Interesting story from Fybush;

In Springettsbury Township, near York, police are trying to figure out
who climbed the 387-foot tower of WQXA (105.7) early last week and
tied a bedsheet to the top. The stunt was a dangerous one, since it
involved climbing past the 25 kW antenna of the FM station, not to
mention the RF from WYYC (1250), which shares the tower. (The AM
station drops to just 33 watts at night, so if the prank was conducted
after dark, the prankster at least avoided getting zapped by a
kilowatt of RF.)

http://fybush.com/nerw.html#pa

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)

>   Ok I was lucky to find this
> recording and to find out it's been around since 1998. It
> was done by some men's accapella group. Click or paste
> below to view.:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8
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--- On Sun, 12/6/09, Ed Perkins <electroned19114@...> wrote:

> From: Ed Perkins <electroned19114@...>
> Subject: Seeking Info
> To: "Central Pa Radio/Tv Group" <sprtv@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 11:05 PM
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> >  Is anybody up on the new Christmas
> > recordings that the ALL CHRISTMAS STATIONS are
> playing?
> > Heard a really funny accapella take on "THE 12 DAYS
> OF
> > CHRISTMAS" which ended with the singers singing the
> same
> > exact vocals arrangement of TOTO's "Africa" but with
> a
> > Christmas lyrics. If anyone here happens to know who
> the
> > group was, please post it here and if your lucky to
> get to
> > hear it, be prepared to laugh. Heard this on LITE
> 96.9FM WFPG Sun. afternoon just before 4PM Sun.. Even the DJ
> said they were getting requests for it.
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>  Is anybody up on the new Christmas
> recordings that the ALL CHRISTMAS STATIONS are playing?
> Heard a really funny accapella take on "THE 12 DAYS OF
> CHRISTMAS" which ended with the singers singing the same
> exact vocals arrangement of TOTO's "Africa" but with a
> Christmas lyrics. If anyone here happens to know who the
> group was, please post it here and if your lucky to get to
> hear it, be prepared to laugh. Heard this on LITE 96.9FM WFPG Sun. afternoon
just before 4PM Sun.. Even the DJ said they were getting requests for it.
                                          ED P.
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>           ED P.
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From http://fybush.com/nerw.html#pa

A quick bit of Baseball on the Radio: The York Revolution of the
Atlantic League have signed a three-year deal with WOYK (1350) to
carry the team's games through the 2012 season. (The team's press
release calls WOYK the region's most powerful radio station, though
its 5,000-watt signal near the top of the dial doesn't carry nearly as
far as the 5,000 watts of the team's previous flagship, WSBA 910.)

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)

DC's WASH-FM fired up their Christmas tunes 2 days ago, Baltimore's WLIF
will fire them up the day before Thanksgiving.  York's WARM-FM is
all-holiday tunes already, not sure when they flipped.  There will be
plenty of more flips in the coming days.

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)



--- In sprtv@yahoogroups.com, Ed Perkins <electroned19114@...> wrote:
>
> Â  WOGL here in Philly started on their HD2 freq. but way back in
mid Oct.. It wasn't til today the analogs switched. By the way, 99.5 and
B101 are Delilah affiliates and tonight, both of them must be airing a
special Christmas music feed of her show since the other 2 rimshot
stations that air her program (100.7 WLEV and 96.9FM WFPG) are playing
the normal soft rock mix of her program.
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> --- On Thu, 11/19/09, Alan McMullen armc11@... wrote:
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> From: Alan McMullen armc11@...
> Subject: RE: [sprtv] Christmas Music Stations Update
> To: sprtv@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8:30 PM
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> This evening on the way home I noticed that WLTJ, Pittsburgh was
playing Christmas tunes on their HD3 channel. WWSW (3WS), Pittsburgh was
playing holiday music on their HD2 channel. Still haven’t heard
any other stations in the area playing Christmas on their HD1/analog
yet.
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> From: sprtv@yahoogroups. com [mailto: sprtv@yahoogroups. com ] On
Behalf Of Alan McMullen
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:49 PM
> To: sprtv@yahoogroups. com
> Subject: Re: [sprtv] Christmas Music Stations & CH6's Dave Roberts
> Â
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> So far none of the radio stations in Pittsburgh are broadcasting
Holiday tunes. Not even on their extra HD channels. Last year 3WS here
in Pittsburgh started Christmas music the week after Halloween.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Perkins" <electroned19114@ yahoo.com>
> To: "Central Pa Radio/Tv Group" < sprtv@yahoogroups. com >
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:10:37 PM GMT -05:00 US / Canada
Eastern
> Subject: [sprtv] Christmas Music Stations & CH6's Dave Roberts
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> Looks as if the Philly area now finally has 2 Christmas sticks pumping
out the music. WJBR 99.5 switched earlier this afternoon with B101 WBEB
doing so appx. an hour or so after (3PM).
> In other Philly related broadcast news, ABC6's Weather guy Dave Robert
will be retiring Dec.11th after many years in broadcasting that started
up in Buffalo , NY . Dave also did the annual Thanksgiving parade
broadcasts too for WPVI. This year will be his last one.
> ED P.
>

Looks as if the Philly area now finally has 2 Christmas sticks pumping out the
music.  WJBR 99.5 switched earlier this afternoon with B101 WBEB doing so appx.
an hour or so after (3PM).
   In other Philly related broadcast news, ABC6's Weather guy Dave Robert will be
retiring Dec.11th after many years in broadcasting that started up in
Buffalo,NY. Dave also did the annual Thanksgiving parade broadcasts too for
WPVI. This year will be his last one.
                                               ED P.

So WLAN AM-1390 was the station to go Christmas, Chamberburg's WIKZ
FM-95.1 is the first station people actually listen to.  I kid I kid,
kind of ....

http://www.mix95.com/

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)

Yep as a classic rocker, before that they were top-40 "B-104" where
the now famous Glenn Beck briefly did mornings.  Flash forward 20
years and history repeats but with a different buzz letter.  B104 was
briefly resurrected while it was classic rock before dropping rock
altogether for Smoooooth jazz.

Travers



On 11/4/09, Ed Perkins <electroned19114@...> wrote:
>   weren't they also known as "THE COLT" for awhile back in the 90s?
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> ED P.
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> --- On Wed, 11/4/09, Travers DeVine <tmode93@...> wrote:
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> From: Travers DeVine <tmode93@...>
> Subject: [sprtv] Baltimore's 104.3 flips from Alt Rock to CHR "Z104.3"
> To: "sprtv" <sprtv@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:54 PM
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> To the south;
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> http://dcrtv. com/
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> CC's 104.3 Drops Alt Rock, After Stunting Stops At CHR - 11/4 - At
> about 10 AM today, Clear Channel dumped the alternative rock format
> from its WCHH, 104.3 FM. It stunted for a while with soul oldies as
> "Baltimore's Best R&B" - "Charm 104.3." But then at noon-ish, the
> Baltimore station switched to contemporary hits as "Z104.3" (left).
> And it looks like the contemporary hits format will be permanent.
> There's now a fleshed-out "Z104.3" website at z1043.com, "Baltimore's
> New Hit Music Station." No word of an air staff yet. The station
> flipped to alternative rock as "Channel 104.3" in 2008 after many
> years with smooth jazz as WSMJ. More soon. Stay tuned.....
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Who had WLAN AM-1390 as the first to go all-Christmas music in SPRTV
turf?  They flipped to holiday tunes on Halloween.  I'm sure it won't
be long until WROZ, WARM, WMHX, WLTF and WIKZ go the Christmas route
too.

http://www.1390wlan.com/

Travers

To the south;

http://dcrtv.com/

CC's 104.3 Drops Alt Rock, After Stunting Stops At CHR - 11/4 - At
about 10 AM today, Clear Channel dumped the alternative rock format
from its WCHH, 104.3 FM. It stunted for a while with soul oldies as
"Baltimore's Best R&B" - "Charm 104.3." But then at noon-ish, the
Baltimore station switched to contemporary hits as "Z104.3" (left).
And it looks like the contemporary hits format will be permanent.
There's now a fleshed-out "Z104.3" website at z1043.com, "Baltimore's
New Hit Music Station." No word of an air staff yet. The station
flipped to alternative rock as "Channel 104.3" in 2008 after many
years with smooth jazz as WSMJ. More soon. Stay tuned.....

http://www.z1043.com

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)

Yep! The subject line doesn't mislead you. At least here in Phillytown. But in
order to listen to it you'll have to tune in on a digital radio on 98.1 WOGL's
HD2 freq.. If you don't own one as of yet like me, (and I'm not kidding about
that), you can tune in on one of the 5 below webstreams:

wogl.com
610wip.com
thebigtalker1210.com
kyw1060.com
94wysp.com

   As of yet, no analog FM stations made the switch yet. Also no word if 97.5FM
will do it since they now simulcast with ESPN950AM. Stay tuned as they say. The
Christmas music will be offered on these channels til New Years. Keep in mind, I
wouldn't be surprised if the feed on all of these webstreams and WOGL's HD2 are
the same since they're own by the same company.
   In other radio news, my station RDV-FM is having their annual Fall Fund Drive.
If you would like to support us, visit www.wrdv.org for more info. Unlike the
other PBS Non Profit Stations, we only do this at this time of year til mid Nov.
unlike the other ones asking for funds every 5 minutes.

                                              ED P.

Wow.  Wonder if that means Mark McKenzie (Kelly's husband) won't stick
around WSBA either?

Travers DeVine wrote:
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> Just this small blip from Fybush;
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> http://fybush.com/nerw.html#pa <http://fybush.com/nerw.html#pa>
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> In York, the morning team of Kelly West and Bobby Quinn are out at
> Cumulus' WARM-FM (103.3), leaving just one local jock - middayer Traci
> Taylor - listed on the WARM-FM website.
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> Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)
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Just this small blip from Fybush;

http://fybush.com/nerw.html#pa

In York, the morning team of Kelly West and Bobby Quinn are out at
Cumulus' WARM-FM (103.3), leaving just one local jock - middayer Traci
Taylor - listed on the WARM-FM website.
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Guess this feeds the fire that WARM-FM will be flipping ?

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)

WAEB, a Clear Channel-owned talk station, is licensed to run 3600 watts by day using just two of the towers, with all five towers in use at night with 1500 watts - and the station has remained on the air, evidently using either the day pattern or lower power, non-directionally.

The tower that fell went down in one piece, which is unusual for a guyed tower, and its tip barely missed the guy wires for the next tower to the south, avoiding still more damage to the site.

An investigation into the vandalism is now underway, with the FBI involved. There's on-line speculation about connections between the WAEB attack and the KRKO attack just hours later; our semi-informed speculation would suggest that there's no obvious link between the two incidents, since WAEB - unlike KRKO - is a longtime fixture that's never caused much controversy in its neighborhood.
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Another link;

http://www.mcall.com/news/all-a8_5tower.7011612sep05,0,7619214.story

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)

Albriton's WJLA has an LMA with the people that own WWTD-LP 49 to
relay "ABC 7" in analog to those who can receive their signal inside
the beltway.  No other DC TV stations have an arrangement like that.
Their analogs shut down after that month long moonlighting of the DTV
loops.

Here in Frederick only thing available on analog TV is a LPTV station
repeating "3ABN" religious programming.  Last check of them they are
still on channel 22 and have applied to move channel 24 from a new
site up on Gambrill.  Looking at the potential coverage map the
station would have a huge signal boost covering most of Frederick and
Montgomery county.  At the moment their signal really only covers the
city of Frederick.

Travers



On 8/27/09, Ed Perkins <electroned19114@...> wrote:
>  Question. I read that the TV stations in DC were going to still broadcast
> analog but on a low powered UHF station after the changeover. Did they do
> that and for anybody here, do any of ya's still receive analog ststions?
> Also were there any increases?
>   Philly still has a few.
>                                                                          ED
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> --- On Thu, 8/27/09, Travers DeVine <tmode93@...> wrote:
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> From: Travers DeVine <tmode93@...>
> Subject: [sprtv] WGAL Applies for 6 translators
> To: "sprtv" <sprtv@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 10:44 AM
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> On August 25th WGAL TV 8 has applied for six translators throughout
> the central Pennsylvania area citing reception issues post-DTV
> transition. Here are the communities and RF channels;
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> Red Lion 27
> Lancaster 15
> Gettysburg 31
> Carlisle 27
> Ephrata 49
> Harrisburg 43
>
> Washington DC's WETA-TV has done similar applying for a translator on
> channel 31 to boost its signal to the northeast (towards Frederick,
> Leesburg). Wonder if this will become common since it's no secret DTV
> signals aren't robust and coverage has been lost?
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I forgot to mention WGAL has received a construction permit to boost
their main 8 signal from 7.5 kW to 14.1 kW, almost double the power,
to make up for lost coverage.

Travers



On 8/27/09, damonbeau@... <damonbeau@...> wrote:
> Wow.  Two 27s, a 15 and a 43.  Hilarious.  Ancient midstaters who are
> already confused by this will have no idea what to do.
>
> Albritton should apply for access to DT 8 in, like, Lititz, Ephrata,
> Elizabethtown, Quarryville and Columbia, just to make a point.
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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:44, Travers DeVine <tmode93@...> wrote:
>
>> On August 25th WGAL TV 8 has applied for six translators throughout
>> the central Pennsylvania area citing reception issues post-DTV
>> transition.  Here are the communities and RF channels;
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>> Red Lion 27
>> Lancaster 15
>> Gettysburg 31
>> Carlisle 27
>> Ephrata 49
>> Harrisburg 43
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On August 25th WGAL TV 8 has applied for six translators throughout
the central Pennsylvania area citing reception issues post-DTV
transition.  Here are the communities and RF channels;

Red Lion 27
Lancaster 15
Gettysburg 31
Carlisle 27
Ephrata 49
Harrisburg 43

Washington DC's WETA-TV has done similar applying for a translator on
channel 31 to boost its signal to the northeast (towards Frederick,
Leesburg).  Wonder if this will become common since it's no secret DTV
signals aren't robust and coverage has been lost?

Travers (SPRTv Group Mod)