104.7 the Oasis operator ordered by the FCC to go off the air

[Buckeyes2001]

http://www.radio-info.com/news/fcc-bluntly-orders-tim-martz-detroit-fm-translator-off-the-air

Just found this headline on here. Looks like enough complaints from WIOT listeners got the FCC to go after 104.7 the Oasis.

 

[umfan]

Yep.

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db1018/DA-11-1727A1.pdf

Most likely Smooth Jazz will move to 94.3 where 'The Bone' currently airs but the coverage for that translator is horrid. I give martz credit for trying.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Simple: "The Oasis" interfered with WIOT *within WIOT's protected contour", which includes the same southern Detroit suburbs that Clear Channel dutifully passed along complaints from.

Mr. Martz had to get off 104.7, period. Those are the rules.

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

How did the FCC with the closeness of Detroit and Toledo ever even think of Allocating a Translator on a Toledo frequency

 

[Tom Wells]

How did the FCC with the closeness of Detroit and Toledo ever even think of Allocating a Translator on a Toledo frequency

They imagineered an allocation.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Some Toledo full B's go north farther than others.

As it happens, WIOT's coverage is pretty good to the north, and as noted, it does well in southern suburbs of Detroit that are still in the Detroit market.

It may have "looked good on paper(/screen)" to the FCC to let it come on, but reality apparently proved somewhat different.