The Game Simulcasting on Daytimer 830, Including George's Lost Hour

[jetfli]

Noticed no one has made note here that a simulcast of 102.5 The Game has flipped out The Light on the AM side of the band. They're broadcasting the complete Game schedule for as long as daytimer 830 is on the air, with one twist: SportsNight's first hour, 3:00 to 4:00, is available again for the Nashville audience. Creative things those Cromwellians do with their stations, The Light is now heard only on FM, at 102.1 and 101.9.

 

[briancraig]

Could someone explain the translator rules?

If 830 is no longer The Light how can they keep it on the two FM translators. I thought translators could not have original programming but could only simulcast an actual station.

 

[JGP]

As I understand it, The Light is translating the signal of WPRT HD-2 on two analog translators. Digital ->Analog translation is permissible, AFAIK. Thus, the absence of the AM signal doesn't impact the legality of those FM feeds.

 

[w9wi]

As I understand it, The Light is translating the signal of WPRT HD-2 on two analog translators. Digital ->Analog translation is permissible, AFAIK. Thus, the absence of the AM signal doesn't impact the legality of those FM feeds.

I'll be darned.

Last I checked there was no HD on WPRT -- but now there is; The Light is indeed back on WPRT-HD2. I note the permit for 94.5 Hendersonville (Way FM) to move to 89.9 also specifies WPRT-HD3 as their primary -- and indeed, Way FM is on WPRT-HD3.

(Yes, this is legal)

 

[romer979fm]

I note the permit for 94.5 Hendersonville (Way FM) to move to 89.9 also specifies WPRT-HD3 as their primary -- and indeed, Way FM is on WPRT-HD3.

this will get interesting...as 89.9 is currently a pirate in East Nashville...running big band from
the Five Points area (I suspect a house across from RosePepper Cantina on Eastland).

 

[w9wi]

I note the permit for 94.5 Hendersonville (Way FM) to move to 89.9 also specifies WPRT-HD3 as their primary -- and indeed, Way FM is on WPRT-HD3.

this will get interesting...as 89.9 is currently a pirate in East Nashville...running big band from
the Five Points area (I suspect a house across from RosePepper Cantina on Eastland).

As noted elsewhere, there's been some work done on that pirate... as I was hearing it on the car radio all the way past White Bridge on I-40 yesterday about this time...

 

[xmusicmatt]

this will get interesting...as 89.9 is currently a pirate in East Nashville...running big band from
the Five Points area (I suspect a house across from RosePepper Cantina on Eastland).

Well hopefully the Big Band pirate has Big Bucks to pay the FCC when they come knocking.

 

[DToTheJ]

WQZQ Goes Full-Blown Sports

Recent home of the "lost" hour of Sports Night is now the third fourth (WNSR?) all-sports station in the Music City.
http://www.insideradio.com/Article.asp?id=2613772&spid=32061

 

[jjschim]

Re: WQZQ Goes Full-Blown Sports

I'm not in the area, but is this the same station that used to be in Clarksville on 1550?

 

[w9wi]

Re: WQZQ Goes Full-Blown Sports

I'm not in the area, but is this the same station that used to be in Clarksville on 1550?

Yes. They got FCC permission to change frequency, change the city of license to Goodlettsville, and move to one of the WPLN-1430 towers near Gallatin Road north of Nashville.

 

[Tibbs4]

Watt - has that WAY FM Hendersoville station at 94.5 even been on the air or is it a CP moving to 89.9? I couldn't find anything on it's status online. Interesting.

 

[w9wi]

I'm 95% sure I've heard it on 94.5.

Here's the timetable from the FCC CDBS:

1/24/94: Applied for new translator on 94.5.
7/7/04: application granted.
8/3/05: filed for license to cover for new station on 94.5.
1/28/09: granted permission to move to 105.1.
1/6/12: above permit modified to specify 89.9.
5/23/12: filed for license to cover for frequency change to 89.9.

 

[almaniac27]

Don't know if anyone cares, but I just picked up WQZQ in Cincinnati about 15 minutes ago, pretty clear too for a few minutes. I was wondering why I was hearing sports on the frequency, now I know.

 

[K4WRF]

Watt - has that WAY FM Hendersoville station at 94.5 even been on the air or is it a CP moving to 89.9? I couldn't find anything on it's status online. Interesting.

I'm so far out of that loop that I might have a better clue as to what would be happening on Mars! GLAD of it too...

All the best,
wwh

 

[w9wi]

OK, so maybe I'm just the last to notice but...

How long has 102.9 been simulcasting the 102.5 morning show?

Don't normally have the radio on before 9am, but I had a 7:45 eye exam this morning -- on the way out, pupils dialated, couldn't see the radio very well & thought maybe 102.1 had gone back to relaying 102.5. Except the next click to the right of the sports guys was KDF & one click to the left was still the gospel music, not the local station out of Dickson or the oldies from Columbia.

They seemed to split at 9:00.

 

[xmusicmatt]

Last I checked there was no HD on WPRT -- but now there is; The Light is indeed back on WPRT-HD2. I note the permit for 94.5 Hendersonville (Way FM) to move to 89.9 also specifies WPRT-HD3 as their primary -- and indeed, Way FM is on WPRT-HD3.

(Yes, this is legal)

Yep - The legal ID on WAYM now also says "WPRT HD-3"

 

[firepoint525]

Noticed no one has made note here that a simulcast of 102.5 The Game has flipped out The Light on the AM side of the band. They're broadcasting the complete Game schedule for as long as daytimer 830 is on the air, with one twist: SportsNight's first hour, 3:00 to 4:00, is available again for the Nashville audience. Creative things those Cromwellians do with their stations, The Light is now heard only on FM, at 102.1 and 101.9.

This is apparently sort of the opposite of what is happening with the Dickson stations. Supposedly there, it is the FM translator which is running the original programming separate from the AM which it is supposedly "translating."