The Wheel rolls out of Dothan, some translator updates, and Montgomery's new sports talk is offically a Ticket

The clever WEEL calls have disappeared in Dothan, much like the signal of the troubled station recently.  Looks like they've picked up the calls WCNF instead.  To be honest, I'm not even sure if this station is on the air yet or still silent.  Anyone know?

Montgomery's WQLS 1210 picked up a translator at 107.5 MHz recently and is now Montgomery's newest FM sports talk station as "The Ticket".  The calls recently changed to match as WTXK.  Well, sort of match.

The translator dances in Huntsville are getting more crowded each day.  This time it's the WEKI/WTKI talk duo that recently returned to the airwaves, picking up their second translator in the area, W232BX in Decatur.  This follows on them picking up a translator in the Huntsville area.  Presumably WEKI feeds the Decatur station and WTKI feeds the Huntsville one.  That means, for one station, you can now tune to them on four different dial positions: 92.9-94.3-1450-1490.  Crazy stuff.

Finally, the off-air-but-the-FCC-is-none-the-wiser translator W286AQ has received a permit to move again, this time from Vance to east of West Blocton in the quaintly-named Belle Ellen area.  The final destination?  Who knows, it's a puzzle.  Bibb County only has one radio station, the aptly named WBIB in Centreville.  And they already have an FM translator.  Birmingham seems to be the direction it's headed, but there's already a (silent but the FCC don't know it) translator on 105.1 in Alabaster.

Mobile-friendly home page for the site now up.

A mobile-friendly low bandwidth version of the site's home page is now available here.  I found the current page to be a bit user-unfriendly for people viewing on small screens, like the wonderful Opera Mini.  The mobile-friendly page is bare bones, with no CSS, javascript, images, etc.

The actual listings are all still huge and unwieldy on the small screen, but hey, it's a start.

Quick recap of recent moves, changes and what-not

Here's a quick rundown of some changes that have occurred recently.  WTAK is off its longtime translator in Huntsville on 106.5 MHz, replaced with the WBHP/WHOS multicast of talk programming.  This follows the move of another duo of AM talkers, WEKI/WTKI, gaining a translator in the area on 92.9 MHz.  And THAT follows big talker WVNN Athens moving to a full(ish) power FM a while back.

This brings the number of AM stations being heard on the FM dial in Huntsville to five.

Down in the big ol' salty Ham (curse you, Nick Nice) Cox's little country outlet WNCB rebrands itself from "New Country" to "The Buck".  The music seems the same.

WTID receives oddball construction permit

WTID, the tiny station licensed to Thomaston, has received yet another construction permit.  It authorizes the station to increase power from 500 watts to 6,300 watts horizontal, 1,260 watts vertical, from the same 30 foot "tower" they're currently on.

This comes after a permit to move to Orrville that was never built out.  The station has had an interesting history, going through multiple silent periods and call changes.  So, my skepticism that anything will be done is high with this one.