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i've been listening to this frequency and it's an all hip hop channel, and it's a station i have never heard of. Can someone fill me in the details of this station, the call letters or where this station is?
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Yes. Short answer: I strongly suspect it's a PIRATE station - illegal - been on the air from Avondale/Bond Hill for over 6 months.
And what's really funny is that no one has shut them down yet (if the FCC even has been notified or cares).
I have heard them in my car (as much as I can stand to listen to the really bad processing and equally bad programming) on I-71 fbeginning from the Kenwood hill to Taft Road.
And what's really funny is that no one has shut them down yet (if the FCC even has been notified or cares).
I have heard them in my car (as much as I can stand to listen to the really bad processing and equally bad programming) on I-71 fbeginning from the Kenwood hill to Taft Road.
The pirate's been around at least 18 months. I wrote about it a year ago. The last time I listened was back in December, and they had a cd skipping for nearly 3 days!
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,43464.msg293510.html#msg293510
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,43464.msg293510.html#msg293510
flakunkel said:The closest licensed stations to Cincinnati on 96.1 are WQLK in Richmond, IN and WSTO in Owensboro, KY. WQLK, known as "Kicks 96," is country; WSTO, known as "Hot 96," is an Evansville, IN rimshot and is CHR.
Wouldn't call WSTO an Evansville IN rimshot. Studios are in Evansville, tower is in Hebbardsville, KYand its 100,000 watts at 1000 feet and is heard in 4 states.
The other day on my way in to work I actually picked up the station in Price Hill. I typically only pick it up in the inner-ring northeastern suburbs - usually Norwood or Avondale.
js said:The pirate's been around at least 18 months. I wrote about it a year ago. The last time I listened was back in December, and they had a cd skipping for nearly 3 days!
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,43464.msg293510.html#msg293510
SpongeBob SquarePants said:The other day on my way in to work I actually picked up the station in Price Hill. I typically only pick it up in the inner-ring northeastern suburbs - usually Norwood or Avondale.
js said:The pirate's been around at least 18 months. I wrote about it a year ago. The last time I listened was back in December, and they had a cd skipping for nearly 3 days!
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,43464.msg293510.html#msg293510
I've heard it in Bellevue before, mainly by accident as I just got back from Owensboro and 96.1 was on the FM band. There ever any "djs" on the station or is it all just music?
titoisradio said:Wouldn't call WSTO an Evansville IN rimshot. Studios are in Evansville, tower is in Hebbardsville, KYand its 100,000 watts at 1000 feet and is heard in 4 states.
I was using the term to refer to a station that positions itself to serve a larger city that is not its COL. WSTO is licensed to Owensboro, KY but promotes itself as an Evansville, IN station.
flakunkel said:titoisradio said:Wouldn't call WSTO an Evansville IN rimshot. Studios are in Evansville, tower is in Hebbardsville, KYand its 100,000 watts at 1000 feet and is heard in 4 states.
I was using the term to refer to a station that positions itself to serve a larger city that is not its COL. WSTO is licensed to Owensboro, KY but promotes itself as an Evansville, IN station.
In that case WKFS would be a Cincinnati rimshot (COL: Milford), 97.3 (Ft Thomas); 101.3 (Erlanger).
I worked at STO from 97-01 and the strange thing was when we had our studios in Owensboro we were supposed to avoid talking about studio location not to allienate Evansville, when we moved the studios we had to avoid giving out the Evansville local number not to alienate Oboro, as we had alot of clients from that market. I think since South Central bought the station they focus primarilay on Evansville now however.
Actually WSTO received dual city ID status in 1982; WSTO Owensboro/Evansville.
To elaborate, the reason 96STO didn't talk specifics was due to the extreme difference between our audience. The Ohio River was a separator of two cultures that were only interchangeable by media. 96STO talked in general about the area to lower the chance of listener alienation on either side of the river. Yes, in the back of the listener's mind they knew we were an Owensboro radio station we just didn't emphasis it; we were an area radio station.
To elaborate, the reason 96STO didn't talk specifics was due to the extreme difference between our audience. The Ohio River was a separator of two cultures that were only interchangeable by media. 96STO talked in general about the area to lower the chance of listener alienation on either side of the river. Yes, in the back of the listener's mind they knew we were an Owensboro radio station we just didn't emphasis it; we were an area radio station.
radiorob2.0 said:Actually WSTO received dual city ID status in 1982; WSTO Owensboro/Evansville.
To elaborate, the reason 96STO didn't talk specifics was due to the extreme difference between our audience. The Ohio River was a separator of two cultures that were only interchangeable by media. 96STO talked in general about the area to lower the chance of listener alienation on either side of the river. Yes, in the back of the listener's mind they knew we were an Owensboro radio station we just didn't emphasis it; we were an area radio station.
Rob, gotta disagree with you on a few things. First, there is only one city of license for WSTO, which is Owensboro, look it up at FCC.gov. The legal ID sequence can say anything after the city of license. For a while the legal ID was WSTO Owensboro,Henderson, Evansville, though only Owensboro was the COL. Also, the time I was speaking of was when in 2000 the studios moved from Owensboro to Evansville, again mgt wanted us to avoid talking about Evansville where just the week prior everything was supposed to focus on Evansville, I was there. Though this thread has really moved off topic from the pirate station.
Scott, at one time it was a dual city authorization on the license prior to deregulation. Second, you're the one that started drifting this off topic. I just popped in and clarified a few things.
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