While down along the Summit/Wayne county line was tooling around the dial and stumbled across 99.1. Signal came in pretty decent with some breakup here and there. Since I had never heard it before was sorta surprised when they did a station ID and found out it was coming from Cleveland. Pretty impressive for getting that far with only 250 watts.
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It's not uncommon to be able to receive a FM station several miles outside of its fringe contour, as long as there isn't another interfering station on the same frequency. You really need a good radio and antenna to accomplish this, which is the case for most car radios. Years ago, I was able to receive 106.1 WBBG from Youngstown in Broadview Heights, even though their fringe contour makes it just east of the Cuyahoga/Summit county line. This is impossible now due to the presence of W291BV, which wipes WBBG out completely anywhere within their fringe coverage area.
What's amazing is that I was able to receive WLFM-LP (87.7 FM) at almost 18 miles away after they were required to reduce their power to a whopping 3 watts, assuming that they were really operating at that power. Yes, reception was much weaker than before and barely receivable, but 3 watts probably had a max range of about a mile.
It helps that they are up over 800 feet on the Channel 55 tower.
There's not that much it's competing against in Wayne County. Contrast in Lorain County, where it has both full-power WFRO in Fremont as well as WDLW's first-adjacent translator at 98.9.
The point is, I dial around the AM/FM band a lot and this is the first time I have ever heard 99.1 come in...period. So I was sorta impressed that AFTER I found out it was an Iheart repeater/translator or whatever at 250 watts made me take notice. At first I thought it was a pirate station or skip popping in a more distance station or it could've been skip causing me to pick it up in the first place from Cleveland.
Back in the early 80s In the middle of West Virginia coming over a mountaintop, I once picked up WMMS. Once I started descending said mountain it started fading away but it was sort of exciting picking up a "hometown" station that far away.
I've been able to get WRME MeFM, also on 87.7, all the way in Kenosha, past the Illinois state border. I assume the lack of competing signals helps a lot.
That's pretty understandable. They broadcast at 3kW from the Hancock building, which gives it similar coverage as the major Chicago FM stations, which all start to fade out around Kenosha.
Last week, 99.1 was airing Fox Sports Radio programming for several hours before going back to the Throwback format. Now, Radioinsight is reporting that change could be underway (again) on the station.
The "Let's throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks" format.
They keep changing formats every other week and they wonder why they can't build an audience.
99.1 is a translator, not a full-power signal. There's a permanent disadvantage between it and their more established competition that makes it prone to format switches. Cumulus' 98.9 Atlanta translator had long been prone to multiple format flips and has never gained any sort of ratings traction, it now merely simulcasts full-power WNNX.
99.1 flipped to Sports yesterday, ending Throwback after 14 months. Once KISS-FM tweaked its playlist, the Classic Hip-Hop format became expendable.
The new "Sports Radio 99.1" is supposed to have programming from the ROCK Entertainment Group, but is airing Fox Sports Radio right now.
The new "Sports Radio 99.1" is supposed to have programming from the ROCK Entertainment Group, but is airing Fox Sports Radio right now.
You're misinterpreting the story linked. Rock doesn't have any programming to carry.
The station is a marketing partnership and will likely be carrying games from Rock's portfolio of franchises, which is an extension of the WTAM/WMMS rights deal with the Cavaliers.
I respectfully disagree on your "misinterpreting" opinion, but that's fine. I was just simply updating this post.
Why WARF 1350 is not simulcasting 99.1/100.7-3 is beyond me.
Unless iHeart is planning on turning in WARF's license or plans on totally displacing Fox Sports Radio on WARF with VSiN content 24/7, having the nearly same exact format on two separate Cleveland market stations (WARF being a solidly Akron station wearing Cleveland Groucho Marx glasses) is a total waste of electricity.
Unless iHeart is planning on turning in WARF's license or plans on totally displacing Fox Sports Radio on WARF with VSiN content 24/7, having the nearly same exact format on two separate Cleveland market stations (WARF being a solidly Akron station wearing Cleveland Groucho Marx glasses) is a total waste of electricity.
and sadly no Les Levine. š
It depends on the specific action. If you're talking about the format change to sports, the strategy should be obvious. There are partnership agreements in place between iHeart and various Cleveland sports teams. While those teams currently air on some iHeart stations, the company doesn't have a dedicated sports station in Cleveland to handle all of the partnerships. Even Audacy, which has a partnership with the Browns, has an arrangement with Good Karma for the regular team-mandated programming. That's likely the "business practice" behind this decision, as laid out in the release.
The relationship between radio and music has been in trouble for 30 years, since domestic record labels were bought by foreign conglomerates. My sense is that the priority at radio companies will be towards original content, and less with music. Especially given the royalties and rules involved in streaming music.