I haven't noticed anyone, singularly or on a blog, talk about about the satellite station, Air One, "The Positive Alternative" which is on two stations that I can pick up in the general area. 90.9 FM (Huron?) and 91.9 FM (Cleveland). They've been on for 2 or 3 years now, it seems. They broadcast out of Hollister, California and the only call letters I've heard are for the main station in Hollister.
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johnbasalla said:
91.9 is a translator so it does not air call letters like a full powered FM does so you hear the calls of the flagship station in CA. 90.9 is also a translator in the Cleveland area. If you go way east of Cleveland towards Ashtabula there is a full power Air1 station also located on 90.9 WCVJ that will ID its calls at the top of the hour.
EMF out of Rocklin CA owns Air1 and they also have a sister network called KLove (which is kind of like the Fish musically)
Are people listening? Yes... but you likely won't find them here on Radio-Info... Most people here are not fans of EMF's chain of full power and translator stations across America.
Speaking of blogs, since, well...we've mentioned them once or twice.
What I'm trying to figure out now is...where did the 106.1 translator for Air1 (licensed to Solon) move? It was a furlong away from Thistledown on a cell phone tower, where it is still licensed, but you can't hear it now if you're STARING AT THE TOWER.
91.9 and 102.5 are both on the WONE/WVPX tower in Akron, I believe, and have decent coverage in Akron. 91.9 is K-Love and 102.5 is Air1.
Other than that, there's not much to say about them.
What I'm trying to figure out now is...where did the 106.1 translator for Air1 (licensed to Solon) move? It was a furlong away from Thistledown on a cell phone tower, where it is still licensed, but you can't hear it now if you're STARING AT THE TOWER.
91.9 and 102.5 are both on the WONE/WVPX tower in Akron, I believe, and have decent coverage in Akron. 91.9 is K-Love and 102.5 is Air1.
Other than that, there's not much to say about them.
OhioMediaWatch said:
Can you hear it at all? or just not near where it's licensed spot is?
(I'm not up in the area to check for myself)
You can hear it in the 271 corridor to the east of there, but it's still just as distorted as it was over by Thistledown.
As far as the FCC records go, it should still be there (unless I missed a move), but you can't hear it at ALL there now. You have to go over to 271, which I suspect is their target signal-wise.
As far as the FCC records go, it should still be there (unless I missed a move), but you can't hear it at ALL there now. You have to go over to 271, which I suspect is their target signal-wise.
So, you really can't find their predicted coverage maps easily, if at all, on the radio-locator sight. What is their Cleveland call sign? What are the calls for 90.9 FM, west of Cleveland?
johnbasalla said:
The translator for Air1 (90.9 is W215BS )
The Full power Air1 station east/North east of Cleveland is 90.9 WCVJ
The one I'm talking about is W291BV Solon, which was, when it was first camped out, on a cell phone tower a couple of blocks from Thistledown on Emery Road. There was even a yagi up there pointed at WCVJ, so they were presumably (at least trying to) pick it up on air.
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/W291BV-FX
I THINK both the antenna and yagi are gone, but I haven't gotten up there in a while.
Since it's a translator, the Solon COL means nothing...it doesn't have to put a single microvolt over Solon.
We wrote about it when it first came on, and linked a Google Maps Street View shot of it:
http://ohiomediawatch.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/assorted-holiday-stuff/
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/W291BV-FX
I THINK both the antenna and yagi are gone, but I haven't gotten up there in a while.
Since it's a translator, the Solon COL means nothing...it doesn't have to put a single microvolt over Solon.
We wrote about it when it first came on, and linked a Google Maps Street View shot of it:
http://ohiomediawatch.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/assorted-holiday-stuff/
There's also W262BN/100.3 in Lorain. After WNIR/100.1 successfully defeated plans for making it a WZAK repeater (what Radio One alleged was the case), next to nothing has been done with that translator.
The coordinates listed, that I've seen, of the initial application utilize the WDLW transmitter in Sheffield Township, just south of Lorain. But whenever I've thought of tuning into to 100.3 in driving around that area... all I've ever gotten is WNIC in Detroit.
Honestly, I don't think W262BN has ever been built. I'd love to buy it, but I don't have the $10K plus immediately on hand right now.
The coordinates listed, that I've seen, of the initial application utilize the WDLW transmitter in Sheffield Township, just south of Lorain. But whenever I've thought of tuning into to 100.3 in driving around that area... all I've ever gotten is WNIC in Detroit.
Honestly, I don't think W262BN has ever been built. I'd love to buy it, but I don't have the $10K plus immediately on hand right now.
Yes, as far as I know, W262BN has never been on the air, in that or any other area.
I don't know Edgewater's total M.O., but I'll assume they have no intention of putting any of those translators on the air. Their stock is often referred to in the trades as a "translator storehouse", and their only intention seems to be to mine the red-hot translator market.
Yep, the only part of the radio business which is red hot...not only due to the religious broadcasters putting translators at every wide spot on the road as a "national network on the cheap", but also all those AM stations and HD2 channels finding new analog FM homes...
I don't know Edgewater's total M.O., but I'll assume they have no intention of putting any of those translators on the air. Their stock is often referred to in the trades as a "translator storehouse", and their only intention seems to be to mine the red-hot translator market.
Yep, the only part of the radio business which is red hot...not only due to the religious broadcasters putting translators at every wide spot on the road as a "national network on the cheap", but also all those AM stations and HD2 channels finding new analog FM homes...
Re: EMF/K-Love - see the "1540 The Farm" thread. They just bought the Beacon Broadcasting stations on the PA side of the border, and will keep the FM (WEXC/107.1 Greenville, a far Youngstown rimshot).
It's their first commercial purchase in this part of the region...they bought non-comm WCVJ/90.9 Jefferson (near Ashtabula), mentioned earlier in this thread, which feeds their commercial band Air1 translators. 107.1 is now running K-Love. One presumes it'll feed commercial band translators in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys at some point...the 107.1 signal is bad in the southern part of the Youngstown market.
Of course, EMF will convert 107.1 to non-comm operation, as is their M.O...
It's their first commercial purchase in this part of the region...they bought non-comm WCVJ/90.9 Jefferson (near Ashtabula), mentioned earlier in this thread, which feeds their commercial band Air1 translators. 107.1 is now running K-Love. One presumes it'll feed commercial band translators in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys at some point...the 107.1 signal is bad in the southern part of the Youngstown market.
Of course, EMF will convert 107.1 to non-comm operation, as is their M.O...
Ah, EMF, the cancer of America's airwaves, gobbling up frequencies and translators until there's no room for anything else to grow...
almaniac27 said:
Can't blame EMF on this one... It's been for sale for awhile... If someone else wanted to do something local, they could have purchased it.
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