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WFPO-LP 93.3 ("The Blizzard)

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I recently became reacquainted with this station. When they first came on-the-air, I used to listen whenever I was enroute from Daytona to Jacksonville on I-95. Recently rediscovered them online.

This is by far the best LPFM I've ever heard. Blows away many of the local "full-power" stations. Decent talent, great processing, and a mix of Oldies that's broad enough to be interesting. Also plenty of advertisers...um, "underwriters"...so it seems they have no problem selling the product.

Who runs this operation? He/she should be commended on a job well done. This is what LPFM should and can be: True community radio that actually has listeners and sponsors!
 
I'm familiar with this station and I agree, it's very well done.

Chris Lash and his wife Karen are operating it.
 
Funny how this small business can spend more on sound/quality than the Walmart sized
con-glomerates. Hmmm!
 
More needs to be looked into this station. The FCC is investigating them and have been for months for many illegal activities in the past and the present.
 
Perhaps the past, but since August 07 this station has been 100% legal.

Don't need to spend money to sound good, when someone good is operating it legally.
 
hey. quit hatin'.
anyway, to the owners of wfbo. you all do a great job. too bad your only LP. I wish you could come in down here in altamonte. but your live 365 stream will do. It's nice to hear a good local comunity station. I remember going through flagler county and leaving the radio on 93.3 untill i lost it. great job guys. the future will only get better.
 
The FCC was there almost 2 months ago and found the power higher than they are allowed, 31w, as part or their on going investigation. I work for the government in Jacksonville and know 3 employess of the FCC in Tampa who are doing the investigating and it was factual and logged as a violation among others.
 
No one denies anyone the chance to log on and post here anonymously or with an alias ... with comments both positive and negative.

That's the American way.

But when making "claims" that are, one would appear, to be "Official Government Business" -- as any information I get from the government and/or the FCC is formally received -- these posts seem a little flaky and way out of bounds.

If you're looking (from Jacksonville) to raise eyebrows on government operations (that you don't describe) about an agency in distant Tampa, why would you, as a government employee (alledgedly) with a handful of posts -- take time to post anything on a public message board about one particular business ... especially a LPFM of 31w? This isn't how the Commission does business...and they aren't very open about talking ... especially on a public message board.

I don't care who you are and don't care to know, but you're not any government employee with any connection to radio or the FCC.

Got a problem with that?

The government's got enough problems ... and while you well may be a cafeteria worker or a restroom cleaner "for the government," or a former, disgruntled owner/employee of a nearby radio station, no one I know in official policy operates like this, nor involves non-descript unknown and "secret" inspectors of an FCC Field Office.

What nerve.
 
yeah. i agree. leave your problems off this bored. just because you have a crappy life or something don't ttake it out on us. and that's just a radio station trying to do there thing and you got people like you getting in there stuff. damn.
 
I am sorry for creating this hateful thing you say I have done. I just believe running illegally in so many ways makes it tougher on those who ARE running an LP legally.
Do your own investigating as I have and after you have the facts, then throw your rocks at me or anyone who believes LP was suppose to be a local service to the community and not a money making venture.

Start at the FCC site and the transfer of license request and the illegal and get around the law things entered.
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101199727&formid=314&fac_num=133320
 
Its a standard legal transfer. No secrets there. And being there, I can assure you there is only one paid employee. The rest are volunteers, and the station simply pays its fews bills, providing a great service to the local community.

Take your goose hunt somewhere else. Or better yet, get in your car in Jacksonville, and drive down A1A and pay a visit, inspect yourself. Everything is public, and open to anyone to see.
 
Thank you for the offer to visit.
Unless you are the present licensee or one of the Lashs' you do not know the rest or the whole story.
 
chananiwh said:
The FCC was there almost 2 months ago and found the power higher than they are allowed, 31w, as part or their on going investigation. I work for the government in Jacksonville and know 3 employess of the FCC in Tampa who are doing the investigating and it was factual and logged as a violation among others.
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As a reader of this message, I don't know what relevance a government employee of Jacksonville has to do with a small radio station in Flagler County. Perhaps someone can help me understand. I'm impressed that you know three of the employees at the FCC's field office. Well, maybe not. It was posted for some reason. He or she is proud of something... and had to boast about it. WFBO has put their past in the past and turned over a new leaf. If you were intimate on all the details you'd see a different story. People will believe what they want to believe.

Hat's off to WFBO-LP, The oldies are harder and harder to find and you're filling a void - doing a great job with it. Stay true to your course.
 
I hope the FCC opens up LPFM apps this year but you know the big guys object to that too...
there are definitely some very talented people who do not currently work for any of them, who could
show them how great radio is made....regardless of whether it's 100 watts or less!
 
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