Wfnx LIVES AGAIN!

[N1WVQ]

A couple years ago, 99.9 WXRG went for a year or more with absolutely terrible audio, and nobody seemed to care. I can't remember exactly how it sounded, maybe a loud hum, whine, etc... but to me it was unlistenable. I'm guessing Northeast Broadcasting regrets buying 99.9 and 700. They tried spanish and then ESPN radio on 700 for a while, but for at least a year it has just been a simulcast of 99.9. I can't see 99.9 ever becoming anything other than a simulcast of 92.5, unless it's sold. 700 will probably just go dark someday.

I thought it was Brazilian Portuguese for awhile.

 

[MarcB]

I thought it was Brazilian Portuguese for awhile.

That too. Several years ago. The only reason I know is because I made a post on this very board asking who was doing foreign language programming on AM 700 which I was picking up on my Walkman at my aunt's house in the Feeding Hills section of Agawam, Mass.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I was out in Shirley, MA last week where I could just barely get a very spotty fringe of WFNX 99.9 from Athol. I heard enough of it to go back and forth with WXRV 92.5 and confirm that, as of last week, 99.9 is still simulcasting "The River".

Radio-Locator lists its format as "The Harbor". I couldn't hear enough of 99.9 to verify that, but it wouldn't make sense to put that slogan on a station that far inland. What little I heard still sounded like a direct "River" simulcast.

 

[fybush]

I feel like a broken record, but here goes again: R-L has a database quirk where it links format information to callsigns. If the last format and slogan listed under the calls "WFNX" was "The Harbor", then the next time someone uses the WFNX callsign, no matter where, it will pop up in Radio-Locator as "The Harbor."

Does that make any sense? It does not. But R-L apparently doesn't care.