WPLN News Archive; WPLN-AM (Scott Huler) 4 15 02; News Archive 4/15/02-7/8/02

listen to this that's am radio or actually not so much am radio as am equipment out in madison the antenna broadcasting wpln the fourteen thirty am pumps are fifteen thousand watts of signaled all day alone that's not an actual reviews your playing though the signal for the station is so strong at the transmitter that inside the little cinder block house the equipment itself by greats along playing the signal without speakers kind of like one of those kids who supposedly got the radio in his braces and it's not just on the capacitors either according to the engineers will disclose that in school and that's a static drain show that takes care of lightning a steady rain is actually these coils moving around and then in the madness they move back and forth with the currents going through the

plant's musical something like we have a review interesting enough for the engineers you are saying but what can i do it i don't have to thirty five thousand volt jennings they can capacitors the reagan doctrine squirrels and a steady stream choked how can i hear national public radio program funny you should ask national public radio station manager rob gordon has the answer just turned to fourteen thirty and you're am dial a signal the station bought last fall it's a very rare opportunity for single am become a market in only radio stations are saws party groups and we'd been looking for the last five years for a second channel there is enough quality programming to program at least two stations possibly a third so we had an opportunity to acquire a significant asset expand public service by making these programs available in grozny organization and we seized that opportunity last fall so national public

radio's nila signal wpln fourteen thirty am began broadcasting on friday at noon when henry fell apart and reconciled were creating time one symbolism is like a bottleneck saw the spray program it all exists in real time and it's frustrating you know if you run a newspaper as the end of the page or a section you can't do that radio station so it's a rare and exciting national public radio chairman of the board mike schoenfeld says the new station wasn't a sudden idea well for a long time ever since that even before the station became independent independent measure government back in nineteen ninety six one of the things that became very clear is that there's a lot of demands from public radio in nashville we have one of the highest listenership rates in the country and i'm not not just the region but in the country and there's a real desire for more public radio skits more is better so wanted that the strategic goals that that we serve herself was to try and find a second channel

another outlet for public radio when the opportunity presented itself late last year to get an am station that cover a large part of the whole part of our listeners of the appeal of last year that a large part of her during the day we're able to jump and we have all the pieces in place we had everything ready to go and that's how we got to the dealer and yes that's during the day the signal drops from fifteen thousand watts during the day to one thousand watts at night engineer col peterson explains why the reason we are limited to a thousand watts at night by the fcc is during the during the evening hours am radio signals bounce off the ionosphere electrified lighter about a hundred miles above the are fine fine whatever fears that point from sunup to sundown fourteen thirty wpln am we'll have fifteen thousand watts of the best news and information public radio can provide from

sundown to sign up same story on that a little bit quieter and schonfeld says it's all good listeners have been very very supportive of actually generates today bp island and i think we have a we have a real obligation to demonstrate to the listeners until the supporters that they've made a good investment you can hear that investment and wpln fourteen thirty am and you can leave the capacitors and doctors close to ask for national public radio i'm scott you are