Friday, October 29, 2010

WFGX, a Selma translator and a Kiss for the Shoals…

A few quick tidbits of radio information for this Friday evening…  First and foremost WWFA St. Florian has finally debuted its actual format: CHR.  They've picked up the "Kiss FM" branding and signed on with a lengthy robotic voice countdown, followed by a slam of the competition, read with a bad Casey Kasem impersonation.  The competition is WMSR 94.9, licensed to the Tennessee town of Collinwood, which is why it isn't listed on this site.  (Perhaps it is time to include The Shoals as a metro area?)

In translator news, Selma-area W232AN has received a construction permit to move a bit further from Selma and relicense to the community of Suttle.  The power will remain the same but the height will be taller, so coverage shouldn't be affected that much in the Selma area.  Not that this matters as the translator has been silent for a while.  The current location is on CR-27 in Dallas County, between AL-14 and US-80.  The new site is further up AL-14 near the intersection with CR-6.

Finally, for our friends in Mobile, TV station WFGX has added another subchannel to its matrix.  35.3 debuted The Country Channel today.  It's all country music videos, complementing 35.2, which carries general music channel The Cool TV.

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