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CP ISSUED TO MOVE WKAJ 1120 AM FROM LITTLE FALLS TO ST JOHNSVILLE

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THE_KNICKMAN

The FCC today posted on its daily digest that Tesiero AKA Cranesville Block Co. has been granted a CP to build WKAJ in St. Johnsville. 10KW daytime (2 tower directional) .4 KW nighttime (4 tower directional)
 
Although unrelated, anyone remember in 2001 when WQBJ applied to change the COL to St. Johnsville.
 
Necrat said:
Although unrelated, anyone remember in 2001 when WQBJ applied to change the COL to St. Johnsville.
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I do remember that...I'm not sure why they did...It never happened and the CP also lapsed too...I believe....At one time 98.5-WCKM had a CP to move to 99.1...but they never acted on that...and I believe that CP also lapsed....
 
I think the idea for WQBJ to move its col to St Johnsville had something to do with being able to eliminate having origination weekly from Cobleskill, and yes, the CP expired. WCKM decided to stay at 98.5 after an new owner toook over.
 
Shame too... WCKM on 99.1 would have alleviated co-channel interference with WCTW on 98.5 in Catskill and also improved WTRY's reception to the north :)
 
Does anyone seriously believe this station will ever be built? Considering the economics of
AM broadcasting and the mid-Mohawk Valley? I can't even recall when the last all-new AM was built in Upstate NY.
 
Moving WCKM to 99.1 would have put it adjacent to WOKO Burlington, VT, a 100KW station probably would have limited some to the NE of Lk George. There is a good chance 1120 will get built, it is probably going to be simulcast with WCSS 1490 Amsterdam to have coverage all throughout Montgomery county.
 
The last new AM station in NY that I know of is WFNY 1440 Gloversville. Probably about 7 or 8 years ago. Now at 5KW days, 500 W nights directional only at night. It is a very low budget operation, programming from a computer, just network news.
 
Made a trip down past Albany today and decided to take a detour along Rte. 5 thru St. Johnsville to look for the new WKAJ towers. I started with the normally unreliable Radio-Locator.com site and followed the lattitude/longitude coordinates link to a google map that shows a location near Klock Park. Local papers say tower site is on land behind the Adirondack Packaging building. Are they for real? The property directly behind the building (not in business BTW) appears to be a gravel pit. No towers in sight. Turned off on a close-by side road and went up a rather steep incline. An AM tower site built on the side of a river basin hill? Gimme a break. Has anyone actually seen these towers going up?

Another subject.....if anyone from CC looks at the WGY tower in Rotterdam after dark, they will notice that the top half is unlit. Hope they notified the FAA.
 
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