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1110 New Format

Bgd1974 said:
Can we assume at this point that if the groundhog sees his shadow Monday it will be six more weeks of elevator music on 1110?
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LOL! Hey, Groundhog Day is also the seventy-eighth Birthday of WPAQ, Mount Airy, NC. Happy early Birthday, Kelly and crew.
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Romans 11:33-36 KJB

Josh

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For callsign change requests, there are excellent resources external to the FCC.

Michi's FCC.today provides a near real-time feed of applications and grants. Call change requests show up on her feed with a CSRC- prefix, while exchanges of calls show up as CSRE-.

If you don't catch the application the day it's made, on the weekends FCC.today displays the previous week of applications and grants.

Michi's FCCdata.org shows you every application a station has made. Here's the current WLNK-FM, where you can see the call exchange filing down near the bottom of the list:


And for subscribers to Lance's RadioInsight.com, there's a weekly FCC report that provides data and some analysis of all the technical and call change applications made during the previous week. It's well worth the dollar a week you'd pay to get it.
 
davideduardo said:
More than likely. It's better to "hide" the calls in a fast Top of the Hour ID and file for a change later.

Back a half century ago, you had to notify every station in your coverage area of proposed call changes about a month (IIRC) in advance. Of course, that meant all your competitors got a hint about what the station was going to do.

I changed Beautiful Music WSRA to all-salsa WZNT years ago. Anyone who read the trades knew that we were going to be "Z-93" (in Spanish) and assumed we would be all hits of some kind. So in overnights, we "tested" the format from Midnight to 6 AM for a month, playing all the wrong salsa album cuts and stiffs. When we launched, everyone "across the street" had decided we had no clue about that music and they ignored us... until the first book showed us #1 with double the share of the next station. By then, it was too late for anyone to adjust.

Back then, call letters did matter, and were used more on the air and, particularly, in local sales
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I remember when Curtis (reckon it was) did The Call Sign Shuffle, starting with 'BBB, moving it to 96.1. I never liked that ID I recorded from them afterwords, which said in part, they're just a bunch of meaningless letters.

Romans 11:33-36 KJB

Josh

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Following that link I also see Radio One is attempting to upgrade 100.9 to almost a full class C3 that is directional. Im sure 101.1 Anderson explains to null to the west.
 
IM42A said:
I don't suppose there's any way to search those Daily Digests, that you would actually have to open each day's and read it. Is that right?
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Well, you could always subscribe to Radioinsight. It usually posts call letter changes and their effective dates once-a-week in its FCC report (more often if a request is filed with a format change).
 
Kent said:
Well, you could always subscribe to Radioinsight. It usually posts call letter changes and their effective dates once-a-week in its FCC report (more often if a request is filed with a format change).
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Does the "free community membership" afford access to this report?

As a perpetual broadcasting tyro who has, alas, never worked in the industry (I tried), I can't justify spending money on something such as this, but if I can get it free of charge, sure.
 
IM42A said:
Does the "free community membership" afford access to this report?
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I don't believe so.

IM42A said:
As a perpetual broadcasting tyro who has, alas, never worked in the industry (I tried), I can't justify spending money on something such as this, but if I can get it free of charge, sure.
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It's $5/month. I believe it still offers the $50 for a year option, too. It's your money. If you can't justify spending that, so be it. Your finances are your business. It's a pretty good value for what you get, though.
 
Kent said:
It's $5/month. I believe it still offers the $50 for a year option, too. It's your money. If you can't justify spending that, so be it. Your finances are your business. It's a pretty good value for what you get, though.
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I am retired and on a somewhat limited income. Every dollar counts. This is something I'd only use the one time, to find out the skinny on WBT, and we'll know soon enough anyway.
 
IM42A said:
I am retired and on a somewhat limited income. Every dollar counts. This is something I'd only use the one time, to find out the skinny on WBT, and we'll know soon enough anyway.
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Then your best option is the one originally proposed: Check LMS periodically with a search on WBT and if/when an application is filed, it will show up.

The other option is temporarily subscribe to Daily Digest and open the "Applications" link, which will bring up the report of all filings since the previous report.
 
tylerSC said:
And then later I think maybe 99.9 was moved to Asheville and became WLOS-FM, broadcasting from high atop Mount Pisgah and heard in multiple states. Today it is WKSF-Kiss Country. And I also heard originally 106.9 was supposed to be in Charlotte but Billy Graham bought it and moved to Mount Mitchell with another powerful signal. Someone please correct and clarify.
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WMIT - Wikipedia

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There are sources. The owner of WSJS in Winston-Salem started the station in 1941,

The source for this is fybush.com: though the transmitter was near Mt. Mitchell, the programming came from Winston-Salem,

The frequency changed several times, from 44.1 to 97.3 and finally 106.9 in 1948. I'm not sure the 97.3 frequency is sourced.

Billy Graham didn't get involved until the 1960s.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Billy Graham didn't get involved until the 1960s.
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Confirmed via the Broadcasting archives at World Radio History.
Applied June 4, 1962:
Approved July 12:

Here's the proof of the 97.3 frequency being the first approved jump from the original FM band, in 1946:

However, it appears that the 106.9 authorization was approved before the move from 44.1, so they likely never operated on 97.3:
 
fybush said:
Michi's FCC.today provides a near real-time feed of applications and grants. Call change requests show up on her feed with a CSRC- prefix, while exchanges of calls show up as CSRE-.
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I must be missing something here. On her site, "FCC Today" is an occasional podcast (I describe it that way because the last one was in April of last year.
 
I know this sounds weird but could "lounge music" be the format? Could they try some kind of BM hybrid? The 55+ folks most likely remember AM.*. How many cars have HD AM capable radios? If they do AM HD, the IBOC should cover most of the market. Very cheap to run. A PC in an existing equipment rack.

* IMHO you would have to count on "local" sales aimed at the retired folks some actually have a surprising amount of spendable money.
 


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