New radio station featuring classic country music to broadcast from Black Mountain
A new radio station will soon broadcast out of Town Hardware & General Store.
www.citizen-times.com
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New classic country station in Asheville
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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Apparently this will super-serve Black Mountain.New radio station featuring classic country music to broadcast from Black Mountain
A new radio station will soon broadcast out of Town Hardware & General Store.www.citizen-times.com
What are the call letters? Is this an LPFM maybe? I can't find any FCC info.
96.1 is a translator for the AM station.
Got it! Thanks.
I could have heard it online but I waited until I could hear it on an actual radio. Definitely better than the mess on WESC even if the signal isn't great farther west where my final destination was, but some curious crossover choices like "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt.
As I headed home I heard "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis. A few minutes later when the signal of WMNC Morganton was better I heard that song again.
On the subject of hearing the same song on different stations, on the way up WAME played "This Ain't Dallas" by Hank Jr. and a few hours later WMNC played it. On the way home WMNC played "Family Tradition" by Hank Jr. and WAME played it a few minutes later.
As I headed home I heard "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis. A few minutes later when the signal of WMNC Morganton was better I heard that song again.
On the subject of hearing the same song on different stations, on the way up WAME played "This Ain't Dallas" by Hank Jr. and a few hours later WMNC played it. On the way home WMNC played "Family Tradition" by Hank Jr. and WAME played it a few minutes later.
Theres already two classic country stations near ashville, but they dont really reach it... 920 WPTL/101.7 and 1590 WBHN/94.1
Yeah, that's why I was glad this new one was added. I could have listened to WPTL once I got farther west but I didn't have a button for the translator and the AM doesn't have a good signal once I get farther west. Plus I thought it was "real country", a satellite format I don't care for. In my motel room I could hear the translator and it was the good stuff.
WESC plays some classic country but there's too much of the contemporary sounding junk. Essentially rock music or auto-tune with banjos and steel guitar. And terrible liners. And endless commercials.
In Asheville there's WKSC on 99.9 (Country) and WMIT on 106.9 (Christian) and everybody else, which don't cover the market
WKSF, actually. And WWNC-AM, a talk station, does have a strong enough signal to cover the market.
I couldn't pick up WOXL or WQNQ in my motel room but sometimes I did get a fuzzy signal from WTMT.
If they are on 96.1 it may interfere with WHQC from Charlotte which presented a decent signal in Hendersonville and parts of Asheville, depending upon what side of the mountain you were on. Of course there may be other CHR choices, but just another case of a low power signal interfering with a distant full power signal. Which I oppose in principle. Just like you can no longer receive 107.9 from Charlotte in Hendersonville since that NPR station from Asheville signed on the same frequency.
Yes, that Asheville translator is on 96.1 and covers Black Mountain entirely, So I cannot pick up WHQC until after I get to the top hill heading toward Old Fort, much like with WKBC on 97.3, which I used to pick up clear into Black Mountain when I attended Montreat Youth Conference in high-school (2012-2016). 95.1 (WNKS) and (105.3) WOSF are now the two CLT stations that can be received into Black Mountain; however I receive 95.1 as far West as the Eastern of Asheville. I also had problems picking up 107.3 JAMZ from Anderson on parts of I-40 due to W297CI on 107.3 in Asheville when traveling to/from WCU last year. I must also admit when traveling last year the reception of 94.9 WAEZ out of Greenville, TN on I-40 was now unlistenable due to W235CA out of Pisgah Forest on 94.9 being powerful enough to reach I-40 near Asheville and clobber the full power 94.9 from Tennessee.
I listened to WKBC many years ago on a visit to Asheville and it sounded good.
I hadn't considered there would be a need for it, but WSPA is gone. WOXL may be enough for some people.
However, I would have on interest in WKBC now, and WOXL's HD-3 sounds great. Really good music.
This year on my visit to the mountains I listened a lot more so I could avoid the commercial breaks on WESC. The Bear has short breaks, even if they happen more often. And I heard at least one commercial for a Black Mountain business. There are several businesses that want to get the word out and this is a way to do it. Black Mountain is trying to become a destination.
I don't remember The Bear sounding like this. The legendary artists are there, but there were way too many newer songs, and not necessarily songs that sounded like "real country" even though that's what they kept calling it.
Morgan Wallen had some help from Post Malone. Didn't sound all that country to me.
And a number of songs were not identifiable as country. To someone tuning to a station and not knowing what music it played, it wouldn't be possible to know it was a country song from the sound. It could be crossover country, but I said it didn't even definitely sound country.
Auto-Tune was there as well. In the immediate Asheville area the sound quality was poor, so that's at least better than hearing the bad songs in full FM stereo. Farther west where I spent most of my time, power lines were a problem but it was simpler just to stay where I was. The signal on the other "classic" country station was probably worse and I didn't have a button for it.
In my room I picked up one station on FM on a radio that's not very good. the songs on Kiss Country did at least sound worse. I turned that off pretty quickly. If I really tried, I could hear something on the translator for the classic country station that was closer to where I was than The Bear, and Billy Graham's CCM station.
I don't remember The Bear sounding like this. The legendary artists are there, but there were way too many newer songs, and not necessarily songs that sounded like "real country" even though that's what they kept calling it.
Morgan Wallen had some help from Post Malone. Didn't sound all that country to me.
And a number of songs were not identifiable as country. To someone tuning to a station and not knowing what music it played, it wouldn't be possible to know it was a country song from the sound. It could be crossover country, but I said it didn't even definitely sound country.
Auto-Tune was there as well. In the immediate Asheville area the sound quality was poor, so that's at least better than hearing the bad songs in full FM stereo. Farther west where I spent most of my time, power lines were a problem but it was simpler just to stay where I was. The signal on the other "classic" country station was probably worse and I didn't have a button for it.
In my room I picked up one station on FM on a radio that's not very good. the songs on Kiss Country did at least sound worse. I turned that off pretty quickly. If I really tried, I could hear something on the translator for the classic country station that was closer to where I was than The Bear, and Billy Graham's CCM station.
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