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WQRP Sale closes
- Thread starter gr8oldies
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Probably will be Air1, which is currently piped in via translator daisy chain (88.3 South Vienna --> 103.3 Enon area --> 98.7 Riverside). I wonder if they have made overtures to buy out the portion of the time share currently held by Dayton Public Schools as well. I guess this may put to bed any rumors of them making a move on WYSO if it goes up for sale.
I actually read about this on All Access and was curious if the time share agreement was going to stay in place. If it does indeed stay in place, I would wager that Air1 would land at WQRP. However, if EMF were to buy the other part of the time share, I would think K-Love would end up going on 89.5 and Air 1 would move to 96.9. It seems that EMF tends to place K-Love on better signals primarily and then fill in secondarily with Air1.
A somewhat related question... does anybody know what might have happened to the old music library from the WQRP format prior to the Praise format? My understanding was that it was a CHR type format, and I was curious as to the status of the music library, whether it would be up for sale or donation, etc.
A somewhat related question... does anybody know what might have happened to the old music library from the WQRP format prior to the Praise format? My understanding was that it was a CHR type format, and I was curious as to the status of the music library, whether it would be up for sale or donation, etc.
The old format was Christian CHR "Q 89.5" I believe...I don't know what happened to the music library though. I was wondering what will happen to the studio equipment for the same reasons. Since EMF main studio waivers all their stations, I assume they will install their sat receive gear at the transmitter site atop the 4th street building, or co-locate it at the WDPS studio. I've listened to the switchover between stations, and as far as I can tell it is accomplished by a timer based system that swaps the STL feeds between studios to a shared transmitter as the carrier never drops.
techie2 said:
It appears as business as usual on QRP's website, http://www.praise895.com/ they are looking for funds to support their webstream so I would think they will continue their praise and their rock webstreams even after the sale of the FM License to EMF.
Another sad day in Dayton Radio. It is not surprising this station went to EMF considering one of it;s board members and a former board member were employees of EMF. John Gale was the Regional Rep for them and Amy Bauman (aka Amy Beal on Praise) is stilling morning news anchor on K-Love. I am just a little surprised at managment who said they would never sale to a big time media. I congratulate them on there jump into internet radio but I wonder without the national WIFI Grid up and running yet how long support will come in. It is a shame to see the last station that Harrold owned go to a chain. I will wonde how long it will be before EMF makes an offer to DPS to give up the time share. I do not believe DPS will ever sell out but EMF has deep packets, deeper than QRP ever had. Big congrats go to Former SM Joe Labor he has been the inspiration at the helm of Praise fro the past 3 to 4 years. Joe had really given the station a direction and return God to the station. It was a shame that Joe step down as the GM a few years back and left the helm to the current GM who lacks radio experience and a true vision of non commercial Christian radio. All I can say is good luck and see you on the world wide web. Rest in peace WQRP 89.5 FM may Harrold bless you all from above,
I wonder when this sale actually closes? I noticed some liners pointing listeners to go to a webstream on a new domain name.
It sounds like the station is 100% autopilot. Guess the staff was blown out when the sale was announced, or at least no one was minding the store today because it sounded like they were having STL problems. The signal was very noisy and fading in and out, and I heard audio of a rock station coming in once in a while.
It sounds like the station is 100% autopilot. Guess the staff was blown out when the sale was announced, or at least no one was minding the store today because it sounded like they were having STL problems. The signal was very noisy and fading in and out, and I heard audio of a rock station coming in once in a while.
My understanding is that it is 100% automation. Joe Labor who does mornings on The Praise is now doing mornings in Sideny at Hits 105.5. I am surprised to hear about the signal problems but maybe that has been worked out by now. The station has had ban financial problems and could not afford to keep the staff, Joe was the last full time employee and his position went a few months ago. It is a shame Praise had a great potential but the station has had trouble for a long time. Underwriting in the past few years had decreased and listener support was way down. I know they have hopes of turning it into an internet station but I think until this medium is more mobile they will find out that this is a waste of the money they get from EMF.
Sounds like the sat dish is installed and K-Love is the format that 89.5 will run. The ID is promoting it as K-Love "mornings and evenings on 89.5, and 24 hours a day on 96.9."
I tried using 96.9 this morning to see if the audio matched this morning, but I was getting a "Kiss FM" running Bob and Sheri on that frequency. Tropo must have been up. I wonder if those Springfield translators were getting that as well.
I tried using 96.9 this morning to see if the audio matched this morning, but I was getting a "Kiss FM" running Bob and Sheri on that frequency. Tropo must have been up. I wonder if those Springfield translators were getting that as well.
gr8oldies said:
You would think EMF would care to turn off their translators if that was the case.. Isn't there some rule against broadcasting someone else's signal? Even more so would EMF really want their listeners to hear Kiss instead of "K-Love" Can you imagine some of their listeners may run into a wall if they heard Michael Bolton and Celine Dion instead of the latest K-Love fare?
gr8oldies said:
FCC rules stipulate that a translator is supposed to shut down if the input signal is lost (i.e. if the parent station goes off the air). This is usually done with a "carrier loss" relay output on the receiver side. However, the carrier sense system is usually some sort of RF level detector, so if another strong signal comes in when the parent station is off the air and keeps the detector above threshold, then the carrier sense relay won't close and the translator will stay on the air. Same problem if the parent station is on the air but overridden by another signal due to tropo.
There's nothing on the FCC books regarding overrides by tropo, probably because there's no easy technical solution for it and it happens infrequently. The only method I've heard about to catch tropo events is to use RDS on the parent station and a receiver at the translator site that watches for the the parent station's unique PI code in the RDS data stream and shuts things down if no code or the wrong code is seen.
I had thought that Radio U's contract guy posted on here once that they were using RDS checks, but then one evening their local translator had a carrier on the air but was broadcasting noise and static, so maybe that didn't work so well.
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