New Montgomery Station?!

[billmorgan]

I hear Al Stroh will soon put a new station on the air im the Montgomery area. Does anyone know when it will go on the air and what the format will be?

 

[passtheword]

I hear Al Stroh will soon put a new station on the air im the Montgomery area. Does anyone know when it will go on the air and what the format will be?

It's actually going to be a class A licensed to Pine Level (between Montgomery and Troy). I doubt it will cover Montgomery all that well, definitely not city-grade. Haven't heard about format. Here's the link to the FCC record on it.

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=170945


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[b5]

It's on the air right now as of 1pm. They are rebroadcasting Al's new Huntsville station Hot 103.5. The signal is a little spotty here in south east Montgomery but with the right format it will be as listenable as 104.9 The Tiger ever was back in its days here in Montgomery.

 

[passtheword]

It's on the air right now as of 1pm. They are rebroadcasting Al's new Huntsville station Hot 103.5. The signal is a little spotty here in south east Montgomery but with the right format it will be as listenable as 104.9 The Tiger ever was back in its days here in Montgomery.

Is that a temporary format until another one is put in place?

I just checked the FCC website. There aren't any calls assigned for the new station. ???


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[b5]

I would guess that they are testing. Hot 105.7 locally might have something to say about them rebroadcasting Hot 103.5 out of Huntsville if that were a permanent situation.

 

[R.D.P.]

I sure do hope that this is a test. The Montgomery area already blessed with many Urban stations.

Maybe Mr. Stroh will cater to a format that no one else is catering to.

R.D.P. <><

 

[passtheword]

I checked the FCC website today. The new calls for 97.5 are WVRV, as of last Friday.


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[b5]

The River? Hot AC, or AC? Used to be the call letters for 101.1 The River in St.Louis. Their call letters were recently changed to WMVN but they have kept ownership of the wvrv.com website with a forward to the new one.

975theriver.com was registered on 1/8/2008.

 

[b5]

Side note, it is my understanding that there will be a translator here in Montgomery to fill the signal gaps for this new station.

 

[RollTide]

Sounds like "The River" to me. Do we know which frequency the translator will be on yet?

 

[b5]

You'll know soon as I know...hopefully I will get that information tomorrow.

 

[Hotseat]

Side note, it is my understanding that there will be a translator here in Montgomery to fill the signal gaps for this new station.

104.9 perhaps?

 

[Nate Wesley]

Minus a translator, they'll be more of a Troy station than a Montgomery station (according to the FCC protected contour maps).

 

[RollTide]

Yea minus a translator, the signal in Montgomery will be crappy. What format are they? Surely they aren't still simulcasting Hot 103-5 in Huntsville are they?

 

[bnewton424]

The Pine Level Station is not on the air yet. At Least I have not heard it. It will be jammed between Magic 97.1 and 97.9 in Montgomery, not to mention sharing the frequency with 97.5 out of Alexander City and 97.7 in Auburn. WOW. But with the price of the station going for $40k at auction, I would have no problems broadcasting on that frequency. By the way, this station will get into the Montgomery market very strong. Just wait and see.

This has been the Brighter Side of Darkness. Peace.

 

[ricky]

Are you saying there will be an upgrade? Otherwise, this station will never be a player in Montgomery.

 

[tomservo]

I checked the FCC website today. The new calls for 97.5 are WVRV, as of last Friday.

I wonder how much they paid Bonneville for those calls... Until recently they belonged to "101 The River" in St. Louis, which flipped recently to "Movin' 101".

 

[Nate Wesley]

An Allan G. Stroh is seeking the license to W286BH 101.5 in Greenville from Edgewater Broadcasting (per RECnet).

 

[b5]

I checked the FCC website today. The new calls for 97.5 are WVRV, as of last Friday.

I wonder how much they paid Bonneville for those calls... Until recently they belonged to "101 The River" in St. Louis, which flipped recently to "Movin' 101".

The FCC owned the call letters. The River in St.Louis flipped a few months back...those calls I believe were just floating out there available in the FCC database.