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upcoming dial changes are coming

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RickRose

The FCC just approved a line of reallotments across the mid-south that will upgrade the Nashville radio dial. 106.7 will be upgrading to a class C3 and moving to Millersburg. The allotment of 97.1 will change their city of license to Belle Meade to fill that hole with no facility change. 92.1 will change their city of license to Goodletsville to fill the loss of 97.1 (which changes to Belle Meade). 99.7 will downgrade to a C0 and change their city of license to to Hendersonville replace the 92.1 loss.
 
How long has this proposal been before the FCC? It'll be interesting to hear all the new ID's, etc. Any idea of when this will happen
or how much better the signals will be within Davidson County, etc? Cumulus has spent a ton of work/$$$ on this proposal.
 
RickRose said:
The FCC just approved a line of reallotments across the mid-south that will upgrade the Nashville radio dial. 106.7 will be upgrading to a class C3 and moving to Millersburg. The allotment of 97.1 will change their city of license to Belle Meade to fill that hole with no facility change. 92.1 will change their city of license to Goodletsville to fill the loss of 97.1 (which changes to Belle Meade). 99.7 will downgrade to a C0 and change their city of license to to Hendersonville replace the 92.1 loss.
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(Millersville)

I don't know that any signals will even *change*, except for 106.7's. 99.7's "downgrade" is strictly clerical, they're already operating with C0 facilities. The downgrade does preclude grant of either of two applications to increase tower height about 200'. For the most part, again except for 106.7 I think the changes in the Nashville market will all be paper changes.

Can 106.7 get a city-grade across Millersville from their current site on the channel 4 tower, or are they going to have to move? (presumably to the existing 92.1/97.1 tower which I would be pretty confident *would* make city-grade across Millersville) I have my doubts the 106.7 move will make much difference in Davidson Co. but it should help quite a bit in bordering counties.

They sure did trigger enough changes up in Kentucky (and even Indiana)!
 
Does 99.7's change mean that they are taking the last service out of sprawling Manchester, TN?

UPDATE: Never mind.... a little research answered my question.
 
Am I the only one who feel a community of license change is total horse(insert expletive here)? This is nothing but bureaucratic paper shuffling so the amateur investment banker owners and the FCC can give the illusion on paper they serve the community.
 
Moving to Millersville is and increasing power is not going to offer much (if any) improvement to the south, might even make it worse in that direction. North is the wrong way to go if you want to cover the Williamson and Rutherford county zip codes. This is because of the seven hills terrain feature in south Nashville and northern Williamson county and in the case of 106.7, I don't think it moves the co-channel in Lawrenceburg that you hear a lot of the time in south Williamson county. We'll see when it gets on the air but I wouldn't expect too much.

w/
 
With the COL changes and the upgrade for 106.7, soon we'll learn the answer to the big question: Did Cumulus want the COL changes and upgrade because they were serious about their sports station, or did they have sports at 106.7 only because of the station's limited outreach?
 
No matter what Cumulus thinks, they could have 100kw and there is not enough support that 3rd format. I think they could try something
completely different since they don't feel Plaster matters anymore. There's alot of bigger fish to fry in more general formats.
They may even venture into Movin' to get some of the Beats listenership and compliment QQK, although those formats are tough
sales. Another attempt at AC, maybe. Regardless, it should pretty mainstream. I doubt it'll be Jazz or Chrisitian. It might be Classic Country
on FM if they take WSM-AM to sports. That may be a huge longshot, but you never know. One thing is for sure, it won't make much
sense to most, whatever they put on there, if anything. I have a gut feeling that they'll stick with ESPN/Sports for at least six
months after the upgrade.

When will this all transpire with all the COL changes?
 
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