According to this, EMF is getting 94.5 FM from iHeart. Not the biggest signal in the area, but it's a start. They can always put Air1 on there in the event they get a bigger station.
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Could K-Love (Finally) Be Coming To Tampa Bay?
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For such a large market, Tampa getting a 250-watt FM translator for K-Love is not going to make much of an impact. W233AV, which currently rebroadcasts WFLA 970, is actually licensed to Bradenton. That will leave WFLA with only one translator, 250-watt 99.1 in Bayonet Point. I'm sure folks who listen to WFLA in the Sarasota area will not be pleased losing their FM outlet, trying to hear WFLA on AM now.
In recent years, K-Love has had an incredible success record, finding and buying underperforming but full powered FM stations in large markets: 99.5 NYC, 100.3 Los Angeles, 97.9 Chicago, 106.9 Philadelphia, 107.3 Washington, 107.3 Boston.
But still no full-power outlet in Tampa, Market #17.
In recent years, K-Love has had an incredible success record, finding and buying underperforming but full powered FM stations in large markets: 99.5 NYC, 100.3 Los Angeles, 97.9 Chicago, 106.9 Philadelphia, 107.3 Washington, 107.3 Boston.
But still no full-power outlet in Tampa, Market #17.
Well with the Joy FM covering and rating the market well I would assume K Love is in no rush to enter the bay area. Of those big market signals you mentioned only DC had a full market FM with the format. I can't imagine K Love coming to Tampa on weak translator. Its intresting that it 94.5 is changing ownership. I could see Air 1 on it or no actual change of programming.
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#5 is without K-Love altogether and Air-1 on a rimshot.
Or as the article states, "it is unknown if any of the translators will change programming as the companies already program some translators owned by the other as part of the noted agreement."
id rather hear klove or air1 compared over most of the iheart stuff........
Tampa has two Christian Contemporary services on three frequencies:
--Joy-FM 88.1 WJIS Bradenton (100,000 watts) and 91.5 WCIE New Port Richey (75,000 watts), along with a dozen other Radio Training Network-owned outlets around Florida. Before 2013, there had also been a 91.7 WCFI in St. Petersburg, but that was taken off the air to give the New Port Richey station a power boost.
Interesting to note that Joy-FM owns a couple of translators in the Tampa market that it leases out to iHeart, 90.3 Pinellas Park which rebroadcasts Sports station WDAE 620, and 105.9 West Tampa, which rebroadcasts the Spanish-language Talk outlet WHNZ 1250.
--WBVM 90.5 Tampa (100,000 watts). This is owned by the Diocese of St. Petersburg. It's unusual that a Catholic diocese would own such a powerful FM station and use it for a Christian Contemporary format. A handful of dioceses around the U.S. own radio stations but use them mostly for spoken-word Catholic networks such as EWTN Radio and Relevant Radio, which has an outlet in St. Petersburg on 1380 AM. The Diocese of Hartford owns several FM stations around Connecticut that simulcast a Soft AC format with some Catholic programming, either brief features between songs or longer shows on Sundays. It gets its Catholic message out between Lionel Richie and Celine Dion hits.
Usually you think of CCM as a Protestant or Evangelical music format. WBVM has been on the air 1986. Its call sign stands for "Blessed Virgin Mary" which many Protestant denominations don't believe in. But those call letters are not mentioned on the air except for legal I.D.s. It uses "Spirit FM" as its moniker.
I guess EMF wants to get K-Love into the Tampa market somehow so it's OK with just a translator in Bradenton for now. Something tells me EMF has made offers to The Diocese of St. Petersburg for its stand-alone 100,000 watt 90.5 station. But I guess the bishop is not selling.
--Joy-FM 88.1 WJIS Bradenton (100,000 watts) and 91.5 WCIE New Port Richey (75,000 watts), along with a dozen other Radio Training Network-owned outlets around Florida. Before 2013, there had also been a 91.7 WCFI in St. Petersburg, but that was taken off the air to give the New Port Richey station a power boost.
Interesting to note that Joy-FM owns a couple of translators in the Tampa market that it leases out to iHeart, 90.3 Pinellas Park which rebroadcasts Sports station WDAE 620, and 105.9 West Tampa, which rebroadcasts the Spanish-language Talk outlet WHNZ 1250.
--WBVM 90.5 Tampa (100,000 watts). This is owned by the Diocese of St. Petersburg. It's unusual that a Catholic diocese would own such a powerful FM station and use it for a Christian Contemporary format. A handful of dioceses around the U.S. own radio stations but use them mostly for spoken-word Catholic networks such as EWTN Radio and Relevant Radio, which has an outlet in St. Petersburg on 1380 AM. The Diocese of Hartford owns several FM stations around Connecticut that simulcast a Soft AC format with some Catholic programming, either brief features between songs or longer shows on Sundays. It gets its Catholic message out between Lionel Richie and Celine Dion hits.
Usually you think of CCM as a Protestant or Evangelical music format. WBVM has been on the air 1986. Its call sign stands for "Blessed Virgin Mary" which many Protestant denominations don't believe in. But those call letters are not mentioned on the air except for legal I.D.s. It uses "Spirit FM" as its moniker.
I guess EMF wants to get K-Love into the Tampa market somehow so it's OK with just a translator in Bradenton for now. Something tells me EMF has made offers to The Diocese of St. Petersburg for its stand-alone 100,000 watt 90.5 station. But I guess the bishop is not selling.
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There are 2 translators owned by Radio Training that WDAE uses, 95.3 & 96.7.
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My mistake. The Radio Training Network translator used by iHeart for WDAE is 95.3 W237CW Pinellas Park. 250 watts at 446 feet.
But I'm not aware of a translator at 96.7. WDAE's website only lists 95.3. In fact, in big print, it says "95.3 WDAE" and in small print "620 AM and 95.3 FM."
96.7 is only 87 watts serving the northwest part of the Tampa listening area. There is a little overlap with 95.3 in the southern part of its signal. You will only hear about 96.7 during their legal ID. Speaking of that, most of the time when they run the legal ID, WDAE is one of the few stations I know of that actually gives the call letters and call numbers of their (believe it or not) 4 stations. 620 WDAE, 95.3 W237CW, 95.7 WBTP HD-3, and 96.7 W244BE along with their respective COL's. The only exception is, if listening during play by play, you'll only get the call letters with the COL.
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Stations shouldnt even bother with translator calls.. its alphabetical vomiting to listeners that means nothing. you dont even need to audibly ID the translators.... you can ID translators using frequency shift keying which is inaudible to the human ear
Well, if you do it very quickly as part of your regular I.D., it is OK. Similar to FM stations having to also ID their HD signal. ("WCBS-FM and HD1, New York.")
My favorite legal I.D. these days is for Bloomberg Radio in Boston. Each hour, it I.D.s for two AM stations plus each of their translators, which both broadcast on 106.1, and WJMN-HD2, which also carries the Bloomberg Boston signal. That's five stations the announcer must list. Amazing how fast he does it! But I like Paul's description of "alphabetical vomiting."
Other than the legal I.D. once per hour, the station just calls itself "Bloomberg 106.1."
The lodge 106.9 in Door County, WI takes a unique approach...They use the Law & Order sounder, then fit in "not legal, this is legal" suggestions from listeners to ID the translator.
Not Legal-Renaming Cave Point your "Man Cave Point".
This is a legal ID- W227CH Sturgeon Bay, WI 93.3 FM.
Not Legal-Renaming Cave Point your "Man Cave Point".
This is a legal ID- W227CH Sturgeon Bay, WI 93.3 FM.
#5 is without a K-Love because Classic Hits KLUV was K-Love for at least 30 years. Audacy recently changed the calls and branding of 98.7 to KSPF "The Spot" and sold the IP to EMF. However, I believe they failed to properly complete the process, and someone in Huron, SD got in the way. I think it will happen eventually but it got messy (the FCC database shows EMF holding the call letters now).
Huron, SD is where EMF themselves moved the KLUV calls.
THe hang up was an off air cp of a commercial station in Texas that wanted the KLUV Calls and because of a glitch in the FCC's processing/licensing system, it gave them the KLUV calls too.. so for a short time, two Full power stations had the same calls.
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