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96.7 K-Love Signing On Very Soon

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Fybush.com is hearing that Stamford's 96.7 The Coast is telling listeners to tune from their AC station to sister rock station 95.9 The Fox.

Incidentally, Port Jervis' 96.7 The Fox (no relation) is informing their listeners to tune to different frequencies in their area due to that station's signal relocation to Lehmann Township, PA.

All of this likely in anticipation of EMF's impending takeover of 96.7 FM and COL move from Stamford to New Rochelle - at which point the callsign would be WKLV-FM.
 
Is the Coast going to be moving to 95.9, perhaps? But that makes no sense, isn't Star 99.9 also an AC? Unless they plan on putting the rock format on 99.9...

If that's not the case, maybe WZMR in Albany should consider the WCTZ calls (to match "The Cat")...
 
According to filings with the F.C.C., WTSX, 96.7 in Port Jervis is scheduled to shut down on May 1, 2011. It will then be silent for a few weeks till its new tower is built in Lehman Township, PA.
It appears that Cox, owner of WCTZ is asking the F.C.C. to allow the sale of WCTZ to be consummated and the New Rochelle tower to begin broadcasting as WKLV 96.7 as soon as possible after May 1.

Cox submission to the F.C.C.: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101423956&qnum=5010&copynum=1&exhcnum=2
 
@Barry: May 1... a Sunday... Could you imagine if Easter occurred a week later? ::)

@Dani: The Coast is falling by the wayside with the sale... As in, done, finished, the well is running dry... :'(

@Ansky: I reckon that pirate is going to be "walkin' the plank". Arrrrrrrr! :D
 
DToTheJ said:
@Barry: May 1... a Sunday... Could you imagine if Easter occurred a week later? ::)
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I was actually expecting them to pull the big switch on Easter Sunday! OK, so they are possibly going to make it May 1'st. I look forward to having a K-Love station in this area. The only things I don't really like, are that they are pretty-much 100% satellite-fed, and have a VERY SHORT playlist. The way they involve their listeners into the programming, is excellent.
 
Cox Radio applied to the F.C.C. only last week for a license to cover at the new location in New Rochelle. The application has not been approved yet.
As I previously mentioned, this is also contingent on WTSX, 96.7 shutting down their transmitter in Port Jervis. That is supposed to happen tomorrow, May 1. So I would expect it to take at least a few days before K Love can sign on.
How does K Love compare with Star 99.1 in NJ? When I've heard Star, it seemed there was lots of listener interaction with the dj's, and plenty of local feel. It sounds similar to an A/C format. They always seem to be involved in good causes. I'm actually surprised they could not manage to somehow get a signal into more of the New York market.
 
Barry - It's been a while since I heard 99.1 in the NY area, but based on what I heard when I was there, K-Love is somewhat similar. I don't know what 99's playlist is like, since I wasn't able to hear them for very long. What little I did hear, sounded like a hot CHR. K-Love is more AC/CHR, with a very small playlist. (Every 3 hours, the same songs repeat, with only a small handful of "recurrents" which tend to repeat at least daily.)
 
Yet another satellite religious format, exactly what we need. 96.7 should augment Star 99.1's coverage in the New York market.
 
96.7 also had some cool calls a few years ago as "Q96.7": WQQQ - which, ironically, were the calls of another radio station in Connecticut that was purchased by Sacred Heart University to be run as a satellite of WSHU...
 
@MusicRadioUSA: Fybush estimated the transition would be "sometime this week". So perhaps by Friday.
 
I wonder what the last song on 96.7 The Coast will be. Bette Middler - From A Distance (because the chorus is "God Is Watching Us" and it's becoming a religious station) or Billy Joel - Movin' Out (to symbolize the transmitter moving out of Stamford)
 
Being that the station is largely automated, it might as well be Peaches & Herb's "Shake Your Groove Thing."
 
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