what he does with HLD. By the way, the price of buying a station ain't what it used to be. Shula's cost for 1270? Just $150,000.
Buddy Shula Gets A Second AM In Buffalo
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$150K usd. A steal.
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It will be interesting to see if he flips formats or not. WHLD's site is southwest of Buffalo, so the coverage to the east, including downtown Buffalo, is quite constrained because of the protection to WHTK 1280 Rochester. WECK, despite its 1 kw power, is non-directional and is actually a lot stronger in the core of Buffalo. WHLD is aimed boresight at Niagara Falls, so a lot stronger there.
The construction permit for 5 kW day, 143 watts night dates back to 1999. They got a subsequent increase to 1 kW night.
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Skywave wrote:
It will be interesting to see if he flips formats or not. WHLD's site is southwest of Buffalo, so the coverage to the east, including downtown Buffalo, is quite constrained because of the protection to WHTK 1280 Rochester. WECK, despite its 1 kw power, is non-directional and is actually a lot stronger in the core of Buffalo. WHLD is aimed boresight at Niagara Falls, so a lot stronger there.
The construction permit for 5 kW day, 143 watts night dates back to 1999. They got a subsequent increase to 1 kW night.
Given all that, he’s probably just going to simulcast WECK on it.
Regardless, it definitely will be flipped from syndicated conservative talk.
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I'm not sure exactly what the rules are on this, but doesn't WHLD also have to be careful not to interfere with CJTM, the Metropolitan Toronto University (i.e. the former-Ryerson) radio station at 1280 AM? It's all of 99 watts, so you can barely get it out of the downtown core, but I suppose another stronger signal on 1270, even if it's a weak one from a distance might possibly be a problem.
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The last station in accepts interference from pre-existing stations. CJTM at 99 watts is below the 100 watt minimum for AM protected status in any event.
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I unfortunately picked up MET Radio one afternoon a few months back here in Burlington. None other than Desmond Cole elucidating his deep thoughts on Jewish people.
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I unfortunately picked up MET Radio one afternoon a few months back here in Burlington. None other than Desmond Cole elucidating his deep thoughts on Jewish people.
I regularly get CJTM here in central Hamilton on the mountain. Considering its 99 watt signal, it does beam well across the lake. The signal is only ok stationary.
To speak of it, I also receive CHRY (Vibe105) in my area also. They transmit from York University at 158 watts.
I program from CFMU at 166 watts (of boomin' hip-hop power, at least for my own show...) and can very barely receive us there.
To stay on topic, getting WHLD 1270 is another barely DX'd signal for me.
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Maybe buddy's going to bring back the old swing 1270 or put classic country on that friquency.
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Maybe buddy's going to bring back the old swing 1270 or put classic country on that friquency.
Swing 1270 is doable, but the audience for it is slowly passing away.
For Classic Country, there's already
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Well here's an embarrassing screw-up by Barrett Media, which reports on radio news. WHLD has been taken over by Buddy Shula, whose company is called "Radio One Buffalo."
But Barrett Media's artwork for the article on the takeover shows the WHLD logo - and the famous red CBC circles. It would appear they've mistaken (or A.I. did) CBC Radio One for the somewhat similarly named Shula company in Buffalo.
But it's fun to speculate. What WOULD the CBC do with WHLD?
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Oh that's funny. I listen to former CNN Pentagon/Military reporter Chris Plante on 1270. He is relentless against everything Democrat and wouldn't last 1 minute on CBC Radio or any Canadian radio station for that matter. A wonderful counteract to John Moore.
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Maybe buddy's going to bring back the old swing 1270 or put classic country on that friquency.
Swing 1270 is doable, but the audience for it is slowly passing away.
For Classic Country, there's already
Well then, maybe a 24/7 polka music station or he should make it an all localy oriented talk radio station.
It would be silly to simalcast WECK on 1270, how many transmiters and rebroadcasters does it have in the same city?
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Maybe buddy's going to bring back the old swing 1270 or put classic country on that friquency.
Swing 1270 is doable, but the audience for it is slowly passing away.
For Classic Country, there's alreadyWell then, maybe a 24/7 polka music station or he should make it an all localy oriented talk radio station.
It would be silly to simalcast WECK on 1270, how many transmiters and rebroadcasters does it have in the same city?
Yacht rock format is more likely than polka.
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"But it's fun to speculate. What WOULD the CBC do with WHLD?"
Actually, 1270 AM could be useful as a fill-in transmitter for R1, now that Buffalo has a first adhacent station operating on 98.9 FM. As long as the AM station is owned by an American, it's a possibility. But rest assured, with the Mother Corp., it won't happen.
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It will be interesting to see if he flips formats or not. WHLD's site is southwest of Buffalo, so the coverage to the east, including downtown Buffalo, is quite constrained because of the protection to WHTK 1280 Rochester. WECK, despite its 1 kw power, is non-directional and is actually a lot stronger in the core of Buffalo. WHLD is aimed boresight at Niagara Falls, so a lot stronger there.
The construction permit for 5 kW day, 143 watts night dates back to 1999. They got a subsequent increase to 1 kW night.Given all that, he’s probably just going to simulcast WECK on it.
Regardless, it definitely will be flipped from syndicated conservative talk.
Or WILL it? Over on the Buffalo/NF/Rochester board, Bill Yuhnke(who owns WEBR-AM and WLVL-AM)said that Premiere called to tell him that they're exercising their 90 day right to cancel all of the conservative talk shows airing on WLVL, adding that they've got a new station in the market lined up.
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I unfortunately picked up MET Radio one afternoon a few months back here in Burlington. None other than Desmond Cole elucidating his deep thoughts on Jewish people.
I regularly get CJTM here in central Hamilton on the mountain. Considering its 99 watt signal, it does beam well across the lake. The signal is only ok stationary.
To speak of it, I also receive CHRY (Vibe105) in my area also. They transmit from York University at 158 watts.
I program from CFMU at 166 watts (of boomin' hip-hop power, at least for my own show...) and can very barely receive us there.
To stay on topic, getting WHLD 1270 is another barely DX'd signal for me.
CFMU reaches West Oakville.
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Reception was excellent today. No fade QEW eastbound at Third Line south in Oakville.