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US radios that can tune to 108.1 FM

Did you find a date for the actual changeover of frequency?

Can't tell from what remains from that era of FCC records, unfortunately.

This was from the BAPS system that predated CDBS, and unless @Michi knows otherwise, I don't think the actual applications are available anywhere now.
 
Can't tell from what remains from that era of FCC records, unfortunately.

This was from the BAPS system that predated CDBS, and unless @Michi knows otherwise, I don't think the actual applications are available anywhere now.

I was pretty much hitting nothing, as well.

I did call the number listed for the umbrella corporation and the lady who answered the phone took my request information.

Now, will someone call me back, I don't know.
 
I was pretty much hitting nothing, as well.

I did call the number listed for the umbrella corporation and the lady who answered the phone took my request information.

Now, will someone call me back, I don't know.

Even if they do, it's not likely at all that any records have been kept around from that far back. 43 years is a very long time for institutional memory in radio.
 
Even if they do, it's not likely at all that any records have been kept around from that far back. 43 years is a very long time for institutional memory in radio.

The two people who I hope will get back with me have been in the Greenville market for maybe 5 decades. One I don't know personally, the second, I've known from the early 1980s.

I just thought of another person who might have an approximate time frame.

I am not asking for the exact date, but I think we've pinned it down to perhaps some point in 1983 or so.

As an aside, I made two phone calls to Greenville, the airport authority and then to an aircraft repair facility at PGV. The owner and I have
known each other from back in the mid-1980s.

One of the issues and you pointed it out, the institutional memory, is that all of the folks who would know, and even me, we are all in the age range of 50-80. So many of the folks I know from Greenville have passed on with the newer generation taking over, and that instituational memory isn't seemingly very important.
 
I first noticed WNCT on 107.9 in early 1982. That’s when they relocated to the new TV tower in Grifton. They went from 550 ft to 1700 ft and it was a big boost to the signal.
 
I first noticed WNCT on 107.9 in early 1982. That’s when they relocated to the new TV tower in Grifton. They went from 550 ft to 1700 ft and it was a big boost to the signal.

Thanks and that is pretty much what I have gleaned from information from others.

If I remember correctly, they were on that shorter tower behind the WNCT-TV studio and after the Grifton tower was built, WNCT-FM
relocated the transmitter to that tower location.

Thanks.
 
Thanks and that is pretty much what I have gleaned from information from others.

If I remember correctly, they were on that shorter tower behind the WNCT-TV studio and after the Grifton tower was built, WNCT-FM
relocated the transmitter to that tower location.

Thanks.
You’re welcome. I had family in WNCT radio and TV engineering at the time. Yes, they were on the old tower behind the TV studio before the move to Grifton. Here is an article featuring WNCT TV and FM the October 1982 issue of RCA Broadcast News below.

 
You’re welcome. I had family in WNCT radio and TV engineering at the time. Yes, they were on the old tower behind the TV studio before the move to Grifton. Here is an article featuring WNCT TV and FM the October 1982 issue of RCA Broadcast News below.


Thanks.

Yep, I recognized the photos of Heber and Murry. I still keep in touch with Macon every now and then. Murry was pretty active on two-meters when I was in Greenville.
 
In the analog tuning era, some stations used to brag about being "in the middle of your radio dial" as it meant less twisting of the knob to get to.

And didn't FM originally only go up to 104 MHz, and then later 106, before it was finally extended to 108 MHz?
In 1945 88-106 then later to 108

I think Germany went to 88-104
 


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