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This may be old news but I just noticed that WATB in Decatur has a CP to go to 50kw directional daytime and low power at night changing from 1420 to 1430 AM. Does WGFS plan on going off the air or changing Freq.? That's awful close for two stations at 1430.
 
WGFS has an application to move to 1220 that was filed in 2004 so maybe that is the plan but with WATB having a CP for 1430 already issued yet with nothing granted for WGFS I dont know what WGFS will do.
 
The WGFS move to 1220 was contingent on them winning the mutually exclusive situation caused by the applications to move 1210 WDGR from Dahlonega to Lawrenceville. The FCC decided in favor of the 1210 relocation. WDGR was instructed to file the remainder of the applications process that would lead up to granting of a CP.

A quick glance at the FCC websites leaves a big puzzle. I thought the CP had been granted for Lawrenceville construction, but it does not currently show up.

Multicultural (WGFS, WATB) may be sitting tight while USK (WDGR) scrambles for the capital to complete/implement their application.
 
Speaking of Larryville, any update on the WISK (990) move from Americus to Lawrenceville? Gwinnett REALLY needs a local, non-Latino AM station for full service, HS sports, etc.

WDGR isn't going to be able to do that with one watt of night power...although WISK's 25W night is pushing it.
 
I can tell that WGFS is WATB's red head step child,the owners give WATB everything they need while just WGFS enough money to stay on the air. A little inside info.
 
jabba17 said:
Speaking of Larryville, any update on the WISK (990) move from Americus to Lawrenceville? Gwinnett REALLY needs a local, non-Latino AM station for full service, HS sports, etc.

WDGR isn't going to be able to do that with one watt of night power...although WISK's 25W night is pushing it.
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With or without night power, WDGR is not currently targeted to be a local, non-Latino, Full service, HS sports operation. It is intended to be an "ethnic operation" servicing the Korean population. Before it went dark, it was programming Korean in Dahlonega, but they found the signal did not carry to area in Gwinnett County where many Korean listeners live and work.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
jabba17 said:
Speaking of Larryville, any update on the WISK (990) move from Americus to Lawrenceville? Gwinnett REALLY needs a local, non-Latino AM station for full service, HS sports, etc.

WDGR isn't going to be able to do that with one watt of night power...although WISK's 25W night is pushing it.
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With or without night power, WDGR is not currently targeted to be a local, non-Latino, Full service, HS sports operation. It is intended to be an "ethnic operation" servicing the Korean population. Before it went dark, it was programming Korean in Dahlonega, but they found the signal did not carry to area in Gwinnett County where many Korean listeners live and work.
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That makes sense. There is a HUGE Korean population in Gwinnett--rivaling Latinos--and it is a market that is currently underserved. And having no night signal wouldn't be a big handicap there.

I am surprised, though, that they tried putting Korean on with the station still in Dahlonega. There wasn't any there there.
 
I don't know if they bought it knowing an application window was coming up for moves, or only after they bought it did they realize it wouldn't actually reach Gwinnett.

The ownership appears to be authentic Koreans. What else would they know to broadcast. By that I am not making a suggestion that they lack skills.... I'm just re-enforcing the concept: THEY ARE AUTHENTIC KOREANS. That is their life, their culture, their language.
 
BRENT said:
1040 is now Korean???
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If that's the right frequency, they have been Korean for a while. IIRC, that was the station with the studio in Duluth where a disgruntled ex-employee brought in a Molotov cocktail.

But their transmitter, IIRC, is quite a ways from Gwinnett and doesn't send the best signal over there, although it does manage decent coverage.
 
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