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WPBI goes all classical

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FLjack2

From the "Classical South Florida" website:

Classical South Florida has announced that on Sept. 14, 101.9 FM will become a 24/7 news service. Also on that day, WPBI 90.7 FM will become an all-classical music service. For more information go to the press release: Classical South Florida to expand service in Palm Beach County on September 14, 2011 You can also preview the new 101.9 FM news schedule.

Looks like the NPR news stuff will be on their HD-2 channel and 101.9 is a translator.
Do you think WPBI Palm Beach will be a simulcast of WKCP Miami?
 
Yes it will be a simulcast.

I was just looking at FCC 60dbu signal maps and see how the upcoming changes to the public radio landscape makes sense for Miami-Ft Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. With WKCP and soon WPBI Classical will basically have continuous 60 dbu coverage from Islamorada in the middle Keys to Ft Lauderdale and WPBI will be 60dbu from just north of Lauderdale to Hope Sound.

News/Talk Public radio will reach from the keys to just south of Lake Worth and then the 101.9 translator will cover Lake Worth to north of West Palm Beach.
 
FLjack-HD2, you keep beating me with these threads that I wish I had started.
Were you born with a scanning radio in at least one ear, or was a surgical procedure involved?

I am a lover of classical music, the only genre I typically listen to, and am listening to as I type.
A founding member as well as a continuing supporter of CSF, I question what they are doing.
This is not what they agreed to when the station's transfer was being considered.
On the other hand, many public radio stations have gone all NT on their main channels and moved classical to HD-2's.
NPR newt/talk will still be available throughout Palm Beach county on HD. I remain critical of classical music devotees who are too stubborn to invest in a couple of HD radios, and I must now be just as critical of the news/talk listeners who are about to come out of the woodwork.
I guess Caroline's Classical Variations show is out.
 
Rick Rose 2.0 said:
News/Talk Public radio will reach from the keys to just south of Lake Worth and then the 101.9 translator will cover Lake Worth to north of West Palm Beach.
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Gaps in western PB county and between where 101.9 drops off and WQCS begins, but only for anal og listeners.
I have to put a word in here about a very well thought out NPR station.
When WQCS has news/talk on their main signal, they have classical music on their HD-2 and visa versa, so a dedicated listener to either gets what they want for about 22 or 23 hours per day.
 
WKCP is 90% automated out of Minneapolis, so 90.7 will be the same. These are not really "local" stations, but at least we have Classical on the dial again.
 
AudioAnimal said:
...Minneapolis...
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Minneapolis?
W270AD might have executed their power increase...heard them in Coral Springs today whenever a country station from southwest Florida faded out.
 
The CSF Facebook page page says the switch gets thrown tonight at midnight.
 
Good article from the Sun Sentinel. Note reference to classical programming being fed from Minnesota.
 
Two weeks have passed and WPBI's anal ogue audio still sounds bassey and muffled compared to WKCP or the way W270AD had sounded before.
 
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