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102.7 WLYK Cape Vincent/Kingston after Citadel's Timeless
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RBW said:As far as the music goes, I'm a big fan of the standards and beautiful music formats, something which has been missing from the local airwaves since the original CFMO flipped back in the early '90's.Having said that, 1480 WADR (1550 WUTQ) does throw a weak daytime signal my way...
Speaking of standards... could you get 1440 Oswego or 1200 Syracuse??? They simulcast w/Dial Global's "America's Best Music". Lots of Sinatra, Bennet, Mathis, Carpenters etc...
I believe I've pulled in the Oswego signal, during the day from time to time, but its evening signal gets buried in the clutter, while the Syracuse signal gets pretty much shutout...by Ottawa's 'The Team' 1200.
Returning from the dunes of Prince Edward county today (Saturday), we tuned into The Lake, but heard no voice overs. As for the music, it's not something one can call a standards format is it? More oldies IMHO...nothing special.
~BG
No, it's not true standards at all. They've continued with pretty much an exact replica of what ABC/Citadel was delivering them previously.
I don't listen every morning, but noticed today they have Lisa Ray (the news girl) doing the after 9 shift. At least it seems "live" ... with weather & current temp etc. She sounds better than that "mousy" - sounding little girl they had for awhile before. ;D
I was in Kingston last weekend, I got WLYK clearly right in Kingston and immediately west of the city near Amherstview but I can't say I was able to pick it up near Deseronto, to the west.
On the AM band, the only station I could get clearly was WTNY 790 from Watertown.
On the AM band, the only station I could get clearly was WTNY 790 from Watertown.
So, WLYK is running a locally automated clone format of "Timeless", then?
This little station always fascinated me. I don't know the reason they're able to physically run it from Kingston in what seems like an LMA with the Canadian broadcaster. The Martz stations up the Seaway (or whoever runs them now, I think Standard Radio has a percentage ownership these days) are run out of New York State.
This little station always fascinated me. I don't know the reason they're able to physically run it from Kingston in what seems like an LMA with the Canadian broadcaster. The Martz stations up the Seaway (or whoever runs them now, I think Standard Radio has a percentage ownership these days) are run out of New York State.
OhioMediaWatch said:
Martz sold off most of its stations in 2008 to the Stephens Media group, retaining three stations in the Malone, New York area -- WYUL, WICY and WVNV. WYUL ("Hits 94.7") and WVNV ("Wild Country 96.5") both target Montreal; in fact, if you visit WYUL's website, you wouldn't even know that it was an American station -- it's all Montreal-area (plus some Cornwall); I couldn't even find anything that has a 518 area code (which includes Chateaugay, NY (its COL) and Franklin County) -- all numbers on that site are either 514, 450 or 613.
azumanga said:
Yeah, I had the remaining Martz stations in mind, particularly the Montreal rimshots WYUL and WVNV. (BTW, a jock with some ties to the Seaway region, "Java Joel" Murphy, still voicetracks WYUL's afternoon drive shift from his current home market of Cleveland, where he's live on WAKS/96.5 "Kiss FM"!)
As far as I know, WYUL and WVNV are physically operated out of studios in the Malone area, on this side of the border (probably with WICY in a closet somewhere). They do their best to act like Montreal stations, but I believe they only maintain a sales office in Montreal...not studios. That would explain the Canadian numbers you see, as their on-air lines are toll-free ones that presumably work on both sides of the border.
I believe WYUL, especially, does pretty well in the BBMs when you break them down for the West Island area, the major English speaking area in Montreal (and closer to the 94.7 signal!).
Oh, and a mistake on mine...Standard Radio was swallowed up by Astral Media sometime back. All those Canadian groups run together in my mind!
OhioMediaWatch said:
I'm not sure what level of automation they use. Portions of the day must be voice-tracked anyway. Format-wise they kinda veer a bit from what Timeless was. Only 1 standard, (or maybe 2) per hour. Lots of standard oldies though, like Timeless had become in the final months.
They must be paying the bills with cash from their other stations. If WLYK were their ONLY station, it would probably have sunk! With only ONE break per hour... it couldn't sustain itself long. :-\
I believe that the signal is microwaved from Kingston to Cape Vincent Tower then relayed through to the transmittter. I remember reading an article about this, and the LMA agreement. FCC did allow a canadian microwave signal to be rebroadcast on a US based transmitter For "The lake" WLYK . If i can find the article, i will post the link on here.
The funny thing is i remember when 92.7 in ogdensburg was using a relay transmitter to rebroadcast 106.7 through the 92.7 tower in ogdensburg, except i would hear 106.9 the bear on 92.7/ They had so many problems with ottawa's 106.9 coming through the relay, they couldn't shield the bleeding into the 106.7 bandwith on fm. Totally funny and hallarius to listen to, but not for them to fix.
This was when it was the border, Wbdr, wbdi and wbdb
The funny thing is i remember when 92.7 in ogdensburg was using a relay transmitter to rebroadcast 106.7 through the 92.7 tower in ogdensburg, except i would hear 106.9 the bear on 92.7/ They had so many problems with ottawa's 106.9 coming through the relay, they couldn't shield the bleeding into the 106.7 bandwith on fm. Totally funny and hallarius to listen to, but not for them to fix.
This was when it was the border, Wbdr, wbdi and wbdb
I'd love to see that link.
Rogers doesn't "claim" WLYK on its website, though it lists K-Rock and Kix:
http://your.rogers.com/radiostation...J1X73EMTBPQF8K97C11UGDAN3STJ27C2&prov=ontario
Rogers doesn't "claim" WLYK on its website, though it lists K-Rock and Kix:
http://your.rogers.com/radiostation...J1X73EMTBPQF8K97C11UGDAN3STJ27C2&prov=ontario
jay_radio said:
What kind of cheap system were they using to relay 106.7? Id expect a radio station to have something better at eliminating first adjacent interference even though the Ottawa 100kw'ers come in pretty strong in Ogdensburg. The problem would be just as bad if not worse if they tried to get the 102.7 signal up there, WNCQ overpowers that.
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