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This afternoon around 4 to 4:30pm I was driving across the Orlando metro and received 1560 WAGL from Lancaster, SC with a very good signal. It knocked WINT Melbourne off the map.
 
In the winter months during critical hours they sound almost like a local in Daytona Beach and Jacksonville markets.
 
And here I live about 6 miles North of their four towers and can barely hear them, even at high noon. Not that it matters, WAGL's programing is terrible. I doubt anyone here in Lancaster County listens to them, with all the Charlotte stations blasting in. It was a different story back in the 70s when WAGL was a slammin regional top 40 with a much better 10,000 watt signal.
 
fortmill said:
And here I live about 6 miles North of their four towers and can barely hear them, even at high noon. Not that it matters, WAGL's programing is terrible. I doubt anyone here in Lancaster County listens to them, with all the Charlotte stations blasting in. It was a different story back in the 70s when WAGL was a slammin regional top 40 with a much better 10,000 watt signal.
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WAGL is that directional, I guess.

THeir programming isn't that bad.. it is unfair to call their programming terrible just because it doesn't suit your personal tastes.
 
Sorry, I'm not big on Southern Gospel, and there are several FMs in the area which do oldies better. Back in Waggle's heyday, they transmitted from a site just west of downtown Lancaster with 10,000 watts (Their studio, an attractive comtemporary building, is still at that site). They used only two towers, suggesting their signal, while less powerful, was not nearly as restricted. I recall they got much further out to the east and west. The current site is about 10 miles north of Lancaster. Back in the 60s-70s, Lancaster had three radio stations---1360 was country, 1560 was top 40 and 107.1 was beautiful music. Big WAYS and WBT from Charlotte were also big there. 1360 died, 107.1 "moved" to Rock Hill, leaving Waggle to battle more than a dozen FMs, and WBT, all which deliver city grade service to the area from Charlotte. Obviously, it is not a fair fight and WAGL was not distinguished itself with community based programing. And it hasn't helped that population has exploded in the northern part of the county where WAGL's signal is almost non-existant.
 
fortmill said:
Sorry, I'm not big on Southern Gospel, and there are several FMs in the area which do oldies better. Back in Waggle's heyday, they transmitted from a site just west of downtown Lancaster with 10,000 watts (Their studio, an attractive comtemporary building, is still at that site). They used only two towers, suggesting their signal, while less powerful, was not nearly as restricted. I recall they got much further out to the east and west. The current site is about 10 miles north of Lancaster. Back in the 60s-70s, Lancaster had three radio stations---1360 was country, 1560 was top 40 and 107.1 was beautiful music. Big WAYS and WBT from Charlotte were also big there. 1360 died, 107.1 "moved" to Rock Hill, leaving Waggle to battle more than a dozen FMs, and WBT, all which deliver city grade service to the area from Charlotte. Obviously, it is not a fair fight and WAGL was not distinguished itself with community based programing. And it hasn't helped that population has exploded in the northern part of the county where WAGL's signal is almost non-existant.
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And WAGL's power bill, even with a Solid State 50KW Box isn't cheap.. so I'm sure they're making plenty of money to stay on the air
 
radioguybroadcasting said:
fortmill said:
Sorry, I'm not big on Southern Gospel, and there are several FMs in the area which do oldies better. Back in Waggle's heyday, they transmitted from a site just west of downtown Lancaster with 10,000 watts (Their studio, an attractive comtemporary building, is still at that site). They used only two towers, suggesting their signal, while less powerful, was not nearly as restricted. I recall they got much further out to the east and west. The current site is about 10 miles north of Lancaster. Back in the 60s-70s, Lancaster had three radio stations---1360 was country, 1560 was top 40 and 107.1 was beautiful music. Big WAYS and WBT from Charlotte were also big there. 1360 died, 107.1 "moved" to Rock Hill, leaving Waggle to battle more than a dozen FMs, and WBT, all which deliver city grade service to the area from Charlotte. Obviously, it is not a fair fight and WAGL was not distinguished itself with community based programing. And it hasn't helped that population has exploded in the northern part of the county where WAGL's signal is almost non-existant.
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And WAGL's power bill, even with a Solid State 50KW Box isn't cheap.. so I'm sure they're making plenty of money to stay on the air
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Sadly, I'm not sure they're making enough to pay the power bill, but I hope so. But you've piqued my interest in the station--I'm going to listen tomorrow and see what's going on. Now that gas is cheaper, I think I'll drive out and take a look at the TX site. I understand they're building a huge housing development (2000 homes planned) in the immediate area, which previously has been very isolated.
 
I live in Charleston, SC, and for about three hours before sunset every day, WAGL comes in, usually with an almost clear signal, definitely better than my semi-local at 810 or the Savannah stations.

They have some decent programming (last year, they had a college football scoreboard show, I don't know if they have it this year), and some good standards music, but that signal is bad toward the north.
 
Well, I'm sorry but I have to agree with a previous poster that WAGL's programming is terrible. In fact, terrible may be a compliment. First, any station doing "block" programming is poorly programmed, regardless of the types of music, IMHO. That causes an identity or "branding" problem for marketing. When they are in their
"standards" mode, you never know what you're going to get. A rock and roll oldie or a standard from Sinatra. This has been tried before and never works. The produced liners, at least the times I have listened, sound poorly produced and the voice quality is very lacking. I don't mean to cast dispersions because I know someone is putting forth an effort. It's just not an efficient effort. They could remedy the produced liners problem, the identity problem and the music focus problem fairly cheaply. I would like to see them succeed. I want to be a fan, I just can't in it's current state. Respectfully submitted.
 
Out here in "fly over" country, 1560's pretty strange, too. Have previously outlined past reception of this station in other posts ... but this morning at 9:30 -- sunny, mid 30s -- driving from Bull Shoals Lake on the Ark/Mo border in to Harrison AR, agained listened to sports-talk from "1560/The Game" KGOW, Belaire TX (Houston). Not as strong this time as previous reports, and irritatingly more static ... but still, a pretty powerful shot for so great a distance, and so time-removed from any vestiges of darkness.
 
1560's strange here too.

Two years ago, usually I could get KNZR in Bakersfield, CA, with its 50kw blowtorch signal.

Now, its 2009, and all I can pick up is KVAN in Burbank, WA, simulcasting KUJJ-FM in the Tri-Cities. No KNZR in sight!

-crainbebo
 
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