What will happen to 107.5 WGPR come January 1, 2020??

[Mega Hertz]

But where am I gonna hear about how cool you are? How much stuff you have? How much pot you smoke? This is an outrage. I am outraged.

[Ben Zonia]

Maybe EMF will buy them and put WDKL on it and spin off 102.7? With a full market signal, do they really need the translators? Maybe FLR or EMF will buy it and sell their translators to WJR/Cumulus? Maybe WJR could buy it and simulcast like WBBM and WCFS? Maybe that would solve the problem of Purple People Meters not picking up their embedded code due to noise?

Whether those ideas are practical, I don't know. But those are the kinds of ideas that they come up with when the outliers here make New Years predictions.

[bmw]

That station has been booming into northern Michigan the past few evenings....I like a little hip hop now and then, but this station - I don't know how anybody can listen to it for any length of time. Maybe I'm just getting old.

[armchair pd]

Maybe WJR could buy it and simulcast like WBBM and WCFS? Maybe that would solve the problem of Purple People Meters not picking up their embedded code due to noise?

This is also my dark horse/wild card pick.

[Ben Zonia]

WDKL moved its TX site to Oak Park about 45 days ago. Coverage in Detroit proper and Wayne and Oakland Counties is better than before. They do still have issues to the west, though.

Entercom and Beasley both have room for another FM without breaching ownership limits. Not sure about Cumulus, since 107.5's service contour overlaps with Cumulus stations in Toledo, Ann Arbor and possibly Flint.

CFR 47 Section 73.3555 has become so complicated by legalese, at the expense of technical considerations, that I can no longer find either a contour level nor a definition of overlap. Am I missing something? It used tto be 70 dBu for FM and 5 mV/m when I was involved with multiple ownership studies. I can find neither 70 nor 3.16 in a search of the document. It's hard to believe they would consider 54, 57, or 60 dBu to constitute overlap. Perhaps this is in another section?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/73.3555

Disclaimer: These scenarios were chosen to be like those outlier year end predictions, without regard to whether they are possible or practical.

[Ben Zonia]

Never saw this one before.

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.mbia.org/reso ... ckages.pdf

The official coverage area of the 0.1 mV/m ground wave contour goes to the Straits of Mackinac.

[fuzzpower]

EMF has the money, but then who would buy 102.7? If the Masons do another LMA, who would it be with? I can’t imagine another format other than some sort of Urban under an LMA. Would Kevin Adell buy it?

Is Cumulus in a buying mood? That’s a long shot.

[MrTaterSalad]

What about Smooth 107.5? I know it has historically been a dying format, but would Smooth Jazz do any worse than Hot 107.5 has been doing billing wise? Furthermore, Smooth Jazz still keeps the urban appeal that WGPR has historically had.

[radiojunkie2002]

Maybe Kevin Adell will buy it. (?) And Yes, me too, I wish it would be an adult R&B smooth classic soul / smooth jazz format. Please.

[Mega Hertz]

The question is, then, what does Beasley do with 105.9? Wouldn't that be quite a bit of overlap between 105.1/105.9 and 105.9/107.5?

[Mega Hertz]

I have to believe another LMA is imminent, most likely with Adell. The Entercom purchase is at the top of my "wish list", as WWJ can be quite flimsy in the Brighton area at night. A full-power FM simulcast would be perfect.