3 Springfield stations showing up in Boston ratings

[Signpost]

WAQY has shown up before, but now we have WHYN-FM and WFCR each getting .01 shares in Boston. Not as many New Hampshire stations showing up this time, just WZID. A few Boston People Meters placed west of Worcester ?

 

[DJbobo]

WAQY has shown up before, but now we have WHYN-FM and WFCR each getting .01 shares in Boston. Not as many New Hampshire stations showing up this time, just WZID. A few Boston People Meters placed west of Worcester ?

Likely a local outlier commuting to W.Mass. It happens.

 

[Gadon]

Did you see WLNH from way up in Laconia at the bottom of the Boston pile ?

 

[jlehmann]

Did you see WLNH from way up in Laconia at the bottom of the Boston pile ?

Perhaps someone from the Boston area vacationing in the lakes region?

 

[mgpt6]

WFCR can be heard in Boston area, with a far amount of noise. If a pirate is on 88.5 in Boston or Brockton FCR will be blown out.

 

[reelyreal]

Sometimes in the summer months you can chalk it up to a week's vacation. Spending some time in the Berkshires? WFCR would sound lovely!

 

[carmen]

the local on 88.5 is almost always there. 91.3 is only on air on weekends which is nice as stonehill, UNH and others get a fair crack at being heard

 

[Deleted User]

Not as many New Hampshire stations showing up this time, just WZID.

OK it is bad enough my friend Bethany who is half of the "Jim and Bethany Morning Show" on 106.3 Frank FM ( WFNQ Nashua) didn't tell me she was expecting, I had to hear the announcement on the air..... but now you are telling me WFNQ isn't in New Hampshire anymore?

 

[thetheo]

I was told in a panel about PPM that it would only count when you are in the market that the meter is connected to.

So if someone who lives in Springfield has a meter, they are only metering their time when they are within the confines of that market, and not when they drive out of it.

So if that's true, these stations showing up is peculiar.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

WFCR can be heard in Boston area, with a far amount of noise. If a pirate is on 88.5 in Boston or Brockton FCR will be blown out.

I listen to the repeat of the first hour of "Weekend Edition/Saturday" at 10:00 am on WFCR. I used to listen to it on WBUR until they decided to see and raise WGBH-FM by running "Wait,Wait Don't Tell Me" at 10:00 am. By finagling my external FM antenna to diminish WEVS's signal, I concidentally maximize WFCR's signal from my perch 30 miles north of Boston. Only when there's out-of-state, Maine or really far away tropo, it comes in very well. An odd thing about WFCR: it once had somewhat super-power status when it went on the air, about 35,000 watts at 740 feet AAT. FM stations in nearby Connecticut on West Peak, Meriden, at the same antenna height AAT, were limited to about 15,000 watts. Then when WFCR boosted its elevation to nearly 1,000 feet AAT, it had to conform to regular commercial height/power limits for its zone. Why couldn't they have had a similar "super power" allowing for the same distance requirements for adjacent- and same-channel operations? When 100,000-watt WGBH-FM applied for a transmitter relocation and altitude adjustment, they asked for about 70,000 watts from the Westinghouse/CBS tower on Cedar Street in Needham.

 

[fmradio1]

Most people don't realize that all of the Worcester market is included in the Boston metro, and Worcester is "embedded" in the Boston ADI. That means if there are some meters in those outlying areas (which measure real, not reported listening) some stations from Springfield are going to show up in the ratings every now and then. A station like WFCR comes in almost as well as WBUR in most areas of Worcester County.