Tom Lavery on Pittsburgh Radio and TV Blog says that
http://www.fybush.com/ reported a construction permit issued for a new AM station in Erie. A CP "was approved for a station in Kearsarge (near Millcreek) that will serve the Erie area at 1590 AM. The new callsign will be
WCXJ which should sound familiar to those from the Pittsburgh area. It was the former callsign of what is now WURP 1550 which had a few African American adult based formats before a format change to general news talk. The new station in Kearsarge will operate at 500 watts days / 900 nights."
Tom Lavery - EMRTV.
(Editor's Note: Near Millcreek? All these years I thought Kearsarge was in Millcreek. I haven't heard the mall area referred to as Kearsarge for a very long time.) (Update: The Licensee of WCXJ is EATON-DIETTERICH PARTNERSHIP of Steubenville, Ohio)
"Congress passed a law on February 1, 2006, setting a final deadline for the DTV transition of February 17, 2009. Most television stations will continue broadcasting both analog and digital programming until February 17, 2009, when all analog broadcasting will stop.." FCC http://www.dtv.gov/
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Maybe you can try and convince them to run the IBOC HD Radio technology.
Sure, Erie is YEARS away from HD radio, but we can get another AM station! Geez...lol.
Jack - I was very surprised when the FCC application for WCXJ was listed for "Kearsarge" instead of just going with "Erie." With mailing addresses, Summit & Millcreek townships in addition to Kearsarge actually have Erie addresses with various zip codes. This reminds me of various times when Captain Dan would talk about the huge town of "Goddard" on the air. It will be interesting to see what WCXJ will bring to the area. Tom Lavery - EMRTV & SVRTV.
Well since it's on AM, it's a safe bet it won't be another music station playing more of the same stuff that's on every other Erie music station.
Hey, perhaps we'll get lucky and have some liberal talk to counter the conservative blather coming from 1400. And maybe it'll be live and local for more than three hours a day.
I just updated that the licensee is Eaton-Dietterich of Steubenville, Ohio. Does anyone have any information about them?
The reason it was probably listed as Kearsarge is because that's all that will probably hear it. 500 watts! Not many people will be able to tune in.
Yeah...at 1590Khz they'll be lucky to get a signal to Harborcreek.
One of the principals (50% ownership) in Eaton-Dietterich is shown in the FCC info as Mr. Cardel Eaton of Pittsburgh PA. If I am not incorrect --and it has been a long time ago--, Cardel Eaton was an air personality from the Erie OIC remote studios (16th & German Sts. ?) of WQLN-FM back in the early to mid 1970s who used the on-the-air name of Cardel Soul. This was back when WQLN-FM had first come on the air, and they had remote studios at OIC, Mercyhurst, and Edinboro with programming in each daypart from each of them as well as NPR and shows from the main studios on upper Peach St.
The name Randy Dietterich (the other 50% owner) is not familiar.
Whats the best way to determine a station's broadcasting radius?
It was probably licensed to Kearsage because that was the furthest south you can go and still cover the city. Why broadcast to the fishes when you can reach a regional audience south of the city. How far with it go... in which direction. It's most likely got a directional signal. With all the rule changes can you still cross file against a new license?
"Hey, perhaps we'll get lucky and have some liberal talk to counter the conservative blather coming from 1400. And maybe it'll be live and local for more than three hours a day."
We had local liberal talk with Aaron Pacy on 1400 it was an utter failure.
Rick Rambaldo killed talk radio in this town. All we have now is someone from Buffalo(Jeff Johns) doing a ver poor imitation of a conservative for 2hrs and selling coupons for a 3rd hour.
Erie gets exactly what it deserves,
mediocrity. Besides a Progressive Erie would be an Oxymoron.
Looks like 3 towers near the I-90/I-79 interchange according to the fcc site. OTOH, Radio-Locator lists this as having 2 different day and night locations.
There is also an application for 1190 kHz for Waterford 10k day, 500 night.
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