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WNYH 740 AM on LI Now Carrying Omega Radio

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Barry

The 25,000 watt (daytime) station in Huntington has apparently dropped the awful programming from Overcomer Ministry, which featured the deceased Brother Stair. In its place is Omega Radio. It offers brokered religious programming for the Caribbean community. Its schedule also shows news programming from BBC, and other sources.
They mention that they are also on 100.7 FM in New York. Anyone know where that is located?

Omega Radio
 
Barry said:
The 25,000 watt (daytime) station in Huntington has apparently dropped the awful programming from Overcomer Ministry, which featured the deceased Brother Stair. In its place is Omega Radio. It offers brokered religious programming for the Caribbean community. Its schedule also shows news programming from BBC, and other sources.
They mention that they are also on 100.7 FM in New York. Anyone know where that is located?

Omega Radio
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WNYH has a translator on 100.7 W264DG Islip. If they're promoting it as being heard in New York itself there's very little chance of that happening. The programming originates in Jamaica (the island not Queens) and is also heard on an LPFM in Fort Lauderdale.
 
In addition to the religious programming, I have also heard a talk show discussing various issues in Jamaica.
Does WNYH have a decent signal in areas with a significant West Indian population?
 
WHUD 100.7 Peekskill is receivable in a large swath of Long Island, as their signal is quite powerful. Wouldn’t they complain about co-channel interference?
 
djl said:
WHUD 100.7 Peekskill is receivable in a large swath of Long Island, as their signal is quite powerful. Wouldn’t they complain about co-channel interference?
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You can only complain about co-channel interference in your protected contour. For WHUD, almost none of Long Island itself is in the protected contour. Also, arguably, because no one lives in Long Island Sound, any interference that may occur of shore could be considered irrelevant by the FCC.

Assuming W264DG is operating with its licensed directional antenna, a complaint would just be a waste of lawyer fees.
 
That Islip* translator, directional away from WHUD, aims very much the way the parent 740 AM does.
740 is huge to the south and east. A field-strength reading taken one afternoon at the tower site of Patchogue's 1580 revealed that 740 was putting almost as most voltage through the 1580 site as the 1580 station was.
Putting it another way: where the FM goes in the Nassau-Suffolk market, the AM already goes, quite loudly and much further.
Interesting that 740 AM has -- always had -- a nice back-lobe daytime signal up the Hudson to near the very Peekskill itself, even back in their 5000 watt days. Different broadcast bands ; different conditions, of course. But at night, not even 5 miles west of 740's towers, their 40 watts gets buried in East Norwich/Oyster Bay by Toronto. An average listener there could believe that CFZM was the local station and that the one nibbling at CFZM was very far away. I haven't been out to former stomping-ground L.I. for over ten years, but I'm guessing that the new FM isn't listenable at all in those same villages.

* For out-of-town tourists, lol it's said 'ICE-lipp'
 
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Omega Radio's Caribbean programming is apparently gone, after airing on this station for only a few months.
In its place, they are running what appears to be a Korean Christian broadcaster (KCBN?).
 
The 100.7 they may have referred to is the Irie Storm pirate that has returned on-air again after recent FCC crackdowns. 100.7's signal is HUGE and is heard easily in all of Brooklyn and Queens, and most of Manhattan and Staten Island. But that's likely not happening anymore with Korean.
 
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