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94.5 move to Nashville approved

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w9wi

Grace Broadcasting's application to move WFGZ 94.5 from Lobelville to Bellevue has been approved. The station will go from a 22,000-watt Class C2 to a 5,100-watt Class A. Transmitter will be on the north side of I-40, just west of the McCrory Lane exit.

A couple of other changes happened to accommodate this:
- Cookeville's WGSQ (94.7) agreed to drop their application to increase their antenna height 49m. (about 160') The increase would have upgraded WGSQ from Class C0 to full Class C - and would have established spacing requirements that would have made it impossible for 94.5 to be used at Bellevue.
- Centerville's WNKX-AM (1570) received a permit to move to Lobelville and reduce power from 5,000 watts to 1,000. (the very low nighttime power is also reduced slightly) This move was necessary to ensure there remains a station licensed to Lobelville. The FCC does not permit removal of a community's only station. (WNKX-FM 96.7 remains at Centerville)
- WFGZ's application to move to Burns instead of Bellevue has been dropped. I suppose this was a contingency plan, in case WGSQ couldn't be convinced to drop their Class C upgrade.
 
Aww man! More bad news for WGSQ (the first being WAY's sad excuse for a transmitter in Hendersonville). Although I have to say, another 160' for the already Giant!? They already beam into areas North of Huntsville and even North of Bowling Green! (Already stronger than WPRT or WFFI at my house in OH). I would have much rather seen WGSQ get theirs approved than 94.5, but I'm biased and on the East side of town.

Will this mean Way's translator in H'ville will finally move to 105.1? I can't imagine they have a single listener on 94.5 - it sounds awful! The feed is horrible and WGSQ and 94.5 splatter on top of each other. I would imagine clashing with Salem's 105.1 wouldn't be a much better alternative frequency. WayFM is pretty much a no-go past Madison and Old Hickory until 88.1 BG kicks in or you move south toward Lebanon.
 
...now that my rant's over, I wouldn't mind having another CCM in Nashville - assuming that's what "The Dove" stays. I'm guessing the metro signal will be comparable to WFFI.
 
This just confirms my personal belief that the old WDBL 94.3 FM Springfield could have been upgraded. There was a rumor that at one time in the 1960’s, they were to have had 101.1 and “swapped” with Russellville for “lower electric bills” in the 1960’s. I can understand the “power bill” when “nobody” listened to FM before the 1970’s. A couple of years ago they sold the FM and it was moved to the Fort Campbell area. I wonder why they didn’t change the C O L to Greenbrier and had the tower at Ridgetop. Springfield would still have 2 AM’s no C O L problem. There wasn’t too much signal wise south on 94.5 to engineer around.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bi...mat=&dx=3&radius=200&freq=94.5&sort=freq&sid=

The Cookeville problem could have been solved with cash. If they had acted early in the 1980’s they might have even beaten Cookeville to the punch.
 
w9wi said:
Transmitter will be on the north side of I-40, just west of the McCrory Lane exit.
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Sounds like Sullivan's Ridge. Sure wish the LP digital TV stations would go there.
 
firepoint525 said:
Jon J said:
w9wi said:
Transmitter will be on the north side of I-40, just west of the McCrory Lane exit.
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Sounds like Sullivan's Ridge. Sure wish the LP digital TV stations would go there.
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There is already a cell phone tower in that location. This is very close to where I live.
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It's possible they mean to use the cell tower. I looked up the coordinates on Google Maps but my connection is way to slow to use Google Earth to actually see what's there.
 
I'm just surprised at the amount of money that's out there for Christian-based stations in the greater Nashville area. I thought the market was already oversaturated...
 
I don't know what format Grace would go with when the station moves. If they stay with CCM they were carrying Salem's Today's Christian Music network, which is the same as the Fish stations. If they go with Southern Gospel, they had been carrying Salem's Solid Gospel network on their stations, which is on 104.9 and 105.1, which they own. Anything they normally have done is already being done in Nashville.
 
anotherguy said:
I don't know what format Grace would go with when the station moves. If they stay with CCM they were carrying Salem's Today's Christian Music network, which is the same as the Fish stations. If they go with Southern Gospel, they had been carrying Salem's Solid Gospel network on their stations, which is on 104.9 and 105.1, which they own. Anything they normally have done is already being done in Nashville.
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So we can expect the Fish on 93.7, 94.1, and now 94.5 maybe? Is Salem for this? Of course, this makes the station more viable to sell, as well...
 
Just a side note, I have lived out here for years and have never heard of a "Sullivan's Ridge," or anyone else's ridge, for that matter. ???

Google "Sullivans Ridge near Nashville TN" for a map.  Ridge (hill) just off Old Charlotte Pike.  At one time there were a few commercial services on a tower there as well as three amateur radio repeaters.  Can't get link to work.
 
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