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WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold.

Posted by JJSPC1372 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=JJSPC1372' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 9, 2024, 3:24 pm

Looks like a lot going on here. Purchase price looks to be $50,000 for the station, which does not include the transmitter site that is being sold to a third party for residential development.

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Re: WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold.

Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 9, 2024, 5:36 pm, in reply to "WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold."

Matt DuBeil will now own 2 suburban AM's and 2 suburban FM Translators. For sure WBIG will be the better potential of the 2 pairs.

Z

Re: WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold.

Posted by JJSPC1372 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=JJSPC1372' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 9, 2024, 5:54 pm, in reply to "Re: WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold."

Be interesting to know what the plan is to keep 1280 on the air when the towers are removed from the current site.

Re: WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold.

Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 9, 2024, 6:50 pm, in reply to "Re: WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold."

JJSPC1372. I am not sure what Matt will do. This is all conjecture but from a financial standpoint, he will probably lower the AM power and feed it off of a wire like he does 1530. The value is in the FM translator. That will probably find home on a tall building or cell tower. Unless he tries to move it E, SE, NE a bit to reach part of the city, but you have the Class A FM's surrounding it to deal with.

WBIG is a nice local signal @ 105.5 in a very populated suburban area of Aurora & Naperville. I hope it stays that way and doesn't end up niched and overall unfocused, like his 102.3

Z

Re: WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold.

Posted by ilgrant <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=ilgrant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 15, 2024, 12:23 pm, in reply to "Re: WBIG 1280 license/tower site being sold."

Isn't the River on 95.9 on the same tower? If so, where would they land?

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