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105.5 FM St. Augustine bids Hasta La Vista to Hispanic Programming.

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AM Top 40

Looks like a format change has occurred in St. Augustine, FL. Tuned the car radio to 105.5 FM a short bit ago and found Rock and Roll... in English. It's a simulcast of 103.1 WRNR Annapolis, Maryland (Empire Broadcasting System, Inc). Just a placeholder or the real deal? This used to simulcast with 105.3 Fernandina Beach, FL until about a year or two ago. This station WAS the original WSOS. The call sign migrated to 94.1 St. Augustine.

Ron
Palm Coast, FL
 
AM Top 40 said:
This station WAS the original WSOS. The call sign migrated to 94.1 St. Augustine.
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Although WSOS-FM Fruit Cove originally operated on the FM frequency 105.5mHz when WSOS-FM was licensed to Saint Augustine, the current WSJF Saint Augustine Beach 105.5 is not the same as the former WSOS. WSOS' license moved frequency to 94.1 C3, completely vacating the 105.5 A dial position licensed to Saint Augustine. Once WSOS completed its move to the new 94.1 C3 frequency, 105.5 A was was deleted from the FM Table of Allotments for Saint Augustine and re-allocated to Saint Augustine Beach as that community's first commercial FM service, so the current 105.5 occupied by WSJF is a totally different license assigned to a completely different community. However, you are correct in that the original WSOS did, indeed, operate on the 105.5 frequency when said frequency was assigned to Saint Augustine.
 
That station is owed by Steve Kingston, as is the station in Annapolis.
 
This signal is very poor and probably won't have any impact on any markets.
 
IT has a good St. Johns County and Flagler County signal. Barely gets into Jacksonville - I think the power had been turned down to accomodate 105.3 Fernandina Beach back in 1999.
 
Word from the Washington-based DCRTV (home area of WRNR) is that Kingston and his crew plan to operate this as a local St. Augustine station, and aren't trying to hit Jax.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Word from the Washington-based DCRTV (home area of WRNR) is that Kingston and his crew plan to operate this as a local St. Augustine station, and aren't trying to hit Jax.
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Right now it's a local Annapolis MD station...total simulcast of WRNR INCLUDING all of the WRNR commercials...did not hear any for St. Augustine...there's a dual legal ID at the top of the hour..other than that it's 100% 103.1 WRNR during the hour..
 
I'm sure the WRNR simulcast is simply a temporary placeholder until the permanent format is ready to be put in place and ready to air.
 
jmtillery said:
I'm sure the WRNR simulcast is simply a temporary placeholder until the permanent format is ready to be put in place and ready to air.
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I got the idea from the original reporting on this that local programming should have been in place much earlier. I could be wrong, tho.
 
WRNR simulcast still in place. This sounds awful............... ???
 
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