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The spirit expansion set to begin 2/14

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RickRose

Spirit FM has announced plans for many of the signals they purchased for CSN Virginia a while back. The group is running Christmas music as Nick FM on all the signals they picked up for over a month. 90.1 serving Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro is going Spirt FM on 2.14 at 7:30am. Translators on 106.7 (Charlottesville)96.5 (Harrisonburg) and 107.7 (Crewe) will also pick up the Spririt FM format. They are reporting that translators on 102.7 (Petersburg), 97.9 (Farmville), 106.1 (Waverly)and 100.1 (Williamsburg) will soon go Spirit FM.

CSN Virginia's former base station 90.5 WJYJ is still up in the air program wise but I still think it will be related to WPER Culpeper.
 
> Spirit FM has announced plans for many of the signals they
> purchased for CSN Virginia a while back. The group is
> running Christmas music as Nick FM on all the signals they
> picked up for over a month. 90.1 serving Charlottesville,
> Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro is going Spirt FM on
> 2.14 at 7:30am. Translators on 106.7 (Charlottesville)96.5
> (Harrisonburg) and 107.7 (Crewe) will also pick up the
> Spririt FM format. They are reporting that translators on
> 102.7 (Petersburg), 97.9 (Farmville), 106.1 (Waverly)and
> 100.1 (Williamsburg) will soon go Spirit FM.

How exactly are they getting a signal in Farm Vegas on 97.9? Has a translator app been filed, and isn't WZZU too close for that channel?

Maybe they mean 98.7, based out in Cumberland...

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Earily in the moring I saw the same news on the spriritfm website and was about to post but saw Rick Rose beat me to it by a few minutes. I was glad it was less for me to type.

And I too saw the miss type on their website with 97.9 and figured they must have meant 98.7. Why are there so many frequency mistakes on radio station websites. My guess is the person doing the typing is not the the engineer familiar with the network. But just from typing this I know how easy it is to misstype. I also see they say Harrisonburg at 96.5. But there is no 96.5 in the fcc database there. The closest is 96.5 in WAYNESBORO which I doubt does them any good with the full power 90.1 their already. Interestingly back in Oct or Nov I saw WPER post on their website they were expanding to 96.5 there and in a couple of weeks pulled it off.

I wonder how they will feed 100.1 in Williamsburg. I had thought the only off air signal it could get was WJYJ. Maybe they will try getting WJCN but is seems a stretch.

Listening to both stations online a little yesterday morning I like WPER better because they are more upbeat then the Spirit FM network. But I understand they want to go with the softer music for smaller communities. And then the hotter WPER in Richmond and the western and southern DC suburbs. And I don't think they would want WPER and SpiritFm to compete with each other in the same markets as neither might not get enough support then. Just a guess. So it looks like WJYC and a few of the northen VA translators they own will be with WPER. There so much overlap between the 2. The difference being WJYJ reaches Richmond and WPER reaches just a little further north. I could even inagine something like WPER moving to 90.5 and 89.9 switching to their southern gospel network with so much overlap in coverage. With the northern translators there really is not an area 89.9 reaches that WJYC will not.

Since I am writing I find it crazy they have stunted with xmas music for so long being 1.5 months. That is a long time. I wonder what the hold up was. And it even took a couple of months after the fcc approved the deal before they closed. They have been moving at a turtles pace. I though they would have announced something back in October. I wonder the reason it has taken 4 months and then not mention it during their fall fund raiser. Maybe they were getting their fiancing in order during oct, nov and dec. But what was the purpose of xmas music for so long. I wonder if it took them this long to get the techicahl stuff worked out. Surely they knew what they wanted to do eath each station when they had a desire to buy them.

It is also interesting how Spirit FM used to own 90.1 WPVA and sold it to CSN before it was built and now they have bought it back. I was always surprised they sold it. Hence the PVA calls they have always had since CSN never changed them. Most of their calls from when ther stations first signed on stood for Positive Alternative Radio.

Another thought is I am almost surprised K-Love did not buy these stations EMF buys so many and is also in VA.

And what is the deal with the WPER websire being under construction for 1.5 months. It does not take that long to update a site and I image the same person does all their websites. Maybe they did not think the stunting would last so long at first. Spirit Fm's website did not have to go under construction all this time? I don't see why it had to go under contruction. If they wanted a new look do the new look when whatever happens next happens.

And I saw that WPVA, WJCN and WJYA applied for main studio waviers but WJYJ has not. <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by brian_marchand on 02/11/06 08:32 AM.</FONT></P>
 
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