Somebody has to listen to 102.1 Albion...

[fybush]

...and you can all thank me later for taking on that onerous task and sparing you the trouble

It's been in dead carrier since at least yesterday afternoon. It would appear that the transfer from CSN to Family Worship Center (Jimmy Swaggart's group) is underway.

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[fybush]

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[OldAkronite]

> Now back to "CSN New York", as of about 11:30...

You OK over there, Scott?

You know, you should call 'em up and suggest the fill music and IDs that a certain religious station combo in Indiana has used...

(Complete with lyrics.)

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[fybush]

And we're DEEP into the inside jokes, folks...

> > Now back to "CSN New York", as of about 11:30...
>
> You OK over there, Scott?
>
> You know, you should call 'em up and suggest the fill music
> and IDs that a certain religious station combo in Indiana
> has used...
>
> (Complete with lyrics.)

Should've known OA would think of that at this pivotal moment in WNY radio history... (for the uninitiated - it was late one icy night in Peru, Indiana, I was waiting for the ID to come around on the stations in question, this bouncy 60s-style instrumental came on to fill to the top of the hour, and we all started writing lyrics to the thing. Better, on second thought, to remain uninitiated.)

In any event, the CSN went to dead air about 11:58 and the "SONLife Radio Network" feed came on, with IDs for about 20 stations, none of them WJCA. And I'll give them credit for being on the ball - by the next hourly ID at 1, they had WJCA in there, too. Audio sounds pretty rough - much worse than it did when CSN was running the place. (Yeah, I was rolling on the whole thing. Any semblance of a "life" I might once have had is pretty well shot by now.)

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[dampier]

> It's been in dead carrier since at least yesterday
> afternoon. It would appear that the transfer from CSN to
> Family Worship Center (Jimmy Swaggart's group) is underway.

Oooh... twice nothing is still nothing. I didn't listen to it when it was CSN and I am not jumpin for it when Swaggart takes over.

"Silence 102.1... where silence is golden."

 

[Radknowski]

> Oooh... twice nothing is still nothing. I didn't listen to
> it when it was CSN and I am not jumpin for it when Swaggart
> takes over.
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[radio_man_jake]

Re: And we're DEEP into the inside jokes, folks...

One more comment about WJCA. While up that way one weekend, I happened to come across this station late on Saturday night. And they were playing what appeared to be religious "death metal" music, or some kind of "heavy" music. I'm pretty sure it was Albion, and not CFNY, as no other Toronto stations were audible that night in my location. I'm not sure if that was a CSN program, or some sort of "local" paid broadcast, but it was still somewhat of a novelty nonetheless. I'm sure that's gone now that Jimmy Swindler and his crew are running things...
> > > Now back to "CSN New York", as of about 11:30...
> >
> > You OK over there, Scott?
> >
> > You know, you should call 'em up and suggest the fill
> music
> > and IDs that a certain religious station combo in Indiana
> > has used...
> >
> > (Complete with lyrics.)
>
> Should've known OA would think of that at this pivotal
> moment in WNY radio history... (for the uninitiated - it was
> late one icy night in Peru, Indiana, I was waiting for the
> ID to come around on the stations in question, this bouncy
> 60s-style instrumental came on to fill to the top of the
> hour, and we all started writing lyrics to the thing.
> Better, on second thought, to remain uninitiated.)
>
> In any event, the CSN went to dead air about 11:58 and the
> "SONLife Radio Network" feed came on, with IDs for about 20
> stations, none of them WJCA. And I'll give them credit for
> being on the ball - by the next hourly ID at 1, they had
> WJCA in there, too. Audio sounds pretty rough - much worse
> than it did when CSN was running the place. (Yeah, I was
> rolling on the whole thing. Any semblance of a "life" I
> might once have had is pretty well shot by now.)
>
> We can all now return to ignoring 102.1 for the next few
> years. Thanks for your attention...
>

 

[Mark_Giardina]

Re: Why Does Somebody Have To Listen To 102.1 Albion?

You are listening to WDOA in Albion. God does.


This is 102.1: Pass the plate. It's 12 O'Clock


All Jimmy, All The Time!


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[Bob1370]

Re: And we're DEEP into the inside jokes, folks...

When stations like this started clogging the FM band in the 1980s, it was all under the theory that local communities should get their own voices.

Deregulation made a joke of Docket 80-90.

Look at the stations owing their existence to it in this market...102.1 is a Swaggart relay with no local presence or programming. 94.1 in Brighton is a CBS active rocker with a morning show imported from Chicago. 106.7, a nominal Irondequoit station, has a studio and transmitter in Rochester and clearly is a Rochester station except at ID time at the top of the hour (it's Clear Channel's local Z100 clone, same music mix and formatics and just missing Elvis Duran in the morning). 107.3 is a Clear Channel rimshot alternative station trying to catch the 'burbs from a Rochester studio and a transmitter up in the Bristol Hills which sends out programming that has nothing to do with Ontario County. And "Fickle" 93.3 is a station which was originally supposed to serve Livingston County, but wound up under Entercom's ownership, nominally in Fairport, programmed out of a studio in downtown Rochester and sending its signal off a Rochester station's Penfield tower airing a Jack clone format. None of them has programming which has anything to do with their supposed community of license and none of them even has a studio presence there...all of them are owned either by major out of town groups (CBS from NYC, Entercom from Philly, Clear Channel from San Antonio) or long distance preachers.

So much for service to the community of license.

 

[Mark_Giardina]

Re: And we're DEEP into the inside jokes, folks...

>
> Deregulation made a joke of Docket 80-90.
>
> Look at the stations owing their existence to it in this
> market...102.1 is a Swaggart relay with no local presence or
> programming. 94.1 in Brighton is a CBS active rocker with a
> morning show imported from Chicago. 106.7, a nominal
> Irondequoit station, has a studio and transmitter in
> Rochester and clearly is a Rochester station except at ID
> time at the top of the hour (it's Clear Channel's local Z100
> clone, same music mix and formatics and just missing Elvis
> Duran in the morning). 107.3 is a Clear Channel rimshot
> alternative station trying to catch the 'burbs from a
> Rochester studio and a transmitter up in the Bristol Hills
> which sends out programming that has nothing to do with
> Ontario County. And "Fickle" 93.3 is a station which was
> originally supposed to serve Livingston County, but wound up
> under Entercom's ownership, nominally in Fairport,
> programmed out of a studio in downtown Rochester and sending
> its signal off a Rochester station's Penfield tower airing a
> Jack clone format. None of them has programming which has
> anything to do with their supposed community of license and
> none of them even has a studio presence there...all of them
> are owned either by major out of town groups (CBS from NYC,
> Entercom from Philly, Clear Channel from San Antonio) or
> long distance preachers.
>
> So much for service to the community of license.
>

You mean there still exists service to the community of license? You could have fooled me. As for that damn tower on Five Mile Line Road, I can see its flickering lights from my bedroom. I should call the FCC and inform them that half of the tower lights don't work. That would really upset the apple cart wouldn't you agree?


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[Bob1370]

Re: And we're DEEP into the inside jokes, folks...

> You mean there still exists service to the community of
> license? You could have fooled me.

Geez, that's what I thought I was doing...guess that'll tell me.

> As for that damn tower on
> Five Mile Line Road, I can see its flickering lights from my
> bedroom. I should call the FCC and inform them that half of
> the tower lights don't work. That would really upset the
> apple cart wouldn't you agree?
>
The real show happens when they get the notice of apparent liability and then someone has to clamber up the towers to change the damn bulbs in the beacon lights...

 

[Obtuse]

Re: And we're DEEP into the inside jokes, folks...

My beef with 102.1 Albion is the fact I can no longer receive CFNY east of Batavia. The signal used to reach nearly to Rochester (Thankfully, as it gave me something to listen to in Brockport pre-Nerve....)

 

[NYRadioGM]

Re: And we're DEEP into the inside jokes, folks...

You don't really want to listen to that sinful modern rock anyway, do you? Listen to Jimmy, he knows what ails your sin-sick soul. And the format really is "All Swaggart, All The Time"; it's either him, his wife, his son, or the musicians at his church. Have fun!

> My beef with 102.1 Albion is the fact I can no longer
> receive CFNY east of Batavia. The signal used to reach
> nearly to Rochester (Thankfully, as it gave me something to
> listen to in Brockport pre-Nerve....)

 

[Unregistered]

When stations like this started clogging the FM band in the 1980s, it was all under the theory that local communities should get their own voices.

Deregulation made a joke of Docket 80-90.

Look at the stations owing their existence to it in this market...102.1 is a Swaggart relay with no local presence or programming. 94.1 in Brighton is a CBS active rocker with a morning show imported from Chicago. 106.7, a nominal Irondequoit station, has a studio and transmitter in Rochester and clearly is a Rochester station except at ID time at the top of the hour (it's Clear Channel's local Z100 clone, same music mix and formatics and just missing Elvis Duran in the morning). 107.3 is a Clear Channel rimshot alternative station trying to catch the 'burbs from a Rochester studio and a transmitter up in the Bristol Hills which sends out programming that has nothing to do with Ontario County. And "Fickle" 93.3 is a station which was originally supposed to serve Livingston County, but wound up under Entercom's ownership, nominally in Fairport, programmed out of a studio in downtown Rochester and sending its signal off a Rochester station's Penfield tower airing a Jack clone format. None of them has programming which has anything to do with their supposed community of license and none of them even has a studio presence there...all of them are owned either by major out of town groups (CBS from NYC, Entercom from Philly, Clear Channel from San Antonio) or long distance preachers.

So much for service to the community of license.

why does it seem rochester has so many weak stations?? here are my guesses
1.proximity to canada across lake ontario (where the reach of FCC's minimum distance between co and adjacent channel frequencies doesn't apply
2.poor trasmitter location....107.3 in south bristol and 103.5 (which is just as close to syracuse as it is to the rochester market it supposedly serve)
3.poor frequency location: kiss 107 falls into this category with adjoining channel interference from buffalo's wyrk west of brockport, and syracuse's 106.9 east of waterloo/seneca falls...
also willing to bet fickle 93.3's (which doesn't even cover all of monroe county) can be heard in less of wny than syracuse CHR 93q (whose signal reaches west to hit cayuga, wayne, ontario, yates, and seneca counties)