I didn't realize it until recently but apparently the license of Jefferson State Community College's 91.1 "The Edge" WJSR has been turned in and deleted.
WJSR was the long time co-channel college station on the frequency along with WVSU from Samford University. Both stations were able to boost power in the late 90s by employing directional antennas away from each other. Under this arrangement both operated at the same time, often, but WVSU's tower on Shades Mountain gave them good over the mountain and downtown coverage while WJSR mostly served northern Center Point, Pinson and rural northeast Jefferson County up Hwy 75 most of the way towards Oneonta.
In fact, the only reason I found out about this was WVSU had won a CP to drop their directional antenna. They're going from 500 watts directional to the south to 400 watts non directional, which should help bolster downtown and outlying area reception.
WJSR was always an oddity in my mind. I "volunteered" there for a semester and it was just a terrible, terrible learning experience. First because I was too late to get into any radio classes, but second because of the way the station was ran, which was completely outdated. As in reel-to-reel in 1996 or 1997. I know they later got some CD players and upgraded from sleepy AC to alternative as "The Edge" but that was probably around 2001 and the last time I ever heard anything from the station.
WJSR was the long time co-channel college station on the frequency along with WVSU from Samford University. Both stations were able to boost power in the late 90s by employing directional antennas away from each other. Under this arrangement both operated at the same time, often, but WVSU's tower on Shades Mountain gave them good over the mountain and downtown coverage while WJSR mostly served northern Center Point, Pinson and rural northeast Jefferson County up Hwy 75 most of the way towards Oneonta.
In fact, the only reason I found out about this was WVSU had won a CP to drop their directional antenna. They're going from 500 watts directional to the south to 400 watts non directional, which should help bolster downtown and outlying area reception.
WJSR was always an oddity in my mind. I "volunteered" there for a semester and it was just a terrible, terrible learning experience. First because I was too late to get into any radio classes, but second because of the way the station was ran, which was completely outdated. As in reel-to-reel in 1996 or 1997. I know they later got some CD players and upgraded from sleepy AC to alternative as "The Edge" but that was probably around 2001 and the last time I ever heard anything from the station.
