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WKGC drops NPR affiliation

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cceng1

Effective Octdober 1 WKGC is dropping their affiliation with NPR......What a bunch of idiots.....can't believe they did this.....I put that station on the air in 1974 and we joined NPR in 1976. In the latest book, they had 3 times the listeners to ATC and Morning Edition that the WFSU repeater here....they claimed they were duplicating programming.....hell, they already took off the Classical music, which was an important part of the format several years ago, then put on all jazz and blues and other crap that their operations manager likes that is already available on commercial radio (except for a few hours of Classical on Sunday morning). No one at that station has a friggin idea how to run and program a station....and they have the college administration buffaloed into thinking they made the right decision.....I am really pissed if you can't tell already.

cceng
 
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WKGC has been on since the mid 1970's? Dang. How long have they been 100kw? WUWF and WHIL haven't been 100kw all that long.

WFSW hasn't had their station on the air in PCB that long. Why did FSU enter the PC radio market in the first place? Just to complement their PBS station? Surely WFSU didn't come to town to compete with the junior college station across the street... Or did they?

Any chance GCCC might just sell WKGC to FSU so they can simulcast FSU's Classical FM WFSQ?
 
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NPR stations are members, not affiliates. There is a difference.
NPR membership and programming is expensive.
NPR today is primarily news and information. WKCG is mostly music.
Lots of public radio stations dropped classical. Classical listeners don't come through at pledge time.
And multiple stations in a market running the same show at the same time makes little sense.

In general, this is a good move. More NPR member stations should consider it. Putting the brakes on NPR's hegemony in public radio would be a good thing, and might encourage APM and PRI to be more aggressive in providing programming alternatives to stations.
 
Is WKGC-AM still just a simulcast of the FM? Radio-locator says they upgraded the AM, seems like they would have just turned in the license and taken WKGC AM dark.
 
seedless said:
WFSW hasn't had their station on the air in PCB that long. Why did FSU enter the PC radio market in the first place? Just to complement their PBS station? Surely WFSU didn't come to town to compete with the junior college station across the street... Or did they?
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Florida State has a Panama City campus adjacent to Gulf Coast State College.
 
And WFSU-TV is the PBS channel for PC via WFSG. Too bad WKGC didn't put a translator in Tallahassee. They have had some blues and R&B shows in the past that I have listened to, but the signal is weak to non-existent in east Tallahassee.
 
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Florida State has a Panama City campus adjacent to Gulf Coast State College.
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Which is why I said WFSW didn't come to PCB to compete with the junior college station across the street.

So why did FSU launch WFSW in PCB when PCB already had a NPR? How was the decision made to simulcast NPR WFSU on WFSW instead of simulcasting FSU's Classical WFSQ? Did WKGC have any objections to FSU moving into the market with NPR?

I assume cceng knows the answers.
 
After working with some of the people at WKGC for a couple of weeks as co-op for some college credits, I just walked away and never looked back. Not only do they not have a clue about programming, they don't have a clue about engineering, either. No logs, the operations manager didn't know how to take any readings or turn the transmitter off or on (AM or FM) and they have some guy who has a little recording studio buying equipment with state funds that doesn't know anything about radio. They have no way to monitor actually what is on the air in any of their studios, with the HD receivers sitting on shelves in an equipment room. If the FCC walked in to do an inspection (if they could even get in the door) it wouldn't be pretty. My .02 worth. By the way, cceng has a beautiful brass plaque with his name on it as station manager back when the station started. It's a real shame to see a station that was once part of the community turn into a huge waste of money and spectrum.
 
I can get WKGC (sometimes) here in Crawfordville, Florida WKGC-FM is a nice station to hear than any others NPR station or college station.
 
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