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The Shoals' 102.7 Kiss FM being heard in Huntsville now?

tomservo

tomservo

A friend passed along something to me that has created a bit of mystery. He noted that WWFA's normal legal top of the hour ID used to say something like "WWFA St. Florian - Florence - Decatur" but lately it's now saying "WWFA and WWFA-FM St. Florian - Florence - Decatur - Huntsville".

I didn't find any AM stations in the Huntsville area that have changed calls to WWFA, but it makes me think they're about to get an AM/translator combo to expand to Huntsville. Can anyone in the area check and see if they are on a station there now?

Personally, my speculation is that WWTM Decatur, which has applied to relocate to Madison and re-license to Mooresville, is going to be that station, since they also just applied for a translator on 94.3 MHz. If that's the case, they a) jumped the gun on the legal ID and b) didn't do it right to begin with! :rolleyes:
 
I'm sure iheart media would have something to say about that since their station in Huntsville is also called "Kiss FM." Since 106.5 upgraded their signal I thought Kiss in the Shoals stopped mentioning Decatur in their ID since it is a part of the Huntsville market but maybe they didn't. I'll check out the dial today & let you know if I find anything.

The WWTM move hasn't been approved yet and the translator on 94.3 will cover Decatur. It will not have a signal in Huntsville
 
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I scrolled all through the AM and FM dial both. No sign of WWFA anywhere on any frequency in Huntsville. Could they be saying "Huntsville even though they aren't in Huntsville in an attempt to try to steal credit for some of the ratings grabbed by 106.5 in Huntsville since they go by the same name? If a listener writes down only the words "Kiss FM" in their ratings diary who gets the credit, know what I mean?" Just a thought.
 
It would be lame, but I've seen stations do worse things before lol. This is baffling to me. Knowing there is a separate "Kiss FM" in Huntsville already, why else would they do this? Here's another thing that occurred to me. If "WWFA and WWFA-FM St. Florean" were referring to an AM and FM in the legal ID, that would mean that both the AM and FM were licensed to St. Florean. The city of license has to be listed first after the calls. If a WWFA am existed in Huntsville, (which according to the doc database it doesn't) the legal ID would have to read "WWFA Huntsville (or other city of license in the area) and WWFA-FM St Florean" wouldn't it?
 
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RollTide said:
It would be lame, but I've seen stations do worse things before lol. This is baffling to me. Knowing there is a separate "Kiss FM" in Huntsville already, why else would they do this? Here's another thing that occurred to me. If "WWFA and WWFA-FM St. Florean" were referring to an AM and FM in the legal ID, that would mean that both the AM and FM were licensed to St. Florean. The city of license has to be listed first after the calls. If a WWFA am existed in Huntsville, (which according to the doc database it doesn't) the legal ID would have to read "WWFA Huntsville (or other city of license in the area) and WWFA-FM St Florean" wouldn't it?
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That's correct, but it's not unusual for stations to botch the legal ID. I'm not really up on real-time call sign changes, I usually just peruse the monthly press release thing the FCC does… but I've been looking around and there is certainly no WWFA AM that I'm aware of, and certainly nothing else licensed to little old Saint Floor-een. :cool:
 
That's true. I hear stations screw up the legal ID all the time. As a matter of fact, WLOR in Huntsville hasn't been legally IDing their station since it flipped to "The Beat" as classic Hip hop and R&B. Their legal ID never mentions the city of license. As a matter of fact, it doesn't mention a city at all! It reads "WLOR 1550am and W251AC 98.1 The Beat." No city name. When the station was still "Sunny," the legal was fine. I'm surprised that no one up there has ever noticed after all these months that they forgot to say the city name.
 
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Thought I'd give an update on this topic. I was within listening range of WWFA today and caught the legal ID. They have taken out the "WWFA-FM" part. It just says "WWFA" now however, they are still saying "Huntsville" at the end of it. Still don't get that one. They put absolutely no listenable signal into the Huntsville metro area.
 
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