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Summit Media files to move 92.3 Pelham translator

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Found this a few mins ago on fccdata.org.. Summit Media has filed to move W222BK, the FM translator at 92.3 currently located in Pelham, to just west of Red Mountain. An app for a different FM translator at 92.3 to be located on Red Mountain was dismissed a few weeks ago. W222BK is currently airing Birmingham Mountain Radio, so if this move is approved, will Summit Media pair it with W297BF at 107.3 (also airing BMR), or will this be used to broadcast an entirely different station? Doesn't seem like to me they would use both translators since the two signals would overlap, anyway...

https://fccdata.org/?appid=1782188&facid=150836
 
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Interesting. Hard to say what will happen. It's such an odd pattern and looks like it'll only cover a small core area of the metro area. Basically downtown and Homewood.

How much you wanna bet they punt BMR to this weenie little signal and launch a new format on 107.3 instead? ;)
 
tomservo said:
Interesting. Hard to say what will happen. It's such an odd pattern and looks like it'll only cover a small core area of the metro area. Basically downtown and Homewood.

How much you wanna bet they punt BMR to this weenie little signal and launch a new format on 107.3 instead? ;)
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Wouldn't surprise me, given some of Summit Media's poor business decisions in the past. I would imagine if Birmingham Mountain Radio gets moved to 92.3, the signal downgrade won't go over too well with the BMR listeners.
 
tomservo said:
Interesting. Hard to say what will happen. It's such an odd pattern and looks like it'll only cover a small core area of the metro area. Basically downtown and Homewood.

How much you wanna bet they punt BMR to this weenie little signal and launch a new format on 107.3 instead? ;)
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The app to move 92.3 W222BK to from the Pelham area to just west of Red Mountain was approved on 4/26 as a "fill-in translator" for WPYA. Will it be for the HD2 (Birmingham Mountain Radio) or a forthcoming HD3?

https://fccdata.org/?appid=1782188&facid=150836
 
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tomservo said:
Well, it's not like that station or it's HD signals need help there. I can't imagine what they could do with that little signal.
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Maybe use the new facilities for 92.3 to rebroadcast WZGX in Bessemer, provided Red Mountain Ventures ever gets the AM back on the air?
 
Given that there's a significant Hispanic population in Hoover and Pelham, it's not as far-fetched as it might seem. The 98.3 translator signal puts a decent, but not great, signal into northern Shelby County. It looks like the coverage area would effectively die at I-459, though.
 
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Charles35080 said:
Given that there's a significant Hispanic population in Hoover and Pelham, it's not as far-fetched as it might seem. The 98.3 translator signal puts a decent, but not great, signal into northern Shelby County. It looks like the coverage area would effectively die at I-459, though.
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Of all the translators now in Birmingham, are any of them truly successful financially or do they just add a lot of available spot time that the full power stations can give away to "add value" to their big guns? Could any of them stand on their own when it comes to actually making money?
 
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