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Pine Level

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I just read an article from the Montgomery Advertiser about the new Pine Level FM station that Al Stroh is putting on the air. The station will serve the Montgomery and Troy areas. The article is available on the Montgomery Advertiser website. http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com.
 
I must be getting really old or my bifocals are 'cause I couldn't find it. Thanks for the link but could you please be more specific as to where? Please, please. Thanks.

Stew
 
Read the article. Thought it was very interesting.

I predict that Talk and/or Contemporary Christian (WAY FM?) will be the format.

If he goes Spanish, that will suprise me.

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R.D.P. said:
Read the article. Thought it was very interesting.

I predict that Talk and/or Contemporary Christian (WAY FM?) will be the format.

If he goes Spanish, that will suprise me.

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I don't believe Contemporary Christian will show up on that new frequency. WAY-FM already has those two translators there in Montgomery. I had a chance to listen to one of the translators they have in Montgomery (91.9) when my family and I drove through there last week going to Gulf Shores. I was really amazed how good the signal was. Driving on I-65, I was able to receive a fairly good signal just south of Prattville until I was several miles south of Mongomery. Although a contemporary christian format would be nice on the commercial dial in Montgomery, I just don't see it happening, considering the translators are already there, and the new Pine Level Signal wouldn't be able to reach Montgomery with a city-grade signal. Any format that's not already duplicated on Montgomery FM (such as talk) would fare better.

I do hope that WAY-FM gets their translators on in the Birmingham area. I know they have at least a couple of CP's around the Birmingham area (one licensed to Birmingham, the other to Alabaster). Although metro Birmingham is geographically larger than Montgomery and those new translators wouldn't cover the entire Birmingham area, it would be nice to be able to listen to something other than "We Do Jabber Constantly" (WDJC). :D


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Stewy said:
I must be getting really old or my bifocals are 'cause I couldn't find it. Thanks for the link but could you please be more specific as to where? Please, please. Thanks.

Stew
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Sorry about not linking directly to the article. Thanks to the person who supplied the direct link.
 
I thought it was We Do Just Commercials :D
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Yeah, it is. I just thought I'd add my own interpretation there. :)
They talk way too much, be it commercials or just general chit-chat.


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WDJC

I had great hope for WDJC when I drove through Alabama (or at least from the TN state line to I-65 Exit 4) in 2004, because they sounded much better than when I was a student at Alabama (Class of '02). Earlier this year, though, I dare say they sound worse than ever. The music selection is a bit better (for example, it's the only C-AC I've heard play Britt Nicole's "You"), but the imaging, positioning (the "God and Country" slogan just isn't working), and overall programming (I heard only two unique advertisers in the span of one hour) have all taken steps backward.

The longest I ever heard between songs on WDJC was 21 minutes, in the spring of 2002-most of that was a sales pitch from Ronnie Bruce. There were a number of days I observed 17-18 minute stopsets as well.

If you want a Christian AC in Southeast Alabama, lease the station out to EMF for K-Love.
 
Zach said:
Unless WAY-FM pays him some good money, I think he'll try a commercial format instead. ;)

The 60 dBu contour doesn't come very close to Montgomery - looks like it will be a rimshot, at best.
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If RECnet's maps are to be believed, FM 97.5 will be a Troy station much more than a Montgomery one.

His 'Huntsville' station (New Hope) @ 103.5 looks to be a better bet to attract listeners.
 
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Won't the New Hope station be displacing a translator up there? I seem to recall a Tullahoma, TN station had a translator station in the area that used to block out 103.7 the Q from B'ham.
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It probably would spell the end of W278AA.

IMO, there's a bit of an irony involved with that 103.5 translator: it rebroadcasts urban AC WHRP 93.3 (the Tullahoma C1 now slated to become a Huntsville C2 move-in). Back when it battled 103.1 WEUP as a mainstream urban, WHRP probably covered its intended audience via 103.5 better than all of WEUP's related translators combined.
 
I think you may be on target with the Oldies format.
I would love to see a CCM station here in Montgomery with a better signal than the WAY FM translators, and it could still happen but no one has tried that format out in Montgomery before commercially.
Stroh has always wanted an FM talk, but I hope he observes the FM talks in other markets...just because you are on FM does not indicate an increase in revenue or ratings versus the stations on AM, and Montgomery already has 3 AM talk stations.
I think the spanish language part he threw in was a joke...that would be very tough to make money off of.
 
Don't know how much he paid -- but he said that the tower was on top of the hill. Which means, he could get into not only Troy, but points north (Montgomery) with the Pine Level station. I wonder if the studios will be in Pine Level? "Live, from Sikes and Kohn's Country Mall, it's the Al Stroh Show!"
 
MBird said:
Don't know how much he paid -- but he said that the tower was on top of the hill. Which means, he could get into not only Troy, but points north (Montgomery) with the Pine Level station. I wonder if the studios will be in Pine Level? "Live, from Sikes and Kohn's Country Mall, it's the Al Stroh Show!"
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There is also a construction permit for translator W248AY in Northwest Montgomery, which is also on 97.5. The licensee is Way-FM Media Group. http://www.wayfm.com.
 
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