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WQKV moving from Rochester to Warsaw

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kb9wsl

Saw this ad in my local newspaper recently:
WQKV radio station

On June 22, 2010, an application was filed with the Federal Communications Commission seeking authority to modify the licensed facilities of FM radio station WQKV to operate with a nondirectional antenna and change the station's community of license from Rochester, Indiana to Warsaw, Indiana. The licensee of WQKV is Educational Media Foundation, and the officers and directors are Leslie Marquard, Dan Antonelli, Michael Novak, Darrell Chambliss, Emil J. Kallina II, Larry Moody, David Ferry, Mitch Barnhart, David Pierce, Joseph Miller, David Atkinson, and Virginia Walker. A copy of the minor change application and related material are on file for public inspection at KLVR(FM), 2288 Airport Boulevard, Santa Rosa, California 95403.
 
Hah. Because there's going to be all of 0 people fly out to California to inspect the application. :D
 
This is a K-Love station getting a power increase. The only impact on listeners
is that they will receive a better signal.

It's not the case of a town losing it's hometown station. This is an upgrade.
 
I was aware of the power increase to B1.....they were also going to switch from 88.5 to 88.7 FM...but Pensacola Christian College already has a translator on 88.7 in Warsaw, They and EMF must have done a deal. The FM dial here is Rochester is begining to sound like the AM band a signal on every channel.
 
kb9wsl said:
I was aware of the power increase to B1.....they were also going to switch from 88.5 to 88.7 FM...but Pensacola Christian College already has a translator on 88.7 in Warsaw, They and EMF must have done a deal. The FM dial here is Rochester is begining to sound like the AM band a signal on every channel.
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No deal with PCS was necessary. Full-power stations trump translators.

If W204BC would interfere with the 88.7 WQKV signal, W204BC must change facilities so as to not interfere -- or go off the air. It doesn't matter that the translator was there first.

W204BC doesn't have anything on file to change facilities, so I guess it will just go away...
 
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Why would EMF toss out a larger facility and settle for a Class A, when they coulda had a B1?

Did they not want to build it out? Not have the cash?

I thought Indiana was a very good market for them?

Could they have struck a deal with WFRN?

Frankly, I'd rather have upbeat, less talk K-Love over dreary, overly political WFRN any day.
 
quote"No deal with PCS was necessary. Full-power stations trump translators.

If W204BC would interfere with the 88.7 WQKV signal, W204BC must change facilities so as to not interfere -- or go off the air. It doesn't matter that the translator was there first.

W204BC doesn't have anything on file to change facilities, so I guess it will just go away..."


Translators were made a secondary service because they are nothing
but repeaters of full power radio stations. At the time these rules were
written it was assumed that full power stations had a local studio and
did local programming.

These rules were never intended so that one satellite broadcaster
could use the rules to rub out or off a competitor.

Pensacola is very small compared to EMF. It's kind of like David verses
Goliath except this time Goliath takes his big foot and just squashes David.

I hope I'm wrong about this!!!!!!!
 
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