96.7 K-Love Signing On Very Soon

[WPHA]

Not only is WCTZ 96.7 silent, the station's former website has been taken down.
It now shows the logos of 5 other Cox stations in the area, and says simply, "Thanks for Listening! Please visit our other radio stations." This gives the impression that WCTZ will not be returning to the air.
I wonder if WKLV will be signing on later today, or if they need some time to first test out their New Rochelle transmitter.

According to their Engineer, Ed (he is a friend of mine) the New Rochelle site has been ready to go for a few weeks, now. I tuned in and still heard a liner saying "all new, The Coast" as I drove home around 9pm this evening. I had to laugh. "all new". Yeah. Uh-huh! Riiiiiight.

So does this mean it went dark, now?

 

[Ed B]

I signed the Coast off the air at 12 midnight Wednesday 5/18 into Thursday morning5/19.
It is now up to EMF when they want to sign on from the Trump.
I do not know when that will be.

 

[WPHA]

Thank you, Ed! Now we know... it REALLY IS "ANY DAY NOW"! Hopefully, today! (Thursday)

 

[pjc1961]

The last song aired was "Love Train" by The O'Jays. Songs played in the last hour of "The Coast" on Wed. 5/18/11:

http://prod.www.967thecoast.com/lsp/?p=05/18/11/23 (link may only last temporarily)

11:57 p.m. Love Train - O'Jays - 1973
11:54 p.m. Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation - 1974
11:51 p.m. Time Won't Let Me - Outsiders - 1966
Learn more about our on-air advertisers
11:43 p.m. Keep It Comin' Love - KC & The Sunshine Band - 1977
11:39 p.m. Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee - 1976
11:35 p.m. Little Red Corvette - Prince - 1983
11:32 p.m. She's Gone - Hall & Oates - 1976 (originally released 1974)
11:29 p.m. Take It Easy - Eagles - 1972
11:25 p.m. Let's Stay Together - Al Green - 1972
11:22 p.m. Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got) - Four Tops - 1973
Learn more about our on-air advertisers
11:14 p.m. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass - 1966 (*remember Bill Brown's last song intro at CBS-FM in June 2005 before being "Jacked"?*)
11:10 p.m. My Life - Billy Joel - 1978-79
11:05 p.m. My Sweet Lord - George Harrison - 1970-71
11:02 p.m. Light My Fire - Doors - 1967
11:00 p.m. Runaway - Del Shannon - 1961

 

[DToTheJ]

@Willie - Cox stations have a habit of calling their stations "all new" for up to as many as ten years after signing on - most bizarre in this case, anyway. Which leads me to...

Not only is WCTZ 96.7 silent, the station's former website has been taken down. It now shows the logos of 5 other Cox stations in the area, and says simply, "Thanks for Listening! Please visit our other radio stations." This gives the impression that WCTZ will not be returning to the air...

So all of those listeners "making the switch" for nothing. Damn.

 

[Drummer]

That's Huge! Great programming for a nationwide network.

 

[DToTheJ]

I would imagine that since this is the stream for K-Love's Los Angeles station...
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KLVEFMAAC.pls

... this should be the one for WKLV in New York:
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/WKLVFMAAC.pls

Let us know if it - or more importantly, the 96.7 frequency - is working.

 

[DToTheJ]

By the way, any Coast "insiders" receive an email from the station informing of their demise? Check your inbox today.

 

[DToTheJ]

@Ed B: After the O'Jays song, would you happen to know what followed before shutting WCTZ down? A legal ID? A number of seconds of silence? Or did it cut off in the middle of the song? Inquiring radio geeks want to know. :

Meanwhile, it looks like there are a scant few pages still active on the Coast website - like, for example, www.967thecoast.com/lsp/ads/]the "recent on-air advertisers" page[/url], including a link to hear an MP3 of an advertisement dated "Feb 2011" in the download link URL.

 

[disney fanatic]

Do you have an aircheck of the last hour of WCTZ's "The Coast" at 96.7 from yesterday?

 

[DToTheJ]

Disney Fanatic on the previous page in the thread asks: "Do you have an aircheck of the last hour of WCTZ's "The Coast" at 96.7 from yesterday?"

A modest question, DF, but given that the hour was fully automated, the prevailing question in this particular case would be: Would it really matter? There were no live jocks. No Peter Bush. No Paulette Rochman. No Dylan Richards. (Even though they're still listed under the "on the air" menu of what remains of their website.) I would, however, be curious to hear the final five minutes, and that's about it.

 

[mz41966]

I am enjoying KLOVE on my Blackberry, (there's an app for that) and hoping soon they'll sign on at 96.7! Glad to see (or hear) the change, lets hope its not silent for too long!

 

[DToTheJ]

It'll probably be Saturday night at 6 PM at the time of "the Rapture," as one previous poster predicts, LOL.

 

[Barry]

I'm surprised WCTZ did not wait until WKLV was ready to sign on, before flipping the off switch. That would have avoided hours (or days?) of just static on 96.7.
With no one broadcasting locally on the frequency at this time, I have tried to receive some distant stations. But I've heard nothing. Has anyone been able to pick up any other stations on 96.7?

 

[xmradiopro]

while driving in South Queens I was getting a religious pirate on my car radio broadcasting I believe from Brooklyn....I wonder if the pirate will interfere with the new 96.7 K Love when they launch their new station for New York City.

I'm surprised WCTZ did not wait until WKLV was ready to sign on, before flipping the off switch. That would have avoided hours (or days?) of just static on 96.7.
With no one broadcasting locally on the frequency at this time, I have tried to receive some distant stations. But I've heard nothing. Has anyone been able to pick up any other stations on 96.7?

 

[ansky212]

With no one broadcasting locally on the frequency at this time, I have tried to receive some distant stations. But I've heard nothing. Has anyone been able to pick up any other stations on 96.7?

Only if you want to count the pirate that has been booming in on 96.7 around Newark for the past year.

 

[xmradiopro]

I wonder if WKLV-K-Love will try to get the pirate shutdown on 96.7.

With no one broadcasting locally on the frequency at this time, I have tried to receive some distant stations. But I've heard nothing. Has anyone been able to pick up any other stations on 96.7?

Only if you want to count the pirate that has been booming in on 96.7 around Newark for the past year.

 

[Ozman]

Hey Barry, I am able to get radio 104.1 here in Old Greenwich. No more RF here. I'm not used to this...

I'm surprised WCTZ did not wait until WKLV was ready to sign on, before flipping the off switch. That would have avoided hours (or days?) of just static on 96.7.
With no one broadcasting locally on the frequency at this time, I have tried to receive some distant stations. But I've heard nothing. Has anyone been able to pick up any other stations on 96.7?

 

[Ozman]

what surprises me is why not keep it on until the sign on date? advertising contracts (the sponsors) and the sell date closing (the day k-love is owning it) is probably why IMHO for the reason of the dead air but also it might be to find pirate FM's in the NYC at the moment. I'm wondering if ED get to have a road trip around the NYC area today with some FCC people...

 

[recto101]

Watch K-Love go on the air May 21 at 6 PM.

That would be funny

Coast could end with "It's the end of the world as we know it" .. at 5:55pm and segue into KLove at the TOH!

What May 21 is the same day that Mr Camping on 610AM in San Francisco Declares the end of the world.