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Rock in Montgomery

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mrlayne

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Do you think Cumulus would be wise to shake up the fox after such a horrible beating handed to them by the Gump?

Based upon what is happening in Atlanta right now, do you think Cumulus should touch their Montgomery cluster?

I think The Fox should be re-branded to an active rock station to help their numbers.
 
Or again, if Clear Channel wanted to take a risk (and does anyone else consider Power 96.1 in Atlanta a RISK?) - they could change the format of 106.1 to an active rock format and again cover three metro areas.

The Tiger is there for the taking in Auburn. And Rock 103 has seen better days as well in Columbus.

Just another idea.
 
StrayKats said:
Or again, if Clear Channel wanted to take a risk (and does anyone else consider Power 96.1 in Atlanta a RISK?) - they could change the format of 106.1 to an active rock format and again cover three metro areas.

The Tiger is there for the taking in Auburn. And Rock 103 has seen better days as well in Columbus.

Just another idea.
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106.1 is not as strong a signal as you think it is.
 
I had the same though about Rooster 106.1.. but so much of the coverage area is small towns....with many people that don't even know they can listen to satellite or cell phone radio. Maybe move gospel to 106.1 and put some flavor of rock on 104.3? Classic rock, Oldies, News or Sports on 106.1?
Even downgrading the signal and moving it toward one larger market could happen...

Nothing Clear Channel does surprises me now.
 
WXFX would be better off making a decision to go straight classic rock and drop the new stuff (which most of their "new" music is 6 months old anyways.
 
When I lived in the area in the late 90s they used to ID something to the likes of Alex City, Columbus, Auburn, and Montgomery.

It was South 106 during that time.
 
Michael said:
When I lived in the area in the late 90s they used to ID something to the likes of Alex City, Columbus, Auburn, and Montgomery.

It was South 106 during that time.
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They also used to have a fill in translator in Columbus (along with Atlanta's Peach 94.9). Both of those translators appear to be gone.
 
Actually, Second Choice, moving a translator has become very difficult. You can only move about 10 miles at a time, and you must wait 45 days between moves. No chance a translator in Alabama ever will show up in Cincinatti. Not only that, but there are far fewer opportunities to find a frequency, especially with LPFM looming.
 
secondchoice said:
How did WLJA move W289BF from Dalton Ga to Ellijay GA about 26 air miles?
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Not to answer a question with a question, but: How long ago did that move occur? The FCC was more lenient until the "let's rebroadcast an AM or HD subchannel on a translator" craze took off last year.

Alabama has, IMHO, been at the forefront of this exploitation, with Birmingham and Montgomery being big beneficiaries. Mobile and Pensacola have been late to the party and as such only two AMs have translators here: WHEP in Foley and WBHY in Mobile. None of the HD subchannel plans or AM plans in Pensacola ever came to fruition because the Feds put the kibosh on things mid-move for about four area translators. They're all now stuck in no man's land.
 
If you relocate a translators transmission location within it's "contour", then it's considered a "minor modification" of the license. Daisy chain enough of those mods in one direction and you can move 100 miles. Used to be you could do up to 2 moves a week. FCC put a squash on that. It would take about a year now (maybe more) to move 100 miles.
 
Zach said:
secondchoice said:
How did WLJA move W289BF from Dalton Ga to Ellijay GA about 26 air miles?
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Not to answer a question with a question, but: How long ago did that move occur? The FCC was more lenient until the "let's rebroadcast an AM or HD subchannel on a translator" craze took off last year.
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They have put WPGY on WLJA's HD2.

here is the FCC fillings

http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=139736

BTW this use to be a WAY translator in 2010.
 
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