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1110 New Format

I don't know, why would they bother waiting for the start of the rating period? Every format needs a shake down period.
 
I honestly don't think they have a plan at this point, nor do I think they care. Their whole motivation was to get WBT's signal to a higher powered FM to cover the market better and could care less what happens to 1110.
 
At this point, WBT-AM should turn off their transmitter and go silent until Urban One figures out what to do with it. At least DXers in NC/SC and along the East Coast could pick up KFAB, XERED Mexico City, or some of the more exotic AMs down into South America.

And if the FM 107.9 is dealing with dead air and stuck feeds on the Fox Radio News channel at night...that's more than a major issue. This is a news/talk station in a swing state, and every county that has borders to Mecklenburg County votes deep red. There has to be a lot of listeners in Union County and the neighboring SC counties.

EDIT - Urban One may not like the conservative values, but 1110 could easily go to national conservative talk shows, a mix of Premiere and Salem content. Could easily get an audience. Given the red counties bordering Mecklenburg, they could easily clear Hannity, Clay & Buck, Red Eye Radio late at night, Guy Benson, Jesse Kelly, and 1-2 Salem programs like Mike Gallagher or Hugh Hewitt in other timeslots. Lars Larson is also available.
 
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crainbebo said:
At this point, WBT-AM should turn off their transmitter and go silent until Urban One figures out what to do with it. At least DXers in NC/SC and along the East Coast could pick up KFAB, XERED Mexico City, or some of the more exotic AMs down into South America.
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KFAB supresses its night signal to the east, so any reception in NC/SC would have to be during evening critical hours in Omaha.

Only time we get WBT here in Texas is during morning critical hours in Charlotte, while nulling out KFAB and XERED.
 
crainbebo said:
At this point, WBT-AM should turn off their transmitter and go silent until Urban One figures out what to do with it. At least DXers in NC/SC and along the East Coast could pick up KFAB, XERED Mexico City, or some of the more exotic AMs down into South America.
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When was the last time a station did something to help DXers?
 
Has nothing to do with helping DXers. It's just a waste of 50,000 watts of AM radio right now. Even a temporary simulcast of one of Urban One's other FM stations would be sufficient. Nearly a month of stunting is overload at this point.
 
crainbebo said:
Has nothing to do with helping DXers. It's just a waste of 50,000 watts of AM radio right now. Even a temporary simulcast of one of Urban One's other FM stations would be sufficient. Nearly a month of stunting is overload at this point.
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As noted upthread, though, it's only costing about $100 per day for the power to keep the transmitter going. That's not much in the grand scheme of things.

A temporary simulcast would be confusing to listeners, and could lead them to think that it was going to be permanent.
 
Heck I'd like to see Mix Charlotte on A.M. 1110 in addition to their FM channels 100.9 and 99.3. I know it wouldn't be worth much else, but the block and praise are/were also on their co-owned AM 610. Throw some AM HD on there while they're at it (yeah right). 😅

Uone still hasn't turned on stereo carrier on the 99.3 signal, it's still in mono from when WBT was on that channel, but it sure gets out better than 100.9 does, especially off to the west, 100.9 has signal limitations as close as the Eastern parts of Gastonia, and had no signal at all in Lancaster SC just about 25 miles away from their transmitter site near Matthews NC
 
IM42A said:
As noted upthread, though, it's only costing about $100 per day for the power to keep the transmitter going. That's not much in the grand scheme of things.
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Isn't that why there's "Usually" Commercials on the radio, to pay for that exact kind of thing, the power bill? Especially stations in the 'Commercial FM Band..,' Above 92 MHz?

What if there is No Huge Monthly Power Bill/Cost for a much smaller station that is needed to be Paid for?

Wouldn't a Station be just as Well Off Being Commercial Free, When/If the Power Bill is Like, Perhaps Just Pennies a day or a Few Dollars Per Day?

Well I know of a few local commercial free FM stations of course they're either low power or non-commercial, them being WRBK 90.3 (south of Charlotte/Oldies), and Upstate SC stations 92.1 WGYT-LP (Greer/Oldies) and 101.5 WRTH-LP (Greenville/Classic Hits).
 
IMHO there is no "new" format. Why would you wait until the start of a ratings period? A loop of the same old stuff is not going to build "excitement" for folks to sample your new format. Unless there is a huge format hole it takes time to build a sellable listening audience.

As for "confusing" listeners, once they go to FM, I doubt they will "go back" to AM unless there is reception problems with the FM. Just put the FM programming on the AM. The only time you would mention the AM "WBT Charlotte" is the hourly ID. A "auctioneer" fast ID solves the problem. I can say WBT Charlotte in less than one second. Of course the AM Neilson coding would be merged in the FM.
 
What the hell? They’re still stunting? This is getting ridiculous. Don’t radio stations have public service obligations as part of their license? I don’t see how this is in the public interest. People should complain to the FCC.
 
IM42A said:
As noted upthread, though, it's only costing about $100 per day for the power to keep the transmitter going. That's not much in the grand scheme of things.

A temporary simulcast would be confusing to listeners, and could lead them to think that it was going to be permanent.
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Those are true and very valid points.

Romans 11:33-36 KJB

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