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New Jamestown FM?

It'll be interesting to see how that unfolds.
I used to own a TS-2 antenna once that was powerful enough to pick up that station from the Beaches area of Toronto. (top of hill)
 
Bog question is...what do you do with it?

There's enough radio already, between the Jamestown signals and the big ones leaking south from Buffalo, to serve the market with most of the lucrative format possibilities. So how do you program it to get a profitable silce of the audience and revenue available in Chautaqua County?
 
Most Buffalo stations really don't get into that part of Chautauqua County well. The hills down there play havoc with Buffalo signals, especially since so many have moved off of the hills south of Buffalo and onto the lake plane to focus on the city. Canada's proliferation of low-power signals that make many Buffalo FMs unlistenable in Toronto also changed the landscape here, making it less important to have the antenna height to get to the GTA.

On the other side, I don't know how much money is available to support another station in Jamestown. The economy there makes Buffalo look robust.
 
Jamestown has an AC WWSE 93.3, Country WHUG 101.7, Classic Rock 103.1 The Fox, Hot AC 106.9 Kiss Fm Plus 2 Erie Stations that come in loud and clear Active Rock WRKT 100.9, Top 40 WRTS 103.7 Plus 1 loud and clear Buffalo station Hot AC 102.5 WTSS... Not much left to cover after that..
 
majicrockstar said:
Jamestown has an AC WWSE 93.3, Country WHUG 101.7, Classic Rock 103.1 The Fox, Hot AC 106.9 Kiss Fm Plus 2 Erie Stations that come in loud and clear Active Rock WRKT 100.9, Top 40 WRTS 103.7 Plus 1 loud and clear Buffalo station Hot AC 102.5 WTSS... Not much left to cover after that..
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...And Classical on 89.7 WNJA (WNED-FM)
 
Celoron, NY = http://www.city-data.com/city/Celoron-New-York.html, but as we well know, this channel might just as well be assigned to Jamestown, NY.

Channel 237A = 95.3 (6kW), second adjacent to full power 95.7 WPIG Olean which does Country. The Big Pig does very well in Olean and has some limited presence in Jamestown. The topography in the Southern Tier can be a challenge. Channel 237A might be a fit for Finger Lakes, which owns Country 96.5 WBKX Fredonia because the 96.5 signal doesn't effectively reach Jamestown. A Country simulcast might work, but it's not an automatic going up against 101.7 WHUG Country. The pray for pay folks will no doubt be very interested in this assignment. A very localized, Jazz & ChautautauquaInstitution Arts type format might work, but NPR's presence would make that a tough go and it would be hand to mouth. Quite a puzzle.
 
Upon further review and consideration, 95.3 might be a good fit for Backyard Broadcasting and 95.7 WPIG Olean.
 
Bids are in, and it looks like Cross Country Communications holds the high bid at $691,000 for the new FM in Celoron, NY. Cross Country also owns Hot AC Kiss (WKZA 106.9) in Jamestown, and a translator for Fredonia-based WBKX-FM (96-Kix country), which operates on 100.3 Jamestown.

Rick Rambaldo is getting back into the game in Erie, backed by a local car dealer. Class A 92.7 is going to Rick Rambaldo’s First Channel Communications. The gross bid of $2,068,000 (net bid after their 35% bidding credit) of $1,334,000, beat out Connoisseur. To quote Tom Taylor:

In the early 1990s, Rick Rambaldo put “Rocket 101” WRKT (101.9) on the air, then added a second FM (the former K104, now “Star 104” WRTS) and rolled in a couple of AMs (WJET at 1400 and WFNN at 1330). Later he and Carl Hirsch laid the foundations of NextMedia, which enlarged and then sold its Erie cluster to Connoisseur in 2006.
 
Must be new information, Sir. FCC records previously stated "Celoron NY: $259K, MEDIA ONE GROUP LLC" as the top bidder. Pretty large gap between that bid and Cross Country's bid. Man, that's a lotta bread!
 
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