Eddie Edwards: Health Issues, Withdraws WPYT Bid

[freddyb590]

http://kdka.com/local/eddie.edwards.withdraws.2.1288338.html

[FMWORLDWIDE]

sad. i heard 1150 WGBN-AM is going to have a signal boost sometime this week. i heard that Bev Smith is going to be on there starting Nov 7.

[only1moore]

I hope Eddie gets well. At least he did try to bring a Urban-type format back to Pittsburgh.

[MsMusicRadio]

PBRTV has a suggestion that a non-com add Urban programming. They site a situation in Erie. WRCT?

[GrizzledVet]

WRCT has two outstanding programs in this genre; the long-running music program "One to One" with 30-year vet Kevin Amos (6 am to noon Sundays and airing in the slot for over 10 years) and talk show "Ebony Spectrum" (Wednesdays at 6 pm).

[kenhawk1160]

sad. i heard 1150 WGBN-AM is going to have a signal boost sometime this week. i heard that Bev Smith is going to be on there starting Nov 7.

The only signal boost they're going to have is back up to their licensed 1,000 watts.  There's no construction permit stating otherwise.  They applied for an STA back in March of this year to operate at 500 watts semi-nondirectional due to wind damage of one of the tower's detuning skirts.  The only way they'll go beyond a thousand watts is if they do a very expensive engineering study that says they can go beyond that with their existing site, or build a third tower (they have enough space on that plot of land for one).  Either way, they'll need a new transmitter on top of that and I don't think Loran Mann is willing to spend that kind of money with the way the economy is right now.