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WDSR 97.1 FM / 1340 AM

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JAWilson

Listening to Oldies 97.1/1340 here in Lake City and a promotion is running that "The Falcon will land soon." I am wondering if Newman is about to flip this station or one of their other stations here in Lake City.
 
Ok WDSR is now in stunt mode.....the Oldies might be gone on WDSR. I bet anything this is a response to Power Country being gone.
 
Station is now Country music. I am interested to see how this all plays out.

NOTE: The edit was because my phone added a smiley face at the end....got to love technology and touch screens.
 
JAWilson said:
Station is now Country music. I am interested to see how this all plays out.

NOTE: The edit was because my phone added a smiley face at the end....got to love technology and touch screens.
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I believe a combination of Gypsy Dance music and all Wayne Newton (Mr. Las Vegas) comprised with Liberace piano tunes would be a much better fit.
 
Mark, I think at this point I don't understand why they did this considering that WQHL 98.1 in Live Oak has probably got most of what WQLC had on listeners. I just don't see Power Country coming back though with the mess it is in.
 
Is there an oldies station left with these changes? I have an aunt in Lake City but haven't been tnrough there for a while.

WQHL 98.1 I remember - it's been going a long time.
 
Alan McCall said:
Is there an oldies station left with these changes? I have an aunt in Lake City but haven't been tnrough there for a while.

WQHL 98.1 I remember - it's been going a long time.
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Alan, we still have 106.5 WCJX here that is pretty much Oldies/Classic Hits. They shifted from Classic Rock to Oldies/Classic Hits in June 2011.

WCJX and WDSR just recently had been playing pretty much the same stuff. WDSR had the 50's songs on still for a long while until they shifted more to Classic Hits.
 
901Rocks said:
I also heard this signal weakly on 95.5 in the Live Oak area yesterday.
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Newman does have a translator licensed for 95.5 in Lake City, but that is suppose to rebroadcast of WNFB 94.3. I have no idea if Newman is suppose to be adding an HD subchannel to 94.3 or not.
 
kmagrill: Do you think they should have moved the Jet over to AM/FM translator and then put country on 96.5? I am not sure this will make much dent considering Power Country had 9,000 watts to work with and reached out to a lot of areas 96.5 reaches. 97.1 is not even going to get all the former Power Country listeners and I know that.
 
Radio format decisions are the domain of the owners. They live and work in the market, so they're the best choice for those kinds of decisions.

All I can say is that musical chairs with formats is usually a bad idea. If it were my station (which it isn't) I don't think that I'd be very inclined to disrupt my talk format just because a competitor dropped dead. Id need a very compelling business reason before I'd consider doing anything like that. Yeah, 96.5 covers a bigger area, but 97.1 covers Lake City and its suburbs well enough.
 
Sounds like Newman plans to move the Falcon to 95.5 FM on a translator there that will be stronger than 97.1 FM. This is very interesting. It seems Newman is going to go for it all it is worth. I hope they succeed on it.
 
JAWilson said:
Sounds like Newman plans to move the Falcon to 95.5 FM on a translator there that will be stronger than 97.1 FM. This is very interesting. It seems Newman is going to go for it all it is worth. I hope they succeed on it.
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I wish John Newman all the best in his pursuits. There is definitely a market void now that WQLC has gone dark. And Newman already has the business relationships and local contacts, so I'm sure it will be easier for him than it will be for a new entrant starting from scratch.
 
JAWilson said:
Sounds like Newman plans to move the Falcon to 95.5 FM on a translator there that will be stronger than 97.1 FM. This is very interesting. It seems Newman is going to go for it all it is worth. I hope they succeed on it.
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Heard an announcement about this on WNFB today.

My question is this: Is 95.5 a good frequency choice? WQPW on 95.7 puts a pretty powerful signal over quite a bit of this area.
Wouldn't there be an interference issue to the 95.5 signal?
 
There's no perfect frequency. 97.1 has an LPFM on it in Live Oak, so the signal dies around the county line. It's also first adjacent to WSKY in Gainesville. 95.5 has WQPW on the first adjacent, but modern radios, especially digital ones in cars are not easily disrupted by adjacencies. 95.5 should have a pretty effective signal, especially right in Lake City where the building penetration should be somewhat better than 97.1.
 
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