NERW 7/11: Back From the Big Trip

[Scott D Fybush <fybush@world.std.com>]

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--------------------------NorthEast Radio Watch--------------------------
                               July 11, 2001

IN THIS ISSUE:

*PENNSYLVANIA: New York PD Buys Silent AM
*NEW YORK: Will 'KB Go Back to Music?
*MASSACHUSETTS: Ivey Leaves 'XKS PD Post
*PLUS: LPFM Apps for Mass., Pa., Vt. and N.J.

-----------------------------by Scott Fybush-----------------------------
-------------------------<http://www.fybush.com>-------------------------

*We're back...4900 miles, 13 states, and uncounted hundreds of radio
towers and studios later, your fearless editor arrived back at NERW
Central to find two full weeks worth of news (and plenty else to catch
up on, too!)

So before we begin recounting our journey into the heartland of
American radio, circa summer 2001, let's see what happened while we
were on the road, shall we?

*PENNSYLVANIA is a good a place as any to start the news, with format
changes in three major markets. Philadelphia's "Jammin' Gold" didn't
live to see another summer on Greater Media's WEJM (95.7); that
station took on the "Mix" moniker at the end of June, becoming an AC
outlet under the programming leadership of Chris Ebbott (inbound from
Los Angeles' KFI, where he was marketing director). Greater Media
ditched the format at its Detroit outlet that same week, flipping
"Groove" WGRV (105.1) to "Magic" WMGC-FM and launching a shot across
the bow of Clear Channel's market-leading AC WNIC (100.3 Dearborn)
with a talent raid that brings veteran WNIC morning host Jim Harper to
the new "Magic." 

In Pittsburgh, the change has yet to come to Clear Channel's "Jammin'
Hits" WJJJ (104.7), but the dismissal of PD Clarke Ingram and most of
his airstaff just before the holiday suggests a format flip there is
imminent. (The trades have been breathlessly reporting that Ingram was
fired while his mother was in the ICU; while that's factually true,
the move was expected long before her illness, and we're pleased to be
able to report that she's doing much better and is back home now.)

To Harrisburg, next, as Clear Channel made the anticipated change from
oldies to "Kiss" CHR on WWKL-FM (99.3) July 1, with new calls expected
soon. Countering the move is WEGK (92.7 Starview), which dumped its
classic rock format the same day to become "Big 92.7" with oldies as
WHBO(FM).

Up in Erie, we just missed a call swap that restores a heritage call
to its longtime home: Talker WLKK (1400) returned to its old call of
WJET(AM), while the WLKK calls moved to the former WJET(FM) at 102.3,
which remains modern AC as "the Point." We'll have to get back to Erie
sometime this fall to check out the new downtown studio complex
Nextmedia is building for WJET and the other signals in its Erie
cluster; we hear the facility in the old Boston Store department store
will include streetside windows for several air studios.

It's every PD's dream to own a small-town radio station (isn't it?),
and now Bobby Hatfield of WBBF in Rochester is living it. He's picking
up WCNR (930) in Bloomsburg from the local Press-Enterprise
newspaper. The station sits just down I-80 from the big
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre cluster belonging to his Rochester employer,
Entercom.

Some sad news from just over the state line in Delaware: WNRK (1260
Newark) signed off June 25, possibly for good. Its transmitter site
became too valuable as development property; the station's owner is
trying to find a new site, but it'll be hard to squeeze a useful
directional signal in between the 1260 stations in Washington,
D.C. and Trenton, N.J.

*A quick pass through NEW JERSEY finds the FCC flagging Millennium's
proposed purchase of Press' WKXW (101.5) and WBUD (1260) in Trenton
for potential market-concentration issues; no great surprise there,
and we don't expect it to hold up approval of the sale for very long.

*Plenty of news in NEW YORK, but we'll start with the one bit that
hasn't actually happened yet: the rumor mill's been churning about a
format change at Buffalo's WWKB (1520). For more than a decade, the
Entercom-owned station has been running a series of little-noticed
fringe formats, including satellite country, talk and business
news. Last week, the message boards lit up with word that the
erstwhile WKBW would be returning to its musical roots with a 70s-pop
format. As we go to print with this issue, though, it's still business
talk and leased-time religion on 1520...

Speaking of unfulfilled rumors: another trade reported last week that
the Opie and Anthony syndication train would make its next stop at
Rochester's WCMF (96.5), displacing Moranimal from his afternoon
gig. We've been listening to the heritage rocker the last few
afternoons, and amidst the interminable stopsets, it's still rock and
not talk. (NERW wonders: could the recent shift of sister station
WZNE, from female-leaning modern pop to male-targeted rock, have been
designed as a way to ease WCMF's rock base over once the latter
station starts doing Infinity's syndicated talk lineup?)

Rochester's WXXI (1370) is going through some cutbacks. The public
broadcaster marked its 17th anniversary last week by laying off
veteran producers Bill Flynn and Carol Colella and cancelling its
late-night blues show, one of the last remnants of the "news-and-jazz"
format the station launched with back in 1984. Replacing the music in
the overnight hours will be satellite-delivered World Radio Network
programming, leaving host Jim McGrath also out of a job.

In the Finger Lakes, Family Life Ministries was granted a CP for a new
Ithaca translator. W208BD (89.5 Cayuga Heights) will relay WCII (88.5
Spencer), if it ever takes to the air. The translator was the subject
of a petition to deny from first-adjacent WEOS (89.7 Geneva), some 25
miles across the lakes, and we hear it may not have permission to use
the tower for which it applied, either. (We'd note as well that WCII
already has an Ithaca translator!)

Over in Syracuse, WBGJ (100.3 Sylvan Beach) made its on-air debut just
before we left, with a simulcast of WOLF's Radio Disney programming
that's said to be temporary. It's less clear whether the simulcast of
market-leading country station WBBS (104.7 Fulton) on Clear Channel's
new 105.1 DeRuyter signal is permanent or not; Clear Channel just
flipped the DeRuyter calls from WVOQ to WXBB(FM), calls last heard in
the region on what's now WSAK (105.3 Kittery ME).

Also in the Salt City, we note Pax outlet WSPX (Channel 56) being
officially transferred from "Syracuse Minority Television" (whose
principals include Herb Washington, owner of most of the McDonalds in
the region) to Pax itself.

The "K-Love" folks wasted no time taking over at 100.7 in Utica; the
former WVVC is now running Educational Media Foundation's
satellite-delivered Christian contemporary format under the WKVU(FM)
calls. 

Albany will soon have yet another FM drop-in, thanks to the Vox folks,
who won FCC approval this week for their latest allocations
swap. Here's how it will work: WHTR (93.5 Corinth) will move south to
Scotia and up the dial to 93.7. But to prevent Corinth from being left
(gasp!) without a "first local FM service", WFFG (107.1 Hudson Falls)
will change city of license to Corinth, without changing transmitter
site or power. Ah, bureaucracy...

Up in the Catskills, mark down two new formats for Liberty's WVOS and
WVOS-FM. The FM, on 95.9, flipped from country to AC, while the AM
side on 1240 picked up the country, ditching standards in the process.

The dot-com downturn claimed another high-profile victim this week:
New York-based eYada shut down its operations, just a few months after
moving into fancy new Times Square studios. The move leaves talkers
such as Lionel (ex-WABC) and Lori Kramer (ex-WRKO) looking for work...

Down on Long Island, the AAA folks changed course on their latest
format flip. Instead of the planned adult standards on 104.7 in
Montauk, it was classic rock making its debut there last week. And if
you didn't catch the "WCSO" calls there, you're already too late: it's
now WMOS. (Useless trivia: WCSO was an old Maine call, of course, at
97.9 in Portland - but so was WMOS, at Morse High School in Bath on
95.3 years ago.)

Radio (and TV) People on the Move: At Clear Channel/Albany, John
Cooper moves up from WPYX PD to station manager for the entire seven
station group. Greg Foster leaves Citadel (where he had been PD at
WARM in Scranton, among other tasks) to become PD of WGY and WOFX,
while former WFLY PD Rob Dawes goes across town to be PD of the
competition, Clear Channel's WKKF. Here in Rochester, Coyote Collins
gets to lose "acting" from his PD title at WBEE-FM, while main anchor
Linda Allen announces she's leaving WROC-TV in August to care for her
ailing father. Over at Infinity's WPXY, night jock "Java Joel" is out
after a couple of years at the CHR outlet. Buffalo's WBEN (930) has a
new news director; Monica Wilson comes over from the noncomm side at
WNED (970).

*On the border with CONNECTICUT, the FCC set aside its ruling that
would have moved WQQQ (103.3 Sharon) to 102.5 and opened up two new
noncommercial allocations in the Hudson Valley. It seems there were
some short-spacings inadvertently included in the ruling, so it's back
to square one for that set of moves.

It may be on the air, but the FCC believes translator W251AA (98.1
West Hartford) was silent for over a year. The Commission pulled the
translator's license last week, but we hear it's still relaying
Portuguese-language programming from parent WFAR (93.3 Danbury) for
the moment.

A few personnel moves: We hear Christine Lee is out of her spot at
WTIC-FM (96.5 Hartford), while down the hall, Cathy (from the "Alan,
Cathy and Mike" morning show) has departed WRCH (100.5 New Britain).

*One quick note from RHODE ISLAND: Davey Morris, afternoon guy (not to
mention music director and assistant PD) at WPRO-FM (92.3 Providence),
adds PD duties for sister stations WZRI/WZRA, which are doing an 80s
format these days.

*The big news in MASSACHUSETTS came from WXKS-FM (107.9 Medford),
where PD John Ivey announced he's leaving the building to head up
the biggest Clear Channel "Kiss" of them all, KIIS-FM (102.7) in Los
Angeles. Expect the jockeying to succeed Ivey at Boston's "Kiss 108"
to keep making headlines for several weeks...

The FCC approved Keating Willcox' sale of most of his New England AM
stations to Ernie Anastos this week, leaving Willcox' Willow Farm
group with just WNSH (1570 Beverly), which has been experiencing still
more technical problems. A storm took the station off the air last
week, but it was back on again by the weekend.

Congratulations to the folks at WCRB (102.5 Waltham), who took home a
world medal at the New York International Radio Festival on June
21. The station was honored for its "Supper Bowl 2001" parody that
aired last Super Bowl Sunday, featuring a fictitious game between the
New York Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony. Rob Schuller
produced the piece, which was written by WCRB PD Mario Mazza and
narrated by CBS play-by-play voice Howard David.

Congratulations, too, to Rus Peotter, who moves down from Maine Public
Broadcasting to become the new VP/GM at Springfield's WGBY (Channel
57).

*In NEW HAMPSHIRE, the FCC approved one LPFM applicant: Christian
Fellowship of New England gets 100 watts on 106.5 in Center Conway,
way up north. (And keep reading to see who's applying for LPFMs in
Vermont, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania!)

*From MAINE, some clarification on the ownership situation with Clear
Channel in Bangor: The company has been approved to buy WABI (910
Bangor) from Gopher Hill, and it's apparently operating sister station
WWBX (97.1 Bangor) under an LMA while appealing the FCC's denial of
ownership transfer. Clear Channel now has room to add WWBX to its
cluster; it spun WGUY (102.1 Dexter) at the edge of the market to
broker Mark Jorgenson's Concord group last week.

A call change in Lewiston: WTME (1240) becomes WCNM; no change that
we've heard of to the station's religious format, though.

And Pax adds another station to its ownership group, as WMPX (Channel
23) in Waterville changes hands from Winstar to Paxson itself.

*The big deal in CANADA was, literally, a big deal: the long-dormant
Standard group flexed its muscles this week with an agreement to buy
62 radio stations in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia from
Telemedia. The latter group already cashed out of its Quebec and
Maritimes interests with a sale to Astral last month. The deal turns
Standard into a 75-station group with outlets in almost every
major community in Ontario, including a four-station cluster in
Toronto that adds Telemedia's sports CJCL (The Fan 590) and AC CJEZ
(EZ Rock 97.3) to Standard's news-talk CFRB (1010) and hot AC CKFM
(Mix 99.9). No sale price has been announced.

In Quebec, the CRTC approved plans by media giant Quebecor to buy TVA,
the largest private French-language TV network. Quebecor will have to
sell its existing TQS network in order to close the deal, as well as
agreeing to maintain editorial distance between TVA and its newspaper
chain (a similar condition was imposed on Bell Canada's purchases of
the CTV network and the Globe and Mail newspaper.)

And the Aboriginal Voices folks who are building a new 106.5 in
Toronto have a little while longer to do it; the CRTC granted them an
extension of time to get the city's newest low-power FM outlet on the
air.

*Speaking of LPFM, we can now tell you who's applied for the latest
batch of LP-100 licenses in NERW-land. We'll start with the smallest
list, in Vermont:

107.9 Brattleboro - Citizens to Educate Brattleboro
107.7 Brattleboro - Vermont Earth Works Inc.
94.3 Burlington - Radio Active Burlington
94.3 Burlington - Spectrum Youth and Family Services
94.3 Burlington - St. Mary's Educational Assn.
94.3 Winooski - St. Ann's Educational Assn.
100.1 Springfield - Twin States Educational Broadcasting
94.7 Springfield - New England Educational Fellowship
89.1 Hyde Park - Union High School District 18
94.9 Ascutney - Ascutney Educational Broadcasters
95.7 Rutland - Green Mountain Adventist Media Inc.
92.1 Barre - Vermont Christian Radio
106.9 Wilmington - Green Mountain Broadcasting
106.7 Halifax - Christian Hill Educational Fellowship
96.1 Newport - Voice in the Kingdom Radio Inc.
107.9 Londonderry - First Baptist Church of S. Londonderry
97.5 Bellows Falls - Faith Tabernacle Assembly of God Church
97.5 Bellows Falls - St. Charles Educational Assn.
105.9 Rutland - St. Helen's Educational Assn.
94.9 Weathersfield - Main Street Claremont Inc.
95.1 Warren - Rootswork Inc.
94.3 Richmond - Huntington Valley Arts
92.1 Barre - Central VT Television
99.7 Rutland - Resurrection Ranch
107.9 West Townsend - Calvary Church of the West River Valley
105.9 Burlington - Peace and Justice Center
98.1 Enosburg Falls - Spavin Cure Historical Group

And then there's the Vermont Agency of Transportation, which has
applied for:

94.3 Springfield, 106.7 Lyndonville, 92.1 South Barre, 91.7
Bridgewater, 99.5 Putney, 98.9 Manchester, 94.9 Middlebury, 103.7
South Alburg, 105.1 Bennington, 99.1 West Dover, 106.7 Wilmington,
96.9 Middlesex, 95.7 Sherburne, 96.5 Stowe, 91.9 South Royalton, 100.1
Randolph, 105.5 Jonesville, 98.1 Williston, 105.9 Burlington, 94.3
Colchester, 97.1 Milton, 88.1 St. Albans, 99.9 Lower Waterford, 98.3
Derby and 94.9 Amesbury.

Next up, MASSACHUSETTS:

92.5 Dennis - Assembleia de Deus (henceforth AdD) em Dennis/Boston
94.9 Amesbury - New Haven Educational Radio
106.1 Worcester - AdD de Boston/Worcester
105.5 Chicopee - AdD de Chicopee/Boston
106.3 Oxford - Challenges to the Youth Ministries
107.9 Buckland - West County Community Radio
97.7 Great Barrington - Berkshire County Radio Alliance
99.7 Springfield - AdD de Springfield/Boston
99.7 Westfield - Sara Beth Caron Memorial Scholarship Fund
99.7 Feeding Hills - Lighthouse Christian Center
99.7 Springfield - Community Christian Radio Inc.
99.7 Springfield - Goodwill Industries of Springfield/Hartford Inc.
99.7 East Longmeadow - East Longmeadow Police Dept.
99.7 Springfield - Western New England College (licensee of WNEK
105.1)
99.7 West Springfield - Calvary Chapel of Western Mass.
99.7 Agawam - Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
99.7 Springfield - Citylight Ministries Center
97.1 Pittsfield - Housatonic Educational Radio Fellowship
93.7 Menemsha - AdD de Hyannis/Boston
93.7 Oak Bluffs - The Drum Workshop, Inc.
93.7 Oak Bluffs - M and M Community Development, Oak Bluff Branch
93.7 Falmouth - AdD Ministeria do Belem de Acapesket
96.1 Rockport - AdD Ministeria do Belem de Annisquam
104.9 Wyben (a neighborhood in Westfield) - AdD Ministeria do Belem de
Wyben
107.7 Westfield - JWBC Bible College in Wyben
107.9 Wyben - Bethlehem Immigrant Ministry in Wyben
107.9 Springfield - Torres Ministries of Mass., Inc.
104.7 Dalton - Berkshires Educational Radio
97.5 Dudley - Nichols College (licensee of WNRC 95.1)
107.9 Greenfield - Living Waters Assembly of God
107.9 Greenfield - Poets Seat Educational Fellowship
107.9 Greenfield - Greenfield Community TV Inc.
102.9 Gardner - Amanecer de la Esperanza Ministries
102.9 Fitchburg - Fitchburg Group Educational Assn.
107.9 Russell - "Russell"
103.3 Northampton - Foundation for Media Education
103.3 Northampton - Tapesty Health System (sic)
104.9 Holyoke - Radio Redemptor
104.9 Springfield - Pentecostal Church Refuge of Salvation
97.5 Charlton - St. Joseph's Radio Station, Inc.
94.9 Lawrence - Ministerio Apostolico Jesucristo es el Senor
103.1 Shutesbury - Sirius Community
98.9 North Adams - Gospel Train Ministry
105.3 Montague - Montague Community Cable
105.5 Wilbraham - Town of Wilbraham
97.7 East Harwich - Cape Cod Christian Broadcasting
104.3 Pittsfield - Talking Information Center
96.5 Worcester - Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Canaan
103.3 Goshen - Cummington Educational Radio
96.9 Worthington - Worthington Educational Broadcasters
98.7 Hinsdale - Hilltown Educational Radio
107.9 Lowell - Lowell Telecommunications Corp.
(yes, that's co-channel to WXKS Medford 30 miles away!)

And of course, the mass applications: Pioneer Valley Planning
Commission, for 105.5 Monson, 98.7 Blandford and 99.7 Agawam; and
Franklin Regional Council of Governors, for 96.9 Williamsburg, 107.9
Shelburne, 104.3 Savoy, 102.9 Athol and 105.7 Bernardston.

One more application with Massachusetts interest: this batch also
includes Arizona, and who should be applying for 98.7 in Tucson but
well-known Bay State engineer Dana Puopolo?

NEW JERSEY, next:

92.7 Ocean City - Maranatha-by-the-Sea Christian Fellowship
93.7 Cedar Grove - Iglesia Nueva Jerusalem
95.9 Brookville - First Baptist Church
98.3 Palmyra - Angelo Roman
98.5 Bridgeton - Joseph Burke
99.9 Millville - Juan B. Ramos
99.9 Vineland - Calvary Chapel of Vineland
101.1 Neptune - Neptune Township Schools
 (let's see what WCBS and WBEB think of *that*!)
101.5 Rio Grande - Produce Ministries Inc.
101.5 Cape May - Center for Community Arts Inc.
101.7 Pleasantville - Middle School of Pleasanton
101.7 Linwood - Mainland Regional High School
101.7 Atlantic City - Second Baptist Church
102.3 Arrowhead Village - Radio Alerta
102.5 Bridgeton - Gogosurfer Inc.
104.7 Lakewood - Calvary Chapel of Toms River
104.7 Brick Twp. - International Music Society Inc.
106.5 Eagleswood - Public Broadcasting of Southern Ocean County Inc.
106.5 West Creek - Calvary Chapel of Southern Ocean County
106.5 Barnegat - Heritage Bay Homeowners Assn.
107.9 Princeton - Iglesia de Cristo Elim de Princeton 
107.9 Trenton - Iglesia de Cristo de Trenton
107.9 Flemington - Hunterdon County ESC
107.9 Jersey City - First Pentecostal Church of God Inc.
107.9 Readington - The Profetic Voice Inc.
(note that the first two 107.9s would wreak havoc with the existing
class D station at the local high school, WWPH Princeton Junction; the
third is co-channel with WKRF Tobyhanna PA across the state line; and
the fourth is second-adjacent to WBLS just across the Hudson in
Manhattan!)

*Finally, PENNSYLVANIA:

88.5 Philadelphia - Edgardo Colon
 (right on top of existing WXPN 88.5 in Philly)
88.7 Churchill - Sandra Lee Rhoads
89.9 White Oak - Lightning Community Broadcasting Inc.
90.5 Philadelphia - School District of Philadelphia
 (which didn't do its homework; this is second-adjacent to locals WRTI
90.1 and WHYY 90.9; but look down to 105.9 for its even worse second
attempt!)
92.7 Meadville - Meadville Educational Assn.
92.9 Gap - Octave Ectroplex LLC
92.9 Cambridge Springs - Cambridge County Radio Assn.
93.1 Lebanon - Latino American Media Org. of PA, Inc.
93.3 Bethel - Obadiah School of the Bible
94.5 Nanticoke - St. John's Evangelistic Lutheran Church
94.5 Nanticoke - People of God Educational Assn.
94.7 Marionville - (M.O.G.U.L.)/(M.O.G.L.E.)
 (whatever the heck THAT is!)
94.9 Warren - Calvary Chapel of Russell
95.3 Lancaster - Lancaster Educational Radio
95.3 Lancaster - Youth Working for Justice
95.5 Erie - Kenneth P. Miller
95.5 Erie - E.E. Dept. of Gannon University/Frank Bogacki
 (Gannon is also the licensee of WERG 89.9)
95.5 Middletown - Middletown Area Bible Church
95.9 Erie - Erie Christian Broadcasting Inc.
95.9 New Millport - Harrisburg Area Media Information Corp.
 (which apparently lacks the information that WSOX Red Lion is on
first-adjacent 96.1, dooming this application)
98.1 Gibsonia - Northern Allegheny Community Broadcasters
99.5 Brookville - Brookville Area School District
99.9 Pittsburgh - Lower Bloomfield Unity Council
 (wasting its time here, with first-adjacent WSHH 99.7 in town!)
100.1 Burlington Springs - Burlington Springs Faith Baptist Church
100.3 Carlisle - Fiat Educational Radio Assn.
100.3 Berwick - Berwick Adventist Broadcasting
102.9 Chambersburg - Dack Inc.
103.5 Johnstown - Johnstown Educational Assn.
103.5 Johnstown - Greater Johnstown High School
103.5 La Plume - Keystone College
103.7 Indiana - Godstock Ministries
103.9 Springdale - M and M Community Development, Pittsburgh Branch
104.5 State College - Islamic Society of Central PA
104.9 Oil City - Venango Catholic Educational Assn.
104.9 Shawnee-on-Delaware - Shawnee Presbyterian Church
104.9 Oil City - Pride of Oil City/Heritage/Health (P.O.O.C.H.)
104.9 Titusville - Oil City Access Project
105.1 Indiana - Indiana Educational Assn.
105.3 Washington - West Washington United Methodist Church
105.9 Philadelphia - School District of Philadelphia
 (yep, first-adjacent to WJJZ 106.1...)
107.3 Plymouth - Abundant Life Ministry
107.7 White Oak - Penn State University McKeesport
107.7 Altoona - Lay Stewardship Educational Association
107.9 Girardville - Golden Age Communications
107.9 Chester - Resources for Human Development/Groundwork USA

*Whew! That's a lot of typing, and a lot of work for an already
overwhelmed FCC to deal with. Expect to see only a small handful of
these granted in the next few months, with many being thrown out on
interference grounds and for incomplete applications. 

We'll get back to the usual NERW schedule with next Monday's issue,
July 16 - and stay tuned to Tower Site of the Week on fybush.com for
the first of our multi-part travelogue of the just-concluded Big Trip!

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