93.1 is back on the air with Strong Tower now. I'm not sure what day they appeared on the air once again as I haven't paid very close attention - as a DXer, there is little reason to tune in until April - but it was certainly turned on quite recently. The signal is poor, much like WGHN, but is wors...

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And a poor $$$ one.

For you. I was hiring a business manager recently and the applications from big cities to work for a measley $70k were overwhelming. Sometimes money isn't the most important thing.

Also money goes a little farther outside of big cities.

May have spoken too soon about WITL. Its HD is now off and the 95.3 and 95.9 translators are silent. Good for Townsquare. Two fewer Jesus music drones with zero local content to clog up the dial. What I think is really a waste of electricity is using HD on a spoken word format like WUOM (which has ...

If the side channels can be used to feed an analog FM translator that can be self-sufficient from a revenue standpoint, fine. If they can be used to simulcast an AM sister station, fine. These moves should've happened much sooner, in all honesty. Or to fill in holes in a sister FM's coverage area (...

Midwestern Broadcasting is probably the gold standard for loyalty to talent. In more cases than not, it has lent for a greater advertiser loyalty. Especially at WTCM-FM, as Mike Sinclair and Carey Carlson have both been there for close to 20 years. Jack O'Malley was there for over 30 years before h...

I find it hard to believe that 102.9 WFUR at one point had more listeners than 93.7!

Also on page 171, the Flint ratings are shown. 102.5 went from an also-ran to dominant #1 in a year!

Then there are the 104.7s in Columbia, SC (WNOK) and Charlotte, NC (WKQC). Both are heavily directional but do run 100,000 watts in the direction away from each other.

There do appear to be some hills between Baltimore and York.

Ouch for Big Country! Just since spring 2021, they've dropped over half of their shares, which is somewhat remarkable as the market boundary change should have helped them out on paper (by taking out some very strong WTCM counties)

Could 98.7 flip to a near-clone of 102.5/104.9 in Kzoo/Battle Creek? It is different enough from Magic 104.9, which is straight-up Hip Hop nowadays.

If anyone is good at Photoshopping, how about making a mock up of the new logo by adding the CBS eye and the call letters? Maybe put the call letters under the 9 and maybe superimpose the EYE at the 9 o'clock position a little? The yellow isn't very flattering tbh. Ask and ye shall receive: https:/...

I find it odd that both WSDS and WGVU/WSLI have licenses to increase power at night. Are there daytimers by choice on 1480?

104.9 puts a good signal into Albion (which is 30% African-American), but that town is one of the poorest in the state and its K-12 schools were so bad that it was forced to consolidate into Marshall schools

It makes me wonder if Townsquare might kill off (or downgrade) WFGR and move Magic 104.9 to 98.7

I have the RadioLand app (which shows signal strength using Longley-Rice models) and of the CHR/Hot AC signals, it shows the following signal strengths: 92.9 WJZQ - 54 dBu 96.3 WKLA - 59 dBu 101.1 WIXX - 51 dBu 102.7 WMOM - 55 dBu In my experience, WJZQ seems to overperform slightly, while WKLA unde...

Did WWTV and/or WGTU pre-empt network shows in 1988 (or did WBAY and WZZM air syndicated shows that went uncleared in Traverse City)?