99.3 The Breeze and 99.7 Kiss FM? It could happen...

[JerseyShor]

Press is proposing to swap WBHX from 99.7 to 99.3 and WZBZ from 99.3 to 99.7...

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101397200&formid=301&fac_num=56233

 

[qtpieislit]

Is this aplication with, our without WZBZ prior knowledge? Consent?

 

[d21ofnj]

This doesn't make sense. The Breeze was already tried in the AC market when they were on 106.3 at that time. To have Kiss on 99.7 means that Press is dropping the bomb on their Hit format on 106.5. I really hope this doesn't get approved.

 

[SoulCrusher]

Honestly, I can't fault Press for wanting to reach into the Atlantic City market and challenge WFPG. That station has been dominant in the ratings for an extremely long time, and I think The Breeze would be able to chisel away at it and get some pretty strong ratings for itself just as it did against WOBM. No one ever thought that station could get knocked down several pegs and topped by a competitor, but it did.

The way it stands now, there's far too much overlap between WWZY and WBHX. If a move like this were to take place, it would eliminate this overlap, maintain the same level of coverage, and expand it much further south. The Breeze is the flagship station of Press, so why not try to make it stronger?

As for Hit ... I don't think having Kiss on at 99.7 will be a factor in whether it succeeds or fails. Kiss is a jukebox, a personality-free automaton playing the same old songs time and time again. Even if Equity makes an effort to promote the station, do you honestly think people are going to choose it over other Top 40 stations that have some semblance of interactivity? Highly unlikely.

 

[GSP163]

So Press wants WBHX to move to 99.3 so it can move their transmitter off LBI and cover a larger population.....They claim it would not cause short spacing with WJBR but wouldn't that cause a short space with WAWZ??.....I guess a 99.7 in Atlantic City would allow more freedom to the frequency but 99.9 from OC will step all over them toward the south......Overall if this deal went through, I see Equity losing overall as 99.3 currently where it's located gets out quite well.

 

[ccuphl]

Honestly, I can't fault Press for wanting to reach into the Atlantic City market and challenge WFPG.

No, no, no... Press is NOT gaining an Atlantic City station. Press wants to move WBHX from 99.7 to 99.3 (WBHX remains a Southern Ocean County station) and WZBZ from 99.3 to 99.7 (WZBZ remains right where it is now).

99.7 is extremely short-spaced to 100.1 WJRZ (WBHX pretty much only works on that 108-foot tower on LBI). Press wants to move WBHX over to 99.3 from an Atlantic City Electric-owned tower at Rt 9 & Cox Landing Road in West Creek, significantly improving its signal (and overall value). WBHX at 99.3 eliminates the short-spacing to WJRZ. WBHX at 99.3 would be 2200 watts at 209 feet.

99.3, on the other hand, can move to 99.7 from right where it is now with the same signal it's had for decades (same spacing with WJBR since it's going from one side of 99.5 to the other), just added interference from WWFG in Ocean City, MD (a flamethrower of a 50kw signal).

 

[ccuphl]

Press is proposing to swap WBHX from 99.7 to 99.3 and WZBZ from 99.3 to 99.7...

Most interesting part of this app:

>> WZBZ'S OPERATION ON CH. 259A FROM ITS LICENSED SITE WILL THEORETICALLY CREATE AN IF SHORT SPACING TO WAJM-FM ON CH. 205A. HOWEVER, THAT POTENTIAL CONCERN HAS BECOME MOOT SINCE THE WAJM FCC LICENSE EXPIRED ON JUNE 1, 2006, WHICH WAS THE EXPIRATION DATE OF THE STATION'S LAST LICENSE RENEWAL GRANT. BASED ON A REVIEW OF THE COMMISSION'S ELECTRONIC FILING RECORDS AND A REVIEW OF THE PAPER RECORDS AVAILABLE AT THE COMMISSION, NO RENEWAL APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED FOR WAJM AND, THEREFORE, ITS LICENSE HAS EXPIRED

WAJM is on the air. I heard it yesterday. Have they been on the air for over four years with an expired license? LOL

 

[nd2023]

88.9 + 10.7 = 99.6

There is an IF short spacing with 99.7 Kiss FM.
But since WAJM never renewed its license, the FCC will treat it like it doesn't exist. If it's on the air it's just as good as a pirate station.

 

[ccuphl]

88.9 + 10.7 = 99.6

There is an IF short spacing with 99.7 Kiss FM.
But since WAJM never renewed its license, the FCC will treat it like it doesn't exist. If it's on the air it's just as good as a pirate station.

Does Press address the issue the proposed 99.3 WBHX will have with the 88.7 in Port Republic? WEHA has a much higher ERP than WAJM.

 

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Take it from a man who built the station, carried the Energy Onyx on a hand truck right off the truck, helped run the transmission line up the tower. A 109 foot stick and nowhere to go. If there going to keep the station transmitting from Beach Haven then this would a hard signal to sell spots on it was for me. If Press can move to the huge stick on Rte 539 in Little Egg Harbor then Press might not want to make a move at all and keep it. Moving 99.7 from where it is right now to new site will cost allot. Gary has a good signal with the old 99.3 signal as it is right now. Press has allot cash from selling it's tv stations in Florida. You never know, money talks!! We shall see.

 

[htowler]

Finally resolved 5 years later LOL

From New music weekly/All Access:

http://newmusicweekly.com/?p=102200

FCC Renews High School Station’s License After Consent Decree For Violations 0
Consent Decree w/WAJM

The FCC entered a consent decree restoring and renewing the license of ATLANTIC CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION for noncommercial WAJM (JAMMIN’ 88.9)/ATLANTIC CITY and, in doing so, rejected PRESS COMMUNICATIONS’ bid to swap the frequency of its Hot AC WBHX (FUN 107.1, simulcast of WWZY)/TUCKERTON, NJ with EQUITY COMMUNICATIONS’ Top 40/Rhythmic WZBZ (99.3 THE BUZZ)/PLEASANTVILLE-ATLANTIC CITY.

WAJM, the ATLANTIC CITY HIGH SCHOOL station, was found to have violated several rules including logging requirements, public file rules, and multiple engineering requirements, but as a first-time student-run-station offender, settled for a $1,500 fine for those violations and an additional $4,750 for unauthorized operation after expiration of the license and operation at variance from the station’s authorized facilities. PRESS’ application was predicated on WAJM’s license being deleted, thus allowing the frequency swap, but the renewal of WAJM mooted the PRESS proposal.