NorthEast Radio Watch 5/7: The FCC Strikes Again

[fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)]

*The FCC has shut down a CONNECTICUT pirate station for a third time.
Agents visited La Nueva Radio Musical's latest location, on
Saltonstall Avenue in New Haven, on Wednesday afternoon to pull the
plug on the unlicensed 104.5 MHz operation.  

The station's operators tell the New Haven Register they hope to be
back on in a few days, and they say they're disappointed that
Congresswoman Rosa De Lauro hasn't been more responsive to the
petition they presented to her office at a rally last month.

Two Hartford-area pirates remain on the air undisturbed, meanwhile.
Praise 105.3 continues its gospel programming, which NERW first heard
on the air back in 1996, and a Spanish-language station on 97.1 is
still being widely heard as well.

The New Britain Rock Cats have added Hartford's WPOP (1410) to their
broadcast network.  Down the coast in the New London area, 1510
remains off the air, while its sister FM station in East Lyme has
technically changed calls from WNLC-FM to WNLC(FM).  And Groton's WSUB
(980) and WQGN (105.5) have moved studios; they're now in new digs at
7 Governor Winthrop Blvd. in New London.

*The FCC has been busy with a lot of little changes in NEW YORK.  WNYR
(98.5 Waterloo) has been granted its translator on 98.1 in "Melrose
Park," a community this native upstate New Yorker had never heard of.
So when we plugged the coordinates into the ol' mapping software --
sure enough, the new W251AJ will be transmitting from downtown
Auburn.  The FCC also approved new religious translators W201AL (88.1
Dansville, relaying WMHN Webster and hoping to move to 88.7) and
W201AC Utica (88.1, relaying WPCS from Florida).  Rochester's "Zone,"
WZNE (94.1 Brighton), has been granted a change to a non-directional
antenna, radiating 3100 watts from Pinnacle Hill.