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Why is WOLL leaving?
- Thread starter Ai4i
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It is hard to believe that cities of license are allowed to be moved so far from actual transmitter location. For example, WKGR's signal is not all that great in parts of its city of license, Wellington. Driving north on I-95, it is quite clear that The Gater's transmitter must be located somewhere along the Treasure Coast.
As long as 98.7 FM puts a 70dBu over the city limits, they're good to go. I think they share a stick with 102.3 and 103.1 somewhere in Stuart.
Many stations do that. Those individuals who are fortunate enough to live within the first few hundred feet of Del Ray Beach can enjoy a city grade signal from Boca Raton's WKIS. I know this because I was once told that from the community antenna (two miles south) their signal would fall two miles short.
ScottBurns said:
What? KGR city of license is Wellington? What happened to Fort Pierce? I've admittedly not kept close tabs on the signal-scape in years, but that frequency goes back to WIZD: Kick-Ass Rock & Roll, Wizard 99 and WLQY before that. Those were all based in Fort Pierce, as was the Gater in its first six to eight years. As far as I know, the studios were moved to Clear Channel's cluster in West Palm Beach by 1998 while the transmitter has been located west of Stuart off Martin Grade since 1979. The reason the signal was so strong in the Palm Beaches had to do with maximum wattage from atop a tower that held the record for tallest in Florida for twenty years. I've heard of swapping frequencies, but cities of license? Never.
Knucklehead - Any radio station - AM or FM - may change its city of license if in doing so it will bring a First Service to the new proposed COL, AND, provided the proposed station to be re-licensed IS NOT removing a communy's only radio service from the original COL. All of the above is contengent upon the station move also meeting all spacing and technical requirements if a transmitter/tower site move is also a part of the re-license procedure. In the case of WKGR, no new tower site was involved while Clear Channel was bringing a First Service to Wellington. At the same time Fort Pierce still had WCNO-FM 88.9 and WJFP-FM 91.1 in adition to WJNX-AM 1330 and WIRA-AM 1400, leaving Fort Pierce with four remaining primary licensed radio facilities. Had WKGR been the only primary licensed facility to Fort Pierce, a re-licensing move would not have been possible without first identifying a replacement primary licensed facility to replace the facilty being removed - WKGR.
On a side note, LPFM and FM translators do not qualify as primiary facilities as these entities are licensed as secondary facilities. In all probability Wellington was chosen as the new COL because it is geographically located much closer to West Palm Beach than Fort Pierce and West Palm Beach is the desired target marget for WKGR.
On a side note, LPFM and FM translators do not qualify as primiary facilities as these entities are licensed as secondary facilities. In all probability Wellington was chosen as the new COL because it is geographically located much closer to West Palm Beach than Fort Pierce and West Palm Beach is the desired target marget for WKGR.
Float this:
101.7 WCZR (Treasure Coast simulcast of WZZR 94.3) is in the Aloha Trust. CC sells off 101.7, moves 105.5 back to PSL.
WOLL moves (back) to 94.3, WZZR goes to 105.5.
What's doing better ratings wise, KOOL or Real Radio? PPM IS coming to WPB next year and it's AC friendly.
???
101.7 WCZR (Treasure Coast simulcast of WZZR 94.3) is in the Aloha Trust. CC sells off 101.7, moves 105.5 back to PSL.
WOLL moves (back) to 94.3, WZZR goes to 105.5.
What's doing better ratings wise, KOOL or Real Radio? PPM IS coming to WPB next year and it's AC friendly.
???
RadioGuy2004 said:
Your theory certainly is a thought provoking one. With regards to the Aloha Trust stations, WCZR-FM 101.7 and WSYR-FM 94.7 are both owned by the Aloha Trust and are both for sale as is every radio station in the Aloha Trust. Keeping this in mind, it's difficult to say how the frequency moves may actually play out in the end although most anything can happen.
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