WPLY (defunct)

WPLY
City	Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania
Frequency	960 kHz
First air date	March 1981 (ceased operations June 27, 2011)
Format	News/Talk
Power	1,000 watts (day) 24 watts (night)
Class	D
Facility ID	67060
Transmitter coordinates	41°04′41″N 75°23′33″W / 41.07806°N 75.39250°W / 41.07806; -75.39250
Former callsigns	WPCN (1980-1992) WPMR (1992-1996) WILT (1996-2005)^[1]
Owner	Nassau Broadcasting Partners (Nassau Broadcasting II, LLC)

WPLY (960 AM) was a radio station licensed to serve Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, USA. The station was owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners.

WPLY broadcast a news/talk radio format.^[2] The station simulcast with WVPO (840 AM) in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

The station was assigned the WPLY call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on March 10, 2005.^[1]

WPLY originally signed on in April 1981 as WPCN. The locally-owned community radio station was notably innovative at the time for installing serial #1 of the Continental Model 314R1 PWM transmitter, which ushered in an era of enhanced audio fidelity and efficient, power-saving operation (since replaced with a Harris Gates One). The four towers, employing elevated feeds, are guyed with non-conductive Phillystran cable, also very innovative at the time.

In January 2012, the Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of apparent liability and proposed a $17,000 fine against Nassau Broadcasting II, stating WPLY "willfully and repeatedly violated" FCC regulations. The investigation leading to the notice stemmed from a random inspection conducted at the WPLY facilities in March 2010, during which it was discovered that the station had been transmitting from only one of its four antennas at greatly reduced power (250 watts) without receiving authorization and had been doing so since Nassau purchased the station in 2000. FCC regulations require that stations unable to operate at full power must apply for a temporary authorization to operate at reduced power, which WPLY did only after the 2010 inspection, claiming that the station's antenna array was "severely deteriorated" and in need of extensive repairs.^[3]

In addition, the notice states that WPLY did not maintain an FCC-required public file, and that station personnel claimed that they had never kept such a file.^[3]

WPLY left the air June 27, 2011 in order to determine if its antenna system needed to be either repaired or replaced.^[4] The station never resumed broadcasting, and on March 6, 2014 the station's license was canceled for failure to broadcast for a year.^[5]

References

1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
1 2 Muschick, Paul (January 25, 2012). "Stroudsburg radio station faces FCC fine". The Morning Call. Retrieved 2-7-2012. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. June 27, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
↑ Doyle, Peter H. (March 6, 2014). "In re: WPLY(AM), Mount Pocono, PA" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved March 13, 2014.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WPLY

Radio-Locator Information on WPLY

Radio stations in and around Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

By FM frequency	88.7 89.5 90.3 91.1 91.9 93.5 104.9 106.3 107.1 107.9

By AM frequency	840

By callsign	WBYX WCSD-LP WESS WHCY WKRF WNTI WRTY WSBG WVPO WWPJ WWYY

Defunct stations	WPLY 960

Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

News/Talk radio stations in the state of Pennsylvania

All-News	KQV – Pittsburgh KYW – Philadelphia WLRI-LP – Gap

News & Talk	KDKA – Pittsburgh WAEB – Allentown WBLF – Bellefonte WBZU – Scranton WCBG – Waynesboro WCED – Du Bois WECZ – Punxsutawney WEEO-FM – McConnellsburg WEEU – Reading WFBG – Altoona WFYL – King of Prussia WHP – Harrisburg WIEZ – Lewistown WILK – Wilkes-Barre WILK-FM – Avoca WJAS – Pittsburgh WJET – Erie WKOK – Sunbury WKST – New Castle WKZN – West Hazleton WLBR – Lebanon WLLI – Somerset WMLP – Milton WNTJ – Johnstown WNTP – Philadelphia WNWR – Philadelphia WPGP – Pittsburgh WPHT – Philadelphia WPIC – Sharon WPIT – Pittsburgh WRSC – State College WRTA – Altoona WSBA – York WWPA – Williamsport

Defunct	WOYL – Oil City WPLY – Mount Pocono

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Pennsylvania

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