NERW 5/13: Y-107 Goes Rumba

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--------------------------NorthEast Radio Watch--------------------------
                                May 13, 2002

IN THIS ISSUE:

*NEW YORK: Y107 Says, "Let's Rumba!"
*PENNSYLVANIA: Citadel Shuffles Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
*CANADA: Chaine Culturelle Approved For New FMs

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

*We're back, and before we tell you all about our two weeks in
England, Wales and France, there's plenty to get caught up on:

*We'll start in NEW YORK, where last Wednesday (May 8) brought the
long-expected end to the country format on Big City Radio's "Y107"
quadcast in the Big Apple's suburbs. After a day of construction
noises, the four stations on 107.1 (WYNY Briarcliff Manor, WWXY
Hampton Bays, WWYY Belvidere NJ and WWZY Long Branch NJ) launched into
their new life as "Rumba 107," playing much the same diet of Spanish
hits now heard on "Mega" WSKQ (97.9 New York) and "Latino Mix" WCAA
(105.9 Newark NJ). 

Can the relatively weak in-city signals of the "Rumba" stations (aided
slightly by the tower move at WWZY last week that now finds the
station reaching Brooklyn much better from Atlantic Highlands, N.J.)
compete with the strong signals of Mega and Latino Mix? Will the
Belvidere (serving the Easton, PA area) and Hampton Bays signals stay
with the simulcast? And what about the remaining staff at Y107,
including morning guy Ray Rossi, who are now out of work, not to
mention the country listeners in the big city who are again without a
station? We'll keep you posted...

Elsewhere in New York City, two noncommercial FM stations are at odds
over a proposal by one to improve its Manhattan signal. Bronx-based
WFUV (90.7), the radio voice of Fordham University, wants to put a
600-watt booster atop the Riverside Church, using the tower once
occupied by the former WRVR (106.7, now WLTW from the Empire State
Building). 

But the application has met with opposition from WFMU (91.1 East
Orange), the community-supported station across the Hudson that draws
some of its best listenership in the upper Manhattan area to be served
by the proposed "WFUV-2." NERW hopes both sides can find a way to work
this out, especially after we've just spent some time listening to the
many signals in Paris and London that are just 0.4 MHz apart - from
the same tower, in some cases - and get along just fine.

Speaking of WFUV, it's also still fighting to finish the tower it
began constructing in the mid-nineties next to the New York Botanical
Garden. The tower has been sitting half-finished for years now, hung
up in a dispute with the garden over the visual impact it would have
there. The latest developments: WFUV filed a revised environmental
assessment last month, proposing to build the tower out to 380 feet
instead of the original 480 foot height; comments on the proposal are
due to the FCC June 1.

Talker WOR (710) added Bill O'Reilly to its schedule last week
(denying, the whole time, gossip that claimed syndicator Westwood One
was making big payments to large-market stations to get clearances for
the show), then lost PD John Mainelli the next day. Mainelli resigned
from the Buckley-owned talker May 9, in what he and the station are
calling an amicable departure. Mainelli had been at WOR for just a few
weeks, arriving amidst high hopes that he could freshen up the aging
station to compete against his old home, WABC. There's no word about
Mainelli's plans, yet, nor about WOR's plans for a replacement.

More Radio People on the Move: Freddie Colon, late of WTJM (105.1, now
WWPR-FM), stays within the Clear Channel family as he moves out to
WALK-FM (97.5 Patchogue) to replace Dave Reed on middays. Colon's WTJM
colleague, morning man Jeff Foxx, lands at WRKS (98.7) for middays,
sending Mike Shannon to weekends at Kiss. And Woody Fife has departed
WXRK (92.3), where he was assistant music director in addition to
holding down the 10 PM to 2 AM shift on the air.

Moving up the Hudson Valley, Bill Palmeri is out at the Cumulus
(formerly Aurora) cluster in Poughkeepsie after two decades; replacing
him in the GM chair is Chuck Benfer, who had been general sales
manager at the stations before moving down to serve as market manager
of Aurora's Westchester cluster.

And we have confirmation of a story we reported before we left: WVIP
(1310 Mount Kisco) has indeed been sold by Peter Baumann's Suburban
Broadcasting; it's now running Spanish-language religion as a
noncommercial simulcast of Radio Vision Cristiana's WWRV (1330 New
York). RVC is paying a reported $1.36 million for the station.

Dennis Jackson's WRIP (97.9 Windham) is applying for a booster a few
miles to the south. WRIP-1 would serve Hunter, with 35 watts from atop
Colonel's Chair, a peak just north of Hunter Mountain
itself. (Ironically, the original 97.9 allocation was to Jewett,
adjacent to the Hunter Mountain area!)

Two new callsigns in Albany: the station on 1400 that had been known
forever as WABY will become WHTR(AM), now that it's simulcasting the
hot talk of WHTR-FM (93.7 Scotia); up the dial at 1460, Disney
replaces the old WGNA(AM) with WDDY to match the new Radio Disney
format there.

On the TV side of things, Albany Fox affiliate WXXA (Channel 23) wants
to shift its DTV assignment from channel 4 to channel 7, and you've
got to love the explanation: the Clear Channel station says it doesn't
want to cause interference to VCRs and other devices that output to TV
sets on channel 4! (That VHF high-band is widely considered superior
to VHF low-band for DTV we'll accept as merely coincidental...)

The most impressive AM directional array in the Northeast could rise
just a few hundred yards from the Canadian border, should Palmetto Radio
Group be granted its application for a new station on 650 kHz in
Mooers, N.Y.

The South Carolina-based religious broadcaster wants to erect nine
150-meter towers on Orr Road, just west of Route 22 and barely a mile
south of the border, to put out 50,000 watts by day and 9,000 watts by
night, presumably aimed at Montreal. And no, we have no idea how this
would work with the vacant (but protected internationally) 650
allocation at Pointe-Claire, just west of Montreal.

Syracuse Community Radio is at it again: with just hours to go before
the expiration of its CP for translator W208AQ (89.5 Marcellus) on
April 30, the SCR folks filed for a license to cover for the facility,
which could be their best hope to actually put a listenable signal
into Onondaga County. Only problem is, W208AQ hadn't been built yet;
several NERW readers who visited the site report seeing no sign of an
antenna, nor any power connections to the transmitter! 

(This is not the first time SCR has done this; alert readers will
recall the saga of WXXC, 88.7 in Truxton, which SCR falsely told the
FCC was on the air, only to lose the license after several other area
broadcasters informed the Commission otherwise. NERW's take: SCR
missed several good opportunities to win the friendly cooperation of
the region's existing broadcasters, and we don't see what the group
hopes to gain by misleading the FCC now, especially with the scrutiny
it faces from other stations in the region.)

The coming of the Bill O'Reilly show sparked a format change at
Syracuse's WFBL (1050 Baldwinsville), which dropped its
adult-standards format last week in favor of syndicated talk. In
addition to O'Reilly, WFBL is running Sean Hannity, Dr. Joy Browne and
the Dolans. (WFBL's Web site, meanwhile, is trying to paint the
station's history as extending back to the original WFBL in 1922; we
know better, of course, here at NERW: *that* WFBL is today's WDCW on
1390, while the current WFBL is the original WSEN, dating to only
1959!)

In Binghamton, WHWK (98.1) PD Ed Walker takes on music director duties
as well, as John Davison moves from MD/APD to a promotion/production
role at the country station.

We didn't miss anything in Rochester radio while we were away, it
seems - and despite the rumors that O'Reilly would show up on WBBF
(950), perhaps as the start of a rumored change there from an oldies
FM simulcast to news-talk, WBBF(AM) was still running all-oldies at
press time. On the TV front, WUHF (Channel 31) amended its channel 28
DTV application to specify the proposed American Tower mast on
Pinnacle Hill instead of WUHF's current site on the WXXI-TV (Channel
21) tower.

Buffalo is getting O'Reilly, and that means Rochester listeners can
tune in as well at WWKB (1520), which is running the show from noon
until 3 daily (including one repeat hour), directly opposite Rush
Limbaugh on sister station WBEN (930). 

Buffalo also has a stronger AM signal, as WXRL (1300 Lancaster) boosts
its daytime power from 2395 watts to a full 5 kilowatts. On the TV
side, we note religious WNYB-TV (Channel 26) Jamestown and its Buffalo
relay, W15BH, being transferred from Tri-State Christian Television to
Faith Broadcasting Network. No sign thus far of a similar transfer for
the third station in the chain, Rochester's W59BV, which has been
running TBN programming straight from the satellite since the debut of
LPTV W26BZ locally wiped out its off-air feed from Jamestown.

The Mary V. Harris Foundation's application for a new 90.7 in
Williamsville has been returned to pending status, meaning it's still
competing with Holy Family Communications' application for a new 90.7
in Lancaster. 

*We'll start the PENNSYLVANIA catch-up in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, which
saw plenty of action in NERW's absence. Citadel reshuffled its deck in
a big way, beginning with the demise of the doo-wop oldies format on
WARM (590), which returns to the news-talk it had been doing for
years. The doo-wop oldies end up on WEMR (1460 Tunkhannock), which is
now "Mighty 1460," breaking from the adult-standards simulcast with
WKJN (1440 Carbondale) and WAZL (1490 Hazleton). 

On the FM side, the "Z-Rock" combo of WEOZ (95.7 Olyphant) and WAOZ
(97.9 Hazleton) split as well, with WEOZ becoming "Z-Talk" and WAOZ
shifting to a simulcast of new rock WBSX (93.7 Dallas). 

The Z-Talk lineup includes Bob and Tom, Don and Mike, Opie and
Anthony, Phil Hendrie and Tom Leykis. WARM, meantime, starts its day
with local host Rob Neyhard. The schedule also includes Dr. Joy
Browne and Sean Hannity.

WBSX, meanwhile, has been running promos announcing a move to "97.9
X," and at press time the WBSX calls have moved to 97.9, with 93.7 now
identifying as WCWQ. 

That, in turn, matches the new calls at two other Citadel stations:
WBHD (94.3 Carbondale) is now WCWI, while WEMR-FM (107.7 Tunkhannock)
is now WCWY. WBHD had been simulcasting CHR WBHT (97.1 Mountain Top),
while WEMR-FM had been simulcasting AC WMGS (92.9 Scranton);
speculation in the market is that WCWQ, WCWI and WCWY will all soon be
doing "Cat Country," a format that had been heard on 94.3 and 93.7 a
few years ago.

The moves have displaced some staffers at the stations as well; Z-Rock
operations manager/PD Jules Riley becomes OM for the entire cluster
(and PD for WBSX and Z-Talk), while WBSX PD Chris Lloyd goes back to
PM drive duties there. In all, about ten people (including several
WBSX jocks) lost their jobs at the cluster.

And Citadel's been busy away from Wilkes-Barre, too; we hear WRKZ
(102.3 Carlisle, the former WHYL-FM) flipped from a simulcast of
country sister WCAT-FM (106.7 Hershey, the former WRKZ) to 80s hits as
"Z-102.3" last Friday. 

(One more note before we leave Scranton and vicinity: WAAT (750
Olyphant) has dropped the Laura Schlessinger show.)

In Philadelphia, Michael Smerconish returned to the WPHT (1210)
airwaves this week, after a falling-out with the station a few months
back that took him off his afternoon shift. Smerconish's return (he's
also still contributing commentaries to sister station KYW) pushes
Jeff Katz from the 3-6 PM slot to 6-8 PM, where he's followed by an
hour of Jim Cramer, Bill O'Reilly on tape from 9-11 PM, and then Dom
Giordano (11 PM to 1 AM), Rollye James (1-3 AM) and Art Bell (3-6 AM).

Down the dial on 950, former WMGK (102.9 Philadelphia) jock Mike Bowe
replaces Tom Moran in afternoon drive on WPEN; Joe Harnett, who
followed Moran, also exits, though his shift is mostly filled with
Phillies games for the next few months.

And on WPHI (103.9 Jenkintown), last week brought the debut of "The
Beat Morning Playaz," a new morning show with Jim "KJ" Kovachyk from
Houston and Kim Kane.

Over in Coatesville, WCOJ (1420) VP/GM Jack Weinlein has departed.

On the TV side of things, Bethlehem's WBPH (Channel 60) wants the FCC
to reconsider its DTV allocation. WBPH is currently assigned to DTV
channel 59, which presents a problem for the station: because neither
59 nor 60 are within the current "core spectrum" (channels 2-51), WBPH
would have to build a DTV facility on channel 59, then change channels
again sometime down the road. WBPH says it's one of fewer than 20
stations with both analog and DTV allocatons "out of core;" it's now
asking for DTV channel 9 instead.

WWZB (106.3 Huntingdon) changes calls to WWLY(FM); it's not clear what
the new Forever ownership there is planning just yet. 

The Family Worship Center withdrew dozens of translator applications
around the country last week, and that included several in
Pennsylvania: 91.9 in Smethport and Lewistown and 88.3 in
Bloomsburg. FWC had also applied for translators in New York on 89.1
in Malone, 89.9 in Bath and 90.1 in Medina, also withdrawn.

In Pittsburgh, O'Reilly lands on WPTT (1360 McKeesport), shifting Lynn
Cullen to a 10 AM to 12:45 PM slot, followed by Paul Harvey and
O'Reilly, then Doug Hoerth at 3. Across town at WKST (96.1),
J.J. Kincaid is inbound from KDWB in Minneapolis to replace John Trout
as music director and afternoon jock.

Just outside Pittsburgh, the building on Wyngate Drive in Monroeville
that housed the old WXVX (1510, now WPGR) was severely damaged by fire
late last week. WPGR moved out of the building a few years back; its
studios are now in downtown Pittsburgh and its transmitter is in Penn
Hills.

And just across the state line in Ohio, WFXJ (107.5 North Kingsville)
finally made it to the air in late April. It's classic rock as "the
Fox," complete with Bob and Tom in the mornings, and we hear it
reaches Erie with an adequate signal, too...

*The big news from NEW JERSEY was a format change May 1 at WTTM (1680
Princeton) to accompany the ownership change from Nassau to
Multicultural. WTTM's now running ethnic fare, with plenty of Asian 
languages, we're told; the ESPN sports that had been on 1680 have
moved to WJHR (1040 Flemington).

Greater Media is adding WJRZ (100.1 Manahawkin) to its station roster;
the purchase from Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation comes with an
immediate LMA, and there's no word on a purchase price.

Speaking of Greater Media, its WMTR (1250 Morristown) is filing to
boost its nighttime power from 1 kilowatt (with a CP for 5 kilowatts)
to 7 kilowatts. The new night facility, which would aim most of its
power to the east-southeast, would use four towers instead of the
current three at the WMTR studio facility.

WSNR (620 Newark) has had its application for 8200 watts day, 5000
watts night from a new seven-tower array in West Caldwell reinstated;
the Sporting News flagship had to correct some minor problems in its
initial application, which apparently failed to provide quite enough
protection to co-channel WHEN Syracuse and WDNC Durham, N.C.

And Ibiquity, the digital IBOC folks, have applied for a 50-watt
experimental AM outlet in Warren, N.J., to be used for IBOC testing
both daytime and after dark. The station, to operate on 1700 kHz,
would apparently be used to help resolve some of the problems that
have thus far kept the IBOC standard from being approved for nighttime
use.

*In CONNECTICUT, WGCH (1490 Greenwich) was granted its application to
move to a fiberglass Valcom whip antenna at a local marina; the grant
at least gives the station some options as it tries to resolve the
imminent loss of its current antenna site and the fight over its
preferred site adjacent to a local school.

Radio People on the Move: Mike McGowan has departed WKSS (95.7
Hartford), where he was APD and MD in addition to afternoon drive
jock. Jeff Ryan, who was doing weekends at New Bedford's WFHN (107.1
Fairhaven), moves to WKSS for weekend/swing duty. Over at WWYZ (92.5
Waterbury), morning jock Neil Hedley departed on May 3, with no
replacement yet named.

The Laura Schlessinger show has a new home in central Connecticut;
it's the latest addition to "Notty 99," WNTY (990 Southington). 

*In RHODE ISLAND, we hear half of the "Z-100" combo of WZRA (99.7
Wakefield-Peace Dale) and WZRI (100.3 Middletown) is breaking away;
WZRA is becoming WSKO-FM, relaying the sports programming of WSKO (790
Providence) to southern Rhode Island. The FM side will split from the
AM for some baseball play-by-play; 790 will take the Pawtucket Red
Sox, while 99.7 will carry the Yankees when there's a conflict. WSKO
also shifts its schedule a bit, adding local sports talk in late
mornings. 

On the TV side, the shuffle that puts WPRI (Channel 12) in LIN's hands
moves sister station WNAC (Channel 64) from LIN to "WNAC, L.L.C.",
though both stations remained together under an LMA. Speaking of LIN,
it appears the Providence stations will join New Haven's WTNH and WCTX
(also now officially in LIN hands) in being operated from a
central-casting hub at LIN's WWLP in Springfield. (An alert New Haven
reporter caught LIN advertising for "hub operators" at WWLP last
week...)

*On to MASSACHUSETTS, and more Radio People on the Move: Matty Blake
is out at WAAF (107.3 Worcester), leaving Rocko solo in afternoon
drive for the moment. Ken West moved from assistant music director and
morning show executive producer at WZLX (100.7) to APD/MD at WROR
(105.7 Framingham), while out in Worcester, Pete Falconi adds PD
duties to his OM position at WXLO (104.5 Fitchburg). Becky Nichols is
inbound from WOTX (102.3 Concord NH), where she was PD, to be Pete's
APD/MD at WXLO, in addition to handling midday duties there.

There's a new night signal in the Bay State: WVBF (1530 Middleborough)
is now testing its two-watt night authorization. Owner Steve Callahan
checked in to report that reception reports are welcome!

It's too late for us to give you a heads-up about it, but we still
think WHRB (95.3 Cambridge) had a neat idea for its biggest "Orgy"
(TM) of the season. The "Number One Orgy" ran from May 7-10 on the
Harvard-affiliated station, offering every single song (more than 900
of them) that made the top of the pop charts from 1955 until
now. Neat...

Sorry to offer several obituaries: Jack Chase, veteran WBZ-TV
anchorman, died April 27 at age 85. Chase's death followed closely
those of his WBZ colleagues Art Amadon and Norm Macdonald, reported
earlier in NERW. 

Jim Rakiey, WBCN chief engineer, died April 25 at age 43. Rakiey had
been WBCN's chief since 1989, after a career that included a stint at
Attleboro's WARA and graduation from Curry College in Milton. Rakiey
leaves a wife and two young children.

And out on Cape Cod, we're particularly sorry to report the passing of
Ernie Cooper. Ernie was known to WOMR (92.1 Provincetown) listeners as
the host of "Forward March!," perhaps the only radio show anywhere
dedicated solely to military marches - but he was even better known in
the DX community, where he was one of the veteran members of the
National Radio Club. Cooper edited the "Musings" column of the club's
"DX News" for decades, and logged literally thousands of AM stations
from Brooklyn and, later, from Cape Cod. (He had logged 3,601
domestic AM signals from Provincetown when he last updated his
achievements with the NRC in the late seventies!) Ernie died April 28 at age
83; he's survived by partner Robert Stenger. Funeral services will be
held next Monday (May 20) in Provincetown.

*In NEW HAMPSHIRE, WHOB (106.3 Nashua) is looking for a new morning
host following the departure of Mike Morin, who's heading north to
WZID (95.7 Manchester).

Dennis Jackson passed along some neat pictures of the new setup at
WMEX (106.5 Farmington), which now has Gary James with a live, local
morning show from new studios in downtown Rochester, N.H. Anyone who
doubts there's still a place for local small-town radio in 2002 should
check out Dennis' stations to see how to combine community committment
and automation to preserve a local sound even with a small staff!

Two call changes: Saga flips WXOD (98.7 Winchester) to WOQL(FM),
presumably to match sister oldies outlet "Cool" WQLL (96.5 Bedford);
out on the Seacoast, W26CM in Hampton Falls becomes WHDN-LP.

*VERMONT offers a pair of call changes to kick things off: not long
after becoming WTWK, the former WWSR (1420 St. Albans) sends those WTWK
calls across Lake Champlain to 1070 in Plattsburgh (formerly
WLFE). 1420 is now WRSA, and we don't know what it's programming at
the moment.

Burlington's ABC affiliate, WVNY (Channel 22), wants to swap its
channel 16 DTV allocation for channel 13, in part to lower power costs
at its mountaintop site.

The Vermont Association of Broadcasters met last month for its annual
banquet, naming WCVP (101.7 Stowe) as its station of the year. The VAB
also inducted two Vermont broadcasters into its Hall of Fame: Mike
Donovan of Barre's WSNO/WORK and Eric Michaels of WDEV in Waterbury.

*We're trying to figure out an application to the FCC by a MAINE
college station. WUMF (100.5 Farmington), at the University of
Maine-Farmington, filed a "major modification application" that
appears to do nothing more than change from 13 watts horizontal to one
watt horizontal, 13 watts vertical. That shouldn't be a "major
change," for starters, and it certainly shouldn't have been filed on
the form that's supposed to be used for stations operating in the
88-92 MHz reserved band! We suspect an amended application will have
to be filed here, once WUMF figures out what it's actually trying to
do...

Maine PBS outlet WMED (Channel 13) in Calais wants to change its DTV
allocation; it was granted a shift from DTV 15 to DTV 10, reducing
power bills at its site in Meddybemps, Maine. (And yes, we've been to
Meddybemps...)

WQSS (102.5 Camden) was officially transferred from Gopher Hill to
Clear Channel; the company is moving most of its Bangor-area stations
to a new group facility in the Target Industrial Park near the Bangor
airport.

And WPOR-FM (101.9 Portland) is now officially WPOR(FM). Just thought
you'd like to know.

*We'll conclude our catching-up in CANADA, where the CBC/Radio Canada
won CRTC approval for a slew of new transmitters for the
French-language "chaine culturelle" service.

In Ontario, the service will relay CJBC-FM (90.3 Toronto) from new
transmitters in Windsor (107.9, 3360 watts, also reaching Detroit) and
Paris (89.9, 7140 watts).

Montreal's CBFX (100.7) will be relayed over a new 72 kilowatt
transmitter on 91.1 on Mont Laurier.

Quebec's CBVX (100.9) will get new relays at La Malbaie (91.5, 960
watts) and Baie St-Paul (88.9, 350 watts). 

Rimouski's CBRX (101.5) will be relayed at Matane (107.5, 31.7 kW),
Sept-Iles (96.1, 84.8 kW) and Riviere-du-Loup (90.7, 56.9 kW), while
Chicoutimi's CBJX (100.9) will be relayed at Dolbeau (90.9, 37.2 kW).

In the Maritimes, CBAL (98.3 Moncton NB) will get new relays at
Fredericton (88.1, 78.5 kW, also serving Saint John) and Edmundston
(94.3, 100 kW), while a new chaine culturelle service will operate
from Halifax on 91.5 (77.5 kW) with relays at Charlottetown, P.E.I
(88.9, 32.85 kW) and St. John's, Newfoundland (101.9, 90.2 kW).

The CBC also won permission to expand its English Radio One service in
Quebec, beating out Radio Communautaire Missisquoi to win permission
to build a 3400-watt signal at 101.9 in Cowansville. The Missisquoi
group had hoped to provide local English-language programming to the
region of English-speakers in southern Quebec, but was unable to find
an alternate frequency to use. 

It appears a new tower has gone up to replace the CKTM tower near
Trois-Rivieres that was destroyed when it was struck by a small plane
in April 2001. CKTM (Channel 13) and CFKM (Channel 16) have both asked
the CRTC to change their power levels to reflect the construction of
the new tower. (CKTM jumps from 162.5 kW to 164.4 kW, CFKM from 115.6
to 169.5 kW visual.)

Another AM bites the dust: CFVM (1220 Amqui QC) has applied to move to
FM, where it would run on 99.9 with 23.8 kW.

Out in Prince Edward Island, Jack McGaw Consulting wants to put a
37-watt tourism information station on the air at the Confederation
Bridge (which links PEI and New Brunswick); the station would provide
traffic and weather information at 93.9 on the dial.

In Ottawa, the city declared "CFRA Day" May 3 to mark the 55th
anniversary of the station, which signed on at 560 on the dial May 3,
1947 and now operates at 580 as the capitol city's news-talk voice.

In Toronto, airport-information station CFYZ (1280) wants a power
boost. CFYZ is already well heard with 25 watts day, 99 watts night;
it wants a boost to 400 watts day, 150 watts after dark.

And out in Chatham, CKUE and CKSY swapped dial positions on May 3;
CKUE moved to the stronger 95.1 spot as "The Rock 95.1," while CKSY is
now offering its AC format at 94.3.

*Whew! It's good to be home, but catching up can be time-consuming -
so we'll wait until next week to tell you all about everything we saw
and heard across the pond. Stay tuned - and don't miss an all-new
Tower Site of the Week this Wednesday, only at fybush.com!

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