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96.5 Moundsville-Wheeling WV

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So, the K-Love "moving to 88.7fm loope" is running on 96.5. K-Love is on 88.7 in Moundsville and Wheeling. ( 2 seperate low power transmitters?) Anyone know what Keymarket's next move is for 96.5?
 
It's kind of a crappy signal north of Wheeling. I've been on Rt 7 before and have had Kiss out of Cleveland fighting with it as far down as Brilliant. May be an AC or something? May be moving Jack there and putting a hot AC version of womp back on?
 
Seriously, though, why does Keymarket still need 103.5? The 104.3 move-in rendered it pretty much redundant for them as far as Western PA goes. They do sell some Wheeling- Steubenville spots on it, but if they can cover Wheeling with 96.5, they certainly can make a lot more selling off 103.5 than they would make selling spots in Steubenville.
 
The new Wheeling spring book is out today. Kiss has climbed to an all time high of 12.4 in 12+

Kiss wouldn't be hard to out-program. They are largely voicetracked from out of town.
If WOMP returns, and if the programming is compelling with a few decent local jocks, it'll get the ratings. And then the revenue.
I wonder how much of an impact Kool 105.5 and JACK are having on WK. WK is down quite a bit.
WOMP attacks the young end, Kool the upper end, JACK in the middle.
 
rubberchicken said:
The new Wheeling spring book is out today. Kiss has climbed to an all time high of 12.4 in 12+

Kiss wouldn't be hard to out-program. They are largely voicetracked from out of town.
If WOMP returns, and if the programming is compelling with a few decent local jocks, it'll get the ratings. And then the revenue.
I wonder how much of an impact Kool 105.5 and JACK are having on WK. WK is down quite a bit.
WOMP attacks the young end, Kool the upper end, JACK in the middle.
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http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?board=70.0
 
rubberchicken said:
The new Wheeling spring book is out today. Kiss has climbed to an all time high of 12.4 in 12+

They are largely voicetracked from out of town.
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I find these two statements, taken together, to be a sad reflection on the current state of radio.

Especially for those of us who remember 14WK, 16 WNEU, WOMP-FM, et. al.

C.
 
Besides the morning show 97.3 is a trainwreck (IMOP) No announcer in midday and an EAGLE 107 jock tracks pm drive. Clarke I agree, sad state. The only FM station that does it right in my neck of the woods is 106.3 The River in Steubenville. Local airstaff and good music!!!!
 
Let me add something that seemed a tad weird in the Wheeling ratings. One could say WWVA lost listeners to a news-talk sibling, WPGB-FM out of Pittsburgh. And I presume all this came before the Pirates' supernova of a partial-season run.
 
Parttimer said:
Seriously, though, why does Keymarket still need 103.5?
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Because it's easier to own a competitor that try to fight him. If you keep it out of someone else's hands, the numbers stay yours.
 
KeyTimes950 said:
Let me add something that seemed a tad weird in the Wheeling ratings. One could say WWVA lost listeners to a news-talk sibling, WPGB-FM out of Pittsburgh. And I presume all this came before the Pirates' supernova of a partial-season run.
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WWVA lost listeners when they switched to talk in the late 90's. Paul Carroll and I had only 22 hours to build a new talk studio (which we did), and switch to the new format. They did quite well when they were Big Country. We had and all-night truckers pgm. The religion from 7 PM to 1 AM provided us with well over a million dollars per year. We had live jocks all day long. It was great, and alot of fun!
 
I remember it well...... Showing up at the WWVA Studio on a Friday Night with a sledge hammer, sawz-all, tin snips...and telling Bill Hughes, "nothing to see here, just keep on working" as we started to cut away the studio walls. I wish we had time to take pictures of that, it was quick and if you remember we wern't allowed to tell anybody what we were doing

Do you remember me putting a satellite dish on top of the Capitol Music Hall Marquee to get the "new" truckers show and when Larry Anderson came to work that Monday he called me into his office and said......and you think that looks ok as your driving down main street??? he actually thought it was funny. Paula Anderson hit the roof. So the dish came off the marquee and I ended up using one of my satellite dishes at my house and I used a 2watt marti to send the audio to the studio, for those that are reading this I live less than 1 mile from WWVA's studios, and the studios are in downtown Wheeling and there is a 10 story building next to the Capitol Music Hall and receive satellite signals we didn't have line of site for 1/4 of the arc
 
Do you remember the night the transmitter was switched over to the dummy antenna and we had a better signal toward KVOO than with the 3 towers?
 
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