Station reception in Edison question

[davideduardo]

If you listened to the station, you'd never know any of that was going on. They're still calling it "Oldies 107.9" and giving the hourly ID for WOLD-LP. There's a few mentions of the simulcasts on 95.1 and 103.3-HD3, but no announcement that the 107.9 signal is going away. And as far as I can tell, WOLD-LP has not filed any silent notification or application for a silent STA.

Is this just ignorance, or is someone playing fast and loose with FCC rules.

 

[mets18]

The 95.1 and 107.9 translators do get their audio from WPRB-HD3. When WOLD-LP's studio got flooded out last year and was shut down for a few weeks, they reverted to translating WPRB's main program audio.

Just to follow up I am currently in an area where I can get all 3 signals and while 103.3 HD3 and 107.9 are in sync, 95.1 is about a minute ahead.

 

[nd2023]

Just to follow up I am currently in an area where I can get all 3 signals and while 103.3 HD3 and 107.9 are in sync, 95.1 is about a minute ahead.

WOLD-LP is silent, drive near its tower and notice the lack of a signal on 107.9. The transmitter for the original WOLD was retuned to 95.1 and is now the W236CT transmitter.

 

[mets18]

WOLD-LP is silent, drive near its tower and notice the lack of a signal on 107.9. The transmitter for the original WOLD was retuned to 95.1 and is now the W236CT transmitter.

This may be true but on Monday I was listening to 107.9 in the Costco parking lot in Edison. I can't say where the signal was coming from.