Spanish at 1670

[Lawppy]

I've been on this one all evening! It's fighting with WTDY Madison and it's always the strongest in the middle of a song and not when I need it to be the strongest, during an ID. I've only been able to hear spanish music, and mentions of 'La Musica' and 'Viva'. I did hear a TOH, but as luck would have it, WTDY was really booming in at this point.

The only spanish station I see on 1670 when looking on Radio-Locator is from Moreno Valley, California! I'm hearing this spanish 1670 in Coldwater, MI.

Any ideas??

One more thing.. WWAA-1690 Air America. Are they still in Southern Georgia? Or have they completed their move to Atlanta?

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Lawppy.. Southern Michigan FM DX Freak
727 stations and counting
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[trevor]

> I've been on this one all evening! It's fighting with WTDY
> Madison and it's always the strongest in the middle of a
> song and not when I need it to be the strongest, during an
> ID. I've only been able to hear spanish music, and mentions
> of 'La Musica' and 'Viva'. I did hear a TOH, but as luck
> would have it, WTDY was really booming in at this point.
>
> The only spanish station I see on 1670 when looking on
> Radio-Locator is from Moreno Valley, California! I'm hearing
> this spanish 1670 in Coldwater, MI.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> One more thing.. WWAA-1690 Air America. Are they still in
> Southern Georgia? Or have they completed their move to
> Atlanta?
>

You may be hearing WMWR in Dry Branch (Macon), GA.  It's recently flipped from Talk to "Viva"-format Spanish.

As for WWAA, they have been broadcasting from Avondale Estates (Atlanta) for quite a while, first playing classic country and now as Air America.  The station is apparently being sold to the owner of WMLB 1160 in Atlanta.  This is from Rodney Ho on the Atlanta Board...

PRESS RELEASE
January 25, 2006

JW Broadcasting, Incorporated, headed by Joe Weber, has agreed to purchase the assets of radio station WWAA-AM, Avondale Estates, serving Atlanta, Georgia from Intermart Broadcasting of Georgia, Incorporated, for $12 million.*

Eddie Esserman of Media Services Group’s St. Simons Island office represented the seller in this transaction.

For more information:

Eddie Esserman
MediaServicesGroup.com

* Pending FCC Approval

[Joe Boatwright]

> I've been on this one all evening! It's fighting with WTDY
> Madison and it's always the strongest in the middle of a
> song and not when I need it to be the strongest, during an
> ID. I've only been able to hear spanish music, and mentions
> of 'La Musica' and 'Viva'. I did hear a TOH, but as luck
> would have it, WTDY was really booming in at this point.
>
> The only spanish station I see on 1670 when looking on
> Radio-Locator is from Moreno Valley, California! I'm hearing
> this spanish 1670 in Coldwater, MI.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> One more thing.. WWAA-1690 Air America. Are they still in
> Southern Georgia? Or have they completed their move to
> Atlanta?
>
I'm in Columbus, Ohio, and I've heard WMWR ID at the top of the hour, then return to Spanish music.  In Columbus, WTDY is almost always the strongest signal on 1670.

[clichemoth]

> > I've been on this one all evening! It's fighting with WTDY
>
> > Madison and it's always the strongest in the middle of a
> > song and not when I need it to be the strongest, during an
>
> > ID. I've only been able to hear spanish music, and
> mentions
> > of 'La Musica' and 'Viva'. I did hear a TOH, but as luck
> > would have it, WTDY was really booming in at this point.
> >
> > The only spanish station I see on 1670 when looking on
> > Radio-Locator is from Moreno Valley, California! I'm
> hearing
> > this spanish 1670 in Coldwater, MI.
> >
> > Any ideas??
> >
> > One more thing.. WWAA-1690 Air America. Are they still in
> > Southern Georgia? Or have they completed their move to
> > Atlanta?
> >
>
> You may be hearing WMWR in Dry Branch (Macon), GA.  It's
> recently flipped from Talk to "Viva"-format Spanish.

And they already had a Spanish talk program on weekend nights before flipping to CC's Viva music format.  Been fooled briefly by that myself.

>
> As for WWAA, they have been broadcasting from Avondale
> Estates (Atlanta) for quite a while, first playing classic
> country and now as Air America.  The station is apparently
> being sold to the owner of WMLB 1160 in Atlanta.  This is
> from Rodney Ho on the Atlanta Board...
>
> PRESS RELEASE
> January 25, 2006
>
> JW Broadcasting, Incorporated, headed by Joe Weber, has
> agreed to purchase the assets of radio station WWAA-AM,
> Avondale Estates, serving Atlanta, Georgia from Intermart
> Broadcasting of Georgia, Incorporated, for $12 million.*
>
> Eddie Esserman of Media Services Group’s St. Simons Island
> office represented the seller in this transaction.
>
> For more information:
>
> Eddie Esserman
> MediaServicesGroup.com
>
> * Pending FCC Approval
>

I can't see 1690 sticking with Air America after this goes through...Would they flip to standards (WMLB's current format), back to classic country, or something completely different?  Either way, the X-band DX landscape would change a little.