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Rick Rose 2.0

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The Social Circle licensed translator on 94.5 owned by Edgewater Broadcasting has made its move into east metro with 122 watts with a city grade signal over Conyers and Lithonia. It is rebroadcasting Edgewater's Freedom FM which is typically a place holder for its translators until they are sold off. Radio Locator lists it as rebroadcasting WKLS but the application to cover says that WSTR is now the primary signal. I see that WSTR HD2 is just a delayed Star 94 and WSTR HD3 is still a Zone simlucast. Does this mean the Zone is getting FM also. Im in stockbridge and a mono signal works great for 94.5 while static exists for a stereo 94.5.
 
The application has just been filed to go 250 watts from the city of Atlanta. Now just watch WSTR HD2 to see what we get down the road.
 
I heard it today for the first time. Freedom FM with a Christian AC format. I had to move the antenna around and turn up the volume to hear it. It's too weak in Suwanee.
 
Rick Rose 2.0 said:
The application has just been filed to go 250 watts from the city of Atlanta. Now just watch WSTR HD2 to see what we get down the road.
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Probably something urban. The proposed 250W contour has a hard northern null. About 2/3 of the contour lies south of I-20, only reaching as far north as Bankhead on the westside and Tucker on the east side.

Might not be a bad companion for WiLD 105.7, though.
 
It's on the air right now from it's new location as Streets 94.5. It's a good signal out here around Suwanee. I wasn't sure if it would reach up here, but it does as a weak signal. So, Streets 102.9 has returned to the airwaves at 94.5.
 
moderate signal in Smyrna.
Interesting they are saying "listen online at streets945.com", but it re-directs to Hot 107.9...no mention of it on Hot's page...
 
Interesting, 94.1HD2 is now 790 the Zone, and 94.1HD3 is Streets 94.5, the HD3 sounds like it's coming over a telephone. Mono, with horrible audio.

So Star rents out their HD3 for RadioOne (ASSUming that is who is behind Streets 94.5?)
Isn't the famous streets 102.9 the Radio One employee who left and took their music library with him and got sued over it? Whatever became of that? Any relation to 94.5 today?
 
MRFLASHPORT said:
Isn't the famous streets 102.9 the Radio One employee who left and took their music library with him and got sued over it? Whatever became of that? Any relation to 94.5 today?
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I think Steve had a non-compete with Radio One and had to wait it out?
 
I thought a translator was to be a rebroadcast of a FM single not originating one?
 
snailboy said:
I thought a translator was to be a rebroadcast of a FM single not originating one?
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It's rebroadcasting an HD subchannel of Star 94. So, it's not originating a new station. The FCC decided this was an acceptable use of translators a few years ago.
 
I think I would have gone with a 60's-70's Soul Gold for this station, which is something we
don't have now.........that they could actually create an audience for.
 
gregg75 said:
I think I would have gone with a 60's-70's Soul Gold for this station, which is something we
don't have now.........that they could actually create an audience for.
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Are you kidding, not here the land of hip hop.............
 
gregg75 said:
I think I would have gone with a 60's-70's Soul Gold for this station, which is something we
don't have now.........that they could actually create an audience for.
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Agreed. Only V, Hot and Wild (to an extent) have been the permanent stations to date for the hip-hop R&B mixture ever since Cox axed Jamz and the Beat awhile back. Majic/Grown Folks and Kiss had to upgrade their urban AC formats from R&B oldies to 80s-present R&B, which seems way too contemporary sounding. The problem with Kiss is it could've still been a full fledged urban AC had it not been for Cox fragmenting it to WFOX and WBTS in the 2000s, plus WALR ran all the oldies straight in the ground till it wasn't enjoyable no more. But we can hold out hope another LP translator can pipe in a 60s-80s R&B oldies station for one soon.
 
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