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Replacing WIFE in Connersville

Actually the new 100.3 In Indiana isnt going to Connersville. Its a Frequency Move of Korn Country 102.9 in Edinburgh aka Columbus Indiana just moving down the dial to Compensate the Upgrade of WRKA by Moving WXCH currently in Versailles at 103.1 to Hope indiana at 102.9 also serving Columbus. So looks like 1580 will still be Connersville Station.
 
Seems kind of dumb that a brand new station is moving where Korn Country is now and Korn has to leap from 102.9 to 100.3 on a stick further from Columbus. When is this move supposed to take place?
 
If 100.3 goes to the KORN Country site in Brown County, It will displace WIUX-LP in Bloomington.
WIUX belongs to IU. This would be a shame. Also, Indiana Community Radio filed for the frequency
to provide a first NCE service for Shelbyville and to end problems with Ch 6 reception problems. ICR is first in line. It's all in FCC Docket 06-77.
 
The move mentioned here is actually a very complex series of moves involving 6 or 7 stations.
According to the application, Korn Country 102.9 would be moved to 100.3, and remain on the current KORN stick just west of Columbus next to I-65. The city of license would remain Edinburgh, in reality a Columbus station. Then WXCH in Versailles would be moved from 103.1 to 102.9, and would be moved and reallocated to Hope IN (also serving Columbus) and would be using the current Qmix stick in Newbern, according to the application.
It also involves stations in northern Kentucky. The application was actually filed by Cox-Louisville, who will benefit the most by getting a new B1 signal in the Louisville metro.
What I don't understand: If this is approved, Columbus will get another new FM, in addition to WKKG, WWWY, WINN, WRZQ and WYGB, not to mention the non-coms, WHUM and WYGS plus WCSI AM and a WFIU repeater thrown in for good measure. How big is Columbus, 35,000? Meanwhile, Connersville will have a lonely 250 watt daytimer serving a city of 15,000. Something is wrong here.
The biggest question in this deal: Marty Pieratt and Keith Reising are hooking up in this deal? Either Reising buys WXCH or Pieratt runs a stand-alone class A leasing tower space from Reising. I thought they were mortal enemies after the KLove fiasco???
 
Kobayashi_Maru said:
The move mentioned here is actually a very complex series of moves involving 6 or 7 stations... What I don't understand: If this is approved, Columbus will get another new FM, in addition to WKKG, WWWY, WINN, WRZQ and WYGB... Meanwhile, Connersville will have a lonely 250 watt daytimer serving a city of 15,000. Something is wrong here.
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Actually, the "lonely" status of Connersville's "250 watt daytimer" is related to this proposal only in regards to 100.3 becoming a workable "sub" for E-burg's 102.9 because of the $18mil "hijacking" and downgrading of WIFE-FM earlier this year by Radio One. From the git-go, R-1 (by proxy) intended to relocate use of the 100.3 frequency to the "underserved non-urbanized city of Norwood, Ohio" LOL!!!:eek: Ironically, the Cox-Louisville proposal serves to meet ALL of the Commission's historic priorities regarding "equal service left behind" using the very frequency (100.3 at Connersville) that WAS NOT afforded an appropriate substitution in the WIFE-FM relocation and subsequent "round-robin".

Yes... Something IS very wrong here. Dismiss the desperate motive of a corperate broadcaster suffering from "Small Man's Cluster Syndrome" in big-time Cincy, and an otherwise amicable small-market operator who cannot be chided for enjoying a very nice payday - and you're left with what appears to be complete regulatory dereliction. So WHY is the FCC even with us - simply to search out "costume malfunctions" and levy fines while embattled corperate broadcasters foolishly seek parity with the iPod at the expense of smaller communities with FM assets.

I have a brave theory... Fast-forward further into the world of "free radio - where less is more" [even your "naive listeners" are laughing at that one]! Commercial radio ISN'T really FREE, and most know it! Imagine a time when even a 50-year-old can make an MP3 for the iPod - when HD-radio joins 80s AM-stereo - and when $13 per-month for XM is forgotten former cigarette money... The most practical address for good ole-fashioned terrestrial radio may be places that the folks at R&R haven't assigned a "P status" to - places like Connersville!
 
hipporadio said:
Actually, the "lonely" status of Connersville's "250 watt daytimer" is related to this proposal only in regards to 100.3 becoming a workable "sub" for E-burg's 102.9 because of the $18mil "hijacking" and downgrading of WIFE-FM earlier this year by Radio One. From the git-go, R-1 (by proxy) intended to relocate use of the 100.3 frequency to the "underserved non-urbanized city of Norwood, Ohio" LOL!!! :eek:
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With the great passion you show about this change, I trust that I am correct in assuming that you forwarded some form objection to the FCC during the consideration process. I'd be more than interested to read what you filed in this case. Please, would you be willing to share that with us? Thanks Hipporadio.
 
> Ironically, the Cox-Louisville proposal serves to meet ALL
> of the Commission's historic priorities regarding "equal service left behind"

Doesn't Versailles' loss of WXCH qualify as a 'loss of equal service"?
 
As a 21-year former employee of WCNB-FM and WIFE-FM in Connersville, I am confident in saying this

A) There will be NO FM station returning to Connersville

B) There is one person enjoying the transaction and that is David A Rodgers and his wallet

C) The REAL losers are the people in Connersville who was able to listen to the radio station for well over 50 years

D) Unless you live within two miles of the tower--you will NOT be able to listen to the Spartan games on the radio any longer due to the post-sunset wattage of 4.6 watts

E) It is very sad to see what many of us built over the 50 years be dismantled and destroyed in a matter of a few months

THANKS DAVE RODGERS!
 
Would it had been better if the station had stayed in Connersville and been bought by someone who switched the format to one that did not carry Spartans basketball? That certainly would have been a possibility. There are lots and lots of people who didn't and don't have a radio station licensed to the city or town that they live in. Was I really that underserved where I grew up, where the nearest station may have been 10 miles away but was on a short stick and fairly low power? Is it that much different than a Connersville resident listening to a 50,000 watt station from less than 20 miles away? And again, where was the outcry?

Would we really want to go to laws that prohibit format changes (the downside being why would anyone take a chance knowing they'd be stuck with a format if it failed)? David Rodgers could have LMAed WIFE to K-Love and kept it in Connersville and there's not a thing anyone could have done about it.
 
You are right---there is nothing anyone can do about it....

It is sad that DAVID RODGERS stole something from the people in Connersville....no matter what the format is. It took five years to dismantle.....and destroy what we built...

WQLK (Kicks 96) is the station of choice now in Connersville----the hell with David Rodgers, Whitewater Broadcasting AND his 18 million dollars
 
The WIFE move is taking it much further than WSMJ's conversion to WZPL. In that case the people of
Greenfield could still get emergency messages from their licensed signal on 99.5 In this case the signal is actually being moved 55 miles and downgraded from a class B to a class A. The people
in Connersville, nearby towns, and counties will no longer be able to hear it. And we are not talking about just one station leaving. Also, 103.1 in Versalles.
I see people on here who don't understand. Let em listen to Richmond. Let em listen to Cincinnati.
Sounds like let em eat cake.
Well, the FCC didn't give Rural towns like Connersville 50 kw for nothing. That station didn't serve
Connersville only.
Perhaps next spring, a tornado will come through southern Fayette or northern Franklin County.
Why would Cincinnati or Richmond radio cover it? They wouldn't be in the path. Their EAS wouldn't
go off. Will it take death for the FCC to realize this is a mistake.
And yes, there is a big battle going on in broadcasting and the FCC right now.
This war is between those who love radio and those who love money.
Now you guys can just sit back and watch the show. More than 60,000 Americans
have recently commented against this type of thing. And your damn right, I will be fighting too.
Not just making noise on this board. We couldn't stop 100.3 and we might not stop 103.1.
But we'll sure try to stop the next one. And in the end we will win.
 
To reiterate what I said last time this was posted, Richmond is only 18 air miles away from Connersville; there's no reason their EAS wouldn't go off. Add to that Dayton and Cincinnati TV, which includes fayette County in their severe weather coverage. I fail to see where the people in Connersville are going to be faced with only a blank radio dial. Again, where was the outcry?
 
Again! You're not getting it! This was a regional station. Southern Fayette and Franklin Counties
are not suburbs of Richmond 30 or 40 miles away. So again we have,"Let em listen to Richmond.
Let em watch tv. Let em eat cake." Again this was a regional station. A radio frequency is a public
resource and this one belonged to the people of Connersville, Indiana!
 
Are you really going to tell me that every last citizen of Connersville listened exclusively to WIFE? What if a station "belongs to the people" and the people don't care, again evidenced by no packed city council meetings in Connersville, no pages upon pages of letters to the editor, and probably little to no buzz on the street. Do you believe that once a station is licensed, it must stay in that community until the end of time? If so, then lobby your congresspeople to pass laws that say that a city of license may never, ever be changed. Unfortunately, that isn't the case now.
 
Mr Gr8Oldies....

You miss the point--OUR point entirely. You are looking at a broad picture....

I worked at WIFE-FM and WCNB-FM for 21 years.....I LIVE IN CONNERSVILLE. My CB radio puts out more wattage that the nighttime power of WIFE-AM (4.6 watts).

Rodgers STOLE the radio station from Connersville and pocketed the money.

he has said their would be another FM station in Connersville.....We have checked there are no frequencies available uncless he pulls off a major chess match like he did here.

Let's face it....Dave Rodgers is a businessman....he is NOT a radio man....he makes money by doing what he did to the people of Connersville.....STOLE THE STATION

NOW you bring up the EAS......sure we were in the Wilmington, Ohio area for the weather service. About every 5 years or so we were switched back and forth from Indianapolis to Wilmington......the NWS could care less about our weather in Connersville.

As for the TV stations...sure Fayette and Union Counties show up on their maps...but when severe weather breaks out here--it is already over with in Indianapolis so they have dropped it and it hasn't effected Cincinnati yet, so it usually has already passed us and Brookville before they even bring it up.

Do you live in Connersville Gr8oldies----I didn't think so....so if you don't know first-hand about the situation with the radio station---I would suggest you back out of it

GOD BLESS WCNB-FM and WIFE-FM! May they rest in peace

Rodgers will get his when he meets his maker
 
Here in the Anderson/Muncie Area in the early to mid 90's every FM Station carried High school Football and Basketball now were lucky to get High school football games on both 1240 and 1340 in anderson and muncie respectively and HS Basketball on 1240, 96.7, 98.7, 104.9 and 1340

when we had 3 city schools here in anderson we always were lucky to have 2 am's one would pick at least one school while the other was with one of the other 2's. Now with 1 am and 2 City Schools one school is SOL. Darn Shame 1470/97.9 got sold out to Moody Broadcasting. Also usually 98.7 when they follow the city school its the same one 1240 is following.
 
I worked part time at the former WCNB and WIFE fm for twelve years. I was hired by then general manager John Trine, that was the Best gm anyone could have worked for. The WIFE family started being killed off five years ago starting with the firing of Mr.Trine, then PD Randy Klemme, Sales mgr. Ginger Dearth, another gm Wally Leavitt, PD Mike Reece, News Dir. Kristin Deiwert and several others including myself who had enough of the lies and deceptions of the present General Manager and Program Director and quit before we had to face the bullcrap of being fired. WCNB and WIFE FM will always be remembered. I wish Mr. Liggins and Radio One, the very best and i'm happy to see that 100.3 has a new home with a great Company.
 
This isn't just happening in Connersville and Versailles. It happened last year when Susquehanna bought Seymour's 93.7 then crippled the signal so Indy's 93.9 could move the stick closer to Indy and get a power increase. To add insult to injury: If it hasn't already happened they will be moving 93.7 it to Louisville. This will leave Seymour with the AM daytimer on 1390 and the non-com K-Love.
It's happening all over the US. "License for sale... will relocate".
 
Folks, this isn't new. It's been going on a long time. Remember WOWO? "Underserved" New York City just had to have more power on their 1190 for a Carribbean music station or some crap. What is WLIB today? A liberal talk station.

In the mean time, WOWO's night signal sucks. And don't even get me stated on their programming.

A poster wrote "Will it take death for the FCC to realize this is a mistake".? The FCC is more concerned about a titty on TV than if a rural community is being served. The precieved morals of that group of elitist in Washington will come back to bite then in the ass.
 
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