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another new FM sports signal

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94.9 W235BW. Belongs to Cromwell & is located on the channel 4 tower adjacent to 102.1. On the air sometime yesterday afternoon.

I haven't been able to identify the primary -- it doesn't appear to be parallel to 830, 102.5, or 102.5 HD2 -- could be I'm not accounting for encoding delays though. That, and if there's HD on 102.9, I'm too far away to decode it.
 
[I haven't been able to identify the primary -- it doesn't appear to be parallel to 830, 102.5, or 102.5 HD2[/QUOTE]

just heard ID out of spots promoting "Sportsnight with George Plaster" on AM 830...
 
Heard the same this morning. At the time they *weren't* parallel to AM 830 as 830 was all dead air, all the time.....
 
Heard Plaster talking on it yesterday afternoon. Signal carried pretty decently toward OHB/I-65S. For 300 watts and all the Brentwood Hills, I was surprised. How high is that antenna? If anyone has looked at the numbers for WPRT, why waste the money and time trying sports on this? There are not enough decent numbers for 102.5 to try to pick up 25 listeners in West Nashville.
 
Tibbs2 said:
Heard Plaster talking on it yesterday afternoon. Signal carried pretty decently toward OHB/I-65S. For 300 watts and all the Brentwood Hills, I was surprised. How high is that antenna? If anyone has looked at the numbers for WPRT, why waste the money and time trying sports on this? There are not enough decent numbers for 102.5 to try to pick up 25 listeners in West Nashville.
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It's directly below the 102.1 antenna. Maybe ten feet lower? I hear it pretty well up in Pleasant View, although it does get a bit noisy in spots on the car radio. 250 watts, not 300, not that that's a significant difference.

AM 830 had modulation this morning:), figured out why I didn't think they were parallel. They are in fact airing the same material, but there's about a **30-second** delay in the AM feed.
 
I made it to Hendersonville today and while sitting at a red light hit seek: 92.9 to 93.5, 93.7, 93.9 94.1, 94.5, 94.7, 94.9, 95.1.
Boy, that band is getting crowded! 94.9 came in loud and clear. I lowered my antenna to compare it's strength to 102.5 and 94.5. It fell in between the two down Indian Lake peninnsula, with 102.5 being about the same as 94.9 and both better than 94.5.

At what point is Cromwell going to realize they gave WayFM their best signal? Although, 94.9 covered NE pretty well. Haven't tested it down south yet.

On a side note, it took hours to log in! I hate the new site. Entered the picture letters 10 times, all correctly, but never took. GRR!
 
NashvilleNative said:
At what point is Cromwell going to realize they gave WayFM their best signal?
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You mean 89.9? That's certainly the biggest translator signal in town. Could they have operated it in the commercial band? Can't really do the math with the FCC site down..
 
I noticed the delay in the AM signal as far back as when they were carrying the black gospel programming.

As for 94.9, I picked them up just fine out here in Bellevue, but it is yet another case of yet another unnecessary translator carrying programming (and apparently, not very popular programming at that, according to what some of you have posted here) that I can already receive just fine on their primary frequency.
 
I live in Northern Rutherford County and we can barely pick it up down there without 94.7 The Contry Giant overtaking the signal. Since Cromwell is putting Sportnight with George Plaster on this signal, does that effect the Game Radio Network at all? From where I live, you can't get a clear signal from 102.5 The Game or 94.9 The Game2. Have they given up on the listeners east and southeast of Nashville?
 
jwk1979 said:
I live in Northern Rutherford County and we can barely pick it up down there without 94.7 The Contry Giant overtaking the signal. Since Cromwell is putting Sportnight with George Plaster on this signal, does that effect the Game Radio Network at all? From where I live, you can't get a clear signal from 102.5 The Game or 94.9 The Game2. Have they given up on the listeners east and southeast of Nashville?
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Can you not receive them on 97.5, yet another Cromwell translator? Madison is another big weak point for 102.5 due to the hills by Skyline. For the power, 94.9 is getting out pretty good.
 
NashvilleNative said:
Can you not receive them on 97.5, yet another Cromwell translator? Madison is another big weak point for 102.5 due to the hills by Skyline. For the power, 94.9 is getting out pretty good.
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Only if you are Murfreesboro. I live in Smyrna and it is hit and miss there on 97.5. You may be able to pick it up on one block, but as soon as you turn the corner on to another street, you lose it. I've seen billboard on I-24 at both Waldren Road and Sam Ridley Parkway exits advertising the 97.5 signal, yet it's hit or miss on whether you can pick the signal up at those locations. Not that I would listen to them anyway, other than maybe the morning show with Greg Pogue.
 
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jwk1979 said:
Only if you are Murfreesboro. I live in Smyrna and it is hit and miss there on 97.5. You may be able to pick it up on one block, but as soon as you turn the corner on to another street, you lose it. I've seen billboard on I-24 at both Waldren Road and Sam Ridley Parkway exits advertising the 97.5 signal, yet it's hit or miss on whether you can pick the signal up at those locations. Not that I would listen to them anyway, other than maybe the morning show with Greg Pogue.
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Wondering if some stations that want to advertise on billboards must take a billboard anywhere that is available to them, regardless of the actual signal strength in that location. That would be great if it were in a location heading into your station's coverage area, but not so great if one were leaving your station's signal.
 
Bryan Barrett said:
Sports Night is on WGNS (AM 1450, FM 100.5, FM 101.9) every afternoon from 3-6pm.
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I would listen to Sports Night on WGNS if the hosts were someone other than George Plaster, Willie Daunic and Darin McFarland and their SKEWED view of Nashville Sports landscape and consant over use of cliches. Other than Greg Pogue and Steve Gorman (before he was replaced in the mid-days a few months ago), there is NOTHING on the Game that I care for. I don't like Dave Ramsey, Colin Cowherd or anything that George Plaster, Willie Daunic or Darin McFarland is remotely associated with.
 
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