107.3 Translator sold to Midwest..

[knoxbob]

Dwight Magnuson sold translator @ 107.3 to Midwest..(WJXB) for $75k. It has a CP to increase to 250w. Wonder if they will rebroadcast one of their HD channels on it?

 

[gr8oldies]

Still simulcasting B97.5. Apparently the plan will be to relay an HD2.

 

[RMarino]

It was reported this week that Midwest will be signing on three new Jack-FMs. I have no idea if Knoxville is in the plan, but that would be a good spot for it.

 

[ThomasFoolery]

JXB seemed strongest when it stuck with light rock and claimed an audience of middle-aged professionals. It sounds younger these days and seems to have turned over the upper-income listeners to News Talk and 93.1. It's hard to shake the feeling that Duke and Jack would just continue to cannibalize B's audience.

 

[gr8oldies]

Jack seems to be having a slight resurgence. A station in Dayton, OH just flipped to the format. I hadn't heard Jack since they left here until I heard them on some station in Texas last month.

 

[94 Country DJ]

Been there, done that. South Central ran Jack FM on 95.7 M Maryville and 106.7 Norris for a time flipping them from oldies. Cost them half of their audience. They sold 106.7 to Blue Ridge Broadcasting and then tried a number of formats on 95.7 including AAA which they moved from 94.3 before the lost their LMA, urban, and now country as the Duke. Only successful Jack station I know of in TN is Midwest's WCJK Murfreesboro. Three stations have tried it in Chattanooga, and WASL is running it in Dyersburg.

 

[gr8oldies]

If the translator is flipping, Midwest is taking their time. I've even caught B97.5 announcing that Sevier County listeners could hear the station on 107.3.

 

[RMarino]

If the translator is flipping, Midwest is taking their time. I've even caught B97.5 announcing that Sevier County listeners could hear the station on 107.3.

I was just in Pigeon Forge last weekend and was surprised to hear 107.3 with a booming signal there. I had thought that the translator was still transmitting from Sharp's Ridge, but according to Radio Locator, it's now on Bluff Mountain. So realizing that, I guess the B97.5 simulcast makes a little more sense. Unfortunately I guess we can rule out a future HD2 relay for that signal. Does anyone know when 107.3 moved from Sharp's Ridge?

 

[Ktownradioman]

I was just in Pigeon Forge last weekend and was surprised to hear 107.3 with a booming signal there. I had thought that the translator was still transmitting from Sharp's Ridge, but according to Radio Locator, it's now on Bluff Mountain. So realizing that, I guess the B97.5 simulcast makes a little more sense. Unfortunately I guess we can rule out a future HD2 relay for that signal. Does anyone know when 107.3 moved from Sharp's Ridge?

It's been a while ago. It has a crazy signal for a translator. I heard it pretty good down in Madisonville and Sweetwater area. I still think it should be an HD2 because of the coverage it has.

 

[RMarino]

Yeah, I wish we even had some good HD sub-channels in Knoxville. There's nothing here but WUOT and the Crossville ones.

 

[gr8oldies]

B97.5 has had a Sevier County translator ever since I've been in the area (originally 101.1). Apparently it's just there as a fill-in translator for some Sevier County areas that have the main signal blocked by terrain (such as downtown Gatlinburg)

 

[RMarino]

I remember the 101.1 translator as that one was active when I worked in Sevierville. Their transmitter was near 441 & 66 which is where I believe 104.1 is now.