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Air1 102.5 Akron

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I noticed there is a Accepted for Filing 08/25/2011 for increase power for their translator that broadcasts Air1 in Akron (http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php?facid=141395) It's interesting to see the Primary station listed as WKDD .. That's a Clear Channel station... Could it be another deal in the works with EMF (Clear Channel has made these in other markets .. where EMF lets CC use their translator to re-broadcast an AM or HD-2 signal)
 
Smart AM stations are doing this everywhere: if they can't move their format to an FM, get an FM translator.
 
Don't know why WKDD would need extra help in their primary service area.

Wonder if this is a cover for CC's WARF 1350 to get on FM with their sports format? FM sports is happening all over the country.
 
Or WHLO/640, for that matter.

There's the new FM sports competition at 92.3, but I don't think they're worried about it re: 1350 and Akron. The new signal would be an upgrade that basically hits the populated areas of Summit County from the same site (the WONE/WVPX/WOIO-LD tower near Rolling Acres). 102.5 does pretty well even at 10 watts.

I got tipped to this, too, and there's silence coming out of Freedom Avenue. Hmm.

CC and EMF have been in the translator-for-HD2 trade business for a while.

IIRC the last deal they did, CC got some translators in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market, which they have deployed as repeaters for their AM sports talker. That sports talker is moving to FM, and IIRC again, at least one of the translators will repeat the moving-to-AM talk format. (There are some technical issues that have to be resolved with the translator, I think.)

In return, EMF got the HD2 channel of a station in Detroit. It's not that the K-Love folks are all that big on HD, though...they need it to feed commercial band translators in Detroit. A commercial band translator can't be fed by satellite.

Here, EMF uses WCVJ/90.9 Jefferson to feed Air1 to the various local translators, including 106.1/Solon and...the current feed to 102.5/Akron.

Despite WKDD being listed as primary for that translator, it's still pumping out Air1, and WKDD HD2 is still WHLO.

As in the case above, the HD2-translator trade doesn't have to be in the same market. CC gets what it wants, the translators to feed AM or other new FM programming in whatever market, and EMF gets what it wants, the ability to feed FM translators (in another market).
 
BTW--

A bit off topic...

Is there a place on the web where you can get a list of all the translators that are out there, preferably by market (or state) & frequency?

Thanks
 
Anyone know what happened to Air 1's 91.9 feed out of Parma? I don't see that station listed anymore.

The other two Cleveland stations - 103.7 and 106.1 - picks up another feed.

I liked their 91.9 feed when I enter Cleveland and the west side.
 
CleveFan said:
Anyone know what happened to Air 1's 91.9 feed out of Parma? I don't see that station listed anymore.

The other two Cleveland stations - 103.7 and 106.1 - picks up another feed.

I liked their 91.9 feed when I enter Cleveland and the west side.
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It probably went away after WKJA/91.9 Brunswick signed on earlier this year.
 
aguyinradio said:
sorry i'm off topic too, how about a web site where you can search to see if there are any available spaces for a translator?
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Right now, you can't use a new translator to relay an AM station -- you can only use translators that were already authorized as of some date in the past. (2010?)

There's a pretty good chance that restriction will be repealed, but then again it might not...

I think it is likely to be years, if ever, before any frequencies are available for new FM translators in Akron. I see two possibilities:

1. The FCC processes the ten pending applications for new translators, on five frequencies, within 30km/18mi. of downtown Akron. They issue five new permits, tying up all available frequencies.

2. The FCC *doesn't* process the translator applications,[0] and instead opens a LPFM filing window. Applications are filed for new LPFMs, and the Commission grants LPFMs on the five available frequencies, making them unavailable for translators.

Eventually, probably one or more translator or LPFM permits will expire unbuilt and that frequency will become available for someone else to apply for a translator. But the whole process will take at the very least five years, probably more like ten.

[0] The FCC announced earlier this summer they will be dismissing all pending translator applications in markets where not doing so would leave no spectrum for new LPFM service. I don't remember whether Akron is such a market.
 
w9wi said:
The FCC announced earlier this summer they will be dismissing all pending translator applications in markets where not doing so would leave no spectrum for new LPFM service. I don't remember whether Akron is such a market.
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I believe it is, and IIRC, all markets in Northeast Ohio except Youngstown are similarly affected.
 
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