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WJZO, Oliver Springs..

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knoxbob

Anyone heard when this new FM will be on the air? The owner of record is out of Florida. I don't know if they have any connections to East Tenn or not. When it comes on the air thwe LP station in Farragut WUCP will have to move to another freq. I think it's 99.9 but the folks at Citadel are claiming it will affect listeners in west Knoxville.
 
The LPFM in Maryville (105.9) has to move as well. They've asked to move to 97.9 which South Central is pitching a fit about.

The owner of the station has a 100KW easy listening station in the Ft. Myers market. He may have signal shocks with a rimshot A in the mountains. He has also bought the FM in LaFollette. So instead of having one crummy signal that doesn't cover the market, he'll have two. And he'll have over 2 million bucks in them by the time he gets built.

I don't think they are particularly close yet.
 
I really wish the FCC would stop shuffling everyone around, and jamming up the FM radio dial by stacking so many radio stations on top of each other.

This is ridiculous! :mad:

Media Consolidation was already bad enough. Corporate Radio has already pretty much ruined the business no thanks to the new ruling that was made back several years ago by the FCC. Just about everything our government touches turns to crap.

Now they go and start stacking stations on top of each other and forcing others to move. I don't think the FCC knows what they are even doing. The FCC is out of control. All the FCC cares about is protecting the self interest and greed of the "Radio Corporates".
 
Wouldn't the WDVX translator in downtown Knoxville on 105.9 have to move too?

It doesn't seem like a good idea for WUCP to be on 99.9 anyway. I get a fairly decent signal of 99.9 Kiss Country all over town. Maybe they should drop it down a notch to 99.7. That would probably please Citadel too.

Speaking of translators. I haven't heard the 107.3 signal lately. Has someone finally complained that they have been pumping too much juice into that signal. They sure do/did have quite a range for only being 10 watts.
 
RMarino said:
Speaking of translators. I haven't heard the 107.3 signal lately. Has someone finally complained that they have been pumping too much juice into that signal. They sure do/did have quite a range for only being 10 watts.
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I think if they moved the 107.3 translator back one notch to 107.1, that it would work ok.
 
Maybe they should drop it down a notch to 99.7. That would probably please Citadel too.


That would be a third agency to 99.1. The FCC is banned by congressional action from allowing LPFM's short spaced on third adjacencies. but the law said nothing about second adjacencies, so the FCC staff themselves is suggesting the second adjacencies. 99.9 is a bad frequency because of Asheville. And if the Maryville church moves to 97.9, they'll just have to move again in a couple of years, because there is a 97.9 allocation in McMinn County set for the next auction.


Both the Maryville and Farragut applicants knew there was a 106.1 allocation for Oliver Springs before they built. They knew the rules would bump them when it got built. They chose to go on knowing those things. Sympathy is out of order.
 
""Speaking of translators. I haven't heard the 107.3 signal lately. Has someone finally complained that they have been pumping too much juice into that signal. They sure do/did have quite a range for only being 10 watts.""

I wish someone would blow the lid off the financial arrangement on that deal. By law, the translator can get no financial support from anyone connected with 92.7. The owner lives in Bosie, Idaho and I'm sure isn't keeping it on as a ministry. So someone is leasing that translator for 92.7 and I'm guessing that person has more than a passing interest in the KCC.
 
Update on WJZO in Oliver Springs, they are expected to start up in early 2009. I was told they would be on New Years Day, but they did not.
WUCP LP FM 106.1 in Farragut will move to 99.9 due to JZO taking the 106.1 freq. We, WUCP, received approval from the FCC to move in December 2008 after being held up by a formal protest by WNOX 100.3 to our application to move to 99.9.
The FCC rejected each point that WNOX filled on and approved our move to 99.9, a frequency that the FCC suggested we file for.

We will continue to broadcast on 106.1 until JZO comes on the air. More details on this on our website at www.wucplp.com
 
Any ETA on WJZO signing on? WLHR-LP in Maryville moved from 105.9 to 97.9 back in late Dec./early Jan. but WUCP-LP is still at 106.1 and not moved to 99.9. What's WJZO's new format going to be? Hopefully, not country since we already lost 93.1 (R.I.P., the 80's). Why does it take over a year after their CP was approved by the FCC to sign on? Curious minds want to know!
 
I figured it was getting close when WLHR vacated 105.9 and the WDVX translator also vacated 105.9 right around the same time. But now, months later, the WDVX downtown translator is BACK ON at 105.9.

The only reason for the delay has to be money. Maybe start-up funds are running low at WJZO?
 
Elkhosen said:
What's WJZO's new format going to be? Hopefully, not country since we already lost 93.1 (R.I.P., the 80's). Why does it take over a year after their CP was approved by the FCC to sign on? Curious minds want to know!
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Smooth jazz
 
They've got three years to build it, and if I had the CP I would hold off for a while. I wouldn't want to come on as a bottom feeder right now. With the existing clusters off 25-30 percent, the big boys are down chasing the crumbs a little A would have to live on.

Plus they own the LaFollette FM now, and they might be trying to figure out how to improve that signal so they can have two bad signals instead of just one.
 
I skipped through most of the thread, so sorry if this is mentioned.... it cant be on 99.9 for 3 reasons,,, Way to close to WOKI on 100.3,,,I mean WNOX COUGH COUGH... also WKSF Asheville comes in fine in knoxville unless your near Sharps Ridge and even makes it fringed into southern Kentucky.... the third reason, another station in South East Kentucky is supposed to sign on 99.9.........
 
Sorry, but it's moving to 99.9 on the instructions of the FCC. LPFM's are barred by Congress from infringing on 3rd adjacent channels so the FCC is moving them to second adjacent. Farragut is way out of WKSF's protected contour. 105.9 in Maryville has already gone to 97.9, way too close to WJXB.

As for a new SEKY station in the future, the FCC doesn't care. Both 105.9 and 106.1 LPFM's were licensed after 106.1 was allocated to Oliver Springs and the Maryville station has been moved to 97.9 even though there is an allocation in McMinn County for that frequency that will force them to move again.

As long as every church gets to have a frequency, interference doesn't matter.
 
Stupid FCC,,,, they b.tch about pirates, but authorize all these LPFMs and Church stations in areas that block out listenable signals,,,, And BTW,,,,, I didnt want to mention it before, but its my cousin thats at that 98.1 pirate, and that was my idea to fill the void for 80s and early 90s music that WOKI left many years ago,,, he has applied for a LPFM and has the money to do it, but we will probably all be dead by the time that happens... And it isnt Comcast Music,,,, its his own personal collection of 45s and CDs transferred to Mp3...... And BTW,,,, he is also a Knox County Sherriff and a former Woki employee himself, though this was during the Eagle 100 era...... I cant say no more, Ive said to much already.
 
Looks like WUCP moved to 99.9 a couple days ago and WJZO is testing with a quiet signal at 106.1. From just running errands today, WJZO's a fairly strong signal into Karns, Farragut, Cedar Bluff and Walker Springs areas. Not sure how far east they'll go. Doubt it's going to be smooth jazz. That format is on the way out. Just hope it's not another country station... ugh!
 
It looks like WJZO is set to debut on March 1st. The format still has yet to be announced. Wouldn't it be a hoot if it turns out to be another Christian station?

I'm still curious why WDVX is still on 105.9 in downtown while they made WLHR move even though Maryville is further away from Oliver Springs.
 
Yeah, I've always wondered why WDVX needed a 102.9 translator atop Sharps Ridge and a 105.9 downtown -- just redundant. Also wonder why 105.9 is still on-air now. Well, maybe WJZO will be something interesting. Though the way radio in Knoxville's been going, I'm sure it will be some format we already have... BORING!
 
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