MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:07 pm
If this move happens, Mecosta County should be reassigned by the FCC to the Grand Rapids broadcast market. WZZM and WXMI have studios only 50 miles from Big Rapids, and it is almost entirely freeway from point A to point B. Expecting two Traverse City based stations, located nearly 90 miles away, to provide proper news coverage of that area is silly.
WNEM would likely be quite happy if WWTV were to move its news operation much farther away from Mt. Pleasant, Clare and Gladwin.
9&10 haven't really been considered a Traverse City station. If you watch the advertising, it's Ebels market and basically recreational dealers in the sticks. Not much in the way of TC clients.
Additionally, no one in TC cares much about Gladwin, Claire or Mt Pleasant.
They do have a studio already downtown Traverse City. That behemoth of a building in Cadillac will be a challenge to sell.
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Having a service area and catering to two of the wealthiest counties in the state are two different things. Simply put the discretionary dollars overflowith in TC...
I always thought Mecosta County was part of Grand Rapids market.
As for maintenance, I wouldn't be surprised if snow removal is a big factor - I used to work for a church. At one parish, there were three churches. Ended up merging them and closing two (eventually sold one) due to maintenance cost. About 50% of it was snow removal.
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Taxes are $53,000 a year. Maintenance is likely another $50,000. Heating and cooling and power, $35,000 (it's a 22,400 sq ft building). I don't know how that 100 acre lawn gets mowed. It could become a neighborhood with 200 houses and just tear the 45 year old building down or convert it to housing.
