A group hoping to start a local, independent radio station via two adjacent channel simulcasts in north and west of Pittsburgh has received its FCC license.
Robert Irvine told The New Castle News he hopes the stations — one in New Castle, the other in Ellwood City — will be on the air providing local programming by early next year.
The deadline set by the FCC requires his proposed WLDJ-LP 107.5 (New Castle, PA) and WXED-LP 107.3 Ellwood City, PA, to be broadcasting by April. He believes four to seven jobs will be created at each station in the first year.
Two local nonprofits — MC2 of New Castle, PA and Dayspring Harvest Ministries of Ellwood City, PA — are helping to support the mission. Irvine also has established a website through which members of the public may contribute.
“We are looking for $180,000, with the first $70,000 to get transmitters on the air soon,” he said.
WLDJ is 59 watts @ 130 feet; WXED is 41 Watts @154 feet.
See the New Castle News story here.
