Just What Cape Cod Needs: Another FM Station

[Laurence Glavin]

Apparently the FCC window opened up enough to assign yet another FM frequency to attract very few listeners if any on Cape Cod. This time, 98.7, and there's an application to put it on-the-air at the agency's web site. Licensed to East Harwich, the transmitter may be over in Chatham. It's directional, I assume to protect WBZ-FM, which transmits from the route 128 area. When the 103.9 dial position was WOCN-FM with 3K non-directional, it was on a channel adjacent to then WBCN-FM 104.1 transmitting from the Pru. So why would this 98.7 have to protect a transmitter farther away with a directional antenna?

 

[necrat123]

You would assume incorrectly sir.

They are directional to protect WPLM-FM not WBZ-FM.

This is the 4th (or 5th if you count the 97.7 on Nantucket) new Cape allocation to come along in the last couple of years.

(88.1 East Falmouth, 88.7 Edgartown, 104.3 in West Tisbury are the other three)

 

[ssetta]

I'm hoping it's a Top-40 CHR station. The Cape hasn't had once since the demise of The Rose.

 

[N1WVQ]

I'm hoping it's a Top-40 CHR station. The Cape hasn't had once since the demise of The Rose.

The Cape also hasn't had a modern rock station since...whoo, I dunno when! It's been that long. Was U.N. 93.5/101.1 the last?

 

[JustinT]

I'm hoping it's a Top-40 CHR station. The Cape hasn't had once since the demise of The Rose.

The Cape also hasn't had a modern rock station since...whoo, I dunno when! It's been that long. Was U.N. 93.5/101.1 the last?

Wasn't "The Vault" WDVT 93.5 a modern rock station?

 

[Signpost]

"Dunes 102" is also a recent sign on at 102.3 in Truro, although i think the license for that one goes back to 1988.

For 97.7, i vote for AAA. CHR would be fine too, as long as it's not God Fearing Religious drivel

 

[Eli Polonsky]

For 97.7, i vote for AAA.

Isn't the Cape served fairly well for AAA by 92.7 WMVY on Martha's Vineyard, and do they still have a translator on 100.7 in Harwich Port?

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

@Ssetta, isn't 99.9 WQRC, and 106.1 WCOD the cloest it comes to CHR? They're both HOT AC? How are their signals there? Sometimes I pick up both stations up here in Revere, Ma where my Uncle lives. Sometimes, not all the time.

 

[jlehmann]

For 97.7, i vote for AAA.

Isn't the Cape served fairly well for AAA by 92.7 WMVY on Martha's Vineyard, and do they still have a translator on 100.7 in Harwich Port?

They were only on 100.7 (& 93.9) for a short time. I'm told that 100.7 is now translating 101.9 WCIB after being off the air for several years. 93.9 has been //90.1 WRYP for a year or two. The 92.7 signal itself is pretty decent though.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

Today's (Friday 07/01) FCC applications include an FM at 97.7 on Nantucket for Vertical broadcasting. Don't know much about them except that they appear to be some stand-up guys.

 

[necrat123]

Today's (Friday 07/01) FCC applications include an FM at 97.7 on Nantucket for Vertical broadcasting. Don't know much about them except that they appear to be some stand-up guys.

It's Jeff Shapiro.

Also I forgot one to the list...

89.1B1 Brewster.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

Today's (Friday 07/01) FCC applications include an FM at 97.7 on Nantucket for Vertical broadcasting. Don't know much about them except that they appear to be some stand-up guys.

It's Jeff Shapiro.

Also I forgot one to the list...

89.1B1 Brewster.

You give no indication of having gotten the joke: "Vertical"; "stand-up guys". Hee hee.

 

[Signpost]

Isn't the Cape served fairly well for AAA by 92.7 WMVY on Martha's Vineyard, and do they still have a translator on 100.7 in Harwich Port?

WMVY's signal doesn't make it very far past Hyannis, it's a rimshot for most of the cape. Overall there's too much AC on Cape Cod, plenty of Oldies/Variety formats, 1 country and 1 rock station. The obvious format hole is CHR. But I suspect a well programmed AAA format would bring in more revenue.

 

[DanStrassberg]

You give no indication of having gotten the joke: "Vertical"; "stand-up guys". Hee hee.

YOU'VE apparently failed to notice that only you are laughing. It's a variant of the old, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, is there any sound?" I maintain that there was no joke!

 

[Blackroc]

Speaking of Cape/FM I've never heard 107.5/Classical sound so strong? They must have made some changes.

 

[Blackroc]

never heard 107.5/Classical sound so strong
Back to their old --mediocre--signal a day later.

 

[ssetta]

@Ssetta, isn't 99.9 WQRC, and 106.1 WCOD the cloest it comes to CHR? They're both HOT AC? How are their signals there? Sometimes I pick up both stations up here in Revere, Ma where my Uncle lives. Sometimes, not all the time.

I can actually get WCOD here in Natick quite frequently. I get WQRC a good amount of the time, but not as much, mainly because of bleed-in from WWFX. Though I did notice that WQRC is slowly starting to become CHR. I wonder if one of these days WOCN will phase out all of its older and "oh wow" type songs, and become more of a mainstream AC. I remember WQRC used to be the same way, and I think WCIB has done very similar.

I actually go to Revere Beach quite a bit, and I noticed the same thing. I was there today and I don't think I got any Cape Cod stations, but I usually use a Sony Sports Walkman, so maybe it's not adequate for good reception. Though I think I might have received a very faint signal from WQRC on Revere Beach. I also noticed that here in Natick, they usually come in at night during the summer, not so much during the day.

 

[raccoonradio]

Summertime tropo ducting or whatever it's called? Stations from Cape, Maine/NH Seacoast,
RI, or CT coming in and fairly well?

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

@Ssetta, same here when I used to work in Southborough, Ma (Near Framingham) when I used to work there (around 1997) on my way home at night, I used to listen to 96.3 The Rose and WCOD. I picked that up from Southborough (Mass Pike) all the way to Wakefield, Ma (Route 128). It came in some parts of Lynnfield, Ma.
Most Providence FM stations came in good from Southborough, Ma area all the way to Burlington, Ma area

 

[inorm99]

WCIB seems to be bordering on a AAA format especially on Sundays when " The Cheap Seats" is broadcast.I enjoy it, and if they become even more eclectic, I'll enjoy them more. If a station goes mainstream,and the "Oh Wow" songs are removed from the playlist, I turn the station off. Anybody with me on that?

I wonder if one of these days WOCN will phase out all of its older and "oh wow" type songs, and become more of a mainstream AC. I remember WQRC used to be the same way, and I think WCIB has done very similar.

I actually go to Revere Beach quite a bit, and I noticed the same thing. I was there today and I don't think I got any Cape Cod stations, but I usually use a Sony Sports Walkman, so maybe it's not adequate for good reception. Though I think I might have received a very faint signal from WQRC on Revere Beach. I also noticed that here in Natick, they usually come in at night during the summer, not so much during the day.
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