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WJWC LP Demopolis
Could not find a website. Says format is Jammin' Oldies. Is this the case?
Could not find a website. Says format is Jammin' Oldies. Is this the case?
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Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
I've been hearing two of their people on WVFG 107.5 FM in Uniontown, over the past few weeks.
This would include the owner Mr. Ace Jones and a DJ named Scorpio.
To be exact this station is located in the Gallion area. This is just east of Demopolis on Highway 80.
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I've been hearing two of their people on WVFG 107.5 FM in Uniontown, over the past few weeks.
This would include the owner Mr. Ace Jones and a DJ named Scorpio.
To be exact this station is located in the Gallion area. This is just east of Demopolis on Highway 80.
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Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
I drove through there once and heard them with badly overmodulated audio. They sounded more like a blues station than jammin' oldies. They also signed off at 2:30 PM on a Saturday, so I'm not sure what kind of schedule they keep.
I drove through there once and heard them with badly overmodulated audio. They sounded more like a blues station than jammin' oldies. They also signed off at 2:30 PM on a Saturday, so I'm not sure what kind of schedule they keep.
Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
They may be just operating when ever someone is there to operate it. As I remember, they simply shut the transmitter off after a song ended with no announcement.
They may be just operating when ever someone is there to operate it. As I remember, they simply shut the transmitter off after a song ended with no announcement.
Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
There's not much you can do with a station located in the Demopolis area anyway.
Sports might be successful but I believe WZNJ and/or WXAL will have that base covered next January.
Doing Limbaugh would be an abject failure. I'm surprised my hometown has him on the radio still.
Country would be a bad choice, since we have too many Country stations now.
Pop wouldn't do to well anyway. WZNJ was doing that format, before they went Urban.
Christian Talk is already covered by Moody and AFR.
Doing Urban Talk might work but WBFZ already has that base covered.
Someone may come along and say try Alternative Rock but I would laugh that one down. This market isn't big enough to support that format.
Playing Blues and Soul music might work but wait that was their format before they went dark. Besides their main DJ's are now working for Uniontown based WVFG 107.5 FM.
We already have Jazz on our local NPR station(s), soon to be WMWI 88.7 FM in Demopolis and Montgomery based WVAS 90.7 FM.
NPR is already covered here.
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There's not much you can do with a station located in the Demopolis area anyway.
Sports might be successful but I believe WZNJ and/or WXAL will have that base covered next January.
Doing Limbaugh would be an abject failure. I'm surprised my hometown has him on the radio still.
Country would be a bad choice, since we have too many Country stations now.
Pop wouldn't do to well anyway. WZNJ was doing that format, before they went Urban.
Christian Talk is already covered by Moody and AFR.
Doing Urban Talk might work but WBFZ already has that base covered.
Someone may come along and say try Alternative Rock but I would laugh that one down. This market isn't big enough to support that format.
Playing Blues and Soul music might work but wait that was their format before they went dark. Besides their main DJ's are now working for Uniontown based WVFG 107.5 FM.
We already have Jazz on our local NPR station(s), soon to be WMWI 88.7 FM in Demopolis and Montgomery based WVAS 90.7 FM.
NPR is already covered here.
R.D.P. <><
Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
did anyone consider playing Bluegrass on WJWC? Niche formats like that can keep LPFMs afloat. Mix in a little Hank Sr. and some Elvis and the audience will come. Record 8 hours a day, repeat twice, start over tomorrow. Oh, and throw in a swap shop/tradio show in the morning with a 4-5 PM replay and the obligatory Sunday morning church services followed by a three hour Gospel show.
If the station wasn't in Demopolis, I'd be interested in acquiring it, but I'm not in a position to just pull up my roots and relocate right now... unless she's half my age and cute enough!
did anyone consider playing Bluegrass on WJWC? Niche formats like that can keep LPFMs afloat. Mix in a little Hank Sr. and some Elvis and the audience will come. Record 8 hours a day, repeat twice, start over tomorrow. Oh, and throw in a swap shop/tradio show in the morning with a 4-5 PM replay and the obligatory Sunday morning church services followed by a three hour Gospel show.
If the station wasn't in Demopolis, I'd be interested in acquiring it, but I'm not in a position to just pull up my roots and relocate right now... unless she's half my age and cute enough!
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You can't legally LMA an LPFM, but you can donate it to another nonprofit.
Doing "what everyone else does" really wasn't the intent of the LPs. It was supposed to be for community programming, and/or niche formats that the commercial stations aren't likely to do. Poledo's bluegrass format is a good example of that. Easy listening might be another for a lot of markets. LPFMs are noncommercial, so you need underwriters and donations.
I wish some of these LPFM owners had an IQ over 29 and would at least try to find someone else to take them. They can be operated for less than $500 a month in some cases. A group near me let their LPFM go silent and abandoned it, yet would not/never did respond to my offer, since I already have a nonprofit in place. I'm not sure I can find a frequency for and LPFM to serve the Lafayette/Chaires communities just a bit east of Tallahassee, but I'd love to. Chaires still has farms and agriculture and is prone to flooding..but there's nothing on the radio for them. Even when the roads are flooded and impassable. And there's an elementary school there..but no financial district.
I know R.D.P. has a strong desire to do radio in his small hometown of Selma. LPFM is going to be the only way us poor folks will ever have a chance to do that. (There may be a filing window next summer.)
You can't legally LMA an LPFM, but you can donate it to another nonprofit.
Doing "what everyone else does" really wasn't the intent of the LPs. It was supposed to be for community programming, and/or niche formats that the commercial stations aren't likely to do. Poledo's bluegrass format is a good example of that. Easy listening might be another for a lot of markets. LPFMs are noncommercial, so you need underwriters and donations.
I wish some of these LPFM owners had an IQ over 29 and would at least try to find someone else to take them. They can be operated for less than $500 a month in some cases. A group near me let their LPFM go silent and abandoned it, yet would not/never did respond to my offer, since I already have a nonprofit in place. I'm not sure I can find a frequency for and LPFM to serve the Lafayette/Chaires communities just a bit east of Tallahassee, but I'd love to. Chaires still has farms and agriculture and is prone to flooding..but there's nothing on the radio for them. Even when the roads are flooded and impassable. And there's an elementary school there..but no financial district.
I know R.D.P. has a strong desire to do radio in his small hometown of Selma. LPFM is going to be the only way us poor folks will ever have a chance to do that. (There may be a filing window next summer.)
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Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
Oh No say it isn't so. ;D
Oh No say it isn't so. ;D
Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
It's Demopolis, I can assure you she isn't.
I'm not well versed on LPFM rules but as I understand it, there's just not much you can do to move an LPFM with a minor modification request. They really can't go anywhere. That's important since the transmit site is actually east enough of Demopolis to really not cover Demopolis from where it is. It's decidedly rural and I doubt much could be done to move it to the big D short of a major move during a filing window.
The problem with that is LPFMs can't really run commercial programming. So it would either have to all be done in-house or be a part time thing. Short of local sports and community affairs programming, I'm not sure what secular speech programming could be pulled off on an LPFM station.
WMWI. Do you know for sure if Miles College is going to do NPR on that? I'm thinking it might be something different. Miles is a historically black college so they may have some other ideas for the station along the lines of WVAS in Montgomery (who is now running three urban feeds via HD).
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It's Demopolis, I can assure you she isn't.
I'm not well versed on LPFM rules but as I understand it, there's just not much you can do to move an LPFM with a minor modification request. They really can't go anywhere. That's important since the transmit site is actually east enough of Demopolis to really not cover Demopolis from where it is. It's decidedly rural and I doubt much could be done to move it to the big D short of a major move during a filing window.
R.D.P. said:
The problem with that is LPFMs can't really run commercial programming. So it would either have to all be done in-house or be a part time thing. Short of local sports and community affairs programming, I'm not sure what secular speech programming could be pulled off on an LPFM station.
R.D.P. said:
WMWI. Do you know for sure if Miles College is going to do NPR on that? I'm thinking it might be something different. Miles is a historically black college so they may have some other ideas for the station along the lines of WVAS in Montgomery (who is now running three urban feeds via HD).
Re: WJWC LP Demopolis
Awe come on, there must be a hand full of belles in Demopolis. All you need to do is convince them that they can do better than their "high school sweetheart" who's got him a job for the city or maybe down at the Piggly Wiggly. If daddy is rich enough and brings his baby girl back home after college to "learn or possibly take over the family business" (you know girls are getting the opportunity to take jobs away from their brothers now-a-days.. and boys are turning into fools by running off across the country to chase down a girl that is not good enough for the effort or cost). It makes me feel like a dirty old man talking to girls 10-15 years younger than I am but I was always taught that once they turn 21 they become fair game for anyone.... Might as well be me... and a pre-nup.
Zach said:poledo said:
It's Demopolis, I can assure you she isn't.
Awe come on, there must be a hand full of belles in Demopolis. All you need to do is convince them that they can do better than their "high school sweetheart" who's got him a job for the city or maybe down at the Piggly Wiggly. If daddy is rich enough and brings his baby girl back home after college to "learn or possibly take over the family business" (you know girls are getting the opportunity to take jobs away from their brothers now-a-days.. and boys are turning into fools by running off across the country to chase down a girl that is not good enough for the effort or cost). It makes me feel like a dirty old man talking to girls 10-15 years younger than I am but I was always taught that once they turn 21 they become fair game for anyone.... Might as well be me... and a pre-nup.
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3.5 miles, thank you Alan for that. Gallion is about 8.5 miles east of Demopolis, so I doubt moving it closer would work. I'm also being told by a reputable source that you can fit two LPFMs in the area you mentioned earlier, Alan.
Now things get interesting. Here's what I've learned so far about WJWC and why they went under. The owner wasn't keeping a regular schedule and didn't have any EAS equipment. There was a consulting engineer who was wanting to get the station and broker it for a fee, a guy who is big on Christian community radio type programming. (Which to me means piped in from some mega church elsewhere and NOT local but I digress.)
Anyway this guy apparently scared the owner into thinking he would be on the hook for tens of thousands in fines for not participating in the recent national EAS test. This scared the owner and rather than turn the license over to the Christian broadcaster, he just deleted the license before anyone with a lick of friggin' sense could talk to him.
To recap, a small community loses its only local voice and the Christian Radio advocate doesn't get another station to broker. Way to go! :
3.5 miles, thank you Alan for that. Gallion is about 8.5 miles east of Demopolis, so I doubt moving it closer would work. I'm also being told by a reputable source that you can fit two LPFMs in the area you mentioned earlier, Alan.
Now things get interesting. Here's what I've learned so far about WJWC and why they went under. The owner wasn't keeping a regular schedule and didn't have any EAS equipment. There was a consulting engineer who was wanting to get the station and broker it for a fee, a guy who is big on Christian community radio type programming. (Which to me means piped in from some mega church elsewhere and NOT local but I digress.)
Anyway this guy apparently scared the owner into thinking he would be on the hook for tens of thousands in fines for not participating in the recent national EAS test. This scared the owner and rather than turn the license over to the Christian broadcaster, he just deleted the license before anyone with a lick of friggin' sense could talk to him.
To recap, a small community loses its only local voice and the Christian Radio advocate doesn't get another station to broker. Way to go! :
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