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WVEZ and WRKA city of liscense swap?

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the_scoop

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I was casually listening to Lite 106.9 yesterday and noticed the top of the hour jingle that so prominently sings "Loo-uh-vul" had a new insert before it. The station voice talent now inserts "WVEZ, St. Matthews" and I believe the existing jingle plays with "Loo-uh-vul" as it normally does.

Sooooo, I listened to WRKA this morning on the way to work and lo and behold the "St. Matthews" is missing from the jingle at the top of the hour. Can't remember the last time I heard that in their jingle since I listen to them a few times a week, so it may have been gone a while.

Whatever the case, I'm trying to make some sense of this. I know the plan was to move WRKA's COL to Lyndon or Prospect, but I'm trying to figure the VEZ part out. My guess is moving VEZ to St. Matthews takes care of commitments to St. Matthews and now WRKA can move ahead with the long rumored plans to upgrade the signal to 50K. Thing is, I can't figure out how 103.1 can gain an increase in power without at least one additional station move in southern Kentucky as possibly Evansville, Indiana. UNLESS, there is a plan to move the 103.1 frequency somewhere else or a lot of station moves are going to take place.

Someone can clear this up I expect. Greg?
 
the_scoop said:
Prospect, but I'm trying to figure the VEZ part out. My guess is moving VEZ to St. Matthews takes care of commitments to St. Matthews and now WRKA can move ahead with the long rumored plans to upgrade the signal to
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You can't delete a community's only radio station, so if WRKA changes its city of license then some other station has to change to St. Matthews. The change is strictly clerical/legal (and to the ID, as you noticed!).

50K. Thing is, I can't figure out how 103.1 can gain an increase in power without at least one additional station move in southern Kentucky as possibly Evansville, Indiana. UNLESS, there is a plan to move the 103.1 frequency somewhere else or a lot of station moves are going to take place.
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WRKA has a permit to move (very) roughly ten miles east and increase power to 23kw/169m, I guess that would be Class C2 unless the site is in Indiana in which case the same power is Class B... I don't see any other Louisville-licensed stations at that site but there could be something licensed to one of the suburbs on that tower.

The Evansville station doesn't have any changes pending but I'd imagine WRKA's move east will take care of that issue.
 
uh...WRKA's top of hour LEGAL ID falls at approximately 10 minutes BEFORE the hour. "Streaming online at wrka dot com...this is 103.1 WRKA, St. Matthews, Louisville...U-S-A!" It's been that way for nearly 10 years.

Near the top of the hour, you'll hear a jingle: "103.1 WRKA, Loo-uh-vul!." Just a jingle...not the LEGAL ID.
 
mkillion said:
uh...WRKA's top of hour LEGAL ID falls at approximately 10 minutes BEFORE the hour. "Streaming online at wrka dot com...this is 103.1 WRKA, St. Matthews, Louisville...U-S-A!" It's been that way for nearly 10 years.

Near the top of the hour, you'll hear a jingle: "103.1 WRKA, Loo-uh-vul!." Just a jingle...not the LEGAL ID.
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WRRS/Cullman, AL (now WYDE) used to do that. They would ID about :55 past as WRRS Cullman-Birmingham and at :00 as WRRS-Birmingham
 
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