Showing posts with label moundville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moundville. Show all posts
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Two new west Alabama FMs get licenses to cover
There are two new west Alabama FMs that recently received their licenses to cover for fulltime broadcasting. WMWI, Demopolis (88.7 MHz, 100 watts) and WKUA, Moundville (88.5, 5.5 kWV/1 watt H). WMWI is owned and operated by Miles College and features a variety format targeting African-American tastes; it will also be used as a recruiting tool for the Birmignham-based college and also features an online component to allow people in the Birmingham area to listen. WKUA is owned by Take Bake The Airwaves Ministries (it's unclear who has taken our airwaves away, ha ha) and features the Revocation Radio Christian rock/urban format that's also found on WKRE in Argo. The WKUA station's directional antenna helps it cover much of the Tuscaloosa metro area.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
WDVZ-CD Moundville to get big coverage boost
WDVZ-CA, an This TV affiliate that's part of the WVUA that's licensed to Moundville, has received a CP modification to boost its digital construction permit and relocate the transmitter site.
The original permit for 300 watts from the old WDBB-TV tower on Jug Factory Road in Tuscaloosa county, which would have covered most of Tuscaloosa County. The new permit, for 3,000 watts, will be from the Tuscaloosa Tall Tower (currently used by WDBB-DT and some ham radio repeaters) and will cover a larger amount of west Alabama.
It's possible this move is due to Tuscaloosa's WUOA-DT failing to properly cover Tuscaloosa. Broadcasting on analog channel 23 from the tall tower site, it covered a lot of territory, but after the digital switchover, it took on WBRC's old channel 6 allocation and transmit site atop Red Mountain. So, despite being licensed to Tuscaloosa and mostly covering Tuscaloosa during newscasts, the off the air signal is almost impossible to receive in T-town itself. The station is still watchable in Tuscaloosa thanks to WVUA-CA, but it's analog only. WDVZ-CD's moving to the Tuscaloosa Tall Tower should alleviate some of the coverage issues WUOA-DT has, but being on VHF-lo like WUOA certainly won't help things. VHF-lo is a bad place for digital TV.
WDVZ-CA is an analog allocation, also on RF channel 3, but has been off the air for some time.
The original permit for 300 watts from the old WDBB-TV tower on Jug Factory Road in Tuscaloosa county, which would have covered most of Tuscaloosa County. The new permit, for 3,000 watts, will be from the Tuscaloosa Tall Tower (currently used by WDBB-DT and some ham radio repeaters) and will cover a larger amount of west Alabama.
It's possible this move is due to Tuscaloosa's WUOA-DT failing to properly cover Tuscaloosa. Broadcasting on analog channel 23 from the tall tower site, it covered a lot of territory, but after the digital switchover, it took on WBRC's old channel 6 allocation and transmit site atop Red Mountain. So, despite being licensed to Tuscaloosa and mostly covering Tuscaloosa during newscasts, the off the air signal is almost impossible to receive in T-town itself. The station is still watchable in Tuscaloosa thanks to WVUA-CA, but it's analog only. WDVZ-CD's moving to the Tuscaloosa Tall Tower should alleviate some of the coverage issues WUOA-DT has, but being on VHF-lo like WUOA certainly won't help things. VHF-lo is a bad place for digital TV.
WDVZ-CA is an analog allocation, also on RF channel 3, but has been off the air for some time.
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