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LPFM Stations in Connecticut
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Sounds interesting. Too bad my travels never take me anywhere close to Collinsville. Hope the little station does well. I should be able to get WQSA-LP Cromwell from I-91 or Route 9 if it ever signs on, but I see it would be a Godcaster, so it wouldn't have any content that would keep me listening.
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Went to Avon. SPV is on the air, but signal doesn't come anywhere near as far west as map indicates. I'd call the format a mixture of smooth jazz and Godcasting, as you call it, neither of which interests me. (It is owned by a church). But the Collinsville station just saved me some money. I just bought a car with Sirius and was considering subscribing to get the 60's, 70's and Beatles channels. No need to now. WWMM plays lots of Beatles 
Are you 100% sure that was WOGS-LP you picked up on 101.7 and not W269DE the FM translator for WLAT 910? They're a Hispanic station.
LOL I'm not sure of anything! Just reporting what I heard. You may very well be correct.
Went to Avon. SPV is on the air, but signal doesn't come anywhere near as far west as map indicates. I'd call the format a mixture of smooth jazz and Godcasting, as you call it, neither of which interests me. (It is owned by a church). But the Collinsville station just saved me some money. I just bought a car with Sirius and was considering subscribing to get the 60's, 70's and Beatles channels. No need to now. WWMM plays lots of Beatles
I heard WSPV 106.3 when I was in Avon Saturday at the bike trail, near their transmitter at Valley Baptist Church. The music sounded like Contemporary Gospel in the morning and Contemporary Christian in the afternoon. The station doesn't cover all of Farmington that well in the car, probably because of hills. I was able to hear a 70s song with a faint signal on WWMM 107.5, but will be in Collinville this Sunday and will check it out. WWMM is owned by the Huckelberry Hill Music Society, with transmitter in the center of Collinsville. Does anyone know what kind of organization Huckelberry is?
In response to what is Huckleberry Hill Music Society and WWMM, from their application filed with the FCC, here's the details:
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101585758&qnum=5010©num=1&exhcnum=1
Don't count on that schedule to be accurate. It is very typical of non-radio groups. They have no idea what it takes to fill a 2 hour news and information block and certainly teaching people to play an instrument via radio is not going to happen on a daily basis for two reasons: they don't understand what it takes to pull this off and because nobody will listen nor support this as it is simply a great way to send whatever listeners you have off off to other stations in drives. Expect a computer in a closet more often than not, but let's hope they don't get discouraged and do some good radio.
I have to pick on some people in radio too. I was asking a LPFM operator with years under his belt as a DJ how he was going to do regular daily hourly local newscasts. His answer was honest: I don't know. Maybe I can get a volunteer news director. Don't know too many people willing to volunteer so many hours to gather news and get it on the air. In this LPFM operator's mind, people would just beat down his door to do a daily 3 or 4 hour shift on his station for free, following his format to boot. He has only about 1,600 people in his 60 dbu. I doubt he'll get a knock at the station door...okay, maybe one. For about a year now he has been all music, no underwriting or anything else but a liner or ID every few songs. He's feeling discouraged.
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101585758&qnum=5010©num=1&exhcnum=1
Don't count on that schedule to be accurate. It is very typical of non-radio groups. They have no idea what it takes to fill a 2 hour news and information block and certainly teaching people to play an instrument via radio is not going to happen on a daily basis for two reasons: they don't understand what it takes to pull this off and because nobody will listen nor support this as it is simply a great way to send whatever listeners you have off off to other stations in drives. Expect a computer in a closet more often than not, but let's hope they don't get discouraged and do some good radio.
I have to pick on some people in radio too. I was asking a LPFM operator with years under his belt as a DJ how he was going to do regular daily hourly local newscasts. His answer was honest: I don't know. Maybe I can get a volunteer news director. Don't know too many people willing to volunteer so many hours to gather news and get it on the air. In this LPFM operator's mind, people would just beat down his door to do a daily 3 or 4 hour shift on his station for free, following his format to boot. He has only about 1,600 people in his 60 dbu. I doubt he'll get a knock at the station door...okay, maybe one. For about a year now he has been all music, no underwriting or anything else but a liner or ID every few songs. He's feeling discouraged.
I heard WWMM 107.5 in Collinsville last weekend, and they are playing 70s, leaning on the soft side. The audio sounds very good, and I was able to pick up WWMM well driving around, considering the station has only 100 watts. Unfortunately there is a lot of dead air between songs. They should get cheap or free DJ software to tighten the segs.
At two of the newspapers I've been involved with (in the '70s and '80s), local AM stations used to read stories from our papers practically verbatim to fill out their newscasts, often without crediting the source. I don't think any paper nowadays runs enough Collinsville news in a month to fill a single day's radio newscast.
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