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93.9 Sellersburg-Louisville

PROjammer said:
I woke up and heard WJIE on 93-9 this morning, now it's ESPN....
Could The Ticket have gotten punched in? It's in mono.
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Yes, but it's High Definition Mono for your listening pleasure.
 
greg.hahn said:
PROjammer said:
I woke up and heard WJIE on 93-9 this morning, now it's ESPN....
Could The Ticket have gotten punched in? It's in mono.
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Yes, but it's High Definition Mono for your listening pleasure.
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Oh, I have to retract that. Even though they have HD equipment installed, they didn't turn it on. It would really help them if they did fire up the HD, for those of us with HD receivers, because their signal is terrible!

You would think that it would be better than WPTI since the antenna is in the same place but 93.9 is twice the power. But it's not nearly as good, at least to the east.

That's because 93.9 is a class A operating on a traditional Class B&C channel, while WPTI is a Class A operating on a traditional Class A channel. When I drove home to Shelbyville today, WSEK in Somerset, KY (93.9 -50,000 watts at 147 meters) was KILLING WQRC or whatever it is, while WPTI was still very listenable.

I enjoyed listening to them today. That will probably further erode WHAS' sports audience.
 
greg.hahn said:
You would think that it would be better than WPTI since the antenna is in the same place but 93.9 is twice the power. But it's not nearly as good, at least to the east.
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So, you guys are sharing the stick on top of the National City building?
 
This might be a dumb question, but here goes. If you look in today's sports section in the C-J under Today on Radio, you will see 2 HS games were to be on WFBR 93.9. Radio-Locator says WFBR is 100 watts. How/why is ESPN The Ticket and WFBR on 93.9?
 
radiohawkins said:
This might be a dumb question, but here goes. If you look in today's sports section in the C-J under Today on Radio, you will see 2 HS games were to be on WFBR 93.9. Radio-Locator says WFBR is 100 watts. How/why is ESPN The Ticket and WFBR on 93.9?
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We have a similar problem in east Central Indiana with a Translator on 93.9 in New Castle Indiana and WWFT on 93.9 in Indianapolis. be interesting to see if the translator has to be bounced when WWFT applies for its CP to upgrade to class B1
 
radiohawkins said:
This might be a dumb question, but here goes. If you look in today's sports section in the C-J under Today on Radio, you will see 2 HS games were to be on WFBR 93.9. Radio-Locator says WFBR is 100 watts. How/why is ESPN The Ticket and WFBR on 93.9?
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WFBR should now be gone. They were a LPFM station licensed to First Baptist Church of Mount Mashington. 100 watts at 93 feet. Their license was granted on 8/26/2004.

Susquehanna was free to ignore this station and WJIE's translator, also on 93.9, when they proposed deleting their 50,000 watt Seymour station on 93.7, and adding new service to Sellersburg on 93.9, because full power stations have precedence over LPFMs and translators.

So the construction permit for this new station was granted over a year ago, but in the maentime Susquehanna went on the block, so they never built it. Instead, they sold the entire company to Cumulus, who has finally built this station and put it on the air.

To answer Scott's question: They put up a new structure on the National City building for their antenna, a 3 bay half wave. It's way too low. I'm going to do radiation measurements up there next week, because it's got to be a hazard. The bottom bay is less than 20 feet above the rooftop, and they are pumping 2.6 KW.

WPTI is a single bay, 35 feet above the roof, and at 1.35 KW we do OK on the RF radiation, but it's not a slam dunk by any means. I'll be surprised of there aren't some spots on that roof now where you don't want workers to stand.
 
greg.hahn said:
radiohawkins said:
This might be a dumb question, but here goes. If you look in today's sports section in the C-J under Today on Radio, you will see 2 HS games were to be on WFBR 93.9. Radio-Locator says WFBR is 100 watts. How/why is ESPN The Ticket and WFBR on 93.9?
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WFBR should now be gone. They were a LPFM station licensed to First Baptist Church of Mount Mashington. 100 watts at 93 feet. Their license was granted on 8/26/2004.

Susquehanna was free to ignore this station and WJIE's translator, also on 93.9, when they proposed deleting their 50,000 watt Seymour station on 93.7, and adding new service to Sellersburg on 93.9, because full power stations have precedence over LPFMs and translators.

So the construction permit for this new station was granted over a year ago, but in the maentime Susquehanna went on the block, so they never built it. Instead, they sold the entire company to Cumulus, who has finally built this station and put it on the air.

To answer Scott's question: They put up a new structure on the National City building for their antenna, a 3 bay half wave. It's way too low. I'm going to do radiation measurements up there next week, because it's got to be a hazard. The bottom bay is less than 20 feet above the rooftop, and they are pumping 2.6 KW.

WPTI is a single bay, 35 feet above the roof, and at 1.35 KW we do OK on the RF radiation, but it's not a slam dunk by any means. I'll be surprised of there aren't some spots on that roof now where you don't want workers to stand.
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Do you work with Pete Boyce? I was working with Pete yesterday & he mentioned that he was going to do some RF measurements up there...if you & he aren't on the same team, it's gonna be crowded up there!

With carfeul phase cancellation of the Cumulus Indy area station on 93.9, I am hearing 93.9 from KY 80 miles N of their site. It gets out at a distance well. Another DXer logged it in Muncie last night.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
Do you work with Pete Boyce? I was working with Pete yesterday & he mentioned that he was going to do some RF measurements up there...if you & he aren't on the same team, it's gonna be crowded up there!

With carfeul phase cancellation of the Cumulus Indy area station on 93.9, I am hearing 93.9 from KY 80 miles N of their site. It gets out at a distance well. Another DXer logged it in Muncie last night.
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LOL, no. But if Pete's doing it I think I'll just call him and ask how it turned out. Is he doing it for Cumulus or for Omni-tek?
 
I believe he said Omni-Tek...
 
Hopefully someone on here can help.

I stumbled across 93.9 Friday night. I've looked all over the web for any information about the station and this site was the only place I've seen it mentioned.

Anybody have a website, email address, or phone number for this station? I'd like to let them know that I like it, before it gets ruined with non-stop talk about UL and UK football and basketball led by talentless locals, like this other sports station I (used to) listen to.
 
I wouldn't say John Renshaw and Adam Neft are talentless.

93.9 is owned by Cumulus. Go to google and search Cumulus and pick someone to e-mail.
 
kyscott said:
Anyone know where the studio is located?
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Corporate Campus not far from Salem's compound.
 
Well, if John Renshaw has talent, his talent has absolutely nothing to do with sports radio.

Most irritating person I've ever listened to on the radio. I'm very happy to finally have an alternative to him for my drive home.
 
cabiness42 said:
Well, if John Renshaw has talent, his talent has absolutely nothing to do with sports radio.

Most irritating person I've ever listened to on the radio. I'm very happy to finally have an alternative to him for my drive home.
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That's your opinion. He's been syndicated twice.
 
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