Looks like Withers Broadcasting has flipped 92.7 WVZA/Herrin from Top 40/CHR to AC-Based 92-7...VZA. The station is being billed at "Real Music Variety".
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92-7 KISS-FM IS NOW 92-7...VZA-FM (SOUTHERN ILLINOIS)
- Thread starter thewolfmanrocks
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That's good news for Class "B" WCIL-FM...
thewolfmanrocks said:
Ah, time for some musings from one who used to work at WJPF-AM. A fellow SIU student from Herrin said locals called the station wee-jee-puff. When I left in 1977 there was no FM station licensed to Herrin. Congrats, though. That's good news. The FM is owned by a company called Withers? Remember, when a fruit or veg doesn't get enough water it withers on the vine. Lastly, serve your city of license, Herrin & Williamson county.
It has been on for a while (years) and was set up with a signal to perfectly cover the four county Metro, with it's tower just on the edge of Carterville... It's directional and it's protected 57dBU (Class B-1) signal at the FCC database will show that's the aim... It crops off in the east at the Williamson/Saline County line (Protected Grade) because of monster 92.5/WBKR (Class C) Owensboro, KY...But, in the car you can get them to Harrisburg....
92.7 was never WJPF's FM...WJPF put 95.1 on the air as its FM...a docket 80-90
licensed to Carterville.
92.7 was made available when Withers moved WRAJ in Anna to 96.5 FM. I was
involved with a group that got 92.7 allocated to Herrin...but instead of
trying to finance a battle for the license we took a buyout.
licensed to Carterville.
92.7 was made available when Withers moved WRAJ in Anna to 96.5 FM. I was
involved with a group that got 92.7 allocated to Herrin...but instead of
trying to finance a battle for the license we took a buyout.
(Pun intended)...I never knew of Jay Pierce 'selling out' of anything? :
skippertthomas said:(Pun intended)...I never knew of Jay Pierce 'selling out' of anything? :
Isn't Jay's last name spelled Pearce? He was at WJPF-AM in the mid 70's along with me, DJX, plus Joe Bob Pierce, Russ "Mr. Coffee" Franzen, Jim Starr, Ken White, Charlie D (McGlaughlin), news directors Mike Powell and Bill Fearneyhough, and PD Tony Taylor (the best among many PDs who went through the turnstyle).
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