Oops! Seems like something happened to the tuner at the 104.7 FM translator in Franklin Twp. (W284BW) that normally picks up WWFM, and instead it switched to Magic 98.3... maybe because that's the strongest signal on the dial there, since the W284BW and WMGQ towers are almost literally across the street from each other.
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New Brunswick 104.7 translator now simulcasting Magic 98.3
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I wish the owners of the 104.7 translator would Put Rider University on it.
The Schools Station is a whopping 20 watts ERP, and could use a good boost
I can hear it Now.. your Listening to The Bronc on 107.7 and 104.7..
It sure would be nice..as the Bronc has some great programming. A true local station.
Ralph..
The Schools Station is a whopping 20 watts ERP, and could use a good boost
I can hear it Now.. your Listening to The Bronc on 107.7 and 104.7..
It sure would be nice..as the Bronc has some great programming. A true local station.
Ralph..
WWFM acknowledged on their Facebook feed last night that they are no longer heard on 104.7 ...
They explain that it was a temporary arrangement with translator owner, Rahul Walia, and they thanked him for "graciously broadcasting The Classical Network on this frequency over the past year."
They explain that it was a temporary arrangement with translator owner, Rahul Walia, and they thanked him for "graciously broadcasting The Classical Network on this frequency over the past year."
I think Indian music from WPRB-HD2 will end up on 104.7. The area has a huge Indian population and lots of Rutgers students are Indian. Plus, the owner of the translator also leases WPRB-HD2. That has to be a reason why he leased that HD2. WPRB-HD2 is gone north of New Brunswick due to KTU taking out a sideband.
Magic 98.3 isn't in HD, so it won't get an HD2 translated on 104.7.
Magic 98.3 isn't in HD, so it won't get an HD2 translated on 104.7.
I'm gonna put this dance station on that transmitter from my mobile FM transmitter ;D
No shocker there that the Indian programming wound up on it. It was so dumb with two 104.7's stepping all over each other.
There's no way that Rider would wind up on the translator. No dice on picking up that 107.7 signal off air that far away.
How soon before Rahul gives it an ERP raise? Because that never happened on the old 89.3...
There's no way that Rider would wind up on the translator. No dice on picking up that 107.7 signal off air that far away.
How soon before Rahul gives it an ERP raise? Because that never happened on the old 89.3...
so what happens now with WPDI 104.7? Pirates still killing their signal... For a while during the past 3 weeks, I was hearing Radio Asia on 103.9 loud and clear from Middletown/Atlantic Highlands all the way down the turnpike toward Jamesburg. Once I got off 8A and onto 130 South lost it completely.
So WPDI and the New Brunswick translator are airing the same programming now? It might as well be a booster. I'm guessing WWFM had a contract for one year with the translator, and it was on the air before WPRB downgraded to HD. I knew back when WPRB-HD2 played Indian music, it had to end up on a translator. 100.7 in Edison will be next, since I doubt Rahul would let 2 co-owned translators compete with each other. 100.7 is a lousy frequency sandwiched between WLEV and WHUD, 104.7 is much better.
From my sampling today in Aberdeen/Matawan, the programming is not identical on both. One was airing a break and the other was in the middle of a music sweep. I flipped back and forth and waited. They are indeed two different audio sources: Radio Asia on 104.7 in Norther Monmouth and Old Bridge/South Amboy in Middlesex and Radio Zindegee was the branding used on what appeared to be the Franklin stick. As far as I could tell factoring in the HD delay from 103.3's HD2 it is not what is on the Franklin translator... 2 different audio sources. If I remember the translator ID'd WQHT's HD2 and the 100.7 translator but not 104.7 that I heard. So from my flipping around this seems more like a competition brewing than one specific operation. Hopefully WPDI can relocate to a cleaner frequency or continue to be clobbered as they have since they signed on the air last year. Translators have killed the entire band and for what? To make room for another station that isn't even offering local programming but piping it in from elsewhere? The FCC is useless as I can still hear a very strong Jamaican pirate on 104.7 too making that signal a jumbled mess of interference altogether. Get your act together fcc and start enforcing rules or why bother to have them?
Just as an aside... The audio on WPDI sounded way better and punchier than the translator who sounds like its broadcasting a 64kbps audio source I'm guessing the the HD from Hot 97. It did though seem louder and more processed than when the classical format was being aired. It'll be interesting to see if the area can sustain 3 Asian-programmed stations.
Just as an aside... The audio on WPDI sounded way better and punchier than the translator who sounds like its broadcasting a 64kbps audio source I'm guessing the the HD from Hot 97. It did though seem louder and more processed than when the classical format was being aired. It'll be interesting to see if the area can sustain 3 Asian-programmed stations.
You're railing against translators here, but remember that Rahul is the idiot that both applied for the 104.7 translator AND WPDI on 104.7.
WPDI has already relocated to 104.7 from being displaced at 89.3. WPDI is a class D station, meaning it is limited to 10 watts (some area few more watts, grandfathered in)and can be displaced by any full power class of station. He was lucky to get 104.7 at all, as his first application was denied due to not asking clear channel for an interference waiver for 104.3/105.1.
The interference is is own fault. He could shut the translator down if he wants to, but we all know that won't happen.
I could say a lot more, but will not in a public forum.
WPDI has already relocated to 104.7 from being displaced at 89.3. WPDI is a class D station, meaning it is limited to 10 watts (some area few more watts, grandfathered in)and can be displaced by any full power class of station. He was lucky to get 104.7 at all, as his first application was denied due to not asking clear channel for an interference waiver for 104.3/105.1.
The interference is is own fault. He could shut the translator down if he wants to, but we all know that won't happen.
I could say a lot more, but will not in a public forum.
Or Rahul could just simulcast the same programming on the translator and WPDI, and perhaps synchronize the transmitters so that the New Brunswick translator acts as a booster to WPDI. Why would he want to compete with himself 3 ways? I'd think that ONE strong brand of Indian music on 3 frequencies (5 including WPRB-HD2 and WQHT-HD2) would be better than 3 disparate brands of Indian music. WPRB-HD2 and WQHT-HD2 would provide an HD signal of the Indian music for most of NJ. In the area where both those HDs are unreliable, the New Brunswick translator would fill in the gap. Or maybe even have the 104.7s play current Indian music and 100.7 play Indian oldies. Or why even have all the stations play Indian music, this isn't India after all.
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