CXR Trust Given Until February 15, 2022 To Sell WSUN & WPYO

[drt]

Don't forget 97.5 on your home stereo or what have you. Not HD.

For those in Largo, Seminole, Pinellas Park, Lealman and some of the beaches, 97.5 is a viable option; that said their signal is severely challenged, 97.5 is highly directional to the east to protect full WPCV- 97.5 Country and there’s also a religious translator in Palmetto and when I was in St. Petersburg last Friday and Saturday, 97.5-97X didn’t even a have a listenable signal in St. Petersburg at 38th Ave N and 4th St and then all the way to downtown and to the USFSP campus or the U.S. Coastguard station; the religious translator and WPCV were fighting it out, w/o a hint of 97.5X. On I-75 from 62nd Ave N, across the first part of the Howard Franklin Bridge (part of I-275 for those out of the area) 97.5 (97X) was winning the battle with WPCV, but halfway across the bridge, the powerful WPCV completely took over. So for people in the southern third of Pinellas, the northern third of Pinellas and all of Hillsborough county, and Manatee county; your options are streaming or the two HD2 frequencies.

I also called a friend in the WestChase area, about less than a mile from the Hillsborough/Pinellas county line and the reception there was strictly the country formatted WPCV 97.5 licensed to Winter Have.

 

[Identnut]

I called it! It is El Zol. Looks like WSUN won't need to change call letters! (Not that SBS cares much about call letters, but WOZL is available for Orlando).

As expected, Alex Sensation will be on at 11 am and WMEG's afternoon show with Jorge Pabón "El Molusco", Alí Warrington and Pamela Noa in afternoons.

6 am will be "El Despelote" from WODA. That is Rocky the Kid and Angelique Burgos's voice. Clearly, the big drives lean very Boricua. Makes sense for Orlando, but not sure about Tampa Bay.

Have to check what they'll play in Tampa, which is less Boricua than Orlando.

 

[nielsoncaetanosalmeron_19]

The WOZL call letters are not available because it is assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard. However, the WLZO call letters are available for use in Orlando.

 

[Identnut]

The WOZL call letters are not available because it is assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard. However, the WLZO call letters are available for use in Orlando.

As are WZLL and WOFZ... Pity that the WZOL calls are stuck at an Adventist station in Puerto Rico that nobody listens to though.

 

[davideduardo]

As are WZLL and WOFZ... Pity that the WZOL calls are stuck at an Adventist station in Puerto Rico that nobody listens to though.

Actually, Radio Zol and its parallel station in Luquillo get rather decent ratings for low power, limited coverage FMs.

In Puerto Rico, there are two evangelical and one Catholic stations in the top 15 in ratings... and that is out of 131 operating stations, not including translators and LPFMs.

 

[MetroMuscle]

Well several days later was listening to 97.5 on my home stereo and all of a sudden last couple days it won't come in here like it was in Northern Pinellas Co. They must have reduced power of the signal as it will come in adjusting my wire antenna but then none of my preset stations work 😡. Guess it was a scam as it wasn't really advertised as a viable option in the first place.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Well several days later was listening to 97.5 on my home stereo and all of a sudden last couple days it won't come in here like it was in Northern Pinellas Co. They must have reduced power of the signal as it will come in adjusting my wire antenna but then none of my preset stations work 😡. Guess it was a scam as it wasn't really advertised as a viable option in the first place.

wow, someone who has no idea how atmospheric conditions work.

a scam? lololol

its a 180 watt transalator vs a 11kw full power signal .. what do you expect?

Why do you call it a scam?

As turning down the power.. sure they did that just to tick you off.

No, its called atmospherics that can enhance or diminish signals

 

[MetroMuscle]

Something I came across on my car screen on one 97X HD channel. Has to be a joke or is there something more to it?
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[Identnut]

Something I came across on my car screen on one 97X HD channel. Has to be a joke or is there something more to it?
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Don't tell me that EMF is already considering buying the station...

 

[drt]

Don't tell me that EMF is already considering buying the station...

Just checked on my Sangean table radio and it just list the station and artist/song; so went to the vehicle and my HD display isn’t as detailed as yours; it does give album and station art and song title, station i.d. (As shown in attachment) But did not list the Christian music I.D.……..that said, up until several months ago, 94.9HD2 was a contemporary Christian format; then it was dropped; I’m not all that technical on how these HD displays are propagated, but wondering if that is just something left over, that was never scrubbed from the previous HD2 format?

 

[johndavis]

Just checked on my Sangean table radio and it just list the station and artist/song; so went to the vehicle and my HD display isn’t as detailed as yours; it does give album and station art and song title, station i.d. (As shown in attachment) But did not list the Christian music I.D.……..that said, up until several months ago, 94.9HD2 was a contemporary Christian format; then it was dropped; I’m not all that technical on how these HD displays are propagated, but wondering if that is just something left over, that was never scrubbed from the previous HD2 format?

Some car radios cache the info and grab it when the signal is weak.

 

[DJ Mo]

I can confirm that my car radio remembers the last time it picked up a particular frequency & its RDS, & briefly showed what it picked up previously for a few seconds before it picked up new RDS info from a different radio station in another city during my Orlando, FL to Austin, TX road trip last year, because I like to scan the dial to see what little stations I could pick up on the way. Sometimes, it just displays the intended format of the previous station instead, until it finally picks up the new RDS info on the next station. Car radio displays are weird like that.

 

[billalm]

I can confirm that the RDS displays "Christian Music" on 94.9 HD2 when the commercials are running or essentially when there's no data being received like when a song is playing. I believe the HD2 transmitter's settings are defaulting to what the genre the probably originally had set for the outgoing info.... and since yes, the HD2 was at one time "Christian Music", someone has forgotten to change it. There's also a quirk with 98.7 The Shark where "Classic Rock" is misspelled "CLASSIS ROCK". That's been showing up on my Sangean home receiver for years.