97.9, 101.9 and 104.7 all with dead carrier tonight. Automation problem??
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Off Air Dead Carrier
- Thread starter Mike Sheridan
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104.7 is back
101.9 is back 97.9 still off
97.9 back
I wonder how many total listeners these stations have at 10 o'clock on a Sunday night. My over/under is 1,000.
100 maybe?
Any idea where They're moving? I guess Charlotte has a lot of office space available. Hopefully in a building with isolation between tenants.
She told me, but I don't remember
For their sake hopefully not the Cameron Brown building. When 96.9 and 102.9 I was there. If I had the monitor above a whisper the llawyers above would bang on the outer windows which run from top to bottom....not fun.
It's off of Tyvola near Yorkmont
They started moving into their new space on Monday. They’re still getting a lot of things set up. They were on South Blvd since around 2000.
Wednesday morning they are either off the air or reduced power. I guess they may need to set up a relay signal from the new studio to the tower in Dallas. I know they transmit from the WJZY TV tower, along with 96.1 which has a normal strong signal.
WPEG is also on that tower
Don't know the particulars of this move but one would think you would have a temporary Internet STL from either you old location to the tower or the new studio to the tower up and running. Then one night / early AM you move you on air "server/ PC". It shouldn't take more than an hour to swap the feed at the tower while someone boots up the station's PC / server at the new studio.
This would be a whole lot easier than back in the Analog days where you had to move and align STL microwave antennas or coordinate with the phone company. There was a station (name withheld to protect the guilty) that used their remote Marti for 6 months while waiting for a tower guy to re aim the STL antennas.
Do you still have to file something with the FCC when you move the studios? With Commission allowing remote (cloud) servers to run stations now, do they have to make a "reservation" to inspect or test EAS units at towers since there isn't a studio? Back in EBS days I was was told by several station owners they could knock on the door 9am to 5pm weekdays at the studio and someone was supposed to let them in.
I was lucky enough to work at stations that weren't of the FCC's "radar". In fact the only FCC employee I ever saw was the guy at the license test.
This would be a whole lot easier than back in the Analog days where you had to move and align STL microwave antennas or coordinate with the phone company. There was a station (name withheld to protect the guilty) that used their remote Marti for 6 months while waiting for a tower guy to re aim the STL antennas.
Do you still have to file something with the FCC when you move the studios? With Commission allowing remote (cloud) servers to run stations now, do they have to make a "reservation" to inspect or test EAS units at towers since there isn't a studio? Back in EBS days I was was told by several station owners they could knock on the door 9am to 5pm weekdays at the studio and someone was supposed to let them in.
I was lucky enough to work at stations that weren't of the FCC's "radar". In fact the only FCC employee I ever saw was the guy at the license test.
I rode by the new studios on my way home from work today and didn’t see a tower or anything nearby that would indicate that radio stations were there, except for a satellite dish on the roof of the building. They have a tower behind their old building with microwave links to the transmitter sites. I’m not an engineer so not sure if they still use that stuff, or if there’s a more modern way.
From what I’ve been told, the new space is a lot smaller, more modern, and the stations share studios. I believe they only have 3 now. The address is 2320 Cascade Pointe Blvd Suite 225 in Charlotte.
From what I’ve been told, the new space is a lot smaller, more modern, and the stations share studios. I believe they only have 3 now. The address is 2320 Cascade Pointe Blvd Suite 225 in Charlotte.
95.1 was back to full power late Wednesday morning. Good strong signal in Spartanburg, and the HD locks on.
Live morning shows on WPEG, WNKS and WSOC, correct?