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Big signal move?

That move won't happen, if at all, until a construction permit is issued.

Right now it's an APPLICATION. They can't do anything or build anything until a CP is issued. There is also an app for 102.9 from the top of the Hancock building.
 
WNTIRadio noted: said:
There is also an app for 102.9 from the top of the Hancock building.
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Is this to change the translator's frequency from 103.7??

The change in frequency would be a god idea, but a pirate called Touch FM will be infuriated!

;D
 
No as far as I know the 102.9 is licensed to the Lawrence area, // 800
and the 103.7 // 90.5 from Scituate. Unless somehow the folks at Costa-Eagle (800/102.9)
were to buy that 103.7 and get it on top of the Hancock...

http://radio-locator.com/info/W275BH-FX
Trans location just NE of 495/93 intersection
current coverage
http://radio-locator.com/pats/W275BH_FX_LU.gif

The 103.7 W279BQ lic to Gloucester
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=W279BQ&x=-527&y=-283&sr=Y&s=C
transmitter NE of intersection of US Route 1 and Main St., Saugus
current coverage
http://radio-locator.com/pats/W279BQ_FX_LU.gif

They had an app. in to move to Hancock at 10 w I think
 
WNTIRadio said:
That move won't happen, if at all, until a construction permit is issued.

Right now it's an APPLICATION. They can't do anything or build anything until a CP is issued. There is also an app for 102.9 from the top of the Hancock building.
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There's a significant difference, though, between the 102.9 Boston application, which has been sitting frozen since the filing window back in 2003 (and which is not related to the existing 102.9 WNNW translator), and W279BQ, which is a licensed translator seeking what is (at least on paper) a "minor change."

In order for the 102.9 app to be granted, it will have to make a showing that it doesn't preclude the availability of another open channel for LPFM operation at or near the same location. I'm hesitant to say that's impossible (at least without running a full study), but it's not going to be easy to get it granted.

103.7, however, doesn't have to make such a showing to move to the Hancock...and if its application is granted (as seems likely), it would be the first new licensed FM signal on the air from a site inside Boston city limits since WFNX moved to One Financial Center. Does that make it a "big" move? I suppose that's open for debate...but if the experience of the last translator that tried to move into New York City is any indication, it would indeed be a significant coup if W279BQ can successfully make the move it's seeking.

(It should also be noted that the "big move" term Bob quoted at the beginning of this thread was not actually from this week's NERW column but rather from a quick Sunday-night tease on the NERW Facebook page; I think the actual column presented a rather more detailed consideration of what the translator's trying to do.)
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
WNTIRadio noted: said:
There is also an app for 102.9 from the top of the Hancock building.
Click to expand...

Is this to change the translator's frequency from 103.7??

The change in frequency would be a god idea, but a pirate called Touch FM will be infuriated!
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"Touch FM" is on 106.1. 102.9 from Dorchester is a different pirate.
 
Fybush said the FCC quickly approved the move, the first new FM into Boston since WFNX went to
One Fin Ctr in '06. 103.7 will do 10 watts from the top of the Hancock, // WRYP Wellfleet. Onward
Christian Soldiers. ( http://www.renewfm.org/ ) for now.

And...here is your (take with a bunch of salt) CP map of the projected signal!

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W279BQ&service=FX&status=C&hours=U

And of course the COL will be different. From Gloucester MA (Simon Geller's old W-V-C-A had
that as a COL!) to...

BOSTON!
 
I look at that signal and wish that WJIB was on it instead of WRYP...
 
Yeah, I know. It's just that dump truck full of money isn't here yet.
 
I wish this was a repeater for WCRB 99.5.

A shame you can't hear Boston's classical music station clearly at Symphony Hall!

Another religious station? Just what we need.
 
HHH said:
I wish this was a repeater for WCRB 99.5.

A shame you can't hear Boston's classical music station clearly at Symphony Hall!

Another religious station? Just what we need.
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Actually if they are a music station like I am hearing from a friend, then it would be a good thing.
 
Retro said:
HHH said:
I wish this was a repeater for WCRB 99.5.

A shame you can't hear Boston's classical music station clearly at Symphony Hall!

Another religious station? Just what we need.
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Actually if they are a music station like I am hearing from a friend, then it would be a good thing.
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Seems like it is your typical Christian "preach and teach" with music as filler between programs.

http://www.renewfm.org/#!programming/c24ib

Also, it seems like they are spreading out quite a bit:

"RenewFM began in 2006 when our first full-power station, WRYP 90.1, went on the air on the Outer Cape in April that year. We then began broadcasting on translator 93.9 FM in the Hyannis area in the spring of 2007. We then constructed and licensed FM translators in Harwich (106.5 FM), Sagamore Beach (96.7 FM), Falmouth (99.5 FM) and Salem (103.7 FM) in 2007 through 2010."

Salem, of course, is now apparently going to be atop the Hancock Building in downtown Boston.
 
W279BQ Now // WYDI

raccoonradio said:
Fybush said the FCC quickly approved the move, the first new FM into Boston since WFNX went to One Fin Ctr in '06.
103.7 will do 10 watts from the top of the Hancock, // WRYP Wellfleet. Onward Christian Soldiers. ( http://www.renewfm.org/ ) for now.

And...here is your (take with a bunch of salt) CP map of the projected signal!

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W279BQ&service=FX&status=C&hours=U

And of course the COL will be different. From Gloucester MA (Simon Geller's old W-V-C-A had that as a COL!) to...

BOSTON!
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Not sure when it started, but cutting through the co-channel clutter with more than just dead air (for the first time since I don’t remember when), W279BQ-103.7 was noted last night and this morning, but rebroadcasting WYDI-90.5 NH!
It isn’t a misfeed, either, as the TOH-ID is something to the effect of: “90.5, WYDI Derry, and now on 103.7, W279BQ Saugus”.
It seems stronger than it has from the Saugus site, but weaker than its old Salem site: I don’t know if that means it is testing its new Hancock Tower stick in Boston, or just a combination of enhanced groundwave/tropo (given the relatively warm, muggy weather) AND airing actual programming?! ::)
I’ll check at South Station tomorrow night.
 
Re: W279BQ Now // WYDI

Uncle Kaimbridge said:
It isn’t a misfeed, either, as the TOH-ID is something to the effect of: “90.5, WYDI Derry, and now on 103.7, W279BQ Saugus”.
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And, no, that’s not a misquote: “... W279BQ Saugus”!
I think someone forgot to tell them that Gloucester (at least currently) is their COL! 8)
 
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