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WDRE 103.9 t shirts
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Keep an eye on places like Ebay. Things occasionally pop up. I snagged a WDRE sticker a while back that was in decent condition. I know there were some keychains and I believe Bitterfest shirts floating around occasionally too. With people staying home and cleaning things out, you never know what may pop up.
I don't like what they did to any of those stations, but don't call it an "AGENDA" (when we clearly can read through that word to what you really mean.) They strategically purchased stations and moved them to where they would fit best for the formats they know and run best. 103.9's signal (and the moved-in 107.9's signal) cover mostly the city where their urban formats are better suited. 100.3's signal is larger, but still not perfect, as it battles Z100 out of New York in north east areas.
And while you say "underperforming" remember that 103.9 and 107.9 with their low ratings and small signals, are billing better than full-market signal WRFF. "Underperforming" to you is seeing just the vanity 6+ numbers and thinking the stations are failures, when they are anything but.
What is your source of billing for these stations?
I always defer to DavidEduardo when it comes to billing numbers. He has stated before that WRFF is consistently the lowest billing full power FM in Philly
and did we really expect the original poster to like the current WPHI either? of course not.. so its garbage to him, but im sure plenty others like it!
Y100 and DRE billed more then any predictable format they keep trying and failing with, and that was with the poor 100.3 and 103.9 signals, before the upgrades. They even had the top morning team which is still number one today, so why pull the plug, hmmmm, I remember years back talking to McGuinn and Landow in a CC bar and them telling me the owners were laughing about flipping a big money maker to something they did not know how it would do, makes one wonder. Its not about the bucks, its more of a statement. Check out what they did to all the Alternative, non-urban and Rock stations they bought, even the top billers, like I said AGENDA...just the facts...
they are stronger now under R1 then when they were ALT.
WDRE 300w 1000' WPHI 280w 1050'
WPLY 30kw 570' WRNB 18kw 850'
A smaller signal holds no water to the R1 properties, they have a great listenable signal for the audience they are targeting. If you want to talk about the worst FM signal in the market that always does well think WXTU.
how can WXTU be the worst fm signal in the market? I highly doubt that..
This is not a good example in the least... MORE power does NOT necessarily mean BETTER in terms of coverage. The differences in power are relative to the height and the Class of each station and their Max ERP allowances: WPHI is a Class A and WRNB is a Class B. FM is "line of sight" which means that less power more times than not combined with height is the best route to go yet its not always feasible as a result of spacing issues etc. At some point you do reach that threshold where the height is detrimental more than helpful ala 1 WTC in NYC. Building penetration starts to suffer with that extra height/lower ERP while you do reach further on the fringe which isn't where the dollars are unfortunately. Of course now with the translators taking over, there is signal erosion almost everywhere where a decade ago none existed other than warm weather "tropo" and the occasional e-skip. So in the case above the change for WPHI was essentially negligible in terms of coverage and WRNB now (versus years earlier) has less of a "directionality" towards the NE (NYC) and ESE than it previously did years before during the 'PLY era but there really isn't a whole lot that can be done with short-spacing issues there, same for WBEB/WCBS-FM.
Guys I didn't mean to cause such a stir. I was simply asking about old WDRE shirts lol. Sure my comment was subjective, but they history and importance of the music they played is objectively important to rock as a genre overall, and sadly WRFF doesn't compare to WDRE.
Anyways, thanks for the info about old WDRE merch.
Anyways, thanks for the info about old WDRE merch.
Don't worry, YOU didn't cause the stir. And no problem with the merch. It's harder and harder to find as time goes by, but it does occasionally pop up!
I didn't mean to go all "tech" but when the post was hijacked with inaccurate information my correction instincts kicked in... merchandise/memorabilia to engineering, what a swing LOL!
When I was a kid in the 1970s, WIFI (92.5) had the absolute worst FM signal in town. It would start to flutter north of Cottman Avenue.
They moved to Roxborough in the early 1980s, and even though they had to go directional because the move made them short-spaced to WOBM in Toms River (from Norristown, they were *just* over the limit), it improved their signal a bit.
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