1470's move to 1200

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1470's move to 1200

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Any news on this?

From Wikipedia:
Based on applications filed in January 2004 and November 2005, the FCC granted this station a construction permit on October 25, 2007, to change broadcast frequencies from 1470 kHz to 1200 kHz, increase daytime signal power to 22,000 watts, change critical hours signal power to 8,000 watts, and decrease nighttime signal power to just 9 watts.[20][21] The low nighttime power is required to protect the signal of clear channel AM WOAI in San Antonio, Texas, which also broadcasts at 1200 kHz. The station's transmitter will remain at its current location and the station will remain licensed to Huntington.[20] This construction permit is scheduled to expire on October 25, 2010
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They better hurry or pull some sort of legal trick.
Like selling the station and CP to a dummy company.
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Nautel rep in D.C. at the show told me they had sold a new transmitter to Mortenson.
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Monday is the big day.
Will this make the old wwhy the most powerful AM in WV?
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And the weakest at night?
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Since WWVA's site is really in Ohio, I suppose so.
Aircheck? You'd make a great board op.
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In the for what it is worth department, WRWB is currently off the air...
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In further news, as of this typing, both 1470 and 1200 are off the air in Huntington, West Virginia...

And Franco is still dead.
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1200 is blasting as WNBL. Yesterday followed by For Your Eyes Only followed by Summer Breeze. Seems strange for Mortenson playing "secular" music
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Signal full of sibilance. Really awful sounding...

Is this a permanent format or just testing?
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Any word on the air staff? Is Dwayne Elliott Fowler the PD? If so listen for long music sweeps.
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It's from the bird...a service very similar to the old Stardust format. Local drop ins only for station ID. I haven't even heard weather or the first local ad. I have heard very long sets of national ads on occasion.
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Levels are low for local inserts and I can detect some distortion on the sat feed peaks.
At least they are playing something other than country or the "devil's music".
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How ironic that when Morterson brought 1470 from Clear Channel several years ago they took this format off and replaced it with classic gospel. That format skewed so old that most of the audience died off.. They should have
left Adult Standards on and they wouldn't have to spend the next year trying to build listenership.
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Is programming all from the bird? I would think they need a live morning or pm drive show.Make it local. :D
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the voice wrote:Is programming all from the bird? I would think they need a live morning or pm drive show.Make it local. :D
Why? It would sound the same as it is now, only with a local voice.
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So far, I've heard no news or weather, even...
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