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WPGG off the air; "Power Pig" country shifts to WTID 101.1/WIJK 1470

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Nate Wesley

WPGG 93.3 has been off the air for several days. WTID 101.1 and WIJK 1470 now are airing the country format in Monroe and Conecuh counties.

Heard the first '101.1, The Power Pig' sounder this weekend. For the actual legal ID, they're going with "101.1 FM, WTID, Repton, Evergreen, Monroeville and Brewton; AM 1470 WIJK, Evergreen." I could nitpick that Monroeville should easily be mentioned before Evergreen, but then I shouldn't assume Monroeville (where WTID's studios are located) is the new/main homebase; 101.1 could simply be simulcasting programming originating from 1470's Evergreen facilities, and not necessarily the other way around.

It'll be interesting to see how they handle advertising and community coverage (news, local sports); WPGG was primarily Conecuh County focused, but most listeners will likely listen to 101.1 transmitting from Monroe County.
 
93.3 has not signed on in Fort Walton yet but it appears that the FCC approved everything for the move last month. The last application filed says that they plan on using WTKE's antenna in FWB and they were granted short spacing with WBLX.

WQUE 93.3 out of N'Awlins is comming in strong here today.
 
Cumulus (or is it still owned by Star Broadcasting?) didn't waste much time taking WPGG off the air, poledo...I think the CP was issued just this past June.

Wonder what they'll do with the new stick in FWB.
 
Nate Wesley said:
Cumulus (or is it still owned by Star Broadcasting?) didn't waste much time taking WPGG off the air, poledo...I think the CP was issued just this past June.
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June 20th, to be exact.

If they worked this quickly to remove the station from the air, getting it signed on could be similarly speedy...well, at least by the fall.
 
Isn't WTID a Reynolds Technical/Rams/Great South RFDC/Great South Wireless/Brantly Broadcast Associates radio station??
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
Isn't WTID a Reynolds Technical/Rams/Great South RFDC/Great South Wireless/Brantly Broadcast Associates radio station??
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Correctamundo...I've seen no online sources that'd signal an ownership change, though that could definitely change and/or be pending. Wasn't part of the WPGG deal that a 'replacement' station would be purchased?

One possibility: there could simply be an LMA-type agreement going. Though I hate country music and had no use for country on 93.3, their crew taking over 101.1 was probably the best thing that could've happened to that signal. 

In one respect, country was 'destined' to come to 101.1--Joe McKissick, local businessman and politician, owned WYNI 930 and the CP to what was to be WYNI-FM.  He once owned the stations and the local "County View" shopper, and for a time advertised "Coming soon--Eagle Country 101.1FM, with Auburn Tigers football." He sold the stations (letting WYNI go dark in the process) before the FM ever signed on.  IIRC, the former WIJK-FM (which had studios in Monroeville at one time) made it's country turn to WPGG about the same time during the early 1990s...and they just happened to become an Auburn Network affiliate too.

With WPGG moving southeast with lower power, shouldn't that open up a possible new startup station within the southwest Alabama area--say maybe 93.5 or 93.7?
 
Reynolds Technical/RAMS/Great South RFDC/Great South Wireless/Brantley Broadcast Associates is all the same company. They are actually all registered with the State Of Alabama as different corporation.

RAMS and Reynolds technical were the names the company used in filing their bazillions of AM Applications back in 2004. The 1490 granted in Level Plains belongs to Reynold's engineer, Virgile Leon Strickland.
 
MikeHolderfield said:
Is Luther still on the air???
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Yep...he broadcast results of the election runoff last Tuesday night.
 
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