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92.3 The Fort to simulcast WOWO

I guess I'm a DIEHARD Rock 104 fan now.

Mr. Richards, any GM involved, I now LOATHE YOU.

My input is DONE.
 
At least they're indicating none of The Fort's people will lose their jobs. However, didn't the Fort just have two full-time personalities?
 
Tony Richards is not the COO of Fed Med anymore, so I wouldn't think he was involved in this decision. And I wouldn't know why The Bear would go back to classic rock. They're doing very well with the active rock.
 
OK I'm back.
Yes there's only Cliff (middays) and Billy Elvis (3-7 PM.) The stories on WANE-TV and Indiana's NewsCenter indicate that they may be moved to other stations.
I'm probably one of the few around Fort Wayne that will MISS Bob and Tom. I have heard them off and on since maybe 1985, seeing as I could get them early with a good antenna location in the house I grew up in, and that era was GREAT for a high school kid getting into radio to pick out and "steal" how to work a microphone. Now the general indication I get is they're gone, unless they end up on (HOLY HELL DARE I SAY??) ... WMEE. (NAH. NEVER HAPPEN.)

I just don't want to think it. Somebody's drinking some very rich Kool-Aid in the corporate office to think this won't meet SOME resistance, but hey I know, it's just business, and radio IS business. I'm ill saying that...
 
Noted. I found the story online about the new station but not this thread. Thanks. SO I open mouth (ONLINE) and insert digital foot. It's a GM play apparently.
 
I had heard this story ( WOWO possibly going to an FM simulcast) a couple of weeks ago. I had also heard the Fort was struggling, so I'm sure financially this was the right decision. A lot of AM's have gone to a FM simulcast.
 
The word on the news was "exploring options," but I'd park a 20 on the spot on the table that says "GOODBYE."
I can't figure out where they'd go. No station needs or for that matter FITS Bob and Tom.
I could be wrong, I was earlier. (And I said I was done with this...)
 
kwlz993 said:
I had heard this story ( WOWO possibly going to an FM simulcast) a couple of weeks ago. I had also heard the Fort was struggling, so I'm sure financially this was the right decision. A lot of AM's have gone to a FM simulcast.
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Remember two years ago Brad Williams flipped Power 95.7 to WAOR and changed 95.3FM to the News Talk FM he'd always wanted. Several good staffers were let go. The bloodletting may still happen.
 
umfan said:
Bad move on the part of Gregg Henson, IMO. It's a waste of a frequency and WOWO was getting good ratings.
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I agree but hey we're not there offering our 2 cents are we??  So we get this and they can either suffer the ill effects or reap the rewards.  They want ratings and clear coverage in Fort Wayne now they (WOWO) have it.  Wonder if they'll change calls to WOWO-FM.
 
Here's a "LET'S GO THERE" thought:

HD-2 for a classic rock format on 98.9 FM.

A long shot?? Or what do the masses think here?? I say it's time for commercial HD in Fort Wayne, why not the Bear?? Keep the current format, maybe ditch the mornings for Bob and Tom, and put the Fort's playlist on an HD-2 channel. THOUGHTS???????
 
If you want to be in the top five, (if not higher) in demo's in morning drive why would you not put Bob and Tom on the air? Hello Rock 104......
 
They probably will change the calls to WOWO-FM. WOWO has good ratings, but what about the demos? With 9800 watts at night (including parts of morning drive depending on time of year), how is the AM signal in the metro?

Putting the Fort on HD2? The three people who have HD radios will appreciate it. Bob and Tom could go to the Bear, or to Rock 104.
 
borderblaster said:
They probably will change the calls to WOWO-FM. WOWO has good ratings, but what about the demos? With 9800 watts at night (including parts of morning drive depending on time of year), how is the AM signal in the metro?
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Very, very good. In practice (if not by force of law) it still has the nighttime protections it did when it was a 50 kW class A, since nothing new has come on at night elsewhere on 1190 that's aimed anywhere near Fort Wayne. (The 1190 signals in Kansas City and St. Louis upgraded after WOWO downgraded, and obviously so did WLIB, but WLIB's 30 kW night signal has a near-total null toward Fort Wayne.)

The entire Fort Wayne metro is still within WOWO's nighttime interference-free contour. It gets a little fade-y up in the northern and easternmost reaches of the market (up around Dupont Road, for instance) where much of the sprawl is taking place, but not enough so as to make it unlistenable.

This is purely a demographic play, not a signal issue.
 
Wish they would simulcast WOWO on WMEE so I could hear them at night in North-Central Indiana...when I am away from my computer.
 
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