104.9 WRBF in North Georgia is now on the air and stunting!

[Engineer Dude]

Check it out and let us know where you can hear it! Class A licensed to Plainville, Ga.

 

[BIGSTICK]

Excuse my ignorance, but where is this, how many watts?, Please not a country format???lol/

 

[Engineer Dude]

Plainville is on Hwy 53 half way between Rome and Calhoun.
Stunting now with the real format coming......Stay tuned!

 

[HGR1290]

Decent signal into north Cobb county

 

[trusty]

Radio-Locator says it is supposed to have 950 watts. I guess it can have a Contemporary Christian format and call itself "104.9 - The Minnow".

 

[Engineer Dude]

It's a Class A 6kw facility. FCC rules only allow a Class A to be a maximum of 328' HAAT and this facility is located at 606' HAAT so the power has been adjusted. 47 CFR Section 73.211

Thanks for the good report from North Cobb. That's about 35-40 miles from the tower.

 

[BIGSTICK]

I am in Va Highland in overload FM hell. So I cannot pick it up here.

 

[the_widows_son]

I am 35 miles and south east of the site and I have a strong stereo signal on a table radio in an interior room.

I hope the programming is as good as the signal.

 

[Joey1986Z]

In a 1995 factory Corvette radio, I get a good signal north to Dalton (far as I've been). and south it fizzles out around 575/75 split. Today using 1991 Plymouth radio, the signal faded about halfway between I-75 and Canton on GA 20 during the Rude Beer Fiends.

 

[tlyle]

Heard it in Canton but there was static every 2 to 3 seconds.

 

[secondchoice]

Stay tuned!

Just why do stations stunt? New or a flip, If you are going a direction, go for it!! What are the odds that a targeted listener who is searching for a “new” station will wait until you settle on the real format? IMHO attention spans are getting shorter. If you station is not the “correct” format that listener will not stick anyway. If you are in a PPM market, programming is now more important now more than ever. There are so many ways now using social networking, targeted Email, search engine placement to get the word out. Just how many people daily hit the scan, if they do and find a station stunting, will they listen long enough to tell their friends via the internet, or text message because they like the stunt? Could stunting be a format? Good luck selling that!! I personally think it would it be better for the text message to say “I found a new station that is ___ and I like it." If the scan person hears a format he (she) is not looking for, or the short attention span strikes, I seriously doubt any positive text message will be sent.

If “audio chain” processing changing is required, have the engineer come and do what has to be done between 2 and 4AM the morning the day of the flip with a “sample” of the new format, then either go back to the old format with the changes, because it doesn’t matter if the station “sounds” wrong to that audience because you are leaving them behind and wait until the time of the flip, or flip then. When the flip happened you want the station to “sound” its best.

 

[Engineer Dude]

Thanks to everyone who has given a signal report on the board or via email, it is appreciated. It seems to be Dalton to Piedmont AL to Past Dallas to Marietta/Kennesaw to Jasper to Ellijay. We seem to have an issue in the Woodstock/Canton area from splatter from 104.7 and terrain.

Keep in mind that I am on the Engineering side of the issue and would not be willing to debate the merits of stunting or not to stunt.

I have set the processing to some 2am music that I believe to be similar to the real format that is to come and will fine tune it when the flip to the regular format is made. It is VERY close at this time and sounds very nice. This is a new plant and it seems to be doing great for 6kw ERP.

Thanks again for the great signal reports and stay tuned for the real format that's on the way.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

Stay tuned!

Just why do stations stunt? New or a flip, If you are going a direction, go for it!! What are the odds that a targeted listener who is searching for a “new” station will wait until you settle on the real format? IMHO attention spans are getting shorter. If you station is not the “correct” format that listener will not stick anyway. If you are in a PPM market, programming is now more important now more than ever. There are so many ways now using social networking, targeted Email, search engine placement to get the word out. Just how many people daily hit the scan, if they do and find a station stunting, will they listen long enough to tell their friends via the internet, or text message because they like the stunt? Could stunting be a format? Good luck selling that!! I personally think it would it be better for the text message to say “I found a new station that is ___ and I like it." If the scan person hears a format he (she) is not looking for, or the short attention span strikes, I seriously doubt any positive text message will be sent.

Stunts are fun for us radio types. You're over analyzing this.

 

[tlyle]

1550am was stunting last year before finally going spanish. They were playing some great 60's, 70's, and 80's music during the stunt. I thought they might try to give 106.7 a run, but alas another AM station went spanish.

 

[Schroeder]

Dude, you're going to have a hard time beating the stuff you cats were playing. I don't know where you got it, but the kids and I laughed our you know whats off at the stuff you all were doing. Great humor. You should make it part of the regular programming, maybe. Or keep it. Lost signal this morning between 5:25 and 5:30.

Live in North Rome, and it comes in great everywhere I've been here in Rome since becoming aware of the station. Of course you knew that it would.

 

[roger6309]

Is 104.9 affecting 104.7 in north metro Atlanta?

 

[jabba17]

Is 104.9 affecting 104.7 in north metro Atlanta?

Or 105.1 (WNGA, Helen), for that matter, on the other first-adjacent?

Incidentally, WNGA has a CP to go from 1700W/A to 7000W/C3 on the same tower, and change COL to Clermont (insert joke about "lounge" music here). The Holy Mackerel would probably still outreach a powered-up WNGA towards WRBF's general area. El Patron is also about as close coverage-wise as The Fish, although it's only a second-adjacent.

 

[secondchoice]

Is 104.9 affecting 104.7 in north metro Atlanta?

It has hurt the "clock radio" reception of the Fish in Pickens County. We just lost another Atlanta "clock radio" signal. 106.7 has not been a "clock radio" signal after moving from 97.1's tower up here either. BTW we are using a "good" (if cost means anything) Phillips unit.

 

[jabba17]

Is 104.9 affecting 104.7 in north metro Atlanta?

It has hurt the "clock radio" reception of the Fish in Pickens County. We just lost another Atlanta "clock radio" signal. 106.7 has not been a "clock radio" signal after moving from 97.1's tower up here either. BTW we are using a "good" (if cost means anything) Phillips unit.

Interesting that you could get the Fish but not AGH, since they are both now on the Fish stick. AGH has a higher antenna on the stick and higher power (77k full class C vs. 24k/C1). Was something else walking on 106.7--107.1, perhaps?

 

[secondchoice]

Is 104.9 affecting 104.7 in north metro Atlanta?

It has hurt the "clock radio" reception of the Fish in Pickens County. We just lost another Atlanta "clock radio" signal. 106.7 has not been a "clock radio" signal after moving from 97.1's tower up here either. BTW we are using a "good" (if cost means anything) Phillips unit.

Interesting that you could get the Fish but not AGH, since they are both now on the Fish stick. AGH has a higher antenna on the stick and higher power (77k full class C vs. 24k/C1). Was something else walking on 106.7--107.1, perhaps?

106.5 WSKZ Chattanooga (Citadel owned BTW) is very hard on WYAY's signal now that 106.7 is on the Fish Stick. I have always wondered why Citadel did not "down grade" this signal in a non PPM market to help 106.7 in the North and even Western part of the #7 market.