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'FAS 94.3 FM

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Barry

The A/C station that had been broadcast from a 250 watt translator in Hartsdale, NY has apparently been shut down. The translator had been rebroadcasting WPLJ HD3, which is gone. All I am hearing now on 94.3 is The Shark, from Long island.
As WPLJ and WNSH will no longer be owned by Cumulus, they will soon not have any strong FM signals to feed a translator, and Cumulus may feel it is not worth leasing an HD signal from another broadcaster to continue 'FAS.
FCC filings have indicated the translator may be moved to Alpine NJ.
The 'FAS website is still in place. But it has not been updated in years.
 
Barry said:
The A/C station that had been broadcast from a 250 watt translator in Hartsdale, NY has apparently been shut down. The translator had been rebroadcasting WPLJ HD3, which is gone. All I am hearing now on 94.3 is The Shark, from Long island.
As WPLJ and WNSH will no longer be owned by Cumulus, they will soon not have any strong FM signals to feed a translator, and Cumulus may feel it is not worth leasing an HD signal from another broadcaster to continue 'FAS.
FCC filings have indicated the translator may be moved to Alpine NJ.
The 'FAS website is still in place. But it has not been updated in years.
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Couldn't they feed the translator from WNBM? Unless this is an indication that 103.9 is also going to be sold.
 
WNBM is not currently running HD, but they certainly could if they equipment is there.
If they plan to sell the rest of the cluster and/or pull out of the translator lease in the near future, why bother putting anything on?
I have a feeling that there was next to nobody listening to 94.3 FAS anyway.
 
Aslo 94.3 stream is gone. We’ll bye wfas Fm I guess
 
If 103.9 doesn't have HD abilities, you'd think Cumulus would use the translator to rebroadcast WABC 770. Why rebroadcast a rock station from Long Island owned Connoisseur Media?

By the way, Radio-Locator.com lists W232AL as being licensed to Pomona NY, a community in Rockland County, across the Hudson River. But when you click the coordinates, it shows the WFAS AM 1230 tower location in Hartsdale NY, in Westchester. WFAS AM currently runs CBS Sports Radio 24/7. Cumulus has a financial interest in CBS Radio Sports. So the translator could also simulcast WFAS 1230.

The Radio-Locator website for W232AL also shows an FCC construction permit to move to Alpine, in the northeast corner of New Jersey, which is also across the Hudson River from Westchester County. That's the same Alpine tower that currently is used by 89.1 WFDU, the Farleigh Dickenson University station, and the one-time home of Major Edwin Armstrong's pioneering FM station W2XMN, the first FM station in the New York metropolitan area, on the air between the 1930s and 1950s. The tower is easily seen from the Palisades Interstate Parkway and Route 9W when driving in the area, since it towers above the wooded region. Because the tower is so high, W232AL will drop from 250 watts at its current location, to 50 watts on the Alpine Tower.

Here's the Google aerial view.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/4...4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d40.96082!4d-73.922498?hl=en


By the way, the City of Yonkers has a park along Warburton Avenue at Odell Avenue. It is across the river from the tower. It has an observation point and plaque dedicated to Armstrong, with his picture and a picture of the tower, marking the importance of this development in American communications.
 
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Here's the thing...Cumulus doesn't actually own the translator. It's owned by Bridgelight, who happens to be using WNSH-HD4 to relay their "Bridge" religious programming. Now that WNSH will be going to Entercom, perhaps the arrangement that allowed Cumulus to use the 94.3 translator (W232AL) is ending.
 
‘FAS originally had a local morning show. But within a year of it going on the air, the station dropped it and began running Westwood One’s A/C programming 24/7. Its main value to Cumulus may have been that it provided local clearance of their show, John Tesh Intelligence For Your Life.
Now that it is gone and the translator is apparently moving to Alpine NJ, WFAS 1230 AM is evidently the only use for Cumulus’ sizable site in Hartsdale NY. WFAS AM runs CBS Sports Radio 24/7, and probably has a minuscule audience. Given the high value of land in Westchester County, I wonder whether it would be more worthwhile to shut down this station too (and turn in the license to the FCC), dismantle the tower, and then sell to developers. But I am not sure whether Cumulus owns the land.
 
It was a waste of electricity. First of all, no local content and shows? Why bother being the Westchester station anymore? Also, I can't imagine they had a local sales staff to sell the WPLJ-HD(whatever) and 94.3. So, it was a waste of electricity for Cumulus.

Sad

I wonder if Cumulus actually makes more money with the tiny NYC signal than they did when WFAS was a Westchester/Rockland station.
 
Gregg. said:
If 103.9 doesn't have HD abilities, you'd think Cumulus would use the translator to rebroadcast WABC 770.
Why rebroadcast a rock station from Long Island owned Connoisseur Media?
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Poster "Barry" was only saying that he could now hear Long Island's "94.3 The Shark"
now that the Westchester County translator W232AL on the same frequency was shut off.
There is no rebroadcasting of 94.3 The Shark (WWSK Smithtown) on W232AL.
 
Yes, I see that now. With no translator on 94.3, the station on Long Island is now coming in. I should have read it better.

With Entercom about to own WNSH 94.7-HD4, the religious broadcaster no longer has an obligation to Cumulus. So it makes sense to turn off the 94.3 translator now and start relocating it to Alpine NJ. I imagine a translator on the Alpine tower will have a decent signal over parts of the NYC metro (Bronx, some of Manhattan, Bergen, Westchester and Rockland Counties).
 
Gregg. said:
Yes, I see that now. With no translator on 94.3, the station on Long Island is now coming in. I should have read it better.

With Entercom about to own WNSH 94.7-HD4, the religious broadcaster no longer has an obligation to Cumulus. So it makes sense to turn off the 94.3 translator now and start relocating it to Alpine NJ. I imagine a translator on the Alpine tower will have a decent signal over parts of the NYC metro (Bronx, some of Manhattan, Bergen, Westchester and Rockland Counties).
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Not sure WJLK-FM is going to be happy about that move.
 
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