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96.7 The Coast Website

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Has anyone been to http://967thecoast.com lately? It's very barebones. The heading is: "Your Online Guide to What's Going on in Fairfield County." And the main part of the website is a calendar. Ironically, it only goes up to May 31.

And despite it still being labeled "The New 96.7 The Coast" - and despite the fact that the occupant of the frequency is going to be completely new in a matter of days - this prompt still graces the top of the Coast's website: "Are you a part of the COAST Preferred Listener? Sign in or join now. Why join?"

Yes, they're still accepting Coast "Preferred Listeners"!

As the impending owner of this stick might say... Heaven help us.
 
They have been running spots on The Coast telling listeners to tune over to sister station 95.9 The Fox.
Seems like the switch over will occur this weekend.
 
As of last night there is still a strong pirate on 96.7 in the Newark area. I wonder if K-Love will turn on their new transmitter or do any kind of stunting before the new official format signs on?
 
@luperm: Well, May 1 isSunday...

@ansky: Seeing how you put your two thoughts together in the same sentence, are you suggesting that the power of the Lord scare the pirates away from the frequency?

@frozenfire: I can count on more than one set of hands how many Cox-owned stations insist that they're "new" long after the fact. Thank goodness they bought into stations on Long Island with heritage callsigns like WBAB and WBLI, or we'd be spoonfed this nonsense "new" garbage there, too!
 
DToTheJ said:
@ansky: Seeing how you put your two thoughts together in the same sentence, are you suggesting that the power of the Lord scare the pirates away from the frequency?
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Actually they were 2 separate sentences ;)
 
ansky212 said:
As of last night there is still a strong pirate on 96.7 in the Newark area. I wonder if K-Love will turn on their new transmitter or do any kind of stunting before the new official format signs on?
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I don't suspect there to be any stunting. Most likely, there will be a "click", some white noise as the Stamford site powers-down, and then "Pop"... the new site, with programming already in progress, will pop on. I can only guess, but there will probably be some locally-aired promos and liners, triggered by the main studio out in Cali, to greet their new listeners in the Big Apple. All generated in Cali, of course, and uploaded to the local computer automation.

While I do, personally, LIKE K-Love and look forward to being able to hear them while on the road (I can't pick them up at home, I already tried while they were testing the NY site) what I don't like, is that they are nearly 100% satellite-fed, and have a VERY SHORT playlist.
 
What are the call letters for the new 96.7 K-Love station ? When will the station sign on ? Is K-Love's transmitter in NYC ?
 
Here's your answer. :)

DToTheJ said:
....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.
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Interesting, how they didn't already have a station with those calls! (Unless they are moving them?)
 
Well, there's already a WKLV in Blackstone, VA - an AM station that's held the calls for all but a half-dozen years in the late '80's/early '90's while they simulcasted a sister FM station. Lucky for them, EMF didn't scoop them up (K-LOVE started way back in '82).
 
6:50PM EST. On-air signal is still the coast..playing Peaches and Herb's Reunited.
 
@danikayser: Here's one stream where one can hear The (New) Coast online...

@Reggie: Fybush projects the station in Pennsylvania will reassess their transmitter "early this week," clearing the way for a Coast sunset...

@Nick: I disagree... Launch the new Christian contemporary format on 96.7 on May 21. :p
 
Here's something that is so laughably contradictory...

So, I'm listening to the aforementioned Coast stream and hear a liner that says something along the lines of: "Everybody's switching to the new 96.7 The Coast!"

"Switching to The Coast?" This is the same station that's prompting listeners to switch from The Coast and to sister station 95.9 The Fox, is it not?

Oh brother...
 
And why isn't the website redirecting to The Fox's website if it really wanted listeners to go there by now? And furthermore, why is their stream still working?
 
The reason the web site is still up is because Cox still owns the station.
The web site and stream will stay up until the station is sold and the new owners
take over. Than it will sign on from the trump which is about 90% done.
Transmitter test and RF mesurments were done two weeks ago.
All that is left is for the FCC to license the Trump site sale goes thru
EMF owns the station than. Than they will sign it on as WKLV
I do not know when the air date will be at this time.
As I work for Cox and have been doing some of the install RF work.
 
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