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Party 101.5 no longer on the air?

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W268AN, PartyFM's 101.5 translator in Nassau is now relaying 106.7 Lite FM. Could someone have pressed the wrong button on the tuner, or is it a placeholder for 101.5 translating a new station? Either way, Nassau County just lost a dance station.
 
Guess its going back to being Party 105. Either listenership decreased in Nassau or it may have something to do with the Wild 102.7 saga :-\
 
From Barry on the Long Island Board....

"I checked into this online. W268AN, the translator that has been simulcasting WPTY and now WLTW on 101.5, is owned by Apple Community Broadcasting, in Coram.
W296BT, the flea powered translator that recently went on air in Union City NJ on 106.5, is owned by Apple 107.1, at the same address as the entity listed above. They are reportedly simulcasting WLTW HD2. They have applied for a change to 106.3 out of 1 Times Square in New York, with a relatively beefy 100 watts.
I do not have any further information. But perhaps (just a guess) Apple is trying to put together some sort of an extended service area for country WLTW HD2, or some other local station with a relatively weak signal. Broadcasting HD2 stations on translators receivable by ordinary radios has become popular in a number of other cities, and is apparently totally legal.

W268AN:http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php...cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=A9BGM3QRPYT4C"
 
Tony Santiago said:
From Barry on the Long Island Board....

"I checked into this online. W268AN, the translator that has been simulcasting WPTY and now WLTW on 101.5, is owned by Apple Community Broadcasting, in Coram.
W296BT, the flea powered translator that recently went on air in Union City NJ on 106.5, is owned by Apple 107.1, at the same address as the entity listed above. They are reportedly simulcasting WLTW HD2. They have applied for a change to 106.3 out of 1 Times Square in New York, with a relatively beefy 100 watts.
I do not have any further information. But perhaps (just a guess) Apple is trying to put together some sort of an extended service area for country WLTW HD2, or some other local station with a relatively weak signal. Broadcasting HD2 stations on translators receivable by ordinary radios has become popular in a number of other cities, and is apparently totally legal.

W268AN:http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php...cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=A9BGM3QRPYT4C"
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So it was a decision based on the owners of W268AN. Wow. :-[
 
Well that makes sense if Apple wants to lease the translators to Clear Channel since they can translate an HD2 on them. So I guess they were translating Party 105 at no cost for 4 years till they could get the 106.5 translator on the air. Might as well put something on 101.5 if they got the license for that translator first. But it's absolutely useless to translate WLTW-HD1 which has a great signal and doesn't need the translator.
Wonder if JVC can purchase the 105.7 translator that is within the protected contour of WPTY to at least serve eastern Nassau county. That signal is a beast. 105.7 technically translates WSUF from eastern Long Island, but it's the exact same programming as WSHU which has a good signal across central Long Island. Plus, they can still call it "Party 105"
 
It was a simple business deal. The owners of the transtor wants an huge increase for Party to rent the signal (they weren't getting it for free) and Party didn't feel the astronomical increase was worth paying. Don't read more into this than it is....other than the signal owners then stuck a country station on one of the signals as a competitor to JVC's recently launched country station. That is all.

jp
 
I thought a translator owner cannot accept money to translate a commercial station. They're translating Lite FM on 101.5, not the HD2. Why would Clear Channel pay to have Lite FM translated on 101.5 in Nassau?
 
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