New hybrid analog TV Channel 6 with audio at 87.7 FM testing in Cleveland, Ohio, at 5:45PM EDT, on June 16, 2012. Call letters are WLFM. Actually audio is 87.75 but most FM receivers won't tune that precise. These "Franken FM" stations are popping up all over the country, using the fact the analog channel 6's audio is heard at 87.75 Mhz. These are low power stations, which are the only analog TV stations still allowed to operate in the US. However, they have a 3 year life as they too will have to shut down by September 2015. Don't know what format they will air. These stations usually program music as any radio station would on the audio, and the required video component can be anything, a studio webcam, or community info, or maybe old silent movies where you would turn the sound of the other audio program off to enjoy. Notice Channel 6 is not mentioned in the announcement which goes over the TV audio as well as 87.75 FM. The FM station will be somewhat lower in volume than a traditional radio station. At this time, the station is testing, showing slides of downtown Cleveland, and has 4 songs in rotation for the audio, The Tribe's, Cav's, and Brown's fight songs from the 1970's, as well as Michael Stanley Band's "My Town". This aircheck is taken in the W 150th and Puritas area near the West Park neighborhood. I am using a DVR, and a bowtie UHF antenna in the attic. Would prolly come in much better using a proper low-band VHF antenna, but no other local stations on the low band in digital.
