Milwaukee Radio: WTMJ Objects To WREY Proposed Power Increase

WTMJ 620 AM (10 Kw Nights)

WTMJ 620 AM in Milwaukee is fighting plans by WREY 630 AM in St. Paul, MN to upgrade, saying the proposed new facility would cause interference to WTMJ's nighttime signal in the Green Bay area, a distance of about 270 miles. WREY is looking to increase night-time power by 300 watts.

NorthPine reports WTMJ filed an informal objection alleging that WREY failed to conduct a full nighttime interference study.

WREY is proposing a new three-tower array near the oil refinery in Rosemount, which would use 5 Kw daytime and 2.8 Kw nighttime with the same northward directional antenna pattern day and night. The station currently uses 1 Kw days and 2.5 Kw nights from the WCTS/1030 (Maplewood) site in Woodbury, the latest in a series of facilities since 630's longtime site on Radio Drive in Woodbury was sold for development in 1994.

WTMJ, which operates at 10 Kw at night,  had also objected to an application from WREY, then WDGY, in 2002 for similar interference concerns, which prompted changes to that application. WREY is owned by Greg Borgen and runs a Regional Mexican/Tropical format as "Radio Rey."

WREY 630 AM (2300 watts Nights)

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H/T: Radio-Locator