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WIOD now on 100.3 and 93.5 FM

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FLjack2

From Radio-Info:
Clear Channel buys a second FM translator for its Miami talker WIOD (610)
WIOD-AM is already heard on 100.3, via Reach Communications' W262AN, licensed to Tamarac in Broward County. Now Clear Channel pays Christian broadcaster WAY-FM Media Group $200,000 for a translator at 93.5. It's known as K228BY and is licensed to Allapattah, in Dade County. WAY-FM was forced to take the translator silent in April due to interference from local pirate radio signals. Until then, WAY-FM had used the translator to simulcast its West Palm Beach contemporary Christian WAYF (88.1).

So I guess the question is, "will CC still have that pirate interference on the translator?"
 
Interestingly, we were on Hollywood Blvd today and were not receiving W262AN fully quieting.
Wonder if the old site off Griffin Rd is still intact and used as a backup?
 
My mistake, this one.
It will cover the beaches and much of southwest Dade county nicely and not be plagued by WCTH, that is why W228BV and W228BY are so directionally opposed to each other. Looks like they will be right next door to 92.3 and 95.7 across from One Biscayne Tower.
 
WAY-FM was forced to take the translator silent in April due to interference from local pirate radio signals
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Are we to assume that with both FCC regulations and the Florida state law against unlicensed broadcast transmitting, that this Christian broadcaster had to throw in the towel because both the FCC and local police were impotent in being able to track down and silence the illegal transmitters?

And while $200,000 is chump change to Clear Channel, should we assume that the biggest broadcaster thinks it will have more success in getting the regulators to shut down the pirates so listeners can actually hear the licensed station on the translator?

There now is a similar situation in New Jersey where a Christian broadcaster just spent around $15-million for a station in Westchester, NY and a pirate across the river is blocking the legal signal in part of its regular signal contours. It's been a month or two, the Christian station has hired lawyers to get the Jamaican pirate off the air, but so far nothing has happened.

New Jersey, like Florida, has made operating an unlicensed broadcast transmitter a felony but the FM band is still filled with pirates in urban areas. This particular Jersey pirate runs like a regular station 24/7, and it may be part of a cluster of similar pirates that run commercials and have full staffs. Is that the situation in South Florida or are they just kids intermittently broadcasting from their bedrooms?
 
TimeIsTight said:
should we assume that the biggest broadcaster thinks it will have more success in getting the regulators to shut down the pirates
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Whether they do or not, look at the map I linked. From a few watts at a few feet in Allapatah, they have moved or will move to a real roof and run maximum power.
 
Funny thing....whereas Miami/Ft. Lauderdale has had their share of pirate issues, I haven't heard one on 93.5 in quite some time.

But like a post above, a station yielding to a pirate....that's really odd. I know that I read (maybe here on r-i) about someone at Call FM 91.9 (maybe at the time on 91.7) tracking down a pirate.

I do believe that the FCC is just plain short staffed, and just won't move, unless it's a major interference issue, or if the 4-letter words are too much.

I can usually do a bandscan in one place in my car, and tally up 10, 12 or even more pirates. Arrrrrr!!

cd
 
From a few watts at a few feet in Allapatah, they have moved or will move to a real roof and run maximum power.
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So, just to get a clear picture of the situation, besides buying the license for the translator frequency, Clear Channel is moving the transmitter from somewhere in the area of NW 20th St. and NW 22nd Ave in the Allapattah neighborhood, where it was on a low building or tower running with just a few watts.

The new transmitter site is a couple of miles east, downtown on top of one of those tall building, and with much more power.

That new pattern is impressive, and the stronger signal should discourage pirates from trying to broadcast on the same frequency. And, with the potential additional FM audience that signal offers to WIOD, I wouldn't expect Clear Channel to give up until any offending pirates walked the plank into the Dade County Jail.
 
The blue teardrop on Googlemaps seems to have been or to be few hundred feet off.
Comparing the FCC lat/lon coordinates with 92.3/95.7, it appears that "BY" is in deed on the OBT building.
The roof is 500' high and the stick is another 150' oe so.
 
^ on 88.1? Nope! However! WRGP (owned by FIU) runs a small 165 watter on 88.1 from Homestead. Maybe the interference did *that* to the 93.5.

cd
 
Isn't it going to be confusing for listeners? 610, 100.3 or 93.5? And, other than the AM station, you cant pick them up in all areas of South Florida?

After all, most people are in their cars when listening to the radio these days.

BTW, I was in downtown Ft Lauderdale yesterday and I could not get 100.3 very well at all. But I know it used to come in. What gives?
 
This has to change. WIOD cannot keep pretending that these FM's cover a hunk of real estate. They need to convert one of their 100 kW FM's. It's gonna happen eventually....so why not now?

cd
 
NAH. The station doesn't get (and hasn't gotten in years) enough ratings to warrant an FM. Plus, they have ZERO competition in town. What other "news" or "news/talk" stations are in Miami-Fort Lauderdale? Nothing worth mentioning.
A music station, even with poor ratings, will bring in more cash. Jockless, programmed from San Antonio by a big wig CC person.
 
cd637299 said:
They need to convert one of their 100 kW FM's.
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Here is our proposal,
CC swaps W262AN for W228BV.
Reach covers all of easten Dade and Broward on 100.3, Reach is happy.
CC goes omnidirectional on both W228BV and W228BY and syncs the two using GPS derived frequency standards.
There is very very little clashing between the JFK and Broad causways and Hialeah.
Too many links on the topic to post, but use any search engine an you will get gobs of hits.
Experiments have yielded successfull results.
CC promotes 93.5 from Southwest Dade to Pompano.
 
cd637299 said:
^ on 88.1? Nope! However! WRGP (owned by FIU) runs a small 165 watter on 88.1 from Homestead. Maybe the interference did *that* to the 93.5.

cd
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I second this theory.

Other thing I don't get, WIOD was promoting simply as "and also on 100.3"......Well, if I'm listening to IOD on AM from Homestead, and I switch to 100.3 FM, I'm gonna get WCTH instead.
 
It is no longer a question of [IF] News-Talk on FM will happen in Miami; it is a question of [how soon] it will happen. It may be WIOD-FM or it may be a stand-alone FM News-Talk completely unaffiliated with WIOD-AM. Regardless of specific programs, News-Talk on FM [IS] coming to Miami following Tampa Bay. The switch has already taken place in Orlando and has been in Jacksonville for several years.
 
I hope someone new, like Cox, flips a station to a "new" news/talk. Hearing WIOD on FM will be (yawn) just as boring as hearing it on AM.
A good news talk station could actually put a nail in WIOD's coffin or make them step up to the plate and become a REAL news station. I would love to hear some good talk competition in the market.
 
FLjack2 said:
I hope someone new, like Cox, flips a station to a "new" news/talk. Hearing WIOD on FM will be (yawn) just as boring as hearing it on AM.
A good news talk station could actually put a nail in WIOD's coffin or make them step up to the plate and become a REAL news station. I would love to hear some good talk competition in the market.
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Since disposing of WIOD and KFI, Cox seems to have forgotten how to do real talk radio of the Rogers/R&S/Randi/Hendrie variety. If Cox launched a talker, you would probably hear Neal Boortz, Clark Howard and a lot of third-rate syndication.
 
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