{"id":9782,"date":"2018-09-02T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2023-03-19T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:17:31","slug":"interesting-piece-on-weqx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2018\/09\/interesting-piece-on-weqx\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting piece on WEQX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video on YouTube about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WEQX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WEQX<\/a>, Manchester, Vermont.\u00a0 WEQX is a class B FM station with its tower located on Mount Equinox.\u00a0 This gives the station a huge signal with a HAAT of 759 meters and 1,250 watts of power.\u00a0 It comes in well south of Albany and while I am in the Albany area, I enjoy listening to it.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China_Global_Television_Network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CGTN<\/a>, and one wonders how they ended up in Manchester, VT of all places.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72awMLXcMtk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The information below the video is also an interesting read. In part it goes into corporate ownership of radio in the US, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1983, 90 percent of U.S. media was controlled by 50 corporations. Today, just six corporations control that 90 percent&#8230; Among the 10% (of radio stations) currently not controlled by those six corporations is an alternative rock station in the Green Mountains of Vermont.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is misleading.\u00a0 The &#8220;six corporations&#8221; they are referring to date back to an article published several years ago.\u00a0 They are; Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, News Corp, CBS, and NBC\/Universal.\u00a0 As of this writing, none of those companies listed owns any radio stations.\u00a0 Further, the media scene in general has become much more fragmented with the advent and greater acceptance of things like Pod Casting, YouTube, and other social media.<\/p>\n<p>There are three big radio station owners, which together own 1,613 radio stations. That represents approximately 14% of the licensed commercial AM and FM stations in the US. There are several medium-sized owners; Entercom (237), Salem (118), Saga (108), Midwest (75), Forever (69), Beasley (63), and so on.\u00a0 While iHeart (851), Cumulus (442),\u00a0 and Townsquare (320) influence the way other station owners operate, by and large, the majority of radio stations in this country are still owned by small business owners.\u00a0 Stations that are keeping it local continue to be noticed and hopefully rewarded with a successful business.<\/p>\n<p>WEQX is certainly a unique station and it always has been.\u00a0 In the late &#8217;90s and early &#8217;00s, I did some work for them at various times.\u00a0 It was always fun and I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video on YouTube about WEQX, Manchester, Vermont.\u00a0 WEQX is a class B FM station with its tower located on Mount Equinox.\u00a0 This gives the station a huge signal with a HAAT of 759 meters and 1,250 watts of power.\u00a0 It comes in well south of Albany and while I am in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2018\/09\/interesting-piece-on-weqx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting piece on WEQX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[113,22],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-local-radio","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11082,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}