100.7 FM in Blount County

[WBGR FM 93.1]

For the past year or so, I've noticed there's a signal on 100.7 FM that has a stereo carrier but no audio, just silence. It landed on scan near the Blount Springs exit (287) and I've hear it in Hanceville and south of Locust Fork. Does anyone have any information on this station, or in my opinion, a useless power bill

Travis

 

[whit979]

Looks like it's W264AX licensed to Grandview. License owners are the WAY-FM Media Group. They own a license in Golden Springs, AL that they've never done anything with either. Not sure why they don't go ahead and put their programming on them.

 

[passtheword]

Looks like it's W264AX licensed to Grandview. License owners are the WAY-FM Media Group. They own a license in Golden Springs, AL that they've never done anything with either. Not sure why they don't go ahead and put their programming on them.

That's what I was thinking, too...it's probably that WAY-FM translator close to the Warrior area.

WAY-FM has two other translators around Birmingham that have yet to come to fruition, too. W275AR (102.9) licensed to Birmingham, and W286BK (105.1) in Alabaster (although the signal looks as though it'll cover more Pelham than it will Alabaster). According to the FCC, they're already licensed and on the air. I go through that area quite a bit, and those two translators are nowhere to be found. ???


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[mrjay]

yah...i just looked that up - - how does the signal from HSV get to this transmitter?
according to the parent stations coverage map...it doesn't.

i know exactly where that transmitter is ; i have broadband customers via radio on the other
side of that ridge and there are two cellular towers right there too...

i assume the repeater is on a ham style tower like the one in cullman on eva road...?

 

[tomservo]

According to the FCC, they're already licensed and on the air. I go through that area quite a bit, and those two translators are nowhere to be found. ???

There's quite a lot of that fibbing going on across the south, and probably the entire United States. Funny that religious broadcasters have no problem lying to the FCC regarding the air status of these translators. Or breaking rules like the one that states they have to leave the air when the parent carrier is lost.

As far as I've been able to tell, 105.1 in Alabaster doesn't even exist. I never found an FM antenna at the TX site after the license to cover was issued. Same with 102.9 but I was never able to see the site during the day. In fairness, though, I haven't lived in B'ham in two years, so something may have come and gone one night in that span.

It's not just Birmingham, though. There are translators in Mobile, Gulf Shores, Decatur, etc that are either off air, on when the record's deleted or have never signed on at all but licensed. It's a mess and there's no one to enforce the rules.

 

[ALRocker]

I know Way FM has had programming on the 100.7 translator in the past. I heard it myself, while I was passing through the area, maybe 18 months ago.

 

[Nate Wesley]

It's not just Birmingham, though. There are translators in Mobile, Gulf Shores, Decatur, etc that are either off air, on when the record's deleted or have never signed on at all but licensed. It's a mess and there's no one to enforce the rules.

I keep looking for the 95.7 and 99.5 translators to appear on my dial every time I visit Mobile as I have for about two plus years. And I just happened to visit the city again this morning.

99.5? "Rush Radio" WRNO out of New Orleans. And who knows what station I heard on 95.7 FM: IIRC, Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" was playing, so that sort of rules out Christian outlet WGCX 95.7 of Navarre/Pensacola...or does it? ???

 

[passtheword]

It's not just Birmingham, though. There are translators in Mobile, Gulf Shores, Decatur, etc that are either off air, on when the record's deleted or have never signed on at all but licensed. It's a mess and there's no one to enforce the rules.

I keep looking for the 95.7 and 99.5 translators to appear on my dial every time I visit Mobile as I have for about two plus years. And I just happened to visit the city again this morning.

99.5? "Rush Radio" WRNO out of New Orleans. And who knows what station I heard on 95.7 FM: IIRC, Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" was playing, so that sort of rules out Christian outlet WGCX 95.7 of Navarre/Pensacola...or does it? ???

Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground"? That'd be quite a stretch for WGCX, lol. They're more praise and worship music more than contemporary christian, anyhow. I try to listen to them when I'm visiting around Gulf Shores. The signal does come in, but it's fair at best. Really odd hearing the WGCX calls on there, the ones which were for formerly used on 104.1 with their classic rock format. Can't remember for sure, but IIRC WZEW had those calls, too, at some point in time before 95.7 wound up with them. Seems like there was a call letter "switch-a-roo" between 92.1 and the then-CP for 95.7, originally licensed to East Brewton, AL.

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[tomservo]

It's not just Birmingham, though. There are translators in Mobile, Gulf Shores, Decatur, etc that are either off air, on when the record's deleted or have never signed on at all but licensed. It's a mess and there's no one to enforce the rules.

I keep looking for the 95.7 and 99.5 translators to appear on my dial every time I visit Mobile as I have for about two plus years. And I just happened to visit the city again this morning.

99.5? "Rush Radio" WRNO out of New Orleans. And who knows what station I heard on 95.7 FM: IIRC, Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" was playing, so that sort of rules out Christian outlet WGCX 95.7 of Navarre/Pensacola...or does it? ???

Since you report not hearing them, I'm changing the status to off-air in my LPFM list.

This is also an open invitation for anyone who wants to report an LPFM on or off the air, to e-mail me at [email protected].

In the list (link in my sig to the site) I'm showing active ones in bold blue, inactive ones in black, and ones that are listed as on air but reported/confirmed off in blue italics. It's not a wonderful scheme but it's all I can really do with a WYSIWYG editor from the 90's.