A coupla notes

April 30, 2019 Off By Eric O'Brien

Voy Forums

Before anyone else asks, I have no idea what has happened at the popular Voy Forum radio and TV discussion page. It was last updated on March 7. I’ve heard unconfirmed rumors regarding the moderator. No word where all of the negative commenters will go to spew their expert opinions on every format, news anchor, and management decision will go.

Quinn and Rose

Seems that very few people noticed that the 2-hour edition of Quinn and Rose program disappeared from the WBGG (970) airwaves late in March. The station is back to being a full-time sports station after about 6 months with Q&R.

KQV

KQV (1410) had to vacate its long-time (70ish years) Ross Township 5-tower transmitter site in late winter. The site will be maintained as a tower site for cell phone coverage. “Tower 4” (one of the two that have the night time lights) which had been the “driver” of the site for the 5000 watt station, is expected to become the cell tower. The rest are expected to come down. But as of this writing, they’re still there. County real estate records still show Calvary Inc. as the land owner.

As for the station itself, the transmitter is to be diplexed at WEDO (810) in North Versailles. There it will be able to boast a 5000 watt non-directional daytime signal but will have to drop to 75 watts at night. Broadcast Communications Inc. owner, Robert Stevens, expects to have the station on by midsummer.

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5 Comments

  • Bob Kristof says:
    May 4, 2019 at 8:34 am

    What format will KQV have?

  • George Erdner says:
    May 4, 2019 at 9:04 pm

    The moderator of the Discussion Forum never permitted “negative commenters” to “spew their expert opinions” unless he agreed with them.

  • merv says:
    May 8, 2019 at 11:18 am

    KQV should bring back the WJAS format that was dumped in 2014. 1 am dj and 1 news person and a music feed from a bird…bring back some of the overnight stuff they ran.

  • George Erdner says:
    May 9, 2019 at 11:23 am

    Without going into details about the moderator or rumors about him, both the Voy Pittsburgh Radio and TV Discussion Forum and the Pittsburgh Radio and TV Nostalgia Forums went dead at around the same time. Is that a simple coincidence, or was the same individual moderator of both Voy forums?

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