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WXTZ 87.9 Norwich was a non-profit, community based Part 15 FM radio station located in Southeastern Connecticut and served the Norwich, Connecticut listening area. Originally called Z107.1 and located at 107.1 MHz on the FM broadcast band, it was displaced on August 15 of 2014 to 87.9 MHz because of co-channel interference as it expanded into a radio network service. WXTZ 87.9 Norwich is currently a defunct radio station, however, it has a history of being Norwich Connecticut's first FCC part 15 FM radio station. ==History== The radio station began its on air operations as WXTZ-FM on the morning of June 16 of 2013 on 107.1 MHz as a single transmitter, part 15 FM radio station. Located in a multi-family apartment building located on the corner of Mopsic Court and Summitwoods Drive in Norwich, Connecticut. The range was very limited and only served several large multi-family apartment buildings grouped together on a large hillside over looking a large portion of the west side section of the city. Listeners of this station also participated in the station's programming schedule and participated as the on-air talent. As time passed, the staff and a few interested parties, looked into the options available, to get the signal to cover a larger area without surpassing legal FCC Part 15 Rules. This type of service is a what the FCC calls a Part 15 FM broadcast Station.〔http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=68f08d87acd237ad331eaa020418add9&node=pt47.1.15&rgn=div5#se47.1.15_1239〕 A group of people agreed to buy FCC part 15 certified FM transmitters, if WXTZ-FM agreed to supply the programming. A method had to be found that allowed each transmitter to be on the same frequency without interference to each other and so no transmitter would be needed to provide the feed to each location. It was decided that using a VOIP technology called Audio over IP to stream the audio from the studio to the transmitter locations was the best way to go about doing this. The translators would then rebroadcast the audio stream over the FM band, covering a much larger market area in Southeastern Connecticut. The station was carried on various volunteer owned, part 15 transmitters, eventually totaling 8 transmitters at its peak. Each translator station was capable of providing its own locally produced programming if it desired to do so, by running it off of a locally owned computer. Most translators however, relied on the feed from the studio. Channel 200 (87.9 MHz) was selected because other frequencies in the local area were currently in use or contained first adjacent channel interference and no one wanted to interfere with any of the currently licensed radio stations located in Southern New England or Long Island New York. Some potential listeners expressed to the station that their radios were not capable of tuning to 87.9 and asked if WXTZ-FM had a public website stream available on services such as TuneIn. Additional Music licensing fees paid by the station would have been required to stream the station on line on in this manner. This proved to be too costly for the station and it would also have limited the number of songs that could be played per artist per a set number of program hours. WXTZ-FM was a commercial free, self-supporting radio station, that was offering the New London County market area with an over the air radio service that it currently lacked, which is a 'multi-genre' music station. It played all the hit music that is often played on various other radio stations in the local area. As time passed, those that did participate, lost all interest in being involved with the station or being a translator participant. By November 1, 2014, the network was down to 2 translators and those owners had also expressed their desire to no longer participate with the station. While planning a schedule for the Christmas holidays, the network made a final decision on November 12, 2014, to cancel all programming feeds and WXTZ-FM went silent, although, technically it was already off the air, because there were no longer any participating transmitters still in service. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WXTZ 87.9 Norwich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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