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FM Frequency of the Week - 97.1 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 97.1 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a mish mash of WXYT/Detroit (Sports Talker 'The Ticket') and WREO/Ashtabula, OH which recently changed its station name to 'Mix 97.1' with an AC format. Once in a while, WBNS/Columbus, OH will pop up (another sports talker, 'The Fan')
 
In Monroe, WA 97.1 is IBOC from KIRO 97.3. No Es caught yet, and haven't gotten an ID on KYCH Portland thru the hash yet.

In Portland it's KYCH with adult hits, 97.1 Charlie FM.

In Yakima, WA it's KXRX Walla Walla, WA. 97 Rock. Signal is staticky but is strong enough to take over KZTA 96.9's slop. One poster said KXRX could be heard to Stevens Pass. If so, that's a huge signal.

-crainbebo
 
Here in Houston it is northern rimshot KTHT Cleveland, TX airing classic country, "Country Legends 97.1". Nothing else has overtaken KTHT since it signed on back in '91 that i've ever been fortunate enough to catch.

Arguably, KTHT is the strongest of the rimshots targetting Houston and covers a lot of real estate in east and southeast Texas, serving Beaumont/Port Arthur to the east and Lufkin/Nacogdoches to the north of its intended target. Before KTHT signed on, KEGL Fort Worth used to make appearances down here.
 
My experiences in Houston and northern Ohio absolutely mirror the above posts. Here in Columbus, it's all WBNS on 97.1, of course. Pretty solid for 70-75 or so miles in any given direction, if not a bit more. When I was in Lorain for a wedding a few Septembers ago, WXYT and WREO were fighting the good fight much to the surprise of my g/f, who is from Conneaut and has listened to Star 97.1 a fair amount over the years.
 
Manistee, MI: A variable WGLQ Escanaba
Allendale, MI: IBOC hash from WLAV 96.9, but WGLQ and WDRV Chicago make occasional appearances along the lakeshore
 
In Chicagoland, which would be Cook County, the western suburbs, & the south suburbs, & NW Indiana, it's WDRV Chicago. Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois get splatter from sister station WWDV Zion, IL on 96.9, which simulcasts 97.1 for Lake & McHenry Counties of Illinois, & SE Wisconsin.
 
crainbebo said:
In Monroe, WA 97.1 is IBOC from KIRO 97.3. No Es caught yet, and haven't gotten an ID on KYCH Portland thru the hash yet.

In Portland it's KYCH with adult hits, 97.1 Charlie FM.

In Yakima, WA it's KXRX Walla Walla, WA. 97 Rock. Signal is staticky but is strong enough to take over KZTA 96.9's slop. One poster said KXRX could be heard to Stevens Pass. If so, that's a huge signal.

-crainbebo
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KXRX Walla Walla can indeed be heard on Steven's Pass. But that's not the farthest flamethrower that can be heard there. KZFN 106.1 Moscow, ID and even KMOK 106.9 Lewiston, ID have been heard regularly there as well.
 
Oh yes. KZFN and KMOK are both regulars in the Yakima area as well. KBKS has also been heard on 106.1, but no KRWM noted yet on my travels east of the mountains.

-crainbebo
 
KRWM is bizarrely weak for what they SHOULD be. They just BARELY make it to Everett. I guess the yearly Christmas thing makes up for it. But if I were running Hubbard Seattle, I'd move KRWM to 98.9 and KLCK-FM to 106.9. It just seems a better signal as well as business move because south of Bellingham, 98.9's signal gets in places 106.9 completely misses. And KLCK-FM's alternative leaning AC puts it in a better spot at 106.9 on analog radios (and there's still LOTS of those) against KNDD at 107.7.

I'm surprised KATW doesn't do as well as KZFN and KMOK that far out.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.... WDRV has a fair-to-good signal. The simulcast, WWDV on 96.9 is better, but not to the point of causing any issues for the parent station.
 
Bongwater said:
KRWM is bizarrely weak for what they SHOULD be. They just BARELY make it to Everett. I guess the yearly Christmas thing makes up for it. But if I were running Hubbard Seattle, I'd move KRWM to 98.9 and KLCK-FM to 106.9. It just seems a better signal as well as business move because south of Bellingham, 98.9's signal gets in places 106.9 completely misses. And KLCK-FM's alternative leaning AC puts it in a better spot at 106.9 on analog radios (and there's still LOTS of those) against KNDD at 107.7.

I'm surprised KATW doesn't do as well as KZFN and KMOK that far out.
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KRWM is only a Class C1 while KLCK is a full Class C
 
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