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FM Frequency of the Week: 94.3

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Tyler, TX:

A fair signal from the southwestern half of the ERFET's Christian teaching "The Well" KZWL Bullard.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Usually an open frequency but 2 stations appear depending on reception conditions -

WIBG - Avalon NJ with a Greatest Hits format. It took the call letters from legendary 990 WIBG Philadelphia when TOP-40 ruled AM.
It's signal stays along the Jersey Shore but can come inland in humid weather.

WINX - Cambridge MD with Country Music. It can be heard regularly in SW Delaware but rarely makes it up to Wilmington.
 
Denver, CO - A fringe, but consistent, signal from KILO Colorado Springs, on Cheyenne Mountain.

KILO started out on 94.3 as a class A, moved to 93.9 and increased power in 1974 or 1975 (hard to tell exactly on the history cards), moved to Cheyenne Mountain in 1975, and at some post-80-90 point, moved back to 94.3, this time as a full class C, which wouldn't have been possible before 80-90.
 
East Tennessee: Local WNFZ (Jack FM) Powell, TN. Should I travel to Gatlinburg I might get a whiff of presumably WJTT, Red Bank TN underneath.

Retro/other: Dayton OH would bring WIFE, Rushville IN and sometimes WKKI Celina or WMRN (ex-WDIF) Marion, OH.

West Central Ohio: My local 94.3 at the time was WMER. It was the first station I saw the inside of. It signed on in 1960, 3 years before WCSM(AM) which was later joined by 96.7 FM. It is now WKKI and still located above the Celina Music Store in Celina, OH. The only station I've gotten with WKKI off was WDIF, Marion
 
Hartland, VT:

W232DN Claremont, NH, translator for 1230 WTSV(AM). Branded as "WEEI Upper Valley" it usually simulcasts WEEI-FM Boston, but switches to WBZ-FM's network for Patriots football and does not carry Red Sox baseball.

Meriden, CT:

WYBC New Haven, Urban AC. Station owned by Yale University but LMA'ed by Connoisseur Media.
 
94.3 MHz

W232AZ - Melbourne FL -Carrier, occasional tests relaying WMIE 91.5


WZZR - Riviera Beach FL Mia 94.3 (Palm Beach area) 120 miles south of Melbourne....

kw - Melbourne FL
 
In tne Wilkes-Barre(Northeast PA) area, WTRW "94.3 The Talker" from Carbondale comes in fine with a right-wing talk format, hence the station's logo. Prior to the flip to the current talk format, it was soft AC "Lite 94.3" that lasted a few years, and prior to that, it was a simulcast to Adult Standards WNAK 730, both were held under their former owner "Route 81 Radio".

Back in the 80's-90's, it used to be Oldies as WSGD-FM "Solid Gold 94", then "94.3 SGD"(I remembered hearing the station played in a liquidation store at the old Steigmeier building), and "Cool 94", which would later be simulcasted on 93.7 for Luzerne County. When Citadel bought 94.3(and 93.7), it rebranded as "Big Oldies" but only lasted for one year before flipping to Country as "Cat Country 94". Around 2000, the Cat Country format dropped and was stunting for several days running prerecorded recording messages from callers seeking relationships before switching to a simulcast of CHR 97.1 WBHT from W-B with the WBHD calls. Two years later, the simulcast was dropped and flipped back to "Cat Country 94", but the local version was replaced with a simulcast of "Cat Country 96" WCTO from the Lehigh Valley, which is very strange because no other station from other markets(with the exception for Temple University's WRTI, Family Life Network, and Lehigh Valley-based Word FM), run a simulcast in my region.

In parts of downtown W-B, it is prone to some interference by a nearby WEJL's 94.1 translator, whose transmitter sits atop the Citizen's Voice building across from the former Coughlin High School.
 
Clifton, New Jersey

I received WJLK-FM "94.3 The Point" Asbury Park, NJ and WWSK "94.3 The Shark" Smithtown, NY until August 2023. Then, W232AL "The Bridge" Pomona, NY moved its transmitter to New Jersey and it wipes out the other stations in most spots.

Defunct: WSBP-LP Wood-Ridge, NJ operated from November 2015 until January 2021. The license was cancelled in July 2021. The transmitter was only 3 miles away from me.

DX/Retro: I have received WRLX "Mia 94.3" several times during the 2022 and 2023 e-skip seasons.
 
Central Kansas:
Clear signal from KCVW/Kingman.

North Iowa:
A blank frequency locally (and outside of translators, no full-powered station exists on this frequency in the entire state).
 
Nutley, NJ. ^Same as MichaelD1972. WXBK 94.7 also produces hash on 94.3 in spots, since the transmitter location changed from West Orange to Lyndhurst.
 
From Aberfoyle ON:
Nothing on this frequency day and night. The closest station is CJFM Woodstock ON pumping out 37 watts about 25 miles west. I don't yet have an FM antenna so a G5RV, an 84 ft. longwire and a 2m/70cm dipole are being used.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, it's country WKKJ from Chillicothe, about 45 miles south. That format and the call letters used to be on 93.3 before they moved into Columbus (technically, the city of license is Ashville, in Pickaway County) and became classic hits WODC.
In the northern parts of metro Columbus, it's WMRN from Marion, also with a country format.
gr8 mentioned WKKI. Like so many other signals, that's what you'll hear going northwest from Columbus once you clear the Bellefontaine ridge. WKKI and WMRN fight it out for a little bit, with Marion winning on the east side of the hills. WKKI does a great job with local high school sports, including carrying the football games of my mother's alma mater.
 
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