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New 104.5 frequency in Elizabethtown

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Someone in engineering can answer this for me. I was in Elizabethtown last night and a search showed 94.3 WULF simulcasting on 104.5. The sign out front of their studios make note that the station is now available in both locations. They are still identifying themselves as '94.3 The Wolf'. No mention of the other frquency has been made.

My questions is a two parter here:

1) The 94.3 frequency is very powerful and their tower is in a prime location in Breckinridge County that allows them to reach the Louisville metro as well as Elizabethtown and the Owensboro metro area. They're authorized for 50,000 watts and I expect they're running near that. I have no trouble picking them up in Louisville as well as many metro buildings. Why in the world do they need an additional frequency?

2) Are there other plans for 104.5? Also, WLKT in Lexington is awfully close in proximity to the Etown station. Seems like WLKT would raise a huge fit over this-- and I haven't even bothered to mention WGFX in Nashville to the south. I know there is some talk of moving a bunch of frequencies around, but this is a little odd.
 
Checked with FCC FM Database. It is a 55 watt translator. Call sign W283AK. They can never program directly to it. Must be licensed to fill in a "hole" in their main carrier?
 
This is too far west to be of concern to WLKT. In Louisville, WLKT fights with Jack FM out of Indianapolis. Most days, WLKT isn't listenable west of Shelbyville (30 miles east of downtown Louisville).

Elizabethtown is much too far north to be of any interest to any Nashville station. Even the booming WRVW (licensed to Lebanon, TN).

Radio One and EMF, however, should be very concerned - it's nestled between the two Walrus frequencies, and it's one channel off the surprisingly well-supported Air1 translators in New Albany and Middletown.
 
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