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*Down to RHODE ISLAND, where there are some staff changes at Capstar's
Providence-market stations.  Bill Hess (you might remember him from
his long stint with WHYN in Springfield) adds PD duties at talk WHJJ
(920) and hot AC WSNE (93.3 Taunton MA) to his role overseeing
Capstar's Springfield-Northampton, Burlington, and Stamford-Norwalk
stations as Atlantic Star's regional VP.  Current WSNE PD Keith Scott
stays with the company in other capacities.

*In CONNECTICUT, several neighbors of WKCI (101.3)'s proposed new
tower site are filing suit against the Hamden Zoning Board of Appeals
for its approval of the WKCI project.  The board had agreed with
WKCI's claim that its impending eviction from the nearby WTNH tower
required special action.

Still more Capstar shifts: Gordon Weingarth, general manager of the
Hartford group (WWYZ, WKSS, WMRQ, WHCN, WPOP), is out, replaced by Rob
Williams, who keeps his GM title at New Haven's WPLR (99.1) as well.

What happened to W11BJ?  The Hartford LPTV, which relayed Telemundo
programming from WRDM-LP (Channel 13), has been off the air for
several days.

TV people on the move: Weekend sportscaster Joe Amato leaves WFSB
(Channel 3) for the same gig at WWOR (Channel 9) in Secaucus NJ.

*In NEW YORK, the big news this week is in the Albany market.  Just a
few weeks after getting FCC permission to change city of license from
Johnstown to Altamont, WSRD (104.9) has applied to move its
transmitter some 40 miles southeast to the WPTR (96.3 Voorheesville)
site in the hills south of Schenectady.  With 570 watts from the new
site, WSRD will have decent coverage of most of the Albany market.
Down the road a bit, someone called "Pee Wee Communications" tried
applying to share time with SUNY Albany's WCDB (90.9) -- only to have
their application tossed right back at them for failing to submit ANY
engineering data.  

The Sound of Life network has WHVP (91.1 Hudson) on the air, filling
the gap between WFGB (89.7 Kingston) and its Albany translators.  Next
up this fall: WSSK (89.7 Saratoga Springs) and WLJH (90.9 Glens
Falls).

Moving along to Utica, public radio simulcaster WRVN (91.9) has been
granted its CP to move from 210 watts on a downtown state office
building (at 25 feet BELOW average terrain, we'd add) to 1850 watts
from the SUNY College of Technology north of town near the Thruway
(albeit still 29 feet below average terrain).

Binghamton's WIVT (Channel 34) is getting back to normal after that
spring tornado that took down its tower.  The ABC affiliate has been
granted permission to build a new 172 meter tower where the old one
sat on Ingraham Hill -- and to nearly double power to 2.82 megawatts.
NERW will be back up that way in October; maybe this time we won't be
chased off the site!