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Miami Move-In Filed @ FCC for 104.3
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Thus ends an almost 40-year reign of Country music on 107.9, correct? Now THAT's staying power!
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Details on the 104.3 move in:
The community of license will move from West Palm Beach to Miramar and will drop from a Class C to a Class C1 with 100 kW at 283 meters from a tower off of Hallandale Beach Blvd. currently serving as an auxiliary antenna for the 5 Clear Channel FM stations in the market.
104.3 is currently airing a Smooth AC format as WMSF-FM - likely temporary until sold off by Palm Beach Broadcasting.
See new thread on Smooth FM 104.3: http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=213287.0
The community of license will move from West Palm Beach to Miramar and will drop from a Class C to a Class C1 with 100 kW at 283 meters from a tower off of Hallandale Beach Blvd. currently serving as an auxiliary antenna for the 5 Clear Channel FM stations in the market.
104.3 is currently airing a Smooth AC format as WMSF-FM - likely temporary until sold off by Palm Beach Broadcasting.
See new thread on Smooth FM 104.3: http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=213287.0
Who could potentially buy the 104.3 signal?
Tom Taylor speculates: http://www.radio-info.com/newslette...ightbox=true?iframe=true&width=850&height=600
Scroll down to: "Is the new Miami FM being shopped for $25 million?"
Tom Taylor speculates: http://www.radio-info.com/newslette...ightbox=true?iframe=true&width=850&height=600
Scroll down to: "Is the new Miami FM being shopped for $25 million?"
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Well 104.3 obviously picked a format that won't last. Now if the HD2 & 3 will please shut off....
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pjc1961 said:
What's the point of moving the station south if you can't take advantage of the Antenna Farm?? Why NOT on the Farm at 441 and 207th?
I had some fun with Recnet.com. Here's what 104.3's coverage as a C1 from the Hallandale Beach Blvd. stick might look:
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/goo_curves.php?data=25.993|80.174|100|283|60|1|260|0|1
RadioGuy2004 said:
There are a number of big towers in the area around the 441 and Miramar Parkway. While the master antenna ("Gannett Tower") may not have any ports left, any of the structures between the candelabra (once called the Crider tower) and the master antenna could provide the height and coverage needed for the move.
The question comes down to whether any of them have space available and the necessary wind loading to support another antenna. It appears that the Hallendale tower used by CC is a good match with the C1 status... but that is not the only alternative.
FLjack2 said:
yes i do wonder why miramar that does so happen to be the location of the CC miami cluster building, and also why the CC auxialiary tower jn hallandale for this new station... hmmm...
FLjack2 said:
They were just looking for a city with no radio service that fit nicely into the technical and licensing requirements of a station move.
Nocturnalstate said:
Maybe because the combination of available tower space, cost and height all worked out.
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DavidEduardo said:
How soon we forget.....before it was WPOW Power 96, it was WCJX licensed to Miramar! (Cannot recall if it was on 96.3 or 96.5)
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cd637299 said:
wcjx was on 96.3 and so was power 96 when they first signed on, but a few months after wpow/power 96 signed on they had to move up a notch to 96.5 to accomodate the new 95.7 in homestead spanish language wxdj in 1986. a few years ago wxdj 95.7 moved their signal from homestead to one biscayne tower in the heart of miami
wcjx was on 96.3 and so was power 96 when they first signed on, but a few months after wpow/power 96 signed on they had to move up a notch to 96.5 to accomodate the new 95.7 in homestead spanish language wxdj in 1986. a few years ago wxdj 95.7 moved their signal from homestead to one biscayne tower in the heart of miami
Close Nocturnalstate, but no cigar. In reality, we signed WCJX on at 96.3 in June 1985. It was in the first quarter of 1986, I believe late January that we changed the frequency to 96.5. 96X did not become Power 96 until August 1986. By that time we had already been settled in at 96.5 for months.
Close Nocturnalstate, but no cigar. In reality, we signed WCJX on at 96.3 in June 1985. It was in the first quarter of 1986, I believe late January that we changed the frequency to 96.5. 96X did not become Power 96 until August 1986. By that time we had already been settled in at 96.5 for months.
Stuart Elliott said:
lol i swear i didnt inhale... lol i got my information from reading wpow/ power 96's wikipedia history page. somebody deffidently needs to revise that information then :/ i was 6 years old in 85 so its not like i was listening to the radio at the time
The initial reason for the WCJX / WPOW move from 96.3 "C" to 96.5 "C" was to accommodate the WLEQ Bonita Springs upgrade from 95.9 "A" to 96.1 "C" which had been in the works long before the original WMJX 96.3 "C" went off the air. This is what cleared the way to move 95.7 "C1" Homestead closer into Miami proper with a COL change to North Miami but required a class reduction to a class C2 due to a potential short-spacing with the former WOVV 95.5 Fort Pierce. Another affected station was the 96.7 "A" licensed to Jupiter which moved to 99.5 "A" since 96.7 would have short-spaced 96.5 "C" Miami.
jmtillery said:
... and thus opening the door to Docket 80-90 and thousands of new stations and upgrades and move-ins.
ai4i said:
Mark is basically correct. There have, however, been a handful of stations that haven't consented to channel changes but have been required to change anyway. In those cases, the FCC can force them to change, but the FCC can't force them to downgrade and requires they be reimbursed for the cost of their move.
I used to work for KPLA 101.5 in Columbia, MO, and it forced KTXR 101.5 to move to 101.3 in the early 90's so it could raise its power and move from 101.7 to 101.5. Meyer didn't want to move KTXR to 101.3 and fought it, but he didn't have a leg to stand on because Premier agreed to pay his costs for moving while the FCC agreed that providing Columbia with a stronger station was a top priority as it was a city with roughly 75,000 people and all FM's were class A's. So, Meyer had to move KTXR to 101.3 from his existing transmitter site, and one of the owners of KPLA was an engineer, which meant retuning the KTXR transmitter was cheap and easy!
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