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WOAP Format Change

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WOAP Format Change

Post by Colonel Flagg » Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:48 pm

I'll just leave this here:

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/2125 ... hr-hybrid/

I chuckle when I think about how WOAP's original ham & egger owners would react to this. :rollin

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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Kennelly Heaviside » Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:30 am

Colonel Flagg wrote:
Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:48 pm
I'll just leave this here:

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/2125 ... hr-hybrid/

I chuckle when I think about how WOAP's original ham & egger owners would react to this. :rollin

Merrill Walker, and Art Kinsey were pure sitcom gold.
If I could hear them just drop the stylus at the very beginning of a cue burned 45 again, I'd like that.

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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by kc8yqq » Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:43 am

Is the AM still in stereo?



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by MWmetalhead » Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:59 am

I'll have to check out the online stream.

For what it's worth, I like the new name.



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by MWmetalhead » Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:00 am

Well, the very first song I'm hearing is a really awful mash-up of Papa Roach's "Last Resort" with some other song. It's so bad I had to tune out.

Will sample the station again later.



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Trophyhead » Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:19 am

We are a good 20 years past the era where Art would be hosting an all-request Saturday afternoon, and I could ask for, get and crank up "Cara Mia" by Jay and the Americans in my '77 LeSabre coupe.

Are the WOAP studios still on M-52? I used to travel past them as a kid going through Owosso and was on that route just a couple of weekends ago, that building is not as easy to pick out these days.



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Colonel Flagg » Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:31 pm

Yep. Still on M52.

Canos' agreement with Sima specifies monthly installments of $12,000. I've often wondered if they are able to pull that off, or come close.

The translator is actually licensed to Saginaw, but is on the WOAP tower. I'd be trying to find a way to hang it on a tower in Flint, if that's even a remote possibility.


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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Kennelly Heaviside » Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:57 pm

Townsquare should have filed an interference complaint. Interference within 45 dBu of WQUS 103.1. Captures WQUS 103.1 on I-75.

https://www.fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid= ... 3ebeb7&i=2

https://www.fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid= ... 3ebeb7&i=2


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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:18 pm

Townsquare, sadly, seems to not give two rips about WQUS.

That station has also endured severe interference in NE Oakland County and NW Macomb County from the Family Life Radio translator in Rochester. Places where WQUS previously came in quite well, such as Romeo, Clarkston, Oxford and Lake Orion, now get a mish mash of the two signals to varying degrees.

I would love to know why the Owosso translator chose 103.1 as opposed to 103.3, which is seemingly wide open in that neck of the woods.



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Kennelly Heaviside » Sat Sep 11, 2021 4:00 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:18 pm
Townsquare, sadly, seems to not give two rips about WQUS.

That station has also endured severe interference in NE Oakland County and NW Macomb County from the Family Life Radio translator in Rochester. Places where WQUS previously came in quite well, such as Romeo, Clarkston, Oxford and Lake Orion, now get a mish mash of the two signals to varying degrees.

I would love to know why the Owosso translator chose 103.1 as opposed to 103.3, which is seemingly wide open in that neck of the woods.
The translator was originally licensed to Saginaw, and in the early days, it was sometimes difficult to change frequencies. I don't see offhand why they couldn't be on 103.3 under newer rules, at least at some nearby location. It almost looks like they were trying to destroy WQUS's signal near Flint. For a long time, the Corporate Engineer at Townsquare was out in California, and in my opinion, didn't understand the area and market. Dennis Murray at WKLT, according to several sources, put a translator on the WKLZ tower on 95.5 to destroy the Glen Arbor 95.5 station's fringe signal. Del Reynolds raised Cain and he made them change it to 95.3.

W276CZ original location.

https://www.fccdata.org/?lang=en&appid= ... cid=140015


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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:24 pm

Dennis Murray at WKLT, according to several sources, put a translator on the WKLZ tower on 95.5 to destroy the Glen Arbor 95.5 station's fringe signal. Del Reynolds raised Cain and he made them change it to 95.3.
I definitely subscribe to that theory.



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Colonel Flagg » Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:25 pm

MW, you're a finance guy. What are the chances they are making those 12K per month note payments? :lol


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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Schyster » Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:18 pm

Flipping through the dial this morning and WOAP was airing the La Ponderosa Spanish format. Temporary glitch, or did the Portal lease expire 12/31?



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by ChrisWL1980 » Mon Jan 03, 2022 8:18 pm

I'm in the Lansing area and still hearing the regional Mexican music on 103.1 as of 8:18pm. I understand enough Spanish to know it's a straight WMJH simulcast, commercials and all. No mention of any changes on the WOAP website or Facebook page. They were still airing the Portal format in the early morning of 01/01 - I remember tuning past and hearing Dua Lipa.



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Re: WOAP Format Change

Post by Colonel Flagg » Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:29 pm

ChrisWL1980 wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 8:18 pm
I'm in the Lansing area and still hearing the regional Mexican music on 103.1 as of 8:18pm. I understand enough Spanish to know it's a straight WMJH simulcast, commercials and all. No mention of any changes on the WOAP website or Facebook page. They were still airing the Portal format in the early morning of 01/01 - I remember tuning past and hearing Dua Lipa.
I wonder if this has something to do with Sima. WCXI has been a technical nightmare lately, and was simulcasting WNZK and WPON yesterday. Is it possible that he's in the process of taking back WMJH and WOAP? The description of what's occurring sounds like it. Let's not forget those 12K monthly payments...


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