Talk:WRME-LD

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I live in Chicago and this station is currently on the air on Channel 6, thought the reception is bad. I am only 10 minutes north of downtown and can barely get it. This is bad for a LP station on the Hancock. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.142.126.131 (talk) 00:30, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, I live 11 miles southwest of Chicago, in the suburbs, in the village of Homer Glen, and I can get the station in through my TV. The only problem I notice is that with using a DTV converter box, I get the video feed on 61.2, but there's no sound. 67.173.117.222 (talk) 06:05, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

The 87.7 FM Chicago's Smooth Jazz logo

Would you please upload the 87.7 FM Chicago's Smooth Jazz logo and put it in place of the WLFM-LP The L logo? AdamDeanHall (talk) 17:57, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Wbm1058 (talk) 14:29, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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WKQX-LP → WGWG-LP – On Monday, February 17th, Tribune Broadcasting will be taking over the former WKQX-LP radio station. AdamDeanHall (talk) 14:49, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

• Comment it's the 15th right now, so what's up with this request? Shouldn't you ask for it starting on the 17th? -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 02:22, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• This seems non-controversial. If the station is changing its call letters on the 17th, the article should follow.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:32, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Deny: WKQX-LP has not applied to be WGN-LP, but has applied for the callsign WGWG-LP. There is a Call Sign Query request (from the FCC's database) that the WGWG-LP call sign has been requested by WLFM, LLC (WKQX's owner). There is not a Call Sign Query request for WGN-LP. You can check this via this link, just enter the callsigns. The website doesn't give unique links for each search, so I can't link it here. Where User:AdamDeanHall may have gotten confused is WKQX-LP (soon to be WGWG-LP) will be branded as "The WGN.FM". - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:29, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support, as the call change to WGWG-LP took effect today. (I'd have done the move already if not for the fact that there are still three more days left in the move discussion window.) --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:44, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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No signal in Rochelle?

The current article has, among its many unsourced sounds-good-enough recollections, a claim in the introductory section that

Though it is licensed to Rochelle, Illinois (located south of Rockford), WGWG-LP's signal does not reach that city; the station transmits instead from downtown Chicago's John Hancock Center.

The FCC normally requires a station to show that their proposed facility would put a city-grade signal over the city of license before the construction permit is even issued. I don't know what the requirements are for LPTV licenses, but I find it difficult to believe that even an LPTV station could get away with having no city-grade signal anywhere in the city of license without attracting the ire of the FCC, especially since normal Chicago radio stations would likely file formal complaints. Does that mean I can get an LPTV license for Key West, Florida and then put the antenna on top of the Space Needle in Seattle? And I assume that the TV 6/FM 87.7 trick already attracts the FCC's attention: For example, the FCC jumped on KZND-LP (Anchorage, Alaska) for not providing a video signal. What evidence is there that Rochelle, Illinois is receiving no usable signal (and/or explanation of why nothing is being done about it)? --Closeapple (talk) 07:47, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Actually you'd be shocked how normal this is; WPVS-LP has been getting away with a tiny signal for years serving a small rural town in Wisconsin that's nowhere near their former and current city of licenses, while there are several cases of FM translators which are supposedly licensed to a smaller community but service nowhere near that town at all. If you look at the FCC contour maps, neither signal gets near Rochelle. But it's all moot now as the license now officially as a COL of Chicago in the database, which must've come with the transition with the Trib LMA or someone at the FCC updating the entry after years of it being licensed to Chicago. Thus I'm updating it with the change. Nate • (chatter) 10:04, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 10 February 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Number 57 14:35, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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WGWG-LP → WRME-LP – MeTV FM will be playing music from the 1960's to the 1980's. AdamDeanHall (talk) 00:10, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support, If I understand things correctly, this will be a routine change on Feb 23.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:41, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

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