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104.9 FM in NW Georgia

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KnightWriter

With a war of words now settled by the FCC, involving ownership and all, it appears a new FM is about to premiere in Northwest Georgia. Background:
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0102/t.9177.html

What's your guess on the format? We have South 107, Latino, Q102, local (mostly syndicated) talk and a few oldies formats. The market appears to be Floyd, Bartow, Gordon counties and the I-75 corridor between the ATL and Chattanooga.
 
CP is for 1.8kW between Adairsville and Rome. Probably not to much of a dent on the Fish.
 
Unfortunately... the Rome radio market is a joke... Thanks to pretty much the FCC ownership rules...
 
It's a full 6KW Class A that is over the FCC height limit for a class A of 300M AMSL. Since it will be at 415.7M AMSL, the ERP has been reduced to 1.8KW. It should have a nice signal for the areas it is designed to serve.

I would run 3.6KW into one bay if it were me.

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B00MER said:
Unfortunately... the Rome radio market is a joke... Thanks to pretty much the FCC ownership rules...
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I was in Rome recently. Besides Q102.3 and WRGA I didn't find many stations unique to Rome. Heck I heard many out of Chattanooga.
 
Was this the radio station Steve Gradick (owner of WCKS Kiss 102.7, WBTR b-92 country, WKNG 1060 Am WLBB 1330) recieved the liscense for in the the Rome area and sold to Stone or is it an entirely different station? About 3 to 4 years ago, Steve had planned to build a staton there. The paper work had been a decade or so in the making.
 
This is a brand new 6KW station on 104.9 for Plainville. The one to which you refer is WSRM on 95.3 licensed to Coosa, Ga @ 6KW. The CP was purchased by Stone from the trust of the late Mrs. Graddock. (or that's how I understand it.)

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Unfortunately... the Rome radio market is a joke... Thanks to pretty much the FCC ownership rules...


That's why you need to just keep moving up to Chattanooga!
 
Update: Coosa Valley News, one of the bidders for 104.9 earlier this year, has filed a new appeal to the FCC regarding statements made in eventual winner Howard Toole's application. Toole, the GM of Stone/Southern Broadcasting's Athens-area cluster, listed a Texas address when he applied. Toole won the 104.9 FM auction--and he qualified for the 35 percent new owner discount, too.

As for Rome radio: There is little, if anything, to set the market apart from others. Boortz, Clark Howard, Hannity, Limbaugh, Ramsey are all piped in. The local morning shows are jibberish with no bite, color or taste. The local flavor is an older gentleman who calls in the temperature. The news pretty much is blue-light special cops-and-robbers stuff or agenda-driven government meetings. No press release is too insignificant to announce. And if you have the jack, they'll read your grandmother's obit during lunch hour.

And they wonder why the market shrinks.....
 
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