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Probably someone's mp3 player by the sound of the bad audio. And is it not against FCC rules to play your own audio on a translator?
25 miles of the center of your city of license is now the requirement.
Dan said:
I got this too.
Has WPRR in Altoona's power gone down? They used to come in eventually (before this happened).
There's a story about this in the Post-Gazette (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11134/1146547-67.stm) today.
Eventually, 100.1 will be re-transmitting WPYT-AM 660's urban format, once it goes on the air (early June?). In the meantime, 100.1 is rebroadcasting WDUQ-FM for testing purposes.
Eventually, 100.1 will be re-transmitting WPYT-AM 660's urban format, once it goes on the air (early June?). In the meantime, 100.1 is rebroadcasting WDUQ-FM for testing purposes.
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What are the Call letters (& numbers) for this channel.
For what it is worth, WPYT was playing music and calling itself "WAMO 100" Friday evening while FM 100.1 was carrying WDUQ ... and it came into downtown McKeesport for the first time since I've been trying to monitor it. I initially thought WCLG was playing something weird, then I heard Tony Mowod.
Clark confirms via E-mail that WPYT and the 100.1 translator are indeed now simulcasting in the new format, as of this afternoon.
As Clark also said, another set of ears in the market tells me they were really aiming at WKST, the liner my other friend heard was a shot at Kiss' syndicated talent (well) Ryan Seacrest, saying he was great...if you're a 12 year old girl.
Tim Martz is no stranger to guerilla imaging. His stations in far northern Upstate New York, which rimshot Montreal, used to do that all the time.
He grabbed the web address "Nix the Mix", aiming at Montreal's powerful "Mix 96"...until that company bought a 25 percent interest in his cross-border rimshots.
(Mix is now "Virgin Radio".)
More recently, he's aiming at crosstown competitors in Detroit, launching a smooth jazz and rock station on two translators each (unlike in Pgh, he's feeding those from the HD subchannels of WGPR-FM).
And his rock station is aiming at Canada, too, this time at the "Canadian rock" of powerhouse CIMX/88.7 "89X"...
As Clark also said, another set of ears in the market tells me they were really aiming at WKST, the liner my other friend heard was a shot at Kiss' syndicated talent (well) Ryan Seacrest, saying he was great...if you're a 12 year old girl.
Tim Martz is no stranger to guerilla imaging. His stations in far northern Upstate New York, which rimshot Montreal, used to do that all the time.
He grabbed the web address "Nix the Mix", aiming at Montreal's powerful "Mix 96"...until that company bought a 25 percent interest in his cross-border rimshots.
(Mix is now "Virgin Radio".)More recently, he's aiming at crosstown competitors in Detroit, launching a smooth jazz and rock station on two translators each (unlike in Pgh, he's feeding those from the HD subchannels of WGPR-FM).
And his rock station is aiming at Canada, too, this time at the "Canadian rock" of powerhouse CIMX/88.7 "89X"...
It's too bad someone quite literally squatted the WAMO calls... I think someone else picked them up right after the one in Pittsburgh changed to WAOB
I think FM 100.1 is going to have trouble reaching audiences in a lot of potential hot-spots for its new format. The signal is still shaky in Mon-Yough communities (after my Friday catch I haven't found it again in the North Versailles area) and non-existent in the Alle-Kiski Valley (which would tend to rule out listeners in such communities as New Kensington and Arnold).
Then again, none of the translators now running AM signals in the Pittsburgh area reach the Alle-Kiski Valley all that well. FM 97.5 does reach high points in Apollo but for all intents and purposes it disappears leaving Holiday Park and is gone on the other side of Camp JoAnn in Washington Township.
FM 94.1, at least for now, also is nonexistent north of U.S. 22.
As for AM 660, I think I heard they're running 10,000 songs in a row without commercial interruption, but it's not 10,000 different songs. I've heard "Black and Yellow" at least twice and I'm not even trying for extended listening.
Then again, none of the translators now running AM signals in the Pittsburgh area reach the Alle-Kiski Valley all that well. FM 97.5 does reach high points in Apollo but for all intents and purposes it disappears leaving Holiday Park and is gone on the other side of Camp JoAnn in Washington Township.
FM 94.1, at least for now, also is nonexistent north of U.S. 22.
As for AM 660, I think I heard they're running 10,000 songs in a row without commercial interruption, but it's not 10,000 different songs. I've heard "Black and Yellow" at least twice and I'm not even trying for extended listening.
danikayser84 said:It's too bad someone quite literally squatted the WAMO calls... I think someone else picked them up right after the one in Pittsburgh changed to WAOB
The WAMO calls are on a non-comm FM CP in Dushore, PA, north of Wilkes-Barre.
In theory, the Telikoja Educational Broadcasting folks could give Tim Martz the right to use WAMO(AM) on 660, while keeping WAMO (with -FM attached) on 88.1, no?
100.1 will never be WAMO-FM legally, since it's a translator.
And of course, Tim can continue to call the combo "WAMO 100" as long as he likes, as long as he IDs legally as WPYT/Wilkinsburg and W261AX/Pittsburgh.
KeyTimes950 said:
My (other) set of ears in the market, a non-radio type, tells me that the 100.1 signal sounded stronger simulcasting WPYT than it did testing relaying WDUQ, but that could be just anecdotal.
I'm wondering if Tim Martz looks into a second translator for areas as you mention, or if it's even possible hamstrung to WPYT(AM) as primary. Maybe he gets WAOB to put in HD and lease subchannels, like he's doing with WGPR in Detroit!
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