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Is WYVC In Camden Having More Issues?

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R.D.P.

For the past few days, they've been off the air. 

I have a feeling their transmitter is acting up again.

For the good of Camden, please stay off the air Dr. Craig.

This station is just a waste of space.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. WQLS is another story.  Although their broadcast is currently on, I still detest them.  That radio station is still a big joke and a waste of space. Wish they would go away too and never come back. 
 
R.D.P. said:
For the past few days, they've been off the air.

I have a feeling their transmitter is acting up again.

For the good of Camden, please stay off the air Dr. Craig.

This station is just a waste of space.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. WQLS is another story. Although their broadcast is currently on, I still detest them. That radio station is still a big joke and a waste of space. Wish they would go away too and never come back.
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I'm sure this attitude will get your CCM station built much faster...simply wish for other stations you don't like to fail.
 
I'm only wishing for this station and WQLS to get some professionalism in place.

Even if they were doing a non urban format and was still guilty of violating the rules of the FCC, I would still have issues with them. (Mr. Zach knows where I'm coming from!)

Still rooting for your powerball to come in, so you can get WYVC and do something awesome with it.

Your ideas for that station might pay off in the end and give Camden something they really need.

A real radio station they can enjoy listening to.

R.D.P. <><
 
I hope you are not setting the bar too high for ANYONE in Camden to ever get over in a high-jump contest.

I looked up the population and retail sales and other numbers for the market this afternoon. I've never seen Camden... I've never listened to the station, but I am familiar with some other operations in markets that thin. Being professional, sounding professional does not come for free, it doesn't even come cheap.

My little town has a parade every Fourth of July that is one of the big events of the year. If there were to have a parade in Camden a couple of weeks from now, I'm trying to picture what the crowd would look like... how would they be dressed.... what would they find entertaining.... what would have to happen that when they went home, they would smile and say: "Now, Mama, that was a good day!"

And then I try to imagine what I would put on the radio if somehow it came under my control. And what would it take for the people of Camden to sit around the dinner table some evening and say: "We are lucky to have THAT radio station!"
 
R.D.P. said:
I'm only wishing for this station and WQLS to get some professionalism in place.
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But that's not the 'wish' you started this thread with.

R.D.P. said:
Even if they were doing a non urban format and was still guilty of violating the rules of the FCC, I would still have issues with them. (Mr. Zach knows where I'm coming from!)

Still rooting for your powerball to come in, so you can get WYVC and do something awesome with it.
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Save it. I've read your musings about The Peach, Alex FM, Moody Bible Radio, the Bluewater stations...and the folks running them. Not once do I remember you rising to insults like 'Dr. Kook' and 'Nice not knowing you' whenever those stations stirred differing discussion.

What is it about WBFZ, WYVC, and WQLS collectively that irks you so? I'm serious--your venom toward them seems to go beyond adherence to FCC rules or broadcasting basics.
 
I will say this in closing.

I don't hate their presentations at all.

I could careless about what they cater to.

My only concern is this, if every other radio station is forced to obey the law, then this should apply to them as well.

Those other stations I brag on, are very professional in their presentation.

Love how they run things.

I can tell they have a vested interest in obeying the law and keeping things in tip top shape when I listen to them.

This is especially true of Mr. Paul Alexander, Gower and those other influences I love so much.

That's all I'm saying.

Nothing more and/or less.

R.D.P. <><
 
WYVC failed to file for license renewals both in 2004 and 2012 and has had its license cancelled and call sign deleted for a second time as of April 6, 2012. They've racked up $14,000-plus in fines which have never been paid.

They definitely have issues, and if they are broadcasting now, they are operating as a pirate.
 
Alan McCall said:
WYVC failed to file for license renewals both in 2004 and 2012 and has had its license cancelled and call sign deleted for a second time as of April 6, 2012. They've racked up $14,000-plus in fines which have never been paid.

They definitely have issues, and if they are broadcasting now, they are operating as a pirate.
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…and as I've mentioned on here before, someone tipped me off to the state of affairs in Wilcox County when he was tasked with patching a transmitter for WYVC. When this person got down there, the transmitter site was several miles off from the license, with a 12-bay antenna pumping out well in excess of the power specified in the license. The AM had been off the air for ages, the tower felled and the transmitter itself exposed to the elements for so long it was covered in rust. Whoever runs this station certainly has to run things on a shoestring because of the economic climate of the area, but that's no excuse to skirt the law, fail to renew, fail to pay fines and move the tx site around willy-nilly. For that matter if they could afford to buy a big antenna and erect it on a new site, they probably had the money to pay those fines.

It's probably only due to the isolated nature of Wilcox County and the relative lack of co-channel stations nearby that something hasn't been done already. Even with its out of spec performance, the station probably wasn't causing issues with co-channels in Meridian and Opp.

Speaking of Opp, it was also passed on to me that the owner was aware of a one-time CP to upgrade WAMI to 100 kW, which would have necessitated WYVC to seek alternate facilities (how the CP got granted without WYVC applying to move is beyond me).

The owner saw no reason to apply for a change, saying in effect "why can't we just share the frequency?" :eek:

As for WQLS, they're on a noncomm frequency and from what I've heard they air full blown commercials. Not underwriting or sponsorships, but actual commercials. That's also against the rules.

I don't think it's too much to ask fully licensed stations like these serving an otherwise underserved part of the state to follow the damn rules, is it? If an LPFM or rouge translator operator were doing this, you'd all be frothing at the mouth.
 
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