103.9 tower move completed

[gabigley1]

Not only that but they finally mentioned "Worthington" in the top of the hour Legal ID this morning.

 

[jakej]

Give me a break. So advertising, promotion, competition, execution, build-time, etc. have nothing to do with success, huh? What planet are you on? If this were all true, Seinfeld should have been cancelled within the first two months. And that's just one of a zillion examples. Get real and give it a rest.

I was just agreeing with xmusicmatt's previous post indicating that "With the right production / programming / formatting.. There is no reason this station can't pull a 3 + share with it's signal being in town and not north of Westerville on tOSU's tower. (If NABCO stays below 1.0 with this signal it's not the signals fault but the programming)." So I assume that you need him to give you a break, too, and that his current planet is unknown as well, and that he should likewise get real and give it a rest.

A truly great format wouldn't need excuses for failure being set up in advance. (One that's badly needed and not already being utilized on stations that are scattered throughout our FM dial.)

 

[Nu_Roo_2]

I was just agreeing with xmusicmatt's previous post indicating that "With the right production / programming / formatting.. There is no reason this station can't pull a 3 + share with it's signal being in town and not north of Westerville on tOSU's tower. (If NABCO stays below 1.0 with this signal it's not the signals fault but the programming)."

The only part of Matt's post you quoted as a preface to thanking Matt for "that point-blank statement" was "(If NABCO stays below 1.0 with this signal it's not the signals fault but the programming)." And there's plenty more than just "production / programming / formatting" that's necessary for success, although those are certainly among the most fundamental.

 

[CPSteinmetz]

1039 must be at full power. Their coverage seems pretty good considering that their new site is slightly below the Class A 100 meter maximum. Their engineer and/or consulting engineer picked a good location.

 

[Nu_Roo_2]

I was very happy to have Jack-Fm return. With the tower move I now have no signal here in Marion. Use to come in perfect.

Are you able to receive Jack in Marion again now that they are at full-power?

 

[Nu_Roo_2]

They are on the new tower site for sure (even though their legal ID still says WJKR Westerville).

Drove Rome Hilliard Rd
Fisher Rd (past the tower site flipped to 103.7 when I was within the site of the tower and heard hash type sound on 103.7 and 104.1 does anyone know if 103.9's running IBOC?)
turned onto Wilson Rd
went East on Broad St into downtown Columbus
turned North onto 4th st
Turned West on Spring St..
North on High St.. stopped at red light within site of 1 Nationwide.. no static at all.. clear...
North on High St thru Short North towards campus..
Drove thru Ohio State campus on high st into Clintonville.. into Worthington ..

Didn't seem to notice any static in the car..

Will be interesting to see how the station does in the PPMs with the move.. I also noticed they are now doing artist-title on the RDS now.. last time I listened a few weeks ago I hadn't seen that.

Today when I was driving south on 315 and exiting at Lennox I was surprised to experience some substantial static and loss of stereo pilot on 103.9. It lasted until I got to Fifth Avenue (via Kinnear -> Kenny -> Fifth). But after that I drove Fifth WB -> Northwest Blvd SB -> Goodale EB (right near the WBNS tower) -> Vine EB -> High NB -> 11th Ave EB -> 71NB -> 270 WB -> 23 NB, with nothing but perhaps 2 minor and brief bits of static. (I've also encountered a few very small static-y spots where just moving slightly resolves it, e.g. on Lazelle at 23.) But overall this is still a dramatic improvement for those areas. 103.9 went from almost unlistenable on, say N. High in the Short North (as many rimshots still are) to nearly 100% OK.

I don't quite understand these things, but it seems strange that the worst static was near Lennox when that is west of central-city areas where the signal was fine, and the 103.9 tower is on the west side??