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WZGV 730

test123 said:
I understand the 930 site is 50 acres. I bet it is worth a ton.
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I forgot to mention this above. The land under towers being sold, seems to be happening a lot (too much for this AMer and gray-headed former DJ) these days.
 
amos1001 said:
I noticed that, too. If 730 is broadcasting from 930's tower, and received notification that the land under the tower was being sold, 930's days are apparently numbered. So WBT, WAYS and WSOC (yes, I'm living in the past) will join WGIV at that big antenna farm in the sky.
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Charlotte is getting too big for it's britches.
 
Charleston started the AM fall in the Carolinas a couple years ago with Hurricane Helene causing issues. We had one owner with 3 AMs in town and now 2 of them are OTA. All played music. The 3rd one was off for several months as well but fed an FM translator.

WTMA gets like a 1.5 as a stand alone news-talk and that’s about the only AM listening in this market other than the Catholic station on 730. Shocked about WBT but not surprised about 730.

They had a good signal, I remember hearing them in Charleston during one of the hurricanes when the local 730 went off the air.

Columbia’s 1320 which had the same 3rd tier sports format went off a couple years ago as well. 1230 also.
 
charlestondxman said:
Charleston started the AM fall in the Carolinas a couple years ago with Hurricane Helene causing issues. We had one owner with 3 AMs in town and now 2 of them are OTA. All played music. The 3rd one was off for several months as well but fed an FM translator.

WTMA gets like a 1.5 as a stand alone news-talk and that’s about the only AM listening in this market other than the Catholic station on 730. Shocked about WBT but not surprised about 730.

They had a good signal, I remember hearing them in Charleston during one of the hurricanes when the local 730 went off the air.

Columbia’s 1320 which had the same 3rd tier sports format went off a couple years ago as well. 1230 also.
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AM lost any relevance in Greenville in 2008 when WORD (AM)/WYRD-FM went to FM too.
 
charlestondxman said:
Charleston started the AM fall in the Carolinas a couple years ago with Hurricane Helene causing issues. We had one owner with 3 AMs in town and now 2 of them are OTA. All played music. The 3rd one was off for several months as well but fed an FM translator.

WTMA gets like a 1.5 as a stand alone news-talk and that’s about the only AM listening in this market other than the Catholic station on 730. Shocked about WBT but not surprised about 730.

They had a good signal, I remember hearing them in Charleston during one of the hurricanes when the local 730 went off the air.

Columbia’s 1320 which had the same 3rd tier sports format went off a couple years ago as well. 1230 also.
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Had a preacher friend from the area, who was on WTMA, dunno if he still is. In tuning in to his church's broadcast online, may have been the only times I've ever heard that station, save for possibly capturing an ID.
 
AM radio in this area is, sadly, made worse by the awful local ground conductivity.

It takes about 10x the power to go half the distance (watts/coverage) versus an AM station in the Midwest
 


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