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FM Frequency of the Week: 95.1

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Tyler, TX:

A fair signal from 1510 KWJB's translator, K236CH Canton, with an extremely quirky classic hits format.

I've picked up KYKR clear up here, @WCJ, and on numerous occasions. More often than KIOC, or any of the Houston signals.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Under normal reception conditions a weak signal from WAYV Atlantic City NJ with TOP 40 programming. The signal gets much stronger with S or E winds and high humidity. I've also heard WRBS in Baltimore MD with Christian Contemporary music with a twist of the antenna.
 
East Tennessee: Pesky translator W236DA for WBLC, Lenoir City. Before that signed on, WGGG, Bowling Green KY was in often.

Retro/other: Dayton, OH area: Usually either WAJI, Fort Wayne, IN or WXIL, Parkersburg WV
 
Am certainly not the FM DXer a lot of you folks here are. But iacd 's WZZO from Bethlehem is the occupant here as well. A truly noisy station, their music format might be called The Glue Sniffing Of Your Life Station. They are currently ranked 5th among the five huge FM signals from Allentown.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, it's local W236CZ (AC "Star 95.1" WJKR 103.9-HD2) from Grove City, about 15 miles to my west. For several years, it was the FM translator for WMNI 920 when it was adult standards. That was changed a year or two ago.
Before this station came on the air, classic rocker WVXG from Mount Gilead made it into the northern parts of the Columbus metro. I'd occasionally hear it out here in the eastern suburbs. I believe parent company Delmar filed an interference complaint when W236CZ came on the air, but given that both are still up and operating, apparently nothing came of it.
That said, at some point earlier this year there was chatter that this translator would move to 94.1.
 
Northeast Essex County, NJ. WRDR translator Fort Greene, NY and some hash from 94.7 the block since moving to the Meadowlands. Used to get a weak WRKI Brookfield, CT.

Tropo: WAYV from Atlantic City comes in strong or WRKI.

Eskip: Caught WAPE Jacksonville, FL several years ago. (Very popular frequency for Top 40 on the East Coast)
 
In Potsville 95.1 gets you Bethlehem station WZZO, barely in most places. WMMR comes in much better despite being over twice the distance away.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Am certainly not the FM DXer a lot of you folks here are. But iacd 's WZZO from Bethlehem is the occupant here as well. A truly noisy station, their music format might be called The Glue Sniffing Of Your Life Station. They are currently ranked 5th among the five huge FM signals from Allentown.
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Shit playlist, repetitive and predictable. Pretty bad when the other station that plays the same tired classic rock songs over and over again sounds amazing in comparison (99.9 the hawk)
 
RStacey1990 said:
crap playlist, repetitive and predictable.
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That sounds like K-Wine in Ukiah and Lakeport back in 2015 through at least 2018. They kept playing the same playlist of songs, in the same order, at the same time every day. Same ads and imaging, even!

If I didn't know better, I'd say it was a recording of the station that someone was playing back, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't, because I heard the same repetition in multiple other locations that were playing K-Wine (including one place where it was coming in straight out of an old boombox!) Maybe the station was playing back a recording of itself?

At any rate, it became so dull and predictable that it wasn't interesting (and, being as it was airing a CHR format, I didn't care much for the songs they were repeating, and seemingly infinite repetition pretty much guaranteed that I never wanted to hear those songs again, and I never listened to that station outside of the places that had it blasting over the PA or through a radio on a shelf).

The other three stations I'd hear inside various establishments were Q-106 (Country), KNTI (Classic Rock) and KXBX-FM (also CHR).

From what I recall, nobody ever played KXBX-AM 1270, which aired a sort of oldies/America's Best Music-like format for many years which wasn't unlike KABL's (including some of KABL's former talent, such as the late Bill Moen). Alas, they "modernized" and now air a sort of soft AC-like classic hits format similar to, but softer than KOSF 103.7 that covers late 70s and 80s, with some 90s and 2000s mixed in, maybe even some currents (I don't know because I no longer live in range of its signal, so I can't listen; do they stream?)

Anyway, sorry for the off-topic post!

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