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100.3 The Beat

Mobile's city grade full power class C, C0 & C1 stations do not offer much variety. With 10 of the 11 commercial stations split between iHeart and Cumulus... what more could we ask?

3 country (Cat's locally owned, but targets the P'cola market)
2 AC
2 CHR
2 rockers
2 Urban

And a half ass NPR on top of that.
 
"And a half ass NPR on top of that."

What did you mean by that comment?
 
seedless said:
No local content.
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You'll be disappointed to know, then, how much I advocated for APR to expand to Mobile, then. :cool:

Of course, I'd based my preferences on the APR I knew from years back when they carried blues and jazz music on the weekends and had tons of good programming. It seems to be a shell of its former self these days.

I hear some local content, though. Local weather, traffic, stuff like that. It's really no different than listening to MPB in Mississippi. It's local but based out of Jackson and covers the whole state. That's the nature of a network.
 
WHIL<WUWF

... to the point that WHIL seems worthless for NPR programming. Classical and other music? Idk. I still think it would have been better for Mobile if WUWF had taken over the ownership/programming of WHIL instead of APB.

At one time the WTSU trimulcast was approximately equal to WUWF, just not available in Mobile.
 
There was a little discussion earlier about the dormant Christian broadcaster owned translators around the Mobile area. Groovy implies he has an idea what the sales terms are. So, my question: Does Cumulus own so many 100kw signals that they will stay out of the local translator game?
If so, why wouldn't Cumulus flip 660 to Nash Icons? Does anyone think they will put Icon on a translator?

Could you see WNCV becoming Nash Icon with the AC format moving to 105.5 in FWB?

Ain't gonna happen?
 
Anyone heard any chatter around Mobile? Is the Beat taking a bite out of BLX yet?

And when will iHeart get 99.5 on the air with Classic Hip Hop?
 
Most of the translators that the big guys have acquired are in the top 50 markets. You won't see any additional purchases in the Gulf Coast market. Cumulus will work on improving their current properties (revenue and ratings).
 
Groove1670 said:
Most of the translators that the big guys have acquired are in the top 50 markets. You won't see any additional purchases in the Gulf Coast market. Cumulus will work on improving their current properties (revenue and ratings).
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iHeart has already acquired the 99.5 translator. They're just sitting on it.

I found out recently that the 96.9 translator in Daphne is for sale, W245BY. That's the first confirmation I've gotten that ANY of the new CPs are up for grabs. The folks at Dot Com Plus really need to snag that for WABF in Fairhope, it's nighttime signal is pitiful.
 
One translator is for sale. The others will eventually go on the air.
 
tomservo said:
I found out recently that the 96.9 translator in Daphne is for sale, W245BY. ... The folks at Dot Com Plus really need to snag that for WABF in Fairhope, it's nighttime signal is pitiful.
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When did .com+ (WZEW/WNSP) get in bed with Gulf Coast (WCSN/WABF)?

I'm thinking that if typical coastal atmospheric conditions and tropo mess with the translators too much, then they are worth more to existing AM stations. If the translators can hold their own as underregulated and unprotected class A, they are worth more as music stations repeating an HD-2 for Cumulus or CC.

An Eastern Shore targeted FM (either 96.9 or 106.9) would be a neat experiment. What type of music would a new Eastern Shore FM likely play? Something similiar to WCSN? Seems like the car dealers over there could keep a small station profitable,
 
May or may not be news. May or may Not be nothing. May or may not deserve a new thread.
While doing a channel scan today I noticed for the first time that WRKH 96.1 The Rocket was displaying their station logo on my HD radio instead of artists information, I flipped to 96.1-2 and saw the WNTM710 logo instead of text. I flipped channels and just found standard HD text from 94.9, 99.9 101.5, & 107.3.

Is this a thing?

Last time I noticed changes in HD text was an hour before The Beat 100.3 went live.
 
100.3 The Beat has been on the air for a while now, hasn't it?

[edited to correct my misinformation]

Apparently Station Logo Service is a feature of HD radio. I didn't know that. It can be a 200x200 24 kbps image and it's lowest priority, below the "artist experience" and cover art features. So it'll be interesting to see if they implement cover art or anything like that on The Rocket soon.

I'll have to add that to my data for WRKH, if nothing else. What kind of radio was this on? I didn't think there were any art capable radios out there.
 
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Last 6 months I've been using a 2015 Toyota factory radio for HD.
They told me it was the base radio.

I still don't know how to set the clock.
 
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