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WNGA EZ 105.1
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According to the FCC website: (which sometimes lags reality)
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=26854
There is an application for almost 300 ft. height increase. There are no construction permits issued yet. IIRC there was a LMA involved with this station. As for the "power increase" :
According to the application, they will actually cut the transmitter power but the extra tower height should more than make up for this unless a mountain or two gets in the way. Your mileage (reception) may vary.
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=26854
There is an application for almost 300 ft. height increase. There are no construction permits issued yet. IIRC there was a LMA involved with this station. As for the "power increase" :
gnd said:
According to the application, they will actually cut the transmitter power but the extra tower height should more than make up for this unless a mountain or two gets in the way. Your mileage (reception) may vary.
Okay, I was remembering the application that took the station from class A to C3. That was completed in the last few months. Now they want to raise the height of the antennae to shoot over some of the high terrain. This new application was filed on 3/25/13 and an amendment to the application was filed on 4/04/13. Also, on 4/04/13 a license to cover the first constructions permit (A to C3) was issued.
None of that gives us a reason for them to be off the air. At least according to the FCC, there is no changes to the transmitter site right now. That does not rule how something blowing-up, etc.
The applications are signed by Douglas M. Sutton, Jr. Is he related to Art Sutton?
None of that gives us a reason for them to be off the air. At least according to the FCC, there is no changes to the transmitter site right now. That does not rule how something blowing-up, etc.
The applications are signed by Douglas M. Sutton, Jr. Is he related to Art Sutton?
I was thinking of the class A to class c3 app too, which went from (IIRC) about 1.5k to the current 7k. I haven't heard a station ID recently but the last one I had heard was still for a CoL of Helen, not Clermont. I will have to listen tomorrow.
This latest app seems to be to add ~100m of tower with ~half the power.
IIRC Tugart=Art Sutton somehow.
This latest app seems to be to add ~100m of tower with ~half the power.
IIRC Tugart=Art Sutton somehow.
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Re: WNGA EZ 105.1 Silent as in STA
WNGA I found asked for an STA on 4-09-13 thats means there off the air for now
WNGA I found asked for an STA on 4-09-13 thats means there off the air for now
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Re: WNGA EZ 105.1 when on again C3
WNGA will fill in Gainsville Ga well, maybe a long shot at Athens Ga.
WNGA will fill in Gainsville Ga well, maybe a long shot at Athens Ga.
With 105.1/Helen off, the new translator in Ellijay gets into Dahlonega pretty well. It lasted almost all the way to Cleveland before I lost the station completely.
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W289BF as it is called its Tri States FM translator. it is directional west so it wouldnt be afected if WNEG FM is or is not on th air.
W289BF as it is called its Tri States FM translator. it is directional west so it wouldnt be afected if WNEG FM is or is not on th air.
As long as Terry "Tug" Carter gives input, Ga Carolina will suffer. WNGA is just one horrid example of this. Also, having sales people double as GM is just bad radio. Put all of GACA stations on the bird and let them die quietly. Small market community AM is a relic of a time long gone. Leave NEGa to WCON, WDUN, WCLK, a few others and just turn off everything else.
newsyjunkie said:
While I commend WCON for what they do.. when have you listened to them last? They sound very sloppy and small town.
Im betting the Georgia-Carolina Radio stations Art has sound way better.
Small market community AM may be a relic, but if it works.. why get rid of it?
Someone sounds bitter.
Because it doesn't work. It does not bill well enough to ever support talent long term. Art's studios are old and in disrepair with turn knob boards and old computers. Small town radio can only afford low experienced talent and for some awful reason still read obits. As for community, Sky104 and WNEG still sound great. The others are just small town sound.
WCON has always sounded like you describe, when Bobby Foster leaves, her son's will fix that. WDUN is a three station juggernaught that sounds tight. Joel Williams understands how radio should sound. WCON had the hottest stick in the region, WDUN has three bases covered. Everything else is just static, or should be. There are plenty of powerful signals out of Atlanta, Athens, Greenville and Ashville to give folks something to listen to. Also to be commended for survival is Dean Dyers WRWH. Dyer understands small town radio, where WDUN takes medium market to a large market standard. WCLK holds its own. Strangly enough, every station in the region shines very bright with High School football. They all get it right. Especially WNEG, WRWH and of course WDUN. But the rest of the time the tiny stations are ag reports and obits. The programming models just reak.
Tug is not the visionary Art is and the stations suffer for it. So do the listeners. Art could take a lesson from Joel Williams, always sound bigger than you are, or you will never grow. The Jacobs have always understood that.
If you do like GaCa, you will not grow. Small and medium stations should strive to sound busy, happening and huge. Otherwise, just use network satellites, play spots and automate. Why bother working toward sounding small? Piss on it.
WCON has always sounded like you describe, when Bobby Foster leaves, her son's will fix that. WDUN is a three station juggernaught that sounds tight. Joel Williams understands how radio should sound. WCON had the hottest stick in the region, WDUN has three bases covered. Everything else is just static, or should be. There are plenty of powerful signals out of Atlanta, Athens, Greenville and Ashville to give folks something to listen to. Also to be commended for survival is Dean Dyers WRWH. Dyer understands small town radio, where WDUN takes medium market to a large market standard. WCLK holds its own. Strangly enough, every station in the region shines very bright with High School football. They all get it right. Especially WNEG, WRWH and of course WDUN. But the rest of the time the tiny stations are ag reports and obits. The programming models just reak.
Tug is not the visionary Art is and the stations suffer for it. So do the listeners. Art could take a lesson from Joel Williams, always sound bigger than you are, or you will never grow. The Jacobs have always understood that.
If you do like GaCa, you will not grow. Small and medium stations should strive to sound busy, happening and huge. Otherwise, just use network satellites, play spots and automate. Why bother working toward sounding small? Piss on it.
newsyjunkie said:
Sometimes that small town charm is what makes these stations interesting and listenable. I am so sick and tired of corporate cookie cutter radio.
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