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93.3 Updates

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RickRose

With all the talk about 96.1/105.3/99.7 I thought I would bring updates on a south metro station J 93.3.

I read in All Access that morning co-host and 9am-noon personality Susan Richards has left the station to return to arbitron and they are looking for her replacement.

I was reviewing the schedule and noticed an hour of music has been added and that Charles Stanley is the only program that airs during the week. The program at 10:30pm and 5am is now off the schedule. So now its 23.5 hours of music weekdays, 23 hours on saturday and 22 hours on Sunday. It is getting better but I still say 24/7 is the way to go. Let me say I was shocked the morning that Joy FM became J93.3 and they announced that music would last all day to 8pm, and now they are down to one weekday program.

J93.3 is offering once again a commercial free Christmas music stream on their website. The regular station is playing Christmas music in with the regular music that sings about the reason for Christmas. If I lived in south metro I would listen to them more but I have signal issues where I live.
 
I understand they do intend to build the new site.
May be the new site will offer a better signal to at least parts of Atlanta (don't hold your breath.) Looks like coverage will be better in Columbus, and possibly Macon.
I wish they would at least get some translators fired up with J93 programming!
 
taylorengineer said:
I understand they do intend to build the new site.
May be the new site will offer a better signal to at least parts of Atlanta (don't hold your breath.) Looks like coverage will be better in Columbus, and possibly Macon.
I wish they would at least get some translators fired up with J93 programming!
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You know, the FCC maps indicate that Columbus is already within the protected contour.... But the signal down there is awful. It isn't stereo-seekable well into Harris County. Must be a light-bulb pattern?

Columbus coverage would be nice. 93.3 The Joy FM used to have excellent Columbus coverage as a class C.
 
taylorengineer said:
I understand they do intend to build the new site.
May be the new site will offer a better signal to at least parts of Atlanta (don't hold your breath.) Looks like coverage will be better in Columbus, and possibly Macon.
I wish they would at least get some translators fired up with J93 programming!
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A signal like 104.1/105.3 would be nice. I know the 93.3 out in south Alabama has moved to Fort Walton and the big 93.3 serving Huntsville is the works of a downgrade to better serve that market. I guess that Dave FM is the biggest signal limiting factor.

A few years back there was a bunch of applications for translators filed and a lot of the ones for Georgia had WVFJ listed as the primary station. I not sure about that but it was tied some group that used different stations as the primary signal. 93.3 could only own those translators within some signal level range but If I remember some outside interest could own translators and stick J on them.
 
Yes Rick, that's true. Radio Training Network, the non commercial arm of the Watkins family radio interests, has applied for hundreds of translators. These will probably be programmed with a feed from WLFJ, out of Greenville, S.C. As you mentioned, they can not be used for WVFJ programming.
Seems like someone would put it on a translator(s) in north Atlanta. But now, with the Fish, and 91.5, I'm not so sure anyone would do it.
 
taylorengineer said:
Yes Rick, that's true. Radio Training Network, the non commercial arm of the Watkins family radio interests, has applied for hundreds of translators. These will probably be programmed with a feed from WLFJ, out of Greenville, S.C. As you mentioned, they can not be used for WVFJ programming.
Seems like someone would put it on a translator(s) in north Atlanta. But now, with the Fish, and 91.5, I'm not so sure anyone would do it.
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There is a 92.5 translator CP for Decatur. Yes, with WEKS coming in pretty good on good car radios...I can't imagine it would have any decent coverage. There is a 102.9 translator CP up at Kennessaw which will probably do pretty good since Clarksville's 102.9 is pretty much gone by that area. Those are the only two CPs not built in the area and I don't see any pending applications either. The spectrum is really crowded on FM now around Atlanta.
 
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