The FCC is getting ready to auction off a bundle of new FM allocations, and Alabama has three up for grabs.
The first allocation is for Coosada, in the Montgomery market, for a class A at 93.1 MHz.
The second allocation is for Livingston in west central Alabama, for a class A at 96.3 MHz.
The final allocation is for Northport in the Tuscaloosa market, for a class A at 105.1 MHz.
There's no guarantee that any of these will be won at this auction, and no guarantee that whoever wins them will even built them out. But I thought it'd be interesting to share the new "possible future stations" that may one day come on the air. Anyone who has browsed the master FM list and seen all the purple-hued construction permits in the noncommercial band know that a permit to built doesn't necessarily mean a station will be on the air quickly, or at all. But, as two of these are in rated markets and near bigger cities, chances are the Coosada and Northport allocations will sell.
Also worth noting is that the allocation for Northport is currently occupied by a translator relaying AM station WTBC and their hybrid talk-AC music format The River. Should the Northport station be auctioned off and a station built, it would bump this translator off the air.
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