I just thought all of you broadcast sharpies, just might have seen the display ad advertising, "Toledo needs a Sports Radio Station", $635,000 for a Toledo AM/FM, plus acreage. The ad has run for at least a couple of months, and that's the tact they are taking to sell whatever station that they're ...

I know what the Toledo sports radio situation is. I get emails from station brokers, and they run a display ad showing an overhead photo of downtown Toledo. From memory, the ad states "Toledo Deserves an All Sports Station" and "$635,000 for AM/FM Station with Acreage". Before I was insulted by Tedd...

I just thought all of you broadcast sharpies, just might have seen the display ad advertising, "Toledo needs a Sports Radio Station", $635,000 for a Toledo AM/FM, plus acreage. The ad has run for at least a couple of months, and that's the tact they are taking to sell whatever station that they're t...

After all this time, unless someone knows differently, I'm beginning to believe the Toledo AM/FM combo for sale is....WPAY! I believe Fusion is just flipping WPAY using the lack of Sports in the Toledo as a carrot to lure a buyer. $635,000 sounds like an exorbitant price for WPAY, but then, it's onl...

I'd have to look at the situation closer, but it looks to me like when the FCC increased the Class A to Class B 2nd and 3rd adjacent minimum separation from 40 to about 43 miles, they were left in a situation where they couldn't meaningfully upgrade beyond the 3 kW/100 meter equivalent. Many 3 kW C...

I listened to 98.3 for a couple of hours on Sunday, May 9th, Mother's Day, and they were airing a fair amount of commercials. Although I didn't keep count, they seemed busy and didn't sound too bad. Of course, I don't think there was any local talent, but they sounded Monroe branded. By the way, the...

Didn't AM 730 used to be a daytimer?

JGP1954 - I'm a broadcast engineer. Directional FM antennas are real. They are not that common and are not as effective as AM directionals, but they do exist. They usually just consist of extra passive elements attached to the tower to keep the pattern from being circular, just as the tower itself ...

OK, here's one. https://radio-locator.com/pats/WRXS_FM_LU.gif I doubt this is an accurate depiction of this station's engineering sketch of their signal. However, maybe Chicago causes some type of natural null. There are dozens of stations there. Possibly, there is such an entity as a FM null. But,...

When they were WVMO, and early Tower 98, where was the transmitter tower located? Still in Monroe County, not Jerusalem Township, no? I believe it was located near the corner of Dunbar and La Plaisance in Monroe county - just west of I-75 ... There was a service drive just past the railroad tracks ...

More info on broadcast signal patterns can be found at www.radio-locator.com. And, the WCSM broadcast pattern shows no null toward Monroe. Again, other conditions could affect their signal in that area. According to the Radio-Locator drawing, it appears the WCSX primary signal weakens toward Monroe,...

Every signal is subject to typography, atmospheric conditions, and other conditions I'm not familiar with. That could be the reason for the WCSX null. And, where is the WCSX tower site, anyway?

This just in....there's a FOR SALE sign on a Toledo AM/FM combination, with 20 acres of land for $635,000. Any guesses, what station? I believe WPAY sold for a lot less months ago.

If my memory is correct, they didn't move the transmitter to Luna Pier. They moved the city of license to Luna Pier. That allowed them to move the transmitter itself to Toledo (on K100's tower). But they needed to use a directional antenna that lowered the signal over Toledo to protect WDFM Defianc...

Hey, it's April! Is the new ownership going to do anything to make money with WPAY? Are they any changes anticipated? What the hell is Fusion Broadcasting, anyway?