New radio station in louisville at 92.7 not a pirate station

[hotpatrick2004]

The fcc granted the license to both fern creek high school and the brick house of.They will share it. But the brick house has not come on the air yet so far it seems like a mix of all the radio stations we already have.I was thinking it would be more like 88.1 wnas which i think is a great station but they just went on the air so we will see.

Anyone else haerd it and what do you think of it?

 

[romer979fm]

Anyone else haerd it and what do you think of it?

I had to travel to Louisville from Nashville Tuesday night ("open house night for WFHS")...and remembered
to punch up 92.7 at the Fern Valley exit...kept the station all the way to Bowman Field.
kinda choppy and noisy...but NOT a bad signal...and thankfully, they're actually letting the students
have hands-on experience.

 

[William_Yeager]

The students need to turn up their microphones! I can barely hear most of them.

I think they've ripped some songs off other stations' streams-I've heard a backsell for Fall Out Boy's "Sugar We're Goin Down" that referenced "Chicago's Q101". Their copy of The Fray's "Over My Head" sounds really bad as well.

Another quibble is the nearly 2-minute scripts they have the students read over songs. Maybe it's just me coming from an Internet radio background, but that seems to be asking for trouble.

The signal, though, is quite impressive for such a low wattage. Heading north on Hurstbourne, it pretty much runs unimpeded south of I-64, and then quickly starts to fade near UPS, thanks in part to a co-channel station in Indiana. I can actually get a signal from WFHS in Shelbyville most days (some days it's actually listenable in the car).

Someone did get the bright idea for a sneak ID: "92.7 WFHS, Fern Creek radio".

 

[BobOnTheJob]

The fcc granted the license to both fern creek high school and the brick house of.They will share it. But the brick house has not come on the air yet so far it seems like a mix of all the radio stations we already have.I was thinking it would be more like 88.1 wnas which i think is a great station but they just went on the air so we will see.

Anyone else haerd it and what do you think of it?

As the engineer for WXKU 92.7, I was used to listening to WXKU as far south as Okolona. I was looking forward to hearing how much difference WXKU's recent upgrade to 6KW equivelancy made in Louisville. Guess I'll never know, even though stopping at just the right spot in Okolona, WXKU still comes in. The only consolation is that the station may be a good training ground for future air talent...something the industry sorely needs. While I would prefer that they were on another channel, I wish them well...I concur...their signal is amazing for the few watts they have. Traces of the signal go several miles into Indiana on I-65.