WKVB was K-LOVE's station in Port Matilda, PA ... covering the State College area.
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WAAF sold to EMF....
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WKVB was K-LOVE's station in Port Matilda, PA ... covering the State College area.
WBZU https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/fm-profile/wbzu
https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/am-profile/waaf an AM now in Scranton
https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/am-profile/waaf an AM now in Scranton
Take a listen at the top of the hour, have heard it a few times. RDS on radio says "WBZU".
It was obviously a placeholder call from the start, but could EMF have kept WBZU if it wanted to, or would WBZ object?
I'm sure iHeart would've objected if they intended to keep WBZU, but why would they? When K Love changes calls on a station it almost always has a KL KV LU, LV, etc in it. WBZU just happened to be the former calls on Entercom's 910 in Scranton, which itself simulcasts and is known as WILK. EMF's intent all along was to install WKVB.
I certainly would!!!! But, who am I?
So what is the new call sign of the Port Matilda, PA signal? Wouldn't WKVB be easily confused with WKLB?
Since WKLB doesn't use its call in its imaging, just "Country 102.5," and EMF would have its listeners believe they're listing to a station with the call of "KLOVE," I doubt anyone on the WKLB side will object. This isn't a WCLB/WCRB situation, in which not only were both stations announcing their calls, but listeners were still keeping Arbitron diaries and had to write the calls down accurately.
This is correct. Technically, readings don’t need to be taken at any specific interval beyond that you have to take enough readings to prove your transmitter is reliable, and you need to take enough to reasonably be expected to catch any serious problem. Directional AM's and AM's 10,000 watts and greater were exceptions to that rule.
I worked for a cluster that owned an FM that took one reading a day. It also had an AM/FM sister cluster that only took readings from 6 AM - 8 PM. In most cases, transmitters are the most reliable part of any broadcast facility. I can only remember taking one reading out of tolerance, and it was too low rather than too high. It turned out, our transmitter control was about 2 feet off the floor to the left of where the operator/producer sat and someone accidentally bumped it with their knee. The only thing the engineers were upset with was that I was the one who caught it and reported it, roughly three days after it happened!
It's funny....sometimes a company will park call letters and never use them. CBS moved the WHFS call letters from DC to Tampa, and then included them in a trade with Beasley.
The HD3 of iHeart's WZLX 100.7 is now indeed relaying K-Love 107.3 (now known as WKVB though display still says WBZU).
Best quote I've read all week !
WUBG Methuen is the K-Love feed that WZLX-HD3 has on and the one that is ID along with them.
OK, maybe I'm a little dense on this, but would you please explain what you mean by an HD subchannel's "relaying" the signal of another station in the market?
It's another way of saying "simulcasting".
I could be wrong, but aren't there instances where an FM HD-3 sub-channel can sometimes be used to feed programming to a somewhat distant (just out-of-market) AM station? That, to me, would be a more literal use of the term "relaying".
In this case, with WUBG the feed for K-Love on WZLX HD3, it may be to widen the coverage for the few listeners who have HD radios in Boston proper and to the south, where WUBG, either on its AM at 1570 or its directional FM translator in Medford at 105.3 doesn't reach, or reach well.
The WUBG AM day signal reaches Boston and farther but with noise and static. The WUBG low power AM night signal doesn't get out of the Merrimack Valley.
The WUBG FM translator in Medford is directional away from Boston, and does not get across the Charles River to Boston or points south. It barely gets to Cambridge. It's mainly only good in the Mystic Valley from Route 16 north just up to the Route 128/Route 93 interchange area and a bit of the lower North Shore.
For the few HD radio listeners, WZLX HD3 would also sound a lot better in most of metro Boston and to the south than 107.3.
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