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Sorry to go off track [again] but when WKRP started weren't they at 5,000 watts and then somewhere along the run I noticed 50,000 watts on the wall in reception? If they did, maybe they could have been heard in NYC if nobody else was on their frequency.
Most likely not during daytime. The ground conductivity would have 10 times better than it is. They did have a very low fictitious frequency which is good. The daytime signal would have to go thru West Virginia which has the nickname The Mountain State. The mountains are not as big as the Rockies but they are nasty to radio signals. Pennsylvania has some ruff areas too.
 
Yes and yes. In the pilot, the graphic on the lobby wall showed WKRP as a 5,000 watt station. Later on the graphic got changed to 50,000 watts. Dr. Johnny Fever also referred to 'KRP "on air" as 50,000 watts on more than one occasion. But IIRC, that graphic, or the coverage map on Andy Travis's wall, also showed them as being on 1530 khz, so the (hypothetical) signal wasn't likely to make it clearly into NYC, given (actual) adjacent channel interference.
WCKY 1530 made it into New England with no problem at night from Cincinnati.
 
Sorry to go off track [again] but when WKRP started weren't they at 5,000 watts and then somewhere along the run I noticed 50,000 watts on the wall in reception? If they did, maybe they could have been heard in NYC if nobody else was on their frequency.
Most likely not during daytime. The ground conductivity would have 10 times better than it is. They did have a very low fictitious frequency which is good. The daytime signal would have to go thru West Virginia which has the nickname The Mountain State. The mountains are not as big as the Rockies but they are nasty to radio signals. Pennsylvania has some ruff areas too.

I cannot believe we have sunk to the low of discussing the coverage of a fictitious radio station from a 1970's sitcom.
 
TJ started the show by thanking God "for the parting of the Radio Red Sea." TJ then talked about his radio background and praised his mentors for the sacrifices that they made for him.
 
What exactly triggered you, K.M.? Broadcasting from the transmitter, the bomb or the Phone Cops? (I used to carry around some paranoia about that last one myself.)
Having been in an FM station when a bomb went off on the first floor of the building, I am sensitive to the subject. The building shook a lot, but fortunately nobody was killed.
 
TJ started the show by thanking God "for the parting of the Radio Red Sea." TJ then talked about his radio background and praised his mentors for the sacrifices that they made for him.
No mention of the folks who are paying his way onto a full power NYC FM for a year or less? I mean, Moses had the Red Sea part for him, but he acknowledged that it wasn't his doing. TJ, as was said of GW Bush, was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
 
TJ, as was said of GW Bush, was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
Actually, that quote was from Molly Ivans about W's father, George Herbert Walker Bush. (Not that it didn't apply at least as much to W.)

(I can't dispute you as pertains to T.J., since 98.7 isn't streaming, and frankly I don't care enough to try.)
 
TJ started the show by thanking God "for the parting of the Radio Red Sea." TJ then talked about his radio background and praised his mentors for the sacrifices that they made for him.

No mention of the folks who are paying his way onto a full power NYC FM for a year or less? I mean, Moses had the Red Sea part for him, but he acknowledged that it wasn't his doing. TJ, as was said of GW Bush, was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

I agree. Not a very humble start -- in fact, borderline arrogant -- for an arrangement that is highly unusual in the first place and which Emmis could end on short notice.
 
Actually, that quote was from Molly Ivans about W's father, George Herbert Walker Bush. (Not that it didn't apply at least as much to W.)

(I can't dispute you as pertains to T.J., since 98.7 isn't streaming, and frankly I don't care enough to try.)
You're right but I can't resist noting that it's Molly Ivins, not Ivans.
 
I agree. Not a very humble start -- in fact, borderline arrogant -- for an arrangement that is highly unusual in the first place and which Emmis could end on short notice.

That's what it takes to do this kind of thing: arrogance. And the ability to turn that arrogance into a form of charm and attraction with a fan base.

That's talk radio today.
 
Still turns me off and I'm glad I don't have to listen to it.

It makes me wonder, can you think of any broadcast station that brands itself entirely on one of its personalities? That's what this is.

Of course this isn't a traditional radio station, and the people behind it have been clear in their intentions.
 
It makes me wonder, can you think of any broadcast station that brands itself entirely on one of its personalities? That's what this is.

Of course this isn't a traditional radio station, and the people behind it have been clear in their intentions.
Not FM, but there are two on SiriusXM: Howard 100/101 (Stern) and Mad Dog Radio (Chris Russo). Mad Dog is the most similar to TJ in that its branding focuses exclusively on Donald Duck, I mean Chris, and the channel's other personalities are just some guys Chris and his SXM superiors like.
 
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