Noticed flipping through the dial that after many years the legal id for the Fox has changed from WGNYFM to WJGK, which Sunrise owned for the station it never built.
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103.1 WGNYFM is now WJGK
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necrat123
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According to the FCC, the call sign changed on October 27.
WGNY-FM was used since 1984.
WGNY-FM was used since 1984.
I wonder why they changed the calls now. The were just granted a CP for 98.9 Rosendale.
MHVRadiofan said:
You may have just landed on it...Dollars to donuts, 98.9 becomes WGNY-FM. If that's the case, since they bothered with the swap in the first place, I'd venture to guess 98.9 becomes a simulcast of 1220/WGNY which gets Van back on FM.
I'll have to check, 98.9 is going to be an oldies station in Rosedale which is a simulcast of WGNY-AM at 1220. I hope oldies is going to return after a 4-year absence from WBPM's former "Cool 92.9". I hope oldies will do a lot better on FM. WEOK still has "True Oldies" on, but it has an okay signal, but it is horrible at night when it comes in from different stations elsewhere. I hope I can check it out, but if not, 98.9 in Rosedale is not on the air yet.
Wonder if it had anything to do with 103.1 in Albany becoming WGY-FM? You had WGY-FM and WGNY-FM both on 103.1 and adjacent to each other.
Bingo! I didn't think of that .Now your theory makes sense. While they don’t interfere with each other they are rather short spaced. I couldn't understand why they would change long held calls, especially without a format change
According to Scott Fybush that Sunrise Broadcasting has installed calls on its new 98.9 construction permit in Rosendale, and as expected, that station will be WGNY-FM now that the former WGNY-FM at 103.1 which is still WJGK. I hope this format will be consider doing an oldies format or maybe a simulcast of WJGK at 103.1 which is AC format. Remember WGNY-FM was at 97.3 when it got covered by "The Wolf" about a year and a half ago. That was a translator to put WGNY-FM on 97.3 which was a bad decision not to do a simulcast of WGNY-FM.
As for 98.9 in Rosendale, they're not on the air yet, but I hope if this format will get splatter by a WKZE simulcast at 99.1 in Red Hook which is about 2 kcs up the dial. I mentioned on this thread a few days ago about WKZE being simulcast on 99.1. I found a link to this one here to check it out.
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WGNY-FM
As for 98.9 in Rosendale, they're not on the air yet, but I hope if this format will get splatter by a WKZE simulcast at 99.1 in Red Hook which is about 2 kcs up the dial. I mentioned on this thread a few days ago about WKZE being simulcast on 99.1. I found a link to this one here to check it out.
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WGNY-FM
disney fanatic said:
Well so far I was right, I guess you can bet on that simulcast now.
Although listed as licensed by the FCC Poughkeepsie translator 97.3 apparently has gone off the air. I had not noticed, but I doubt it was a year and a half ago. It was rather unnecessary IMO because 103.1 buts a decent signal into Poughkeepsie. Although it’s quite possible, they use 98.9 to simulcast WJGK especially since they put the WGNY calls there, I don’t see the silencing of 97.3 as a prelude to that because it’s likely to take Sunrise at least a year to get the new station on the air.
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Shepard87
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The owner of Sunrise is so full of himself the new call letters are his initials. WJGK. Joerg G. Klebe
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