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by ftballfan » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:20 pm
Heard 100.1 on the air yesterday weaker than 92.3 and 99.3 with a simulcast of Q100 (at one point yesterday, I was able to get Q100 on 99.3, 100.1, and 100.3). Neither of the three appear to be full strength, but their terrain advantage (the Forrester Road site is about 300 feet above Crystal Lake) brings them into Manistee with a staticky signal. At full strength, 92.3 and 99.3 should be slightly stronger than the Glen Arbor sticks (95.5 and 98.1) in the Manistee area.
I've just realized that the Manistee Eagle 101.5 is the best sounding station in an area bounded by the Glen Arbor sticks to the north, WTCM and the Harrietta sticks to the east, and WBLV and the Muskegon stations to the south. Of the Synergy stations, K-Rock sounds the best. 97.7/98.7 run dead air at times (especially on weekends), WKZC seems like it hasn't run its licensed 17kW in years, and WKLA (both AM and FM) are a joke signal-wise. With KLA's move to 96.3, they basically gave Manistee to Z93 and WIXX (IMHO, WKLA should have moved to 98.7 with WLDN moving to 96.3).
On a side note, the Freedom Radio FM translator in Manistee has been running an open carrier for several weeks now. That would be bad enough, but it's also operating on the wrong frequency (it's licensed to run on 91.5, but the open carrier is on its original 91.7; it was bumped to 91.5 by WGCP moving from a short tower near Cadillac to almost all the way up the Harrietta tower)
If the Ludington/Manistee area were a rated market, I have a feeling WTCM would be #1 fairly easily (with at least one Wisconsin station in the top 10)