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by ftballfan
Mon Apr 24, 2023 6:40 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: Look at all the FCC silent notifications in N. Michigan...
Replies: 54
Views: 8999

Re: Look at all the FCC silent notifications in N. Michigan...

I wouldn't be surprised if most if not all of these stations either have their licenses cancelled or get sold to a noncommercial entity within the next couple of years. IMHO, moving 106.3 from Ludington to TC has to be one of the worst moves in Michigan radio history. Not only did the 106.3 frequenc...
by ftballfan
Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: What Does the Fox Say? Goodbye...
Replies: 82
Views: 23195

Re: What Does the Fox Say? Goodbye...

92.5 is back on the air playing 80's adult contemporary music.Not simulating any other station.Iding as WFDX Atlanta.Singal is coming in quite well in the greater Traverse City area. Ditto. Filed resumption of service notice with the FCC today: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/publ...
by ftballfan
Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:13 pm
Forum: Everywhere Else
Topic: EMF acquires WTSS Buffalo and WLFP Memphis from Audacy
Replies: 11
Views: 1997

Re: EMF acquires WTSS Buffalo and WLFP Memphis from Audacy

In Memphis, Audacy will move the Wolf format from 94.1 to 99.7, which runs grandfathered power (300kW)
by ftballfan
Sun Apr 09, 2023 12:55 am
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: WZZM newscast from 1966!
Replies: 8
Views: 1653

WZZM newscast from 1966!

Came across this on YouTube today!

by ftballfan
Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:59 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: Blarney Stone Broadcasting
Replies: 26
Views: 6002

Re: Blarney Stone Broadcasting

In reality, Finster was their engine in this market, Can't say for sure,but from all the little tibits I've heard,it strongly sounds like Finster was fired by Blarney Stone. Just a random thought from a guy who is not in the radio biz, Would it be feasible or make sense for Smile FM to purchase the...
by ftballfan
Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WOMC HD WYCD HD
Replies: 36
Views: 4420

Re: WOMC HD WYCD HD

102.9 WWWW has now added HD. The HD2 is a simulcast of 1050 WTKA. I noticed this on Friday (3/24) evening when driving through Ann Arbor. I wonder when they turned it on. Speaking of turning on HD, both 102.3 and 106.5 in the Toledo area have turned on HD within the past few months (with 106.5 havi...
by ftballfan
Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:18 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: Something brewing in Chicago?
Replies: 10
Views: 1455

Re: Something brewing in Chicago?

If this happens in Chicago, could we see a three-way call sign change?
96.3 (currently WBBM-FM) becomes WBMX-FM (while keeping the B96 name with a format shift)
104.3 (currently WBMX-FM) becomes WSCR-FM (new simulcast of 670)
105.9 (currently WCFS-FM) becomes WBBM-FM (keeps simulcast of 780)
by ftballfan
Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: T-Town radio predictions 2023
Replies: 35
Views: 3457

Re: T-Town radio predictions 2023

Strong Tower Radio purchase's the 103.3 Translator from Fusion. Don't know how I came up with this but I'll throw it in the mix. The only thing crazier would be WMTR buying the 103.3 translator, leasing an HD subchannel, and running a simulcast of 96.1 (including the Tigers) on it (both the leased ...
by ftballfan
Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:45 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: Another victim of Clownsquare budget cuts...
Replies: 24
Views: 5367

Re: Another victim of Clownsquare budget cuts...

Sounds like Clownsquare is ruining the Grand Rapids cluster, just like they've done with Flint. Isn't Grand Rapids their largest market? I think I remember seeing somewhere that GR is their largest market and now they only have a handful of local jocks outside of FB&HW in a cluster with four full-p...
by ftballfan
Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Bear Lake Allotment Reinstated
Replies: 4
Views: 1150

Re: Bear Lake Allotment Reinstated

ADD in TC wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:54 pm
Guessing,if this station goes back on air @100.7,it would displace Good News Media's Cadillac translator.
Depending on where the full power site would be located. If it were located near Bear Lake (or roughly anywhere west of US-31), the translator could stay.
by ftballfan
Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:58 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WOMC HD WYCD HD
Replies: 36
Views: 4420

Re: WOMC HD WYCD HD

MWmetalhead wrote:
Thu Mar 16, 2023 7:46 am
Did WUOM ever have an HD2?
I thought they did once upon a time. I want to say it aired BBC World News, but I could be wrong.
I know WGVU had HD2 (oldies) and HD3 (jazz), but they're down to HD1 only. I'm surprised they're still HD (WGVS-FM has never run HD AFAIK)
by ftballfan
Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:52 pm
Forum: Grand Rapids/West Michigan
Topic: City of Grand Haven evicts WGHN-FM from tower due to lease violations
Replies: 58
Views: 10515

Re: City of Grand Haven evicts WGHN-FM from tower due to lease violations

93.1 is back on the air with Strong Tower now. I'm not sure what day they appeared on the air once again as I haven't paid very close attention - as a DXer, there is little reason to tune in until April - but it was certainly turned on quite recently. The signal is poor, much like WGHN, but is wors...
by ftballfan
Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:28 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: Kevin Essebaggers leaving for CMU
Replies: 42
Views: 12557

Re: Kevin Essebaggers leaving for CMU

TC Talks wrote:
Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:52 pm
whitebalance wrote:
Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:48 pm
And a poor $$$ one.
For you. I was hiring a business manager recently and the applications from big cities to work for a measley $70k were overwhelming. Sometimes money isn't the most important thing.
Also money goes a little farther outside of big cities.
by ftballfan
Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:27 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WOMC HD WYCD HD
Replies: 36
Views: 4420

Re: WOMC HD WYCD HD

May have spoken too soon about WITL. Its HD is now off and the 95.3 and 95.9 translators are silent. Good for Townsquare. Two fewer Jesus music drones with zero local content to clog up the dial. What I think is really a waste of electricity is using HD on a spoken word format like WUOM (which has ...
by ftballfan
Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:47 pm
Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
Topic: WOMC HD WYCD HD
Replies: 36
Views: 4420

Re: WOMC HD WYCD HD

If the side channels can be used to feed an analog FM translator that can be self-sufficient from a revenue standpoint, fine. If they can be used to simulcast an AM sister station, fine. These moves should've happened much sooner, in all honesty. Or to fill in holes in a sister FM's coverage area (...