Have seen reports that WMJQ-1450 Milford, PA is now on the air.
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WMJQ-1450
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Doing what? What's their format?
According to developer Bud Williamson his brand new AM/FM combo WMJQ broadcasting from their Moonvalley road location in Milford, Pa will be going on-air within the next few days.
Formats will include music and local news with mixed programming 24/7.
So their you have-it boys and girls, let's get those resume' and tapes ready Bud will be looking for qualified
talents in all areas, perhaps?
Formats will include music and local news with mixed programming 24/7.
So their you have-it boys and girls, let's get those resume' and tapes ready Bud will be looking for qualified
talents in all areas, perhaps?
WMJQ-1450AM/WMJQ-106.9FM, I forgot to throw that in!
Wonderful place. Have been through Milford many times to and from my sister's home in the Catskills.
Neat to see a standalone, brand-new AM and an FM -- two omni stations -- pop up.
Me being a purist (and a DXer
I find that loophole of finding 1450 to be a nice traditional touch. That suggests earnestness. (It would have been great to see them and WDLC, next to each other on the dial, have at it long ago.)
It was reported that WALL 1340 Middletown, 20 or so miles northeast, recently had begun local programming after having shorn itself of some simulcast commitments. Perhaps there's a renaissance of those class IV AM stations afoot in the old-line smaller-market and spa spots. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has 1240, 1340 and 1400 ..... Atlantic City has 1230, 1340, 1400, 1450 and 1490 ..... the Catskills have 1240, 1340 and 1490 (Kingston or Jervis) ......
Best of fortune to Mr. Williamson! And that was some terrific engineering work to get *two* omni stations shoehorned as proximate to NYC and Philly as that.
Neat to see a standalone, brand-new AM and an FM -- two omni stations -- pop up.
Me being a purist (and a DXer
I find that loophole of finding 1450 to be a nice traditional touch. That suggests earnestness. (It would have been great to see them and WDLC, next to each other on the dial, have at it long ago.)It was reported that WALL 1340 Middletown, 20 or so miles northeast, recently had begun local programming after having shorn itself of some simulcast commitments. Perhaps there's a renaissance of those class IV AM stations afoot in the old-line smaller-market and spa spots. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has 1240, 1340 and 1400 ..... Atlantic City has 1230, 1340, 1400, 1450 and 1490 ..... the Catskills have 1240, 1340 and 1490 (Kingston or Jervis) ......
Best of fortune to Mr. Williamson! And that was some terrific engineering work to get *two* omni stations shoehorned as proximate to NYC and Philly as that.
Great call letters too. WMJQ once belonged to the FM sister of News-Talk WBEN-AM Buffalo (originally owned by the Buffalo Evening News). The FM has a monster signal, with 110kW on 102.5. WMJQ replaced the WBEN-FM call letters, which are now assigned to BEN in Philly.
WMJQ was locally owned by Algonquin, which sold WBEN-WMJQ to Keymarket, which merged with River City and was later purchased by Sinclair Radio, which sold to Entercom. (Got that? There may be a quiz.) Entercom gave up the WMJQ call letters and switched to WTSS, which allegedly stand for "Star" 102 point 5, which does Hot AC.
Prior to their years in Buffalo, WMJQ was held by an FM in Rochester that did AOR and CHR as "Magic" and later switched to Country. It's now the market leading WBEE, owned by Entercom.
Irony of ironies, News-Talk WBEN-AM recently began simulcasting on 107.7 (which used to be The Lake, WLKK.) They could really use the WBEN-FM call letters, but that ship has sailed.
WMJQ was locally owned by Algonquin, which sold WBEN-WMJQ to Keymarket, which merged with River City and was later purchased by Sinclair Radio, which sold to Entercom. (Got that? There may be a quiz.) Entercom gave up the WMJQ call letters and switched to WTSS, which allegedly stand for "Star" 102 point 5, which does Hot AC.
Prior to their years in Buffalo, WMJQ was held by an FM in Rochester that did AOR and CHR as "Magic" and later switched to Country. It's now the market leading WBEE, owned by Entercom.
Irony of ironies, News-Talk WBEN-AM recently began simulcasting on 107.7 (which used to be The Lake, WLKK.) They could really use the WBEN-FM call letters, but that ship has sailed.
Drove through Port Jervis and Milford just a few hours ago (early afternoon Sat June 4th) on the way home from the Catskills.
WMJQ 1450 was not on the air. There was nothing on 1450 on the trek from Monticello NY until tune-out, somewhere west of it all on the stretch of I-84 into Scranton. I had caught a few traces of unreadable static from what might've been WKIP Poughkeepsie, along that great, scenic, cantering road called 42.
I'd forgotten the FM frequency for WMJQ, sri. So I couldn't check for how this startup FM was getting along.
But 96.7 Port Jervis was nowhere to be found, either. There was no solid station at all there on the little Topaz stock radio. En route home from the Catskills and resting for coffee in that great, well-cultinated strip of highway between Jervis and Milford where that big bluff is, I instead heard a 'K-Love' ID.
A flippin' K-Love ID. That's gotta be the move-in station originally from Stamford CT which wants to become a New York City local.
WMJQ 1450 was not on the air. There was nothing on 1450 on the trek from Monticello NY until tune-out, somewhere west of it all on the stretch of I-84 into Scranton. I had caught a few traces of unreadable static from what might've been WKIP Poughkeepsie, along that great, scenic, cantering road called 42.
I'd forgotten the FM frequency for WMJQ, sri. So I couldn't check for how this startup FM was getting along.
But 96.7 Port Jervis was nowhere to be found, either. There was no solid station at all there on the little Topaz stock radio. En route home from the Catskills and resting for coffee in that great, well-cultinated strip of highway between Jervis and Milford where that big bluff is, I instead heard a 'K-Love' ID.
A flippin' K-Love ID. That's gotta be the move-in station originally from Stamford CT which wants to become a New York City local.
Last week I listened to MJQ. Half-hour blocks of 70's and 80's music. No spots, no news. ID by a middle-aged sounding woman who says Milford, Pen-SUH-vain-yuh. Must be her first radio job.
Were you getting the FM or AM, Coz?
I was listenting to 1450, Steve.
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