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It's December 15-Where's WKAJ?

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ChuckRoast

Any sign of this station yet? Any gravel pit sightings?
If it ever comes on the air I've heard it's going to a 10,000 watt powerhouse reaching Albany and playing 50's and 60's oldies.
Sounds too good to be true.
 
Sounds too good to be true, because it probably is too good to be true. Seriously, who is gonna spend upwards of a half million to put 4 towers in a gravel pit? And the signal will reach Albany??....go to the fcc info site and check the daytime pattern. Major lobes are north and south.
 
It sounds here like Mr. Brown's return is bigger news than the new station coming on the air. I'm not a Utica resident but I've read where he plays the standards exclusively. I've heard WKAJ will be an oldies station. Will their format be 50/60's?
 
The real question is, will there actually be a WKAJ in St. Johnsville. The CP expired Dec 15th and according to fcc.gov, no license has been issued.
 
W2JUV_AL said:
If Hank Brown is doing his show today on WKAJ, he must be speaking Spanish, cuz that's all
I'm hearing on 1120 AM
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You're probably hearing the spanish station out of Bristol, CT on 1120 (WPRX).

There has been no change in the expiration date in the CDBS, but the FCC granted a couple of exceptions a while back to some of these operators to get on the air. I don't know if 1120 got one or not.

If they didn't get an extension of any kind, then there will be no 1120. The CP has expired. It's done. Scott Fybush had done a piece on it, and can probably elaborate more.
 
Cnyradio.com is reporting that the FCC has officially cancelled the CP for WKAJ. Looks like radio towers will not grow in the gravel pit any time soon..
 
Scott Fybush has a report on this in his weekly radio column. I'm not that into radio to spend $35 a year to read the full report. Can anyone share what he said? Thanks!
 
I dont subscribe to Fybush, but go to Cnyradio.com, check the WKAJ headline and read the comments. There is new information indicating a Tx site that is near completion, but closer to Little Falls, not St. Johnsville. The modified CP linked to the St. Johnsville site (i.e. gravel pit), but
radio-locator.com now links a site that appears close to the Little Falls Thruway exit.
 
Petition for Reconsideration Filed 01/27/2012 by Cranesville Block Company, Inc

Just check the fcc site.
 
Bug said:
read on and all the comments.
Looks like it is on the way.
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Not legally. The FCC's ruling in the declaration statement is the final end of WKAJ.

Hopefully they can lease the towers to someone else or find a use for them, somehow.
 
One hesitates to say "final" as long as the towers are still standing and Cranesville has so much investment sunk into them.

The FCC is a political body, after all, and you never know what some well-placed Congressional intervention could accomplish, if Cranesville chooses to go that route. (Just look at the special window for a new 1700 in Rockland County, which is in total contravention of established FCC policy.)

It's a shame, though...better communication with the Commission (and, I suspect, legal counsel better tied into the FCC's inner workings) probably could have made this all work out much more happily.
 
But are the towers really still standing? Were they ever standing? And, if so, where?
In November I visited the site in St. Johnsville that was linked by radio-info.com. No towers, just an abandoned gravel bed. Now radio-info.com shows a site near the Little Falls Thruway (I-90) exit. Does anyone know if the towers were ever erected there? Or anywhere?
 
The FCC letter says Cranesville submitted proof (well, photos, anyway) that the towers were indeed built at the gravel-pit site just west of St. Johnsville. One of the issues is that the towers weren't built before the December 15th CP expiration, which is why you saw nothing in November. They apparently went up in late December or early January.
 
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