posted 08-14-2002 12:21            

WJIK-LP 100.1 Inverness FL simulcasts WJIX-LP 103.1 Homosassa when WJIK's application promised 8 hours of local origination, that these stations are only 10 miles apart, and the calls so similar?

WVVW-LP 98.1 Belpre OH and WVVP-LP 96.1 Marrietta OH are only 7 miles apart, have the same format, and nearly identical calls?

posted 08-14-2002 01:37         

At least for the first case, the station is clearly violating §73.879

posted 08-14-2002 14:13            

If WCWC-LP is picking up Radio-U from satellite via Sky Angel it is still a violation as Radio-U on satellite is WUFM.

REC, I would tape the stations if I lived near them. I got the information from 100000watts.com while looking at some LPFM listings.

Hey, look what I found on the Radio-U site. Obiviously these stations have NO LOCAL CONTENT.
The RadioU Network is branded as a national radio format, with a major market, “larger than life” image that will appeal to your listeners. However, you will still sound local to your community! This is accomplished several times each hour through locally-run stopsets and local image liner avails. With custom production by our network voiceover and air talent, your local image liners will seamlessly carry the same professional sound
as the rest of the format, but with your own call letters, dialposition, promotions, or whatever you want to say to your audience.

posted 08-14-2002 14:46            

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Originally posted by bryan27:
WCWC-LP 94.3 Marion IN rebroadcasts the full power station WUFM 88.7 Columbus OH?

WJIK-LP 100.1 Inverness FL simulcasts WJIX-LP 103.1 Homosassa when WJIK's application promised 8 hours of local origination, that these stations are only 10 miles apart, and the calls so similar?

WVVW-LP 98.1 Belpre OH and WVVP-LP 96.1 Marrietta OH are only 7 miles apart, have the same format, and nearly identical calls?

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posted 08-14-2002 15:42         

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I don't want to say I told you so, but this is where I knew that LPFM would become another satellator service.

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No, No, Say it Brother Mike.........And tell us how these puny little upstarts are going to start eating into your NTIA/PTFP grant money, or how they too might start demanding taxpayer coerced funding from CPB........Next thing you know they'll be pleading with NPR to let them join at a reduced rate........ those scoundrels !

posted 08-14-2002 20:38            

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Originally posted by Eddie Gein:
No, No, Say it Brother Mike.........And tell us how these puny little upstarts are going to start eating into your NTIA/PTFP grant money, or how they too might start demanding taxpayer coerced funding from CPB........Next thing you know they'll be pleading with NPR to let them join at a reduced rate........ those scoundrels !

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As for the first comment, the galling thing of LPFM is the fact that a majority of the applicants are religious broadcasters, and to be honest, communities dropped the ball. I would rather see TIS than god squad stations!

posted 08-15-2002 16:52         

That is of course, if the local public broadcasting authority, in our case the Alaska Public Broadcasting Joint Venture, gives their blessing to these new stations. The APBJV, as well as the Alaska Broadcasters Association are on record as opposing LPFM. The APBJV sees these new stations as a threat to a limited amount of state and federal money that's available to them. Add to this a continuing decrease in the level of state funding to pub casters over the last 10 years, and what you get is a finite amount of "pie" for an ever increasing number of mouths to feed.

The political hoops that must be jumped through to get the funding is the unspoken roadblock here. If you don't have the blessing of the local public broadcasting authority then you might as well forget about any NTIA/PTFP grants coming your way.

It's Pub Casters dirty little secret, the political shakedown that goes hand in hand with getting these grants. The grant process is rife with personal politics, and perhaps with the passing of Mr. Madden at CPB things will change........But I won't bet the farm on it.....

posted 08-23-2002 08:26            

I do not know their complete schedule, however I do know that it appears they broadcast the "CHRSN" (Christian Hit Radio Satellite Network) (from WAY-FM Nashville, but an actual network, not a rebroadcast of WAY-FM itself) (www.chrsn.com) until 3 PM daily, then switch to the RadioU Network (which, again, is not an exact rebroadcast of WUFM itself) until an unknown time (but I have heard RadioU as late as after midnight).

There are local elements mentioning Marion in nearly every stopset that I heard during RadioU programming. One example was a spot giving a local telephone number "The Truth Line" for listener comments (the station is promoted as "94.3 The Truth"). I am not sure about CHRSN, because I only heard enough of it to identify it, and then after 3 PM, the format switched.

They are not a translator or satellator, at least not technically, although I am not aware of any local program origination at this time. I believe there are plans for future local origination, but I don't know when this will happen.

They are not owned in any way, to my knowledge, by RadioU. The station is licensed to the College Wesleyan Church in Marion, Indiana as on file with the FCC. Although their website doesn't mention their radio station anymore, and never did give it more than a passing mention, there is contact information available, nonetheless. http://www.collegewesleyan.org/

posted 12-18-2002 12:28         

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before I heard them on the air locally begging for money (is that legal for a commercial license?).

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It sure is. Just ask Trinity Broadcasting Network. Many of these religious over the air TV broadcasters are using commercial channels. They are not NCE's.