Time for another Southside question post...

[Radio-X]

OK...first off, I have a few questions:

Who owns WFXQ Chase City? It was not sold to Lakes as it's being moved to Raleigh...

Is WFXQ making any money? I have heard few (if any) any local commercials

Is WBBC or WKLV making any money? Am I the only person who can tell that they're always running ads off the bird? (Side note: 93.5 must have NO processing...)

Oh, and didn't WBBC have a longtime AC format until about 5 years ago?

Any big format holes in Southside? Rock (101.3 is not much of a player anymore, sorry) Top 40? Urban AC? AM Talk?

Now for a big question...

With a FCC engineering book and some GPS software, I became arm-chair engineer and calculated a couple of things...

1) WXJK (101.3) could drop it's ability to go C3, and move as far north as Central Albermarle, giving it a city-grade signal in Charlottesville with a class A. Does this sound right?

2) A new class A frequency (very small spot in Western Amelia) on 97.1. Does this sound right?

3) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Fire away!

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[Mark_Ericson]

> Who owns WFXQ Chase City? It was not sold to Lakes as it's
> being moved to Raleigh...

I heard it was Joyner, who is moving the station to Creedmoor, NC.

> Is WFXQ making any money? I have heard few (if any) any
> local commercials

With that standards format, I can't imagine it is.

> Is WBBC or WKLV making any money? Am I the only person who
> can tell that they're always running ads off the bird? (Side
> note: 93.5 must have NO processing...)

I'd imagine WBBC is. I think 93.5 has a loyal local listenership.

> Oh, and didn't WBBC have a longtime AC format until about 5
> years ago?

No idea.

> Any big format holes in Southside? Rock (101.3 is not much
> of a player anymore, sorry) Top 40? Urban AC? AM Talk?

Rock is missing, though ROV covers relatively well, I'm finding a lot of spots where their signal is full of co-channel (!) interference. Urban comes from 97.5 in South Boston/Raleigh/Durham. And 100.1. Top 40 WXLK, WDCG, etc. cover the area pretty well.

AM? Excuse me while I finish laughing. There's almost nothing listenable on the AM band during the day out here. WSVS, WFLO, WODI, and maybe one or two others (WPTF) at times.

> Now for a big question...
>
> With a FCC engineering book and some GPS software, I became
> arm-chair engineer and calculated a couple of things...

Heh, I've done that before. It's a lot of fun.

> 1) WXJK (101.3) could drop it's ability to go C3, and move
> as far north as Central Albermarle, giving it a city-grade
> signal in Charlottesville with a class A. Does this sound
> right?

I wouldn't know, but I think it would be possible. I'm not even sure that they can go C3 now, despite the allocation there.

> 2) A new class A frequency (very small spot in Western
> Amelia) on 97.1. Does this sound right?

Is it far enough from WKLR 96.5? If so, it's a possibility. In addition, I think that a 94.1A could be assigned to Prospect, just west of Farmville, should WTHZ 94.1 complete their move southwest.

> 3) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
> could chuck wood?

As much as Nick Park says it could in a short film. =D (I'm sad about the fire that destroyed all the Wallace and Gromit stuff...)

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[vtjazy]

> Is it far enough from WKLR 96.5? If so, it's a possibility.
> In addition, I think that a 94.1A could be assigned to
> Prospect, just west of Farmville, should WTHZ 94.1 complete
> their move southwest.
>

That deal fell through. NIMBY people. (Which is good for me b/c I like Hitz 94, but bad for them b/c you can hear the station slowly dying on air...)

 

[Mark_Ericson]

99.9 in Creedmoor

> Who owns WFXQ Chase City? It was not sold to Lakes as it's
> being moved to Raleigh...
>
> Is WFXQ making any money? I have heard few (if any) any
> local commercials

100000watts is now reporting that WFXQ has moved to Creedmoor and is running country. In addition, the FCC site shows the owner is Capitol Broadcasting (WRAL-FM/TV/WRAZ-TV).

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