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WIOG is #1 in Saginaw-Bay City; WGER barely defeats Houghton Lake station

Discussion pertaining to Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, and Michigan's thumb region.
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Re: WIOG is #1 in Saginaw-Bay City; WGER barely defeats Houghton Lake station

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I can confirm WGER has a lousy signal on the west side of Midland. Many times I've driven near Saginaw and Eastman and the station will fade out briefly. As you keep heading north-west it drops off like a cliff.
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WILZ is better than WGER on Midland's west side.
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SpartanAM wrote: Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:52 pm WILZ is better than WGER on Midland's west side.
West of Midland is also where you start to get a strong signal from WUPS as WGER fades out. Strictly from a listener perspective, it would be nice if WGER was just a simulcast of WUPS. Maybe Alpha would let 106.3 go cheap : P
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DAC wrote: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:34 pm
SpartanAM wrote: Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:52 pm WILZ is better than WGER on Midland's west side.
West of Midland is also where you start to get a strong signal from WUPS as WGER fades out. Strictly from a listener perspective, it would be nice if WGER was just a simulcast of WUPS. Maybe Alpha would let 106.3 go cheap : P
I can only conclude that it is a combination of the limits of Earth Curvature TL COR Line Of Sight at Ground Clutter/Vegetation RL othat makes the signal drop off there. There are no H*** peaks, just a bunch of small hills near Coleman at 770 feet AMSL, quite a ways past Midland.

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The morning show is syndicated. It should have stayed local. No wonder they have no ratings.
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WGER should go Classic Hits with the WIOG calls returned (WIOG = W106 back in the day). They could get calls of WPOO" for 102.5! :D

Who was that guy with the really deep voice on 'GER... I want to say John Derimus(?) He could put a spastic hyena to sleep and crack glass at the same time!
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Despite damn near all of us wanting Mix 106.3 WGER to change formats, management at Alpha Media is apparently sticking with their low rated format. Alpha Media just posted a job opening for middays there. What are they seeing that we’re not?
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Re: WIOG is #1 in Saginaw-Bay City; WGER barely defeats Houghton Lake station

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Realist wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:22 pm Alpha Media just posted a job opening for middays there. What are they seeing that we’re not?
More than the P12+ numbers that armchair PDs have access to.
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Ed Joseph wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:22 pm WGER should go Classic Hits with the WIOG calls returned (WIOG = W106 back in the day). They could get calls of WPOO" for 102.5! :D

Who was that guy with the really deep voice on 'GER... I want to say John Derimus(?) He could put a spastic hyena to sleep and crack glass at the same time!
Doremus was a syndicated program.

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MWmetalhead wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:01 pm Oh please. I'm sure the station is getting its ass kicked in-demo, too.

Even if it were getting, say a 3.5 or 4.0 in Women 25-54, that's a far cry from what other female friendly stations in the market earn.
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