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WHERE'D THE "B" GO IN 95.5?

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I just noticed a few days ago that 95.5 WUTQ doesn't use "B"95.5 anymore. They seem to be emphasizing the calls, and just using 95.5 I'm wondering if that was a scheduled change, or did WYJB (B-95.5) scream infringement ???
 
Don't know the exact reason, but they announced the reimaging in late April.
http://www.cnyradio.com/2011/04/29/wutq-swaps-hank-brown-for-wktv-simulcast/

Interestingly, the "old" B95.5 logo is still very prominently displayed on the station website, but a newer "95.5FM WUTQ" logo, minus the B, with different colors and fonts, appears as part of a smaller image a little ways down the page, on the left.

I think the "B" part of the name stood for "Beautiful Music," which is what the station still airs during the non-talk hours, but since there's been more emphasis on the talk and news offerings (especially since they picked up WIBX's discarded CBS News affiliation), dropping the "B" makes sense.

I would be surprised if WYJB ever had a problem, as Roser's 95.5FM is just a translator. Regarding the two AM stations (WUTQ and WADR), radio-locator.com shows very little overlap between WYJB and Roser's two AM stations (WUTQ and WADR). It's "distant" or "fringe" strength from all three stations... mostly over Fulton County, which is a gray "no mans land" as far as Arbitron is concerned. Besides, WADR is daytime-only and the aforementioned overlap involving WUTQ(AM) is also daytime-only, as the station's night pattern is considerably smaller. Besides, if WYJB had issued some kind of "cease and desist" order, the B would already have been removed from the logo on b955fm.com. (And the domain name likely would have changed as well.)
 
I was in the area over the weekend & made an effort to listen to the tri-cast. All they were programing was "beautiful" music. which I thought sounded pretty good. A good mix. Probably better described as soft rock. Mostly hits from the 70's & 80's. Very few songs that would be described as "standards". The few I heard would have been played on top 40 stations in that era.
I did not hear any news at all - CBS or otherwise. Maybe the software is not capable of airing CBS live or recording it. Too bad. Also, no personality. Just a female voice doing imaging. It was just an I-pod with commercials. I kept thinking how great this would sound with a warm sounding personality, either live or v. t. ed. On Sunday I heard some ethnic programing - a nice little $$ maker to pay the light bills.
I listened on all three stations. 1550 & 95.5 were not strong out outside of the Utica city limits. Pretty much the same coverage area. I guess the advantage of 95.5 over 1550 is just that it is FM. WADR on 1480 was a pretty strong signal thru out the market. Too bad, they pretty much shut down at sundown. 1480 is a regional frequency and they always could have gotten a night signal. It was looked into many years ago but the cost nowdays would never be recovered. I'll bet in not too many years it will just be turned off.
I would like to listen to their weekday programing but I don't think that's going to happen.
 
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