User talk:Mlaffs/Archives/2010/August

WPZS 100.9 FM
Oh, come now! They moved the station six years ago. You can't even HEAR it in Albemarle! Well, maybe you can. It depends on your radio. In any case, the station is violating some sort of federal rule if it is licensed to Albemarle, because the signal is NOT getting there. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 20:57, 28 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Won't argue with you - don't live anywhere in the area - but all we can go by is what's verifiable, and that usually means the FCC. They applied for a license to cover in the new location only a couple of years ago, and it hasn't been granted yet. Mlaffs (talk) 02:20, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * You would of course need to change WPZS as well. I'm not doing it because I know the truth. Both the FCC and Radio-Locator have outdated information. The station is most definitely NOT broadcasting from the location both sources give, or at 3000 watts. Someone is breaking the law. This has been going on six years, and THAT is about as verifiable as it gets. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 13:43, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not necessarily an issue of anyone breaking the law. This document on the FCC website would provide some background. Essentially, though, they have a construction permit for 5200 watts non-directional located at Indian Trail, and it appears they can broadcast "program test operations" from that antenna until the FCC actually issues them a license to cover. It being the government, I can imagine that might take longer than one would hope, and so they're just going about their business while they wait. In the meantime, however, they're licensed to Albemarle. If I remember correctly, the article itself says that they're "located in" Indian Trail, which seems to be true - it might only be the city of license in the infobox that would need to change, and some copy in the lede to make the distinction around the construction permit clear.
 * For what it's worth, I'd suspect that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of this exact situation in place around the country. I'm constantly running into FCC records where there's a license to one community but a construction permit to another. My only point with reverting your change to the disambiguation page for the frequency is that, at least in all U.S. cases, the city we show beside the station on those pages is the city of license. Just trying to keep things consistent. Mlaffs (talk) 19:45, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The article says they're broadcasting at 5200 watts. It says they're in Indian Trail, but that's wrong because the mailing address on the web site is a street in Charlotte. I fixed that. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 22:57, 29 April 2010 (UTC)