WJVS-FM (88.3) turning their license in

[ouuc]

Another HS station bites the dust. WAIF hopes to run the frequency fulltime. Kiesewetter's blog has the story.

 

[microbob]

WJVS used to have a decent signal when they were running 175 watts.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

Was that the one that sat just north of I-275 somewhere around Sharonville Rd in the 70's?

 

[microbob]

I believe so. It's a shame that radio is in such a downturn that young people have no interest in it. I guess that is to be expected as technology changes and the horse and buggy that radio is now, is slowly being phased out.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

I believe so. It's a shame that radio is in such a downturn that young people have no interest in it. I guess that is to be expected as technology changes and the horse and buggy that radio is now, is slowly being phased out.

It seems that way yet WKPWFM.COM (the website of over the air WKPW) has classes of interested kids year after year here in central Indiana. There are several other equally successful high school stations in this area. I know that radio isn't cool these days, but all these kids are coming from somewhere and many are going on to real radio jobs. It ain't dead yet, but it sure isn't what it was either.

 

[butlerguy03]

High School Radio isn't dead. By the way, anyone have a good contact for this station? Just wondering if they'll be liquidating some equipment.

Check out another good HS station, 917weem.org

 

[ToddyO]

The signal was great at one point. When the original exciter was changed out with an old tube backup excited, previously owned by WGUC, the range was incredible. From Dry Ridge to Middletown, protecting WMUB.

 

[microbob]

WJVS is now history a week earlier than planned due to transmitter failure.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2012/05/10/wjvs-fm-signs-off-earlier-than-expected/

Scarlet Oaks’ WJVS-FM (88.3) is history. The Sharonville vocational school station, which dates back to the 1970s, vanished from the airwaves earlier than expected when the transmitter crashed at 9:30 a.m. today

 

[ToddyO]

Would have loved to had participate in the final day. I would have been on the station, at some point, in all four decades of broadcasting. (75-85, 85-95, 95-05, 05-12). Student 81-83, advisor through 91. A student did a "call in" using his cell phone in 2004 or 5 and I called in from the MicroCenter parking lot. A lot of broadcasters got their start at the station. The last school on the air, now silenced. Goodbye Great88.

 

[BarryATL]

It is already deleted from the FCC database. That was fast.

 

[microbob]

That was quick. I wonder if they requested the FCC delete their license several months ago and were broadcasting anyway up until the transmitter went belly up?

 

[Gooch]

Hmmm....so does this mean WAIF will start to bolster it's daytime programming, then get a little regional attention, some ink in Kiesewetter's column, polka music will make a surprising comeback, then WGUC will buy it and "fire" all of the "volunteers" and simulcast WVXU on it's signal? God I hope so. We need another signal in this market repeating the same dull NPR segments over and over again....(Well, they're not dull the FIRST time you hear them....)

 

[microbob]

Like em or not 91.7 does get ratings, so someone must listen.If WAIF is ever sold, hopfully it would go to someone like WMKV. Most of the old WVXU staff is still there.

 

[knowbetter]

That was quick. I wonder if they requested the FCC delete their license several months ago and were broadcasting anyway up until the transmitter went belly up?

Whole thing took less than one week... WJVS surrendered their license, and terminated the timeshare agreement, which at that point, WAIF was the sole remaining survivor on that license. They automatically were granted 24 hour operation. There was no disagreement or squabble over the timeshare, as there was here in Columbus.

 

[ToddyO]

That was quick. I wonder if they requested the FCC delete their license several months ago and were broadcasting anyway up until the transmitter went belly up?

Whole thing took less than one week... WJVS surrendered their license, and terminated the timeshare agreement, which at that point, WAIF was the sole remaining survivor on that license. They automatically were granted 24 hour operation. There was no disagreement or squabble over the timeshare, as there was here in Columbus.

No but in the mid to late 80's, WAIF was known to have a faulty "timer" on their transmitter, leaving it on over WJVS's broadcast. WAIF did want more airtime but it looks like over the years, WJVS' broadcast day reduced from 8-3:45 M-F.