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WAAO has moved to 93.7

tomservo

tomservo

I saw on WAAO's Facebook page where they have completed their move from 103.7 to 93.7. It appears they made the switch on the 11th, while WDBT in the Dothan area was still on the air, which understandably caused on-air chaos.

There haven't been any more complaints there so I assume WDBT (I mean, WLDA now) is off the air and prepping to move to Montgomery.

Since the WDBT calls moved to the Fort Rucker-licensed 103.9, I'm wondering if it's back on with the talk format from 93.7. And I wonder why anyone in their right mind would move a station to Montgomery when it's so over saturated already? :rolleyes:
 
Remember the good old days when the Motgomery dial was wide open except for a half dozen 10 watt translators carrying the good, out of town, commercial stations?

This story makes sense if they have another play that creates a new 100kw station. But I don't see it. As is, I think everything was more valuable left alone.
 
Saw on the ABMP that WAAO has a CP to up to a C3.

Wild thought.
How short would the spacing be for a class A on 93.7 from say Milton, FL to Cumulus owned C2 WNCV 93.3 and Cumulus owned C0 WMEZ 94.1? Assuming Cumulus Pensacola wanted to add another Class A and was willing to accept a little interference from co-owned stations....
I know WNCV 93.3 is already short spaced to Cumulus co-owned WBLX 92.9.
 
seedless said:
Saw on the ABMP that WAAO has a CP to up to a C3.

Wild thought.
How short would the spacing be for a class A on 93.7 from say Milton, FL to Cumulus owned C2 WNCV 93.3 and Cumulus owned C0 WMEZ 94.1? Assuming Cumulus Pensacola wanted to add another Class A and was willing to accept a little interference from co-owned stations....
I know WNCV 93.3 is already short spaced to Cumulus co-owned WBLX 92.9.
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The spacing for a class A that's a second adjacent to a class C2 is 34 miles; to a C0 it's 53 miles. So for a 93.7 allocation to fit it'd have to be a minimum of 53 miles from WMEZ. I think even with short spacing that would only drop to 30 and 50 miles, respectively. No class A is going to be viable in any populated community if it's gotta be 50 miles from the WMEZ tower in Baldwin County. That would definitely put a potential allocation east of Crestview and probably even outside of Destin and by that point you are on the wrong size of WNCV.

Without professional software, my best guess is to have a class A at 93.7 anywhere in this area it'd have to be located near Seagrove Beach (Seaside area) or closer to Panama City.
 
I was doing some more figuring because I was convinced that all these Dothan moves would open some channel or allow someone a nice upgrade on the beach.

I almost just figured out that WAAO could move to Geneva, AL as a C2 or C1.

Ha Ha ha
Doh.
 
FCC lists an application for Hale to move WTKP but it has been dismissed.

I wonder if that means he figured out how to make a bigger deal?
 
The way I read the dismissal correspondence is it was dismissed on a technicality, because it would be short spaced to the old Geneva allocation for 93.7. Hale failed to respond with clarification on the application - like saying it was contingent on the move that just happened.

Unless I'm wrong (which happens daily) it sounds like Hale screwed up twice over.
 
The screw up appears to be that the application calls WAAO in Andalusia a class A station and doesn't offer enough space for a C3.

Uh, I think.
 
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