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106.7 Lite FM gets a translator in Nassau County

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W268AN, formerly known as Party 101.5, is now translating 106.7 Lite FM. Either someone bumped the dial Friday afternoon and the building's locked all weekend, or it's a "stunt" in preparation for translating another station. If it's a stunt, perhaps JVC should have translated 106.1 BLI to get the former 101.5 listeners mad at BLI instead, if the intent of simulcasting Lite FM is to redirect the listener's anger towards Clear Channel if they're eventually going to translate WJVC on 101.5.

Party FM lost about half its audience that listened on 101.5 (and 87.7 while it was on there)
 
If they really wanted to be clever, they'd simulcast the webstream of the "Lite FM" in Miami - which is also at 101.5 FM... ::)
 
Just a connection to be noted... While W268AN is relaying 106.7's HD-1 feed, co-owned W293BU is currently relaying 106.7's HD-2 feed. Both stations are owned by Michael Celenza.

W293BU is currently licensed to Union City, NJ with an application to move to 106.3 from midtown Manhattan.
 
Can anyone even hear W293BU? The only thing I hear on 106.5 going towards Manhattan is Streetz 106 and IBUZ.
 
Streetz 106 does have a pretty solid signal in downtown Newark. W293BU could stay on 106.5 and broadcast in Newark with the same power as Streetz 106 and cover the same area. Clear Channel won't mind if its HD2 is being translated on 106.5.
 
No doubt the owners of the Union City NJ translator are well aware that with 1 watt on 106.5, few if any people will be able to hear it over WLTW on 106.7.
The website Northeast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush had mentioned this translator a few weeks ago. It indicated that this tiny signal is actually part of a strategy to apply to the F.C.C for a change of frequency to 106.3, and a far more wide ranging signal of 100 watts broadcast from 4 Times Square in Manhattan.
The co-owned translator in Long Island that had been rebroadcasting WPTY (Party 105) recently switched to WLTW. So I'm wondering if there will be any connection between it and the one proposed for Times Square. I'm taking a guess that it may possible to eventually provide an FM rebroadcast of an HD2 station (such as WLTW HD2) that would provide a reasonable signal over a considerable chunk of northeastern NJ, New York City, and western Long Island. Translators are being used in some other cities to rebroadcast HD2 stations, so that they can be received with conventional FM radios.
 
Barry said:
The co-owned translator in Long Island that had been rebroadcasting WPTY (Party 105) recently switched to WLTW. So I'm wondering if there will be any connection between it and the one proposed for Times Square. I'm taking a guess that it may possible to eventually provide an FM rebroadcast of an HD2 station (such as WLTW HD2) that would provide a reasonable signal over a considerable chunk of northeastern NJ, New York City, and western Long Island. Translators are being used in some other cities to rebroadcast HD2 stations, so that they can be received with conventional FM radios.
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It could be a good strategy considering there is no country station in that area (Thunder is very weak in that translator's countour)
 
The call letters of the Union City, NJ translator (at 106.5 FM) were changed on March 22nd, 2011 from W296BT to W293BU.

Does anyone know reason for that?
 
Wasn't sure if that was sarcastic or not, so I'll answer it just in case... Translator call signs are assigned as follows: W for east of the Mississippi, K for the west; that's followed by the channel number; that's followed by two letters, assigned sequentially. Therefore, the first translator on Channel 293 in the country would be W293AA, the second would be W293AB, so on and so on... a translator ending in "BT" would be the 46th translator license issued for that frequency, and "BU" would be the 47th.
 
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