WXYB

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WXYB
Broadcast area Pinellas County, Florida
Frequency 1520 kHz
Programming
Format Brokered programming
Ownership
Owner
  • Angelatos Broadcasting
  • (Asa Broadcasting, Inc.)
WPSO, WZRA-CD
History
First air date
May 11, 1963;61 years ago (1963-05-11)
Former call signs
WGNB
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 2918
Class D
Power
  • 1,000 watts (day)
  • 13 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
 27°50′45.00″N82°46′21.00″W / 27.8458333°N 82.7725000°W / 27.8458333; -82.7725000
Links
Public license information
Website WXYB.htm

WXYB (1520 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, and serving the Tampa Bay area. The station is currently owned by Angelatos Broadcasting.

Contents

The station airs an ethnic radio format featuring shows in Greek, Spanish and other languages. It sells blocks of brokered time to hosts who then seek advertising support from their communities.

AM facilities and FM translator

Because it shares AM 1520 with Class A clear channel radio stations WWKB in Buffalo, New York and KOKC in Oklahoma City, this station previously was a daytimer. To avoid interfering with those 50,000-watt stations, it was required to sign off at sunset. On May 15, 2008, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined WXYB $4,000 for operating during the nighttime hours. Further inspections find that while the station signed off, equipment failure has prevented WXYB from shutting down completely. It has since then been fixed and the FCC reduced the fines to $3,000 based on its history of compliance with the rules. [2]

WXYB is now able to broadcast around the clock. It transmits 1,000 watts daytime, & 13 watts nighttime. WXYB uses a non-directional antenna at all times. The transmitter is off Cheyenne Drive North in Seminole, Florida. [3]

WXYB was heard on 65-watt FM translator station 103.9 W280FD in Largo, Florida. The translator now rebroadcasts WQBN. [4]

Tower collapse

WXYB transmits from a tower located on Cheyenne Drive near 78th Avenue North in Seminole. WXYB had been transmitting from tower#1 used by WHBO. However in 2006, the tower fell when the guy wires were clipped by construction equipment at a housing development that was built around the antennas. [5] WXYB was forced to operate from the third tower of the former WFSO (now WTBN) array, under FCC Special Temporary Authority ("STA"). [6] This tower was not used by WHBO, while the other two in the array were.

In August 2010, WXYB applied to use the "STA" tower as its permanent home, with a new nighttime authorization of 20 watts. The FCC granted the construction permit on October 14, 2011, [7] [8] and the license on October 9, 2015.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WXYB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "FCC fines Florida AM-daytimer for staying on after sunset". Radio-Info.com. May 15, 2008. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ "WXYB-AM 1520 kHz - Indian Rocks Beach, FL". radio-locator.com.
  4. ↑ "W280FD-FM 103.9 MHz - Largo, FL". radio-locator.com.
  5. ↑ licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1141720.
  6. ↑ licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101242382&qnum=5330&copynum=1&exhcnum=1.
  7. ↑ "CDBS Print". licensing.fcc.gov.
  8. ↑ "licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1418513".
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