Western Mass. Townsquare cancels WUPE Pittsfield

[JJSPC]

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[jonsmth62]

Last night, I took a listen to 103.3 FM W277CJ) Pittsfield and clearly heard WUPE programming. I also tuned into WUPE-FM 100.1 North Adams but did not hear or see a signal at all. (Using an RTL-SDR for listening). I live in Peru, MA at an Elev. of about 1780 Ft, so I feel like with the location of the North Adams tower at the top of the Mohawk Trail in Florida, MA and at 158m HAAT, that I should be able to pick up that signal if they were actually transmitting. I did not attempt to tune in WUPE 1110 AM, but will do so today and determine whether they are on the air or not. I'll also check WBEC-FM and see what they're running on their HD-2.

 

[Kemosabe]

I did not attempt to tune in WUPE 1110 AM, but will do so today and determine whether they are on the air or not.

That determination was made by the FCC late last month when it canceled the license of WUPE 1110 AM.

Last night, I took a listen to 103.3 FM W277CJ) Pittsfield and clearly heard WUPE programming.

W277CJ was granted a construction permit in January to increase ERP and move transmission to one of the WBEC AM towers. The CP application included the following:

The station will continue to provide AM Fill‐In service and repeat commonly owned Primary AM station WUPE (AM). The proposed location is to combine with commonly owned WBEC‐FM on ASR 1003485.

From Lance's post of 25 March:

Ahead of the license surrender, Townsquare changed the parent signal of the translator to 95.9 WBEC-HD2 Pittsfield.

 

[jonsmth62]

Kemosabe, thank you for clarifying all of that. I genuinely do appreciate it. I missed Lance's post from March 25th, so I had no idea what was going on. Sad to see, but from an operational perspective, I completely understand Townsquare shutting down the AM.

 

[Time Traveler]

1110-WUPE originally signed on as Progressive Rock/AOR station WGRG in 1971 adding 95.9-WGRG-FM at the very end of 1974 as a simulcast. Both stations were sold in 1977 and became Top 40 WUPE AM/FM at that time.