WAMI Opp (maybe Maplesville)?

[passtheword]

I came across this today on the Alabama Broadcast Media page regarding the application to move WAMI from Opp up into Chilton county. Known about this for a few weeks now, but I scrolled down to the bottom of the screen to see a new application to rebroadcast WAMI on an FM translator, to be licensed and located in Calera. This is for 106.5 FM with 250 watts. Not sure how this could be approved with the existing FM translator at 106.5 FM in Birmingham (W293CM aka B 106.5). Granted, the respective contours of the two translators won't overlap, but it's tight...

Proposed new translator coverage area for Calera, AL:
https://fccdata.org/?facid=201661

Existing translator coverage area for W293CM:
https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=w293cm&ccode=1&city=&state=&country=US&arn=&party=&party_type=LICEN

 

[R.D.P.]

Both stations are going to end up in Maplesville, when all is completed.

Dan <><

 

[Poledo]

What are the WAMI folks up to? First they wanted to move to Kanab, UT and now Maplesville/Calera, AL. What's wrong with a 250 watter in Opp, AL? It's a decent little town that has a few businesses and isn't quite part of the Dothan metro.

Is WOPP adding a translator?

 

[R.D.P.]

WAMI AM is getting a new owner. His name is Paul Reynolds. This fellow also owns WZNN FM Maplesville, who wants to move it to Holtville (Montgomery) Alabama. For that move to happen, someone else has to move and become Maplesville's new radio service. Wa-La WAMI AM will be the one. Once everything is worked out, that Calera area translator will be paired with WAMI AM in Maplesville.

WOPP isn't taking part in the revitalization act, far as I know.

Dan <><

 

[Voicetrack of Reason]

In other words, going forward, this station will likely be off more than on.

 

[passtheword]

The Calera FM translator companion for WAMI has been approved, as of 1/17. Originally the app was for 106.5, but this was superceded by a new app a few weeks ago for 106.3 instead. New call sign is W292FO. Question now remains: Knowing Brantley Broadcast Associates and their many other named companies, will the station ever be built out?

https://fccdata.org/?facid=201661

 

[Voicetrack of Reason]

I seriously doubt it. What you're dealing with here is a "hoarder mentality" with regard to broadcast spectrum. Some of these "stations" exist only on paper, or in the licensee's vivid imagination.