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"97.1 Pensacola's Ticket"?

tomservo

tomservo

It would appear that Hale (Omni Broadcasting) has well and good jumped the shark with this translator. It appears to be originating programming and running commercials for businesses in both Pensacola and Mobile. It does not match programming all the time with 100.3 in Fort Walton Beach, and it does not match programming at all with WPNN, which is listed as the parent station according to the last filed STAs.

It's one thing to cheat on the programming source but to run local ads seems to be taking money from the competition with an illegally ran translator. How is this OK?
 
Keep in mind they have a few primary stations. Just because they are running the same network on all the primary's doesn't mean they can run different local commercials, and that is probably what they are doing.
 
Groove1670 said:
Keep in mind they have a few primary stations. Just because they are running the same network on all the primary's doesn't mean they can run different local commercials, and that is probably what they are doing.
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The way I understand the rules, translators must be fed by a parent station. So if that is the case then it would mean one of Omni's Ticket broadcasts is feeding the translator complete with Pensacola ads. But I know that at least 100.3 in FWB is different. Dunno what other stations he has on in this area, though. Or if they're even broadcasting.

But all this is kinda pointless anyway since the FCC is showing WPNN as the parent, and it's doing its same old news/talk format it always has. Definitely not sports and definitely not calling itself "The Ticket".

It's a real mystery.
 
If 97.1 isn't obeying the rules, why wouldn't other local station owners or engineers report them to the FCC?
Is there an unwritten rule that you don't narc on the competition or do anything to bring FCC attention to the area?

In the past 97.1 went dark while live sports were carried on local Pensacola stations. Historically they have been simulcasting WTKE-FM and WTKP, complete with commercials for FWB and PC Beach bars.

WTKE-AM in Milton has nothing to do with WTKE-FM.
 
The translator has to rebroadcast the primary 100%. The translator can run one thirty second commercial to offset costs. However I have never heard a single translator do this.
 
What's the primary for W246BN?
I'll listen and compare since I'm in Pensacola.

10 years back there were about 4 translators in The Shoals that went by the name "Rocknet" (I think, maybe Shoals Rocknet?). Those translators carried the allowed local commercials and solicited advertisers on their website.

As I recall Rocknet went under after they lost OTA reception of the Birmingham Alt Rock station and sold all their translators to Bama public radio.
 
Oh now....what a great way to re join this board...Poledo. I have been gone a while (health and lots of business growth stuff) but it looks like some things ain't changed. How's that 97.1 crap possible? Break a rule? Oh hell, no way. How's that 93.5 lockout going down east of PCB? Unreal.

Hope you have been doing ok, my friend. Too everyone on here, I have missed you all. Maybe even the deer hunter and is robfwb still in Navarre??? Let the strobey wars continue.
 
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Tibbs! Welcome back! You still working in Nashville and dreaming of the Redneck Rivera?

What's this about a lockout down in Port St. Joe? I assumed Hale ran 93.5 out of the old FWB office. I also believed most of his staff was family.

I've tried to lure the deer hunter into posting, but he must not be lurking around anymore. Strobey Rob hasn't been heard from since the old board shut down. Zach, Collins and I are the only regulars left.
 
Hummmm... Station breaks on the "network" with a local Pensacola newscast and local commercials. Different news and commercials on 100.3. I can't pick up anything from 93.5.
 
seedless said:
What's the primary for W246BN?
I'll listen and compare since I'm in Pensacola.

10 years back there were about 4 translators in The Shoals that went by the name "Rocknet" (I think, maybe Shoals Rocknet?). Those translators carried the allowed local commercials and solicited advertisers on their website.

As I recall Rocknet went under after they lost OTA reception of the Birmingham Alt Rock station and sold all their translators to Bama public radio.
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Did Rocknet come before or after WKDF in Nashville flipped to country? That was being fed to a bunch of translators in the Tennessee Valley way back when 103 KDF was the big rock station in Nashville. They ran the one 30-second ad locally in Huntsville, too.

Seems like is committed to having 97.1 be really separate from 100.3 and the Panama City outlet. I don't hear Ticket programming anywhere else but 100.3, too. Of course, if they were smart they could install HD and just feed the HD-2 to the translator, that would be perfectly legal. I'm not close enough to FWB to check for that, but something tells me it's unlikely.
 
97.1 aired a different show between 3-5 pm than 100.3 ran.
5PM had a single TOH ID with calls signs for 100.3, 93.5 & W246BN. Then local traffic. Then a common sports talk show simulcast (live from a paint and body shop in Crestview).


I don't remember much except RockNet.net, which is dead... that was 10 years ago in a market far far away. I thought it was real interesting then it just disappeared. I think it was ABMP that informed me the translators went to UofA.
 
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seedless said:
97.1 aired a different show between 3-5 pm than 100.3 ran.
5PM had a single TOH ID with calls signs for 100.3, 93.5 & W246BN. Then local traffic. Then a common sports talk show simulcast (live from a paint and body shop in Crestview).


I don't remember much except RockNet.net, which is dead... that was 10 years ago in a market far far away. I thought it was real interesting then it just disappeared. I think it was ABMP that informed me the translators went to UofA.
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Sadly I never kept much track of the history of translators so my memory's fuzzy on what happened when up in N. Alabama. I think it was KDF, then later 107.7 the X. Then after it flipped the translators all seemed to go in different directions, although many picked up APR until something better could be found.
 
KDF switched to crap country on April Fools Day of 1999. I know some of those translators were running WBUZ 102.9 The Buzz out of Nashville for quite some time, as caught them as we would head down to duh beach down ya'lls way. I don't know how profitable it ended up being for those guys, but it did last for a long time. I don't recall any use of Birmingham stations on those translators, but honestly, I just remember one signal that was pretty strong, but don't remember the frequency.

As for what is happening to the east....you would have a, uh, hell of a hard time getting a signal these days probably. I always loved Alan Parsons...especially the song Games People Play (in the middle of the night...)
 
The translator world has become the wild wild west. Expect changes every 48 hours. With a 250 mile move for.AM now, one could be here today and gone tomorrow.
 
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