Thursday, April 22, 2010

Translator W239AP in Mobile sold by Edgewater to 550 AM, Inc.

Translator W239AP in Mobile, which is currently silent, is being sold to 550 AM, Inc. for $30,000.  550 AM, Inc., owns WASG, which is coincidentally enough at 550 on the AM dial.  And, strangely, it's also silent.

So what does a silent AM want with a silent translator?

Part of the deal has 550 AM agreeing to help relocate two more translators for Edgewater, W212CA 90.3 from Bay Minette to Pensacola and W214BW 90.7 Citronelle to Mobile.  Curious, to say the least.  Sounds like Radio Assist Ministry (a/k/a Edgewater) is going to try to sell them off to more AMs in those two markets.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Auburn's Wings flies to new nest.

Waverly's WGZZ, known as "Wings 100.3" moved today to their new place on the dial at 94.3, right on schedule.

Take a gander at the previous blog entry to see what else will happen now that Wings has moved down the dial.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Early April updates... Wings to move frequencies, WOOF-AM on FM now, WCKS moves into Georgia...

A few quick notes.  A blurb on WGZZ's website says they're moving on April 19th, but not to where.  The answer is, down the dial to 94.3.  There's been a construction permit for the move for a while now, which you wouldn't have known by looking at my site, because the CP somehow got removed from the FM list.

The new frequency should give them better coverage in Auburn and let their WANI-AM HD subchannel be better heard in the two towns.

WOOF-AM is now on FM, according to a recently filed license to cover with the FCC.  The translator W261AT at 100.1 had formerly relayed AM oldies WEEL before it went belly up.  Now WOOF has it and has given it a significant power boost to cover almost the whole metro area.

Finally, Fruithurst-licensed WCKS at 102.7 has received a construction permit to move TX site eastward into Georgia, just south of Tallapoosa. The existing site is very near the state line, but on the Alabama side.