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WKJA-91.9 FM Brunswick

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Tim L

As My wife and I were grocery shopping in the Raff Road/Whipple Avenue area of Canton I caught what appears to be a new station on 91.9..Coming in very strong where we were..Some Teaching and Praise Music..The Flagship is KRTM in Palm Springs..It identified as WKJA Brunswick, Ohio
 
WKJA is a 25 kWer that does pretty well in most of Akron, at least on car radios. The stick is north of Wooster on Rt. 83, just close enough to Brunswick to put the required city grade signal into said community.

Heard a legal ID with KRTM/88.1 Yucca Valley CA as primary, three simulcasters in the area, then a separate legal ID for WKJA. The station is not otherwise mentioning WKJA, and I assume the legal here is not airing on KRTM et al.

The station's presence removes 91.9 as a regular pirate radio frequency in Akron, so the "WCUE Pirate" will have to show up somewhere else on the dial next time he fires up...
 
I'm getting the station very well on a couple of my radios at home..Wertz Avenue off 9th Street in Southwest Canton near Aultman Hospital-about a block or two from Raff Road/West Tusc..
 
Wow, up here on the Cleveland-Brook Park border, near I-480 and West 150th, 91.9 is a real mess, sounds like 3 stations on there battling it out when you're driving in the area. I know we have K-LOVE or Air1 or something closer in to Cleveland on 91.9, which also is religious. I heard two stations with music and one once in a while with a woman talking trying to get in there. A second of this then a second of that, and sometimes like a rumble almost what you hear on AM graveyard channels.
 
I know there are some K-Love/Air1 translators in that area of the dial.

One is 91.7/Wadsworth, the K-Love translator for Akron that's on the WONE/97.5 tower. In that part of town, the new 91.9 gets some hash from the K-Love translator.

Brook Park is probably a bit too far north for this 25 kW/B1 to have much of an impact.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
I know there are some K-Love/Air1 translators in that area of the dial.

One is 91.7/Wadsworth, the K-Love translator for Akron that's on the WONE/97.5 tower.  In that part of town, the new 91.9 gets some hash from the K-Love translator.

Brook Park is probably a bit too far north for this 25 kW/B1 to have much of an impact.
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I was sitting in the parking lot at Wal-Mart at Canton Centre while my wife was getting some perscriptions when I first heard the station..They had a teaching program on..When I heard music about 4PM, I thought it might be KLove, but they dont do teaching programs as far as I know..The outer edge of the broadcast map that Nathan had earlier appears to be Brookpark/Strongsville, Though Akron and Canton are also outside the circle..Cant always go by the map though..The company that owns the station is connected to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa..
 
Dave Sarnoff said:
Tim L said:
I was sitting in the parking lot at Wal-Mart at Canton Centre while my wife was getting some perscriptions
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Wal Mart? Shame on you.
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Well, there is this one area blogger that refers to it as the Evil Big Box Store(tm) 8)
 
I am not at all pleased with the FCC cramming more stations onto the dial so that can all have interference problems. They seem to be doing it more so in the non-commercial part of the band. They may be having to break some of their own rules... or change them... to do this. Additionally, it's disappointing to see these frequencies so often going to "piped in" broadcasters with no desire to specifically serve the community in which they are licensed.

91.9 FM in Cleveland is 5 watts, from what I've been told, which would make it the smallest station in the EMF "Air One" chain. Yet, their coverage seems awfully good for a measly 5 watts. How did WKJA manage a whopping 25,000 watts in what is supposed to be a frequency-filled, saturated market?
 
johnbasalla said:
I am not at all pleased with the FCC cramming more stations onto the dial so that can all have interference problems. They seem to be doing it more so in the non-commercial part of the band. They may be having to break some of their own rules... or change them... to do this. Additionally, it's disappointing to see these frequencies so often going to "piped in" broadcasters with no desire to specifically serve the community in which they are licensed.

91.9 FM in Cleveland is 5 watts, from what I've been told, which would make it the smallest station in the EMF "Air One" chain. Yet, their coverage seems awfully good for a measly 5 watts. How did WKJA manage a whopping 25,000 watts in what is supposed to be a frequency-filled, saturated market?
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I'm with you on this one. The translator loophole for religious broadcasters needs to be closed.
 
johnbasalla said:
I am not at all pleased with the FCC cramming more stations onto the dial so that can all have interference problems. They seem to be doing it more so in the non-commercial part of the band. They may be having to break some of their own rules... or change them... to do this. Additionally, it's disappointing to see these frequencies so often going to "piped in" broadcasters with no desire to specifically serve the community in which they are licensed.

91.9 FM in Cleveland is 5 watts, from what I've been told, which would make it the smallest station in the EMF "Air One" chain. Yet, their coverage seems awfully good for a measly 5 watts. How did WKJA manage a whopping 25,000 watts in what is supposed to be a frequency-filled, saturated market?
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This is one hell of a loophole - WKJA literally is wedged in-between the Cleveland and Ashland/Mansfield markets proper.

Quite frankly adding more stations onto an already-crowded spectrum - if only religious broadcasters can benefit - accomplishes nothing but makes the existing weaker stations even weaker. You'd think the FCC got a clue after we all saw how Docket 80-90 turned out...
 
johnbasalla said:
I am not at all pleased with the FCC cramming more stations onto the dial so that can all have interference problems. They seem to be doing it more so in the non-commercial part of the band. They may be having to break some of their own rules... or change them... to do this. Additionally, it's disappointing to see these frequencies so often going to "piped in" broadcasters with no desire to specifically serve the community in which they are licensed.

91.9 FM in Cleveland is 5 watts, from what I've been told, which would make it the smallest station in the EMF "Air One" chain. Yet, their coverage seems awfully good for a measly 5 watts. How did WKJA manage a whopping 25,000 watts in what is supposed to be a frequency-filled, saturated market?
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There is NO WAY that 91.9 in Cleveland is 5 or 10 watts! They broadcast from the cell phone tower at about W 11st, which you see to the right of you as you enter the downtown area on the innerbelt. I have heard that station clearly 15 miles out of town. Even if the bay(s) is hung on a wide part of the tower to reflect the power in a certain direction, it shouldn't be that strong. I smell a rat.
 
W220DM-FM 91.9, Parma is licensed to operate with 10w, but at 346 feet. According to FCC records it's non-directional but because of terrain its signal is strongest to the northwest.
 
The OMW Mobile happened to be in the Wooster area today, so we checked out 91.9's site (on a Crown Castle communications tower just south of Creston) and then, its signal in Wayne County.

And it wasn't nearly as clear as you'd expect less than 10 miles from the transmitter. Lots of interference, and I think I know where it comes from:

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W220BP&service=FX&status=L&hours=U

Yep, the Bible Broadcasting Network folks have a long-standing 45 watt translator on 91.9 in Wooster, and it sounds like they haven't shut it off. They are getting stomped by WKJA, of course, but they are still interfering with flutter in about the area pictured in that R-L map.

BBN, is, of course, not unaware of the problem.

They filed just Monday to move to 91.5 at 38 watts.

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...3259&Service=FX&Form_id=349&Facility_id=83675
 
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