Noticed in the car today (07/24/10) that 101.9 FM WINF-LP Delaware seems to be back to Easy Listening/MOR format that they ran prior to airing Cedarville Univ. CDR Radio Network "The Path" starting back in 2005.
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101.9 FM WINF-LP Delaware back to Easy Listening?
- Thread starter xmusicmatt
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WINF-LP announced they are streaming on their new website here:
http://www.winf.fm/
Also, I'm able to pick them up where I live in downtown Columbus. They get out much further then they should. Here is their radio-locator coverage map:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WINF&service=FL&status=L&hours=U
Any other signal reports? They may be running much more then then legal authorized power.
They(WNKO) have been approved to move to a different tower site, about twenty miles from WINF-LP. Maybe WINF-LP won't have to mover after all.
Here is the location of the new FCC approved WKNO tower site:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=40.14389,+-82.63889+(WNKO-FM)&om=1
http://www.winf.fm/
Also, I'm able to pick them up where I live in downtown Columbus. They get out much further then they should. Here is their radio-locator coverage map:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WINF&service=FL&status=L&hours=U
Any other signal reports? They may be running much more then then legal authorized power.
gabigley1 said:
They(WNKO) have been approved to move to a different tower site, about twenty miles from WINF-LP. Maybe WINF-LP won't have to mover after all.
Here is the location of the new FCC approved WKNO tower site:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=40.14389,+-82.63889+(WNKO-FM)&om=1
Yeah, they're getting out too well. Someone better let them know about this. The FCC will take them off the air. These idiots don't know how to run a station that's for sure. Not good stewards of the radio dial.
One thing I wonder.. They link to 95.1 WVXG as their "Sister station" ... is the folks running WVXG programming 101.9? their websites are very alike.
Fred Shaffer is the operations director for:
Classic Rock 95.1 (WVXG) http://951rocks.com
101.9 WINF Delaware's Information Station http://winf.fm
True Oldies 1270 http://qt1270.com
Classic Rock 95.1 (WVXG) http://951rocks.com
101.9 WINF Delaware's Information Station http://winf.fm
True Oldies 1270 http://qt1270.com
gabigley1 said:
Not unless they changed the LPFM ownership rules since the last time I looked.
But there is SOME connection between the 95.1/1270/1550 empire and 101.9. Maybe it's (as suggested here) the operations guy. Last time I was close enough to 101.9's signal, I heard them do the exact same weather forecast as 95.1!
Well, look here:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...776&Service=FL&Form_id=319&Facility_id=132375
The one and only Mark Litton is listed as "director" of Delaware County Development Company, the licensee of WINF-LP (then and now), in this 2004 document. He does own the other stations outright, IIRC.
This original document from 2002:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...050&Service=FL&Form_id=318&Facility_id=132375
...lists him with 100% of the voting shares in Delaware County Development Company.
More coming...I'm assuming he had to step down when he bought the other stations, but still has ties with whoever took over control of DCDC. More when I find something in the files for the other stations...
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...776&Service=FL&Form_id=319&Facility_id=132375
The one and only Mark Litton is listed as "director" of Delaware County Development Company, the licensee of WINF-LP (then and now), in this 2004 document. He does own the other stations outright, IIRC.
This original document from 2002:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...050&Service=FL&Form_id=318&Facility_id=132375
...lists him with 100% of the voting shares in Delaware County Development Company.
More coming...I'm assuming he had to step down when he bought the other stations, but still has ties with whoever took over control of DCDC. More when I find something in the files for the other stations...
Mark Litton has nothing to do with WINF. He resigned from the board when he bought WVXG. Brent Casagrande; Margaret Harr;
and I believe the third board member is Todd Marier. I know this because I did some play by Play for Football games this year. They are just colocated in the same building in Delaware as WDLR WUCO and WVXG and soon to be American Family Radios Delaware Station. WHKC also has facilities at the same loaction as well. They all share duties among all of these stations to save cost. This is being done in several markets where different operators that do not compete share resources to control costs. Personally. I believe they do a great job of doing local sports and Community affairs. They are probably the only non comm actually following the Commerical underwritting rules. They do have their transmitter on an actual tower not on a rooftop like most LPFMs. I find it odd you think the fact that they come in weakly in columbus constitutes that something must be hpped up. I live in Lewis Center and can listen to WCRSs 102.1 signal and their translator in my house on a table top radio without any issue. are they hopped up as well? Though their audio sucks most of the time.
and I believe the third board member is Todd Marier. I know this because I did some play by Play for Football games this year. They are just colocated in the same building in Delaware as WDLR WUCO and WVXG and soon to be American Family Radios Delaware Station. WHKC also has facilities at the same loaction as well. They all share duties among all of these stations to save cost. This is being done in several markets where different operators that do not compete share resources to control costs. Personally. I believe they do a great job of doing local sports and Community affairs. They are probably the only non comm actually following the Commerical underwritting rules. They do have their transmitter on an actual tower not on a rooftop like most LPFMs. I find it odd you think the fact that they come in weakly in columbus constitutes that something must be hpped up. I live in Lewis Center and can listen to WCRSs 102.1 signal and their translator in my house on a table top radio without any issue. are they hopped up as well? Though their audio sucks most of the time.
Thank you for the explanation, Mike, and the confirmation of what I'd suspected in the earlier message...that Mark did indeed step down from the DCDC/WINF board when he bought WVXG.
I just couldn't find any references to that in the FCC CDBS, though I may not have been looking in the right place...it appears to be hard to find ownership for LPFMs, since they aren't required to file ownership reports.
The weather forecasts and similar sound between WVXG and WINF just piqued my curiosity.
And the WINF website and streaming, linked here, is under Mark's ICS banner. and the aforementioned Mr. Shaffer is indeed listed on the WINF site under "Programming Questions", with his WVXG E-mail address:
http://www.winf.fm/pages/8249965.php
I just couldn't find any references to that in the FCC CDBS, though I may not have been looking in the right place...it appears to be hard to find ownership for LPFMs, since they aren't required to file ownership reports.
The weather forecasts and similar sound between WVXG and WINF just piqued my curiosity.
And the WINF website and streaming, linked here, is under Mark's ICS banner. and the aforementioned Mr. Shaffer is indeed listed on the WINF site under "Programming Questions", with his WVXG E-mail address:
http://www.winf.fm/pages/8249965.php
They use intertech media to do their websites. Intertech does sunny 95 and a bunch of other stations. they have boiler plated websites. since they are short staffed i expect they used the same company and the same boiler plat to save money. I know the weather is from a service they contract with. they are like ACCUWEATHER though i dont know the name. they use radio spider to go out to the services website to update the weather. the temps are added as an audiofile at the end of the forcast by a temp sensor. pretty nifty. Littons company ICS is a telephone/Internet service company. I think it is on the web because they trade WINF for the phone and internet services. Thats at least what Fred Shaffer told me. Fred only works part time. He does a lot of voiceover work in town. Immkee Honda is one of his big accounts in voiceover work.
But WINF's site is almost identical to WVXG and Mark's other sites, and Sunny 95's is not, even if they're all under the InterTech design banner.
And the E-mail for "underwriting" for WINF on the Contact page:
That's Mark's company.
This could well all be on the up and up, it just looks kinda odd on the outside.
And the E-mail for "underwriting" for WINF on the Contact page:
That's Mark's company.
This could well all be on the up and up, it just looks kinda odd on the outside.
All of littons phone customers have ics.com as an email address. it just like Time Warners email is @rr.com and Frontiers email addresses end in @frontier.com. WVXGs email are @951rocks.com. I would not read anything into that. I just think winf does not have the money to get their own email server even though they have winf.fm domain. they have a high school kid doing their website updates for all four stations in the building. He is working as an intern.
OK, Mike, it's becoming clearer. Thanks for the explanation!
mikenci said:
WHKC is now broadcasting out of the 36/37 studios of WDLR 1550? I thought it was being run out of an industrial park off Powell Rd/23N just north of Columbus.
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