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WQZL FM 101.1 FM belhaven to change formats?

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Surfdude1061 said:
Looks like 101.1 is off the air right now! While 92.3 is on.
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Dick Broadcasting has filed a silent STA for 101.1 WQZL as of 2/21. Reasons given are financial and the licensee is seeking "all available options to try and preserve the signal". How many times do we see these STAs with similar statements from the licensee and one year later the station license is deleted? I know it's easy for us non-owners to armchair quarterback these decisions - it's not OUR money. Nonetheless, it's sad.

I remember when it was WKJA at 92.1 - never heard it, lived far away from it near Hickory, NC. But a fellow radio employee back in the day was from Belhaven, worked at WJKA, and I believe she returned and lives there today. She gave me one of her WJKA business cards - I hope I still have it in my radio museum box under my bed.
 
eacalhoun1 said:
Dick Broadcasting has filed a silent STA for 101.1 WQZL as of 2/21. Reasons given are financial and the licensee is seeking "all available options to try and preserve the signal". How many times do we see these STAs with similar statements from the licensee and one year later the station license is deleted? I know it's easy for us non-owners to armchair quarterback these decisions - it's not OUR money. Nonetheless, it's sad.

I remember when it was WKJA at 92.1 - never heard it, lived far away from it near Hickory, NC. But a fellow radio employee back in the day was from Belhaven, worked at WJKA, and I believe she returned and lives there today. She gave me one of her WJKA business cards - I hope I still have it in my radio museum box under my bed.
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They will prob pair 101.1 with 105.5? Be my guess!
 
Wow. Not being able to keep that signal on the air is a sad state of affairs. All it did was simulcast 92.3, which still exists in whole.

I’m curious if the station is being sacrificed to send equipment to Myrtle Beach where WYAV is currently only running a few hundred watts. 101.1 has a Nautel transmitter that isn’t too terribly old. Or maybe their site lease with Vertical Bridge is expiring and they’re taking the opportunity to shut down. Or both.
 
eacalhoun1 said:
Dick Broadcasting has filed a silent STA for 101.1 WQZL as of 2/21. Reasons given are financial and the licensee is seeking "all available options to try and preserve the signal". How many times do we see these STAs with similar statements from the licensee and one year later the station license is deleted? I know it's easy for us non-owners to armchair quarterback these decisions - it's not OUR money. Nonetheless, it's sad.

I remember when it was WKJA at 92.1 - never heard it, lived far away from it near Hickory, NC. But a fellow radio employee back in the day was from Belhaven, worked at WJKA, and I believe she returned and lives there today. She gave me one of her WJKA business cards - I hope I still have it in my radio museum box under my bed.
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It's too late to edit but you do mean WKJA in all three cases, right?
 


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