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WCMR BRUCE and New CP CALHOUN CITY

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JeffSnyder

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Greetings everyone. 94.5 WCMR was deleted after being silent for over a year. It isn't showing in the next auction (94). Any take on where it ends up and if it can be had? Also, a religious group picked up Class A in Calhoun City in auction 93. Any information. Best to all. Jeff
 
Bruce channel can be reinstated, but will require a Petition for Rulemaking to the Commission. If reallocated, it will appear in some future auction..and you will have to successful bidder to get You are looking at a L O N G time. JBI
 
You won't need a Petition for Rulemaking -- while the *station* was deleted, the *channel* was not. 94.5A is still allotted to Bruce and will continue to be allotted.

Eventually, the channel *will* appear in an auction. My bet is that it hasn't happened yet because the Commission doesn't feel the station has exhausted all its appeals. They don't want to get in a situation where they've authorized someone else to build on 94.5, and then a court somewhere tells them they can't delete WCMR & have to give them back the channel.
 
Thanks for the info. I grew up in Bruce and parents still live there. Hi JBI. Greeting to all from Tupelo!
 
I believe Jeff was the mall manager in tupelo and is operating Gene Sisk's stations under an LMA.Got those properties sounding pretty good..Who would want stations in Bruce and Calhoun City is beyond me..But to each his own...
 
Some folks say a dedicated radio person can make even the smallest of small town stations work, but in Calhoun County, I'm not so sure. It's a nice enough place to live but it isn't isolated enough to merit having a powerful local radio voice. Grenada's on one side, Tupelo on the other, even Oxford isn't but a hop, skip & a jump away and all have radio properties serving some or all of the county. Add in some distant listening from Columbus and it's actually a pretty crowded dial unless you have a cheapo radio.

Of course, with the local paper having folded up, maybe the time is right to give community radio another shot in the region.
 
Zach...It aint't so...you cannot do business where it is not being done! All the best JBI
 
Correct on my ID and thanks for the compliment. Started in radio at 14 WJRL, then WSUH/WOOR, Ole MIss Network, WELO/WZLQ, WTUP/WESE, WCFB, Some TV including a CP for first Fox affiliate here (Not bragging…. never made any money :) Then off to another business life in development. Gene has been a friend for almost 30 and he promised me a deal 20 years ago. JBI, I don't think we have ever met but I cut my teeth keeping up with who's who :). I like to keep up with stations around Calhoun. Correct….. hard to do business in sleepy areas. Best to all. Come see us.
 
My $0.02 as a former local owner.

Biggest obstacles for Calhoun City as I recall are power limitation well under full Class A along with a directional signal. As i remember, the Vardaman allocation was in a terrible location well SW of town.

Don't know if it is an issue, but WCMR FM at time of a surrender was, I believe, a non-commercial license. 20-mile radius ran through Calhoun City, Houston, and Pontotoc. With no Calhoun City newspaper and WCPC no longer owned by Robin Mathis (an institution!) an owner operator on a budget might make it with WCMR. If you are going to hire out sales, engineering, management, perhaps not. Best love sports, too.
 
Best I can tell the 94.5 allotment is not reserved for non-commercial operations. (WCMR may well have been a non-commercial station -- I can't tell with deleted facilities -- but the channel is not reserved for such operations, it could be used for a commercial station)

The reference coordinates for the 102.3 Calhoun City allocation are essentially the same as the coordinates for the city itself, at least according to Wikipedia. To my knowledge, that means a full 6kw/100m facility could be built at that site without requiring a directional antenna.

The actual site specified in the CP is roughly 3 miles southeast of town. FCC record says the site is short-spaced under 73.215. It's non-directional but relatively low-powered. I would imagine it could probably run a full 6kw if a directional antenna were used.

(disclaimer: I'm a TV studio engineer, I'm not qualified to do FM allocation studies...)
 
Thanks. WCMR was a commercial license. Tower has been down for a while. I agree with you. Have a great weekend. JS
 
WCMR was run as a non-commercial before it met its most recent demise. It fed the translator on 103.1 in Grenada so I could hear it clearly through that for the short time it was up and running. It was some sort of preaching/teaching religious format off satellite.

Going off topic a bit, but when 94.5 fell silent for the final time they left the Grenada translator running, and we got WJOX-FM from Birmingham about 75% of the time through it. It was interesting hearing a station from my home town through a tiny little translator like that. It also made for one heck of a good DX machine and I logged a few other 94.5's from the region through it as well as Supertalk 94.3 once the tuner started to drift, as it was wont to do.
 
Zach... I do recall that. My mistake. I stop keeping up after Russell sold the station. He called and offered the station to me before he sold it. Very thoughtful, but we had plenty do do at that time. The tower has been down for some time, but it looks like they filed for a renewal this year while silent. The station has been deleted. You probably are aware of that. Best, JDS
 
NE Miss Radio said:
Calhoun City CP is, if I read the right FCC file correctly, for a 1.5kW at 40 meters over average terrain. Does not appear directional, but seems way under full Class A.

link: http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/f...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9
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Absolutely correct. (it *is* 1.5kw/40m, non-directional, and way under Class A maxima)

FCC FM Query says it's short-spaced (to what I'm not sure) so that accounts for at least *part* of the power reduction.
 
Is it to close to 102.3 WWSL Philadelphia, MS to be a full class A? I can't remember how well the station does to the north, but radiolocator shows a signal as far north as Ackerman.
 
Calhoun City CP is, if I read the right FCC file correctly, for a 1.5kW at 40 meters over average terrain. Does not appear directional, but seems way under full Class A.
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73.215 contour protection station status, and yes it is a Class A. Probably protecting a class C in a larger market.

The only requirement is that it is (was) covering the COL.
 
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