Wednesday, March 16, 2011

WAYH translator in Cullman on the move.

Cullman translator W249BI has been licensed for 250 watts on 97.3 MHz to serve Hartselle, and for a long time had a construction permit to move the facility north of town, about halfway to Decatur, covering much of the small town of Flint City.  That permit seems to have disappeared now, replaced with a new CP for W250BM, on 97.9 MHz, with 100 watts.  That facility is shown to be southwest of Hartselle, a little closer to Falkville but really in the middle of cow country.

It'll be interesting to see where this one migrates to now that it's on a different frequency.  It seems an odd choice, because there's not a lot of wiggle room that I can see.  Winfield and Huntsville have full power stations on 97.7 MHz, and Huntsville even has an active translator on that frequency, too.  Huntsville has a translator on 98.1 MHz, and the west Alabama country giant WTXT is also on that frequency.  About the only direction this thing can go is south.

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