WDTW, 1310, Dearborn has returned to the air with (mostly) Mexican music, using the positioner "La Mega Trece Diez" and with website and stream lamegadetroit.com (joining two other LaMegas on that channel).
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they have been on and off testing for the past few weeks, are they on permanently, or is this a test?
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I have passed the apparent new transmitter site for WDTW. It is just south of I-94 in the downriver Detroit area not far from the original 1310 site.
The site consists of six short unpainted towers.
I have passed the apparent new transmitter site for WDTW. It is just south of I-94 in the downriver Detroit area not far from the original 1310 site.
The site consists of six short unpainted towers.
Más Aguda Trece!
That makes no sense at all.
If you translate back into English: Keener 13.
Google translates it to "Sharper Thirteen!".
It was a nice try, but in Spanish it makes no sense. "Agudo/a" refers to sharp notes, higher in pitch. Or "piercing" as in a "piercing pain".
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Not how they translated it for me.
Is there a Spanish word that might translate into Keener, David?
Clearly, Oscar was attempting to come up with something that hearkened back to the frequencies prominent past while acknowledging its current format and targeted demographic. Kind of clever, actually.
Perhaps 'mil trescientos diez' 'Mas interesado Trece!'
Clearly, Oscar was attempting to come up with something that hearkened back to the frequencies prominent past while acknowledging its current format and targeted demographic. Kind of clever, actually.
Perhaps 'mil trescientos diez' 'Mas interesado Trece!'
True. A rim shot station licensed to Dearborn with - at best - partial coverage of the metro area coming back after being silent is only of interest because of what it was, not what it is.
WKMH: Once the Tigers' flagship when station owned Fred Knorr was a minority owner of the team. The stations' coverage was so poor that days games were also carried on WJBK 1500 and nightgames went to WJR. Lee Allen, Dave Prince, Robin Seymour, Jim Rockwell.
Keener 13: Bill Bonds, Dick Purtan, Gary Stevens.
In all fairness, "keen" is a synonym for "sharp" - in addition to it's use as a slang expression of approval.
No, because "Keener" is a made-up word as it is pronunciation of W-K-N-R; those calls were not a reference to "keen" but to "Knorr", the owner.
This is similar go a Mexican station with calls XENY which uses the name "Gehn-eey". While the term is pronouncable, the word means nothing other than being the station call letters.
Spanish is not English with other words. Colloquialisms and slang don't generally translate, although they may have equivalents. And some words don't translate at all, while others. having no equivalents, have to be explained.
Another example of a phrase that makes no sense and is grammatically incorrect, too.Sometimes to amuse myself I will take a well known phrase, like the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address, plunk it into Google Translate, flip it through all of the other languages, and then back to English.
What emerges is utterly unrecognizable.
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