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hmmmmm...whats this for?

ohh...i see. it's wkld - and they're going to put city grade into hsv! should be interesting.
didn't i read that just sold...?
 
Ah, it'll put city grade into the south part of Huntsville, but that's it. It'll be rimshot on the north side. I don't expect it to be much of a player in the Huntsville market.
 
The application was actually granted on 8/4/08. They have a construction permit for the move now. That sure was fast!
 
RollTide said:
The application was actually granted on 8/4/08. They have a construction permit for the move now. That sure was fast!
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It looks though that the "other piece of the puzzle" (Great South's other 97.7, WHPH in Jemison) had their application approved as well, to C3 status. I can't possibly see, though, how either WHPH or WKLD would be able to accomplish much in the Birmingham and Huntsville markets, respectively. Seems it if it would be more advantageous to pair the two stations together (using WHPH's current facilities) and market them to Birmingham instead.


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Has WHPH shown up in any of the B'ham ratings yet? WKLD seems to come up here and there at the very bottom, which is good considering their (lack of) signal in the metro-proper.

Edit to add: Don't see how the pending changes will benefit either station. WHPH will just be covering a different slice of nothing than before. They ought to be shooting for a Red Mountain or Shades Crest location with just a few hundred watts of power.
 
As it is now, WHPH covers most all of Shelby County, as well as most of Hoover. I live in Helena, and I can pick them up on most of the radios in my house fairly clearly. I also can pick them up along Highway 150 in Hoover, and almost to Ross Bridge. An increase in power to cover most of the south of Birmingham would enable them to attract more listeners in Vestavia, Mountain Brook, Inverness, etc...where most of the real money in the 'Ham is located.
 
Seems lke they can't move or upgrade the Peach until they move KLD to Union Grove. Sad to see that Oneonta will be loosing their local FM. They'll still have 1570 WCRL, it didn't sell along with the FM. It has a good daytime signal, but is only 64 watts at night, so in bad weather no local coverage except right in town.
 
I used to live in Helena and the station was okay there, but go north past Shades Crest or into Hoover and it was very spotty, at least for me. And what's the point in listening to a station if you can't listen to it everywhere you go? <~ I'm thinking like a non-radio person for a second.

I have WCRL listed as regional Mexican on the website... So unless tu hablar Español... ;)
 
Zach said:
I used to live in Helena and the station was okay there, but go north past Shades Crest or into Hoover and it was very spotty, at least for me. And what's the point in listening to a station if you can't listen to it everywhere you go? <~ I'm thinking like a non-radio person for a second.

I have WCRL listed as regional Mexican on the website... So unless tu hablar Español... ;)
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I was under the impression WCRL was programming some type of adult standards format. Have they changed to spanish recently?


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passtheword said:
I was under the impression WCRL was programming some type of adult standards format. Have they changed to spanish recently?
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I think it's been a while. BUT... And this is a big ol' fat but... That could be a mistake. I don't recall changing the format, but I DO remember hearing Spanish-language programming the last two times I visited Oneonta, which was prolly back in 2005 or 2004. What I heard was overnights, possibly on a weekend, but I know I heard it on more than one occasion... So the possibility is it might have been some specialty programming for the sizeable Hispanic community of Oneonta.

Previously it was satellite-fed oldies, the same network that 94.1 WZBQ (then WCKO) used before flipped to top-40, the same as Gold 106 out of Winfield when it existed...

Judging by the fact no one's bothered to e-mail and correct the listing if it's wrong, no one must be listening up in Beautiful Blount County.
 
CRL doesn't do spanish anymore. They did up until a few months back until around noon, then switched to timesless classics. Now they simucast KLD in the mornings, then switch to timeless.
 
I know this topic is kinda outdated, but this realy burns me up. I understand that buying and selling stations are all part of the business, but moving WKLD in my opinion is a bad deal to the citizens of Blount Co. 97.7 is one of my favorite stations, even though where I live I hear WKXM half the time. The Two Closest FM's to Oneonta are 92.1 WKUL, 105 WQSB, and Fun 92.7. All have fairly scatchy signals in the valley that Oneonta's in, But WKUL would likely be strongest. But, They do less than perfect coverage of weather events, and If you Can't pick up WQSB where you're at, you'll be out of luck.

BTW WCRL hasn't done any part ime spanish (that I know of) in the past couple years, As AL Rocker said, they air WKLD's "Waking Up w/Danny and Terri" and after that ABC's Timeless Classics.

Every Holiday season, they play christmas on fm, and AM carries Today's Best Country. It makes me wonder though, if after WKLD moves away, if WCRL will pick up Today's Best Country. Or, even better, if They will get their hands on an FM Translator, they could try to get the xmtr placed on the moutain WKLD's tower is on (Cant think of the name, starts w/ an S), and with a few hundred watts have coverage for Cleveland, Allgood, and the areas where WCRL is unavailable at night.

Time to start recording some WKLD cassette tapes (they will be priceless to nerdy people like me once WKLD's gone) ;D ;D

Travis
 
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