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No Mount Union to Pine Grove Move???

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shilton

I have been told that Forever was denied its move of 99.5 to Pine Grove Mills. Does this mean that the transfer of Lite to Nick Galli's company will not happen as planned, or is that a done-deal regardless.

Also, anyone know or want to speculate what the frequency will now be used for since its apparent that Forever does not seem to want to run a repeater for Hot100 in Mount Union and I can't say I blame them on that....can hardly imagine that a fortune can be made on advertising in the Mt. Union Area.

Its just interesting to me, as I have gotten used to seeing Forever just plow over everyone and do whatever they want. Could it be the FCC's recent suggested probes into media considation have come into play here?

Hitman
 
> I have been told that Forever was denied its move of 99.5 to
> Pine Grove Mills.

Yup, see <a href=http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1051283>here</a>.

I'm guessing the FCC didn't like the short-spacing with South Williamsport's 99.3. Forever will probably reapply with a smaller signal or one further south.

> Its just interesting to me, as I have gotten used to seeing
> Forever just plow over everyone and do whatever they want.
> Could it be the FCC's recent suggested probes into media
> considation have come into play here?

I doubt it. I'm pretty sure this was an engineering decision.
 
The only thing denied was the attempt to make 99.5 at Centre Hall a Class B1 25kW station. The FCC refused to move the reference coordinates of the city of license for the station down near Williamsport.

They can reapply to make it a Class A 6Kw. They have to maintain a 70dbu countour across Centre Hall, so there aren't too many areas where they can move and still get a good signal across State College. My guess is they will stay on the same site they applied for the class B1 (Tussey Mtn along with WBUS and WJHT) and re-apply as a class A.

The allotment for 99.5 has been added to Centre Hall so one way or another there will be a station on 99.5 serving Centre Hall (and State College) and the 99.5 allotment in Mount Union will be deleted.


> > I have been told that Forever was denied its move of 99.5
> to
> > Pine Grove Mills.
>
> Yup, see here.
>
> I'm guessing the FCC didn't like the short-spacing with
> South Williamsport's 99.3. Forever will probably reapply
> with a smaller signal or one further south.
>
> > Its just interesting to me, as I have gotten used to
> seeing
> > Forever just plow over everyone and do whatever they want.
>
> > Could it be the FCC's recent suggested probes into media
> > considation have come into play here?
>
> I doubt it. I'm pretty sure this was an engineering
> decision.
> <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by CPAlistener on 08/24/05 10:54 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> The only thing denied was the attempt to make 99.5 at Centre
> Hall a Class B1 25kW station. The FCC refused to move the
> reference coordinates of the city of license for the station
> down near Williamsport.
>
> They can reapply to make it a Class A 6Kw. They have to
> maintain a 70dbu countour across Centre Hall, so there
> aren't too many areas where they can move and still get a
> good signal across State College. My guess is they will
> stay on the same site they applied for the class B1 (Tussey
> Mtn along with WBUS and WJHT) and re-apply as a class A.
>
> The allotment for 99.5 has been added to Centre Hall so one
> way or another there will be a station on 99.5 serving
> Centre Hall (and State College) and the 99.5 allotment in
> Mount Union will be deleted.
>
Word from inside Forever is that the sale of WLTS to Nick Galli is off, and things will not be changing any time soon.
 
Thank God!

Whew! That was a close one. For a minute there I thought Forever was going to have to try to make the cluster work in State College with only 10 radio stations (the 6 they own, Galli's 3, and Frog). It's that 11th station that will make all the difference!

> They can reapply to make it a Class A 6Kw. They have to
> maintain a 70dbu countour across Centre Hall, so there
> aren't too many areas where they can move and still get a
> good signal across State College. My guess is they will
> stay on the same site they applied for the class B1 (Tussey
> Mtn along with WBUS and WJHT) and re-apply as a class A.
>
> The allotment for 99.5 has been added to Centre Hall so one
> way or another there will be a station on 99.5 serving
> Centre Hall (and State College) and the 99.5 allotment in
> Mount Union will be deleted.
>
>
 
> >
> Word from inside Forever is that the sale of WLTS to Nick
> Galli is off, and things will not be changing any time soon.
>
I suspected that especially after Lite's book! Honestly I looked for them to move Lite to the more powerful frequency and for 94.5 to become some kind of castaway like 107.9 has done already. WOWY had a decent book too so Forever will have to buy that back from Galli and toss him another AM instead :)

I crack me up!!!
 
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