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89.3/104.7, Hazlet

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Pirate_Jim

Happened to come across a call letter change for the former 89.3 in Hazlet ..
Calls changed from WDDM to WPDI on April 10 ...
They were also approved, back in February, to move to 104.7 ..
However, they have been silent since last May 16, so they have about a month to get back on the air ..
Anyone have any insight as to what they will program on the new signal ?
 
Hopefully WPRB will shut off its IBUZ spewing monster and we can hear KTU again. I don't think stations as short spaced as WPRB and WKTU should be allowed to be in HD.

Will WPDI also be heard on the 100.7 translator in Edison and the 104.7 translator in New Brunswick, both of which are co-owned?
 
Hopefully WPRB will shut off its IBUZ spewing monster and we can hear KTU again. I don't think stations as short spaced as WPRB and WKTU should be allowed to be in HD.
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Sorry Nick, from the ad on the website it looks like the WPRB HD-2 programming will continue. When you think about it, that's Radio Asia's best signal, especially in the Plainsboro/Princeton area. The Radio Asia folks would be foolish to give up that signal, especially when it allows them to have legal translators, of even very low power, in areas with a high Asian population anywhere it can shoehorn them in. They also probably have no trouble selling HD radios to their prospective listeners.

I don't think stations as short spaced as WPRB and WKTU should be allowed to be in HD.
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It is doubtful that HD was taken into consideration when the non-directional short-spaced deal was made, and there probably aren't that many places in the country where the stakes were high enough to make deals like that, and therefore no reason for the FCC to have general rules to address that problem. In other words, "let the marketplace decide" if they interfere with each other to the point of having no audience they will fix the problem. Looking at KTU's latest ratings it's not hurting them, and besides they don't care if anybody listens in Mercer County, its a different radio market.
 
TimeIsTight said:
Hopefully WPRB will shut off its IBUZ spewing monster and we can hear KTU again. I don't think stations as short spaced as WPRB and WKTU should be allowed to be in HD.
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Sorry Nick, from the ad on the website it looks like the WPRB HD-2 programming will continue. When you think about it, that's Radio Asia's best signal, especially in the Plainsboro/Princeton area. The Radio Asia folks would be foolish to give up that signal, especially when it allows them to have legal translators, of even very low power, in areas with a high Asian population anywhere it can shoehorn them in. They also probably have no trouble selling HD radios to their prospective listeners.

They do have problems selling HD radios to those prospective listeners. That culture is 'frugal' to put it best. Unless HD comes with the radio in that new Lexus they're purchasing, then forget about it. Or if someone happened to be giving away free HD radios to the mass public... Also, go to the Best Buy at the shopping center across from the WPRB tower, not a very well stocked supply of portable HD radios.

I don't think stations as short spaced as WPRB and WKTU should be allowed to be in HD.
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It is doubtful that HD was taken into consideration when the non-directional short-spaced deal was made, and there probably aren't that many places in the country where the stakes were high enough to make deals like that, and therefore no reason for the FCC to have general rules to address that problem. In other words, "let the marketplace decide" if they interfere with each other to the point of having no audience they will fix the problem. Looking at KTU's latest ratings it's not hurting them, and besides they don't care if anybody listens in Mercer County, its a different radio market.
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It's not Mercer County that's only affected by the WPRB HD mess! I can't get KTU without static or interference in Middlesex County- Woodbridge, Edison, south on 1 into North and South Brunswick, East Brunswick and Dayton. Even Jackson and Freehold it's no longer clear as it once was. Contacting KTU is useless as they don't respond to these issues.
 
>>Calls changed from WDDM to WPDI on April 10 ...
They were also approved, back in February, to move to 104.7 .

Great. There goes my chance at listening to WRFF when I'm visiting the Hazlet area. I was always able to pick up 104.5 in Philadelphia fairly steadily where I grew up in Hazlet (on the south side of town near the Holmdel border). For that matter, 104.9 in Egg Harbor City was fairly listenable as well. We were terrain shielded by the north-facing signals from NYC by a low hill which enabled reception of the Philadelphia/ South Jersey signals there, including analog TV. Even 100.3 and especially 101.1 would battle it out sometimes there. Go about 1/4 mile away from the hill towards the train station and it was all NYC with hardly a trace of Philly.

-Mike
 
mdamico25 said:
>>Calls changed from WDDM to WPDI on April 10 ...
They were also approved, back in February, to move to 104.7 .

Great. There goes my chance at listening to WRFF when I'm visiting the Hazlet area. I was always able to pick up 104.5 in Philadelphia fairly steadily where I grew up in Hazlet (on the south side of town near the Holmdel border). For that matter, 104.9 in Egg Harbor City was fairly listenable as well. We were terrain shielded by the north-facing signals from NYC by a low hill which enabled reception of the Philadelphia/ South Jersey signals there, including analog TV. Even 100.3 and especially 101.1 would battle it out sometimes there. Go about 1/4 mile away from the hill towards the train station and it was all NYC with hardly a trace of Philly.

-Mike
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You have 90.5 The Night broadcasting from Brookdale in Lincroft if you want to hear Alternative. Signal in the Hazlet area is pretty good.
 
When I contacted WPRB to complain about their HD, they said that it's only fair they get an opportunity to "fight back" since "Clear Channel has been silencing the voice of independent radio" with KTU being allowed to legally jam WPRB for years with their HD. So there, even the stations themselves think it's mutually assured destruction.
 
I don't see a license to cover granted on WPDI yet their site seems to say otherwise. So, a licensed non-com class D is going to relay a full power class B non-com's HD2 signal, or is it the other way around? Typically, aren't translators normally used for rebroadcasting hd2 or 3 signals?

Speaking of translators, W264BT is still relaying WRKS' 98.7 HD2 asian feed. Who knows if they're going to switch back and if so, is it 103.3 or 89.3?

I'm curious. :)
 
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