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May Ratings

106.9 no longer shows up with the K-Love Christian Contemporary format or...do they not subscribe to these services?

What about the WDRC-AM cluster and the Spanish AM stations?
 
KML-224 said:
106.9 no longer shows up with the K-Love Christian Contemporary format or...do they not subscribe to these services?
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Do the K-Love stations anywhere subscribe? They really don't need to, since they're noncommercial and don't really care about sheer numbers of listeners or their demographics. All ages, races and ethnicities are welcome, so long as their donation checks don't bounce.
 
Tom Gary said:
WPRX no longer has a valid FCC Station License and has been deleted from the FCC records. See:
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/p...etimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=76670
(Above credit to The BDR)

Tom Osenkowsky
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Thanks for the info Tom. They're still broadcasting by the way. They also haven't been at that address for a couple years. They moved to Hartford Square in New Britain. Do you know Bob Radil? (He's a Facebook friend of mine). He has done engineering work for the station for many years. What does he think about this?
 
WPRX is still broadcasting without a valid FCC license? Doesn't that make them a pirate? Even after 1440WBIS/Bristol went dark & WPRX changed the freq. to 1120 & still used the xmtr on Sherbrooke St in Bristol, it doesn't seem like any owner (even if they changed the freq. & format) could sell advertising for the station - whether it was in Bristol or New Britain. There's no mkt for it. That's the way of some AM radio today. I wonder what former WBIS CE Lee Steele & PD Don Moline would have thought of this. I worked with both of them. Can you believe Bristol, the home of ESPN, & the city's largest taxpayer, with all of their ABC/Disney money, doesn't have an AM station, or, at least, a LPFM, while other, smaller cities in the state have had successful AM stations that have been on the air for decades? Thank goodness for Steve Savino, a guy that worked for years for Don (even with the help of city leaders, which didn't work) to create an Internet Radio station in Bristol: BristolBeat.com
 
Don Moline must be rolling over in his grave over the state of WPRX. Is Lee Steele still alive? I know of him. When I was involved at WNTY 15 years ago he was their CE. Then ADD Radio replaced him with Ron Barnes (now deceased) from WSAH TV 43 (now WZME) in Seymour. (Licensed to Bridgeport). WPRX must be hiding from something the jumped studio locations so many times since they took over WBIS back in '93.

When Nieves first took over 1120 AM, their studios were located at 610-620 Main Street in New Britain. That's the building that last I knew has falling down and had no windows near the rehab place at the Top of Main Street near the entrance to "Little Poland".

Then they were at 10 Main Street New Britain. Supposedly they got kicked out of there because the landlord decided he wanted a restaurant in that spot. 10 Main Street is near where the then new courthouse is locate.

Then they were at 81 West Main Street Suite G in New Britain.

Then Sergent Street in Hartford.

That was followed by 2 different location in a former Factory Building at 321 Ellis Street in New Britain.

That was followed by 1253 Berlin Turnpike in Berlin, which is the address in that FCC letter Tom posted above.

Now they're at Hartford Square in New Britain.

By my count (including both stints at 321 Ellis Street) 8 locations in the nearly 24 years it's been since Nieves took over the station.
 
It's the Yard Goats...the only thing animal-related I could give about that team is a rat's...

I can't imagine anybody listening to Hartford Cabras De Jardín baseball on 1120 when likely nobody is listening to them on WPOP-AM 1410.
 
MarcB said:
Someone needs to notify The Hartford Yard Goats baseball team that WPRX no longer has a license. WPRX is the Spanish language home of the team. Maybe they could put the games on "Exitos 105.3" WNEZ 105.3/1230 (Manchester/Hartford).
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Wasn't there a season when New Britain Rock Cats games were the only English programming on otherwise all-Spanish WPRX? I remember seeing seeing the WPRX banner ("La Puertorriquessima" or something like that, memory is foggy) hanging in front of the broadcast booth.
 
CTListener said:
Wasn't there a season when New Britain Rock Cats games were the only English programming on otherwise all-Spanish WPRX? I remember seeing seeing the WPRX banner ("La Puertorriquessima" or something like that, memory is foggy) hanging in front of the broadcast booth.
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This is true. I forgot what year that was though. I remember a couple season they were on 910 and 1150. Then when 910 was sold at the end of 96 and went Spanish and eventually Urban Contemporatry they were on 1150 only. (I don't think 1420 had begun simulcasting 1150 at that point). I think in 98 WNTY 990 became the flagship, switching from the New Haven Ravens network. WNTY was sold and went Spanish by mid 99. Several years they were on The Talk of Connecticut. Except for the 10:30AM weekday games those few games were on WMMW 1470AM only. Then the last few years they were in New Britain and when they became the Yard Goats in 2016 the games were on WPOP 1410.
 
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