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Heads up: FCC authorizes FOUR Cincinnati LPFMs on 95.7

Chad-Stevens

Chad-Stevens

From lpfmdatabase.com, the four 95.7 LPFM licensees are: Forest Hills School District, Media Bridges Cincinnati Inc., Victory Church, and Our Lady Of The Holy Spirit Center in Norwood.
 
Look closer at the FCC's rules - full power stations "trump" LPFM's - sorry.

When/if WHIO-FM 95.7 receives their CP for Sharonville/Cincinnati all of the LPFM's on 95.7 - according to the FCC - "should prepare for a possible complaint from the full power station and should start making their next move"

Matter of fact if you follow the link below you will clearly see that they have been warned for this distinct possiblity.

http://www.lpfm.ws/aspen/aspen.php?state=OH&city=NORWOOD
 
And this just in from "Ohio Media Watch" website, dated Friday, January 18th regarding the move of WHIO-FM 95.7 move to Sharonville. Looks like the FCC approval is coming very soon?

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WHIO-FM MOVE SET?: OMW hears that the move of Cox talk WHIO-FM 95.7 Piqua, currently simulcasting the company's WHIO/1290 Dayton, has been announced as being approved.

The application to move the station from Piqua to the northern Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville was filed a year ago, and at least at this writing, there's no indication on the FCC website that it has been approved. (The FCC web database has lagged behind reality in the past.)

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ncincy1 said:
Look closer at the FCC's rules - full power stations "trump" LPFM's - sorry.

When/if WHIO-FM 95.7 receives their CP for Sharonville/Cincinnati all of the LPFM's on 95.7 - according to the FCC - "should prepare for a possible complaint from the full power station and should start making their next move"
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Speculation:
- The LPFM stations chose 95.7 as the only available channel under the existing rules.
- The only alternative was to dismiss their applications - and wait for the next LPFM window (and possibly more competing applications.)
- They have three years to complete construction. Hopefully in that time the FCC will lift the 2nd-adjacent restrictions, and/or Congress will lift the 3rd-adjacent restrictions.
- (if the 3rd-adjacent restrictions are lifted, a quick scan suggests 99.7 and 106.5 might become available for LPFM. If 2nd-adjacent is lifted, I see a bunch of possible new LPFM channels. )
- (I'm obviously missing a station somewhere as offhand I don't see why they aren't already using 99.5 or 107.9?)
 
ncincy1 said:
And this just in from "Ohio Media Watch" website, dated Friday, January 18th regarding the move of WHIO-FM 95.7 move to Sharonville. Looks like the FCC approval is coming very soon?

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WHIO-FM MOVE SET?: OMW hears that the move of Cox talk WHIO-FM 95.7 Piqua, currently simulcasting the company's WHIO/1290 Dayton, has been announced as being approved.

The application to move the station from Piqua to the northern Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville was filed a year ago, and at least at this writing, there's no indication on the FCC website that it has been approved. (The FCC web database has lagged behind reality in the past.)

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It's over a month later but there's still no CP issued for this as of yet.

Not that I'd bother building any of these LP's out...I'd wait out part of the CP period and see if the WHIO move got approved, then file for another channel and hope for the best before buying any equipment...
 
According to the full text in the OMW article, the FCC database is not the most up-to-date in terms of application approval and CP's issues - probably true since it IS the federal government.

Anyone have contacts at Cox in Dayton to actually confirm the approval of 95.7 to Sharonville?
 
As of this morning there is still no official approval, however, they may have a verbal ok
with written coming soon. They may also be moving behind the scenes to improve their signal
even more once in Sharonville.
 
Does that new tower that I can see from the intersection of Fields Ertel and Reed Hartman have anything to do with the WHIO thing, or is it just a cell phone tower? It looks too tall for that.
 
That's a cell phone tower.

The proposed transmitter location for WHIO FM 95.7 in Sharonville will be an existing communications tower located behind the old K-Mart (now Gabriel Brothers) on Route 42/Lebanon Road before you get to Fields-Ertel Road.

You can see the tower very clearly from I-275 - it has a flashing strobe light on the top during the day - a great location with high elevation and direct aim at downtown and N. Ky.

Stay tuned...
 
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