Bill, I don't go through Waterbury much except on I-84 onward to Vermont. How is 91.7 WXCI doing over WHUS? Between Irene and the October snow storm we lost a lot of trees near our transmitter and it is definitely showing the difference based on Calls I get now from Torrington to Litchfield to Huntington Long Island in fringe areas.Bill1820 said:RogerAnthony said:
Waterbury has some low spots surrounded by hills, which would make it tough for a signal like 97.9's from Hartford.
Interesting that the station is calling itself "97.9 ESPN" instead of the usual "ESPN Radio <put your frequency here>".
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97.9: Any whispers yet?
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Bill1820 said:RogerAnthony said:
Waterbury has some low spots surrounded by hills, which would make it tough for a signal like 97.9's from Hartford.
Interesting that the station is calling itself "97.9 ESPN" instead of the usual "ESPN Radio <put your frequency here>".
That actually is the normal these days for ESPN stations.
I'm sure Clear Channel is going to be negotiating for the next UConn basketball/football radio contract. I'm told Clear Channel put in a bid last time, and I'm sure they will want the rights even more now that they have 97.9 on the air. WTIC has had the radio rights since the 1992-93 season.
Who else besides the New York Yankees will WPKX-FM have for the immediate future?
As for their transmitter atop City Place, it's either not too high above average terrain, at half power, or both. While I get it reasonably well here 10 miles away in New Britain's south end, it was choppy on my "Walkman" at Berlin Depot (Amtrak), while standing on the platform for the train at 7:21 AM. I had very little signal on the rail in Meriden and Wallingford, possibly due to overload from West Peak. While at Union Station in New Haven, I got absolutely ZERO signal.
As for their transmitter atop City Place, it's either not too high above average terrain, at half power, or both. While I get it reasonably well here 10 miles away in New Britain's south end, it was choppy on my "Walkman" at Berlin Depot (Amtrak), while standing on the platform for the train at 7:21 AM. I had very little signal on the rail in Meriden and Wallingford, possibly due to overload from West Peak. While at Union Station in New Haven, I got absolutely ZERO signal.
Bill1820 said:
Not without putting up a fight with CBS Radio. As 1080 has been a major partner in UCONN sports.
Ken said:
And even if CC does nothing with WPOP and keeps it on as a 24/7 WPKX-FM simulcast, there'll still be major reception holes in UConn-obsessed Connecticut. UConn may accept less money from CBS just to stay on the blowtorch. CC could put UConn on WAVZ New Haven and plug that hole, I suppose, but what would it do about eastern and northwestern Connecticut, out of range of both 97.9 and 1410?
As for the simulcast between WPOP and WPKX, I've heard both legal ID's in the past two days and neither mentions then other, so I don't think that WPOP will be broadcasting ESPN for too much longer.
progressivetalk said:
I'll concede this point to you. Whomever runs the Facebook Pages for Clear Channel Hartford and is promoting "97-9 ESPN" is stating that Connecticut finally got an all sports radio station. They're promoting across the pages for all the stations KISS, Country, The River, and even 1410's page. Saying that Connecticut finally got an all sports radio station is ridiculous though. What do you call the format WPOP has been running for the past 15 years? WPOP launched as SportsRadio 1410 in January 1997 (After stunting with music for a weekend) initially running OneOnOne Sports. They rebranded a year or two later as EPSN Radio 1410.
MarcB said:
Compared to Kiss, River and Country 92.5, WPOP might as well have not existed. By calling 97.9 Connecticut's first all-sports station, they're just emphasizing that AM, in Clear Channel's opinion, is dead. I wouldn't be at all surprised if CC sells 'POP to a leased-ethnic or religious operation, as AM has nearly completely lost the demo that advertisers are interested in selling to. And in 15 years, or maybe less, there will be no AM.
Something wrong here. http://www.979espn.con now goes to http://www.iheart.com/ for I heart radio.
Not sure why...it does offer "97.9 ESPN" among the sports talk stations in that category but you'd think they would have their standards sports page with a big "hear us on I-heart radio" banner up top as they do on their Boston talker
http://www.talk1200.com/main.html
(banner up top has "Listen Live" link on left, "I-heart radio" on right plus another I-heart link
slightly further down)
http://www.talk1200.com/main.html
(banner up top has "Listen Live" link on left, "I-heart radio" on right plus another I-heart link
slightly further down)
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KML-224 said:
It's a class A on top of a building in downtown Hartford with some pretty deep nulls to the southeast and southwest. So I am not shocked by your weak reception in the direction of the null. To the north, the signal carries suprisngly well into the Springfield area.
Nulled to the southwest? Other than 97.9 FM in New York City, why would it be nulled? As for my reception of the station at Berlin's Amtrak station, I was using my Panasonic AM/FM/CD "Walkman" and the City/DX switch was definitely on DX. My mother's car stereo gets a stable signal of them past Berlin Depot down to Super Stop & Shop (Farmington Avenue) and beyond.
KML-224 said:
I think the NYC station is the sole reason for the deep null. With 'PKX in its old location, the NYC 97.9 puts a usable signal into New Haven and its western suburbs. Without the null, 'PKX Hartford would interfere greatly down that way.
KML-224 said:
I've never heard the NYC 105.9. Maybe its pattern has a null to the east/northeast. How does it compare power-wise to WHCN? Don't forget, Class A FMs like WPKX are the low men on the FCC totem pole. It's their responsibility to stay out of the way of the big-power, big-market, big-money stations, not the other way around.
There's less elbow room for WPKX than WHCN. WHCN goes back to FM's beginnings, so it's got a lot more seniority, but it does have a bit of a null to the southwest of Meriden. 105.9 WQXR in NYC is not as powerful as most other FM's in the City, affording some protection to 106.1 WBLI, Long Island's second biggest signal behind WALK.KML-224 said:
WPKX moves into a much more crowded dial these days. NYC's 97.9 WSKQ is more of a full market signal, reaching well into Fairfield County, CT and Suffolk County, NY... It can be heard on a decent radio in the New Haven area as well. To the southeast of Hartford, I notice the new WPKX does a good job of protecting 97.7 WCTY Norwich.
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