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AIR-ONE

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johnbasalla

In the North Eastern Ohio area (Cleveland), we recently got two Christian Rock formatted radio stations calling themselves "AIR-ONE". Both are in the non-commercial band and I suppose both are owned by Educational Media Foundation (EMF). The programming is 100% satellite as far as I can tell and the signal seems to be pretty strong. The FCC based question is that I've been listening to one of them and have yet to hear a local legal ID at the top of the hour. I keep hearing "Air-One", but never any regular 4 call letters. What gives?

Also, for years I've been hearing that there is no room for new stations in this urban/metro market yet EMF somehow worked things out.
 
johnbasalla said:
In the North Eastern Ohio area (Cleveland), we recently got two Christian Rock formatted radio stations calling themselves "AIR-ONE". Both are in the non-commercial band and I suppose both are owned by Educational Media Foundation (EMF). The programming is 100% satellite as far as I can tell and the signal seems to be pretty strong. The FCC based question is that I've been listening to one of them and have yet to hear a local legal ID at the top of the hour. I keep hearing "Air-One", but never any regular 4 call letters. What gives?

Also, for years I've been hearing that there is no room for new stations in this urban/metro market yet EMF somehow worked things out.
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What are the frequencies?

I'd bet they're translators, low-powered stations authorized to rebroadcast some other station. These translators are allowed to ID with Morse Code in a way you can't hear without special equipment.

Though you should still be hearing the IDs for the station they're relaying.
 
The frequencies are 90.9 FM (Hinckley Ohio) and 91.9 FM (Cleveland/Parma Ohio). I've been told both are translators and have low power, but are on a high tower. Hinckley's is only 9 watts, yet I can hear it, with some interference, near Cleveland.
 
johnbasalla said:
The frequencies are 90.9 FM (Hinckley Ohio) and 91.9 FM (Cleveland/Parma Ohio). I've been told both are translators and have low power, but are on a high tower. Hinckley's is only 9 watts, yet I can hear it, with some interference, near Cleveland.
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As P-R says, these are translators. They aren't required to ID in a way that would be audible on a normal radio.

Both stations are supposed to be relaying KLOV-FM in Oregon. I would expect to hear KLOV IDs, unless the satellite uplink is wired upstream of whatever device runs the IDs on the Oregon transmitter. (I would think it would be technically illegal for the translators to not carry 100% of what's broadcast on KLOV, but I'd also doubt the FCC would prosecute if the only thing missing was the KLOV legal IDs.)
 
Sounds like their local computer that is supposed to put IDs and other local elements in the audio stream has died. My guess is they are just taking a feed directly from their mothership without IDs or anything.
 
Air-1 doesn't send any IDs over their satellite feed. Actually, even KLOV-FM receives their broadcast from the exact same satellite feed as all of their translators.

They used to uplink from a site in St. Helens, Oregon and around the year 2000 moved to the following location:

33374 Scappoose Vernonia Hwy, Scappoose, OR 97056

It's been a few years since I've been by that location, so I'm not absolutely sure that is still where they're uplinking from.
 
Simply a waste of RF spectrum, and yet another example of EMF translator abuse.
 
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