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98.1 WWLS is on the air
- Thread starter Watercooler
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Well at least it was for a bit to test how well it is going to do. :'(
Almost the same signal as KATT.... I happened to be slightly past Shawnee and it was coming in pretty damn good. 97.9 was getting KZBB instead of the WWLS-FM signal.
I think they're playing a game of "How Many Frequencies Can We Broadcast On?"
Let's see if I have the chronology right...
640am
104.9fm
105.3fm
back to 104.9fm
97.9fm
now to 98.1fm
Did I miss one?
Let's see if I have the chronology right...
640am
104.9fm
105.3fm
back to 104.9fm
97.9fm
now to 98.1fm
Did I miss one?
Lol! The good news for the wwls audience is they seem to have enough brains to change their radio dials to keep up with all the changes.
OKCRadioGuy said:
Prediction...some of the 10 Tulsa area listeners will also switch to 98.1 on July 9th. The morning show refers to the change often, but I haven't heard them specify that the change is for OKC listeners only.
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kjl
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That Paxton guy keeps reminding people that 97.1 will not change.
Is there a OKC Animal vs. Tulsa Animal going on?
OKC seems to ignore Tulsa, while Tulsa cries about OKC not noticing Tulsa.
Is there a OKC Animal vs. Tulsa Animal going on?
OKC seems to ignore Tulsa, while Tulsa cries about OKC not noticing Tulsa.
OKC.has almost a 4 share during the football season and prints money. As far as I can tell the rest of the "neetwork" is just a caboose to the mothership for the most part.
It would help if either 1550 AM or 97.1 FM were actually Tulsa signals... promotion where they CAN be heard might help, too.
1550's Sapulpa and 97.1 is Muskogee but unless they've moved it, the FM tower is halfway between Muskogee and McAlister, near Eufaula. It looks like 1550 shoots southeast from the southwest side of town... how does THAT work for Tulsa? It looks like they ought to be blowing down Beggs... :
Tulsa heavily supports high school sports, gets fairly excited about college sports, and more casually watches professional teams... not the best market for sports radio.
We already have a Tulsa 25kw (1430 AM) and another, weaker Tulsa signal, one running Fox sports, another running ESPN sports...
No, neither of those are local sports, but my point is for a mild to moderately interested sports town, to already have wall-to-wall national sports coverage on two stations, and then try to bring in two out of town signals for national and local sports.... I tend to think we're over-saturated.
Oklahoma sports fan in western Arkansas and on the Oklahoma / Texas border would likely disagree with me on the value of the Animal on 97.1. ;D
And PLEASE, please, PLEEEEEZZZEEEE somebody shut OFF the stereo pilot on 97.1... you're not carrying any stereo programming, and it effectively reduces your effective coverage by in effect raising the noise level... actually it's not "in effect," it really DOES raise the noise, static and hiss levels, especially in your fringe coverage area...
LIKE TULSA.
1550's Sapulpa and 97.1 is Muskogee but unless they've moved it, the FM tower is halfway between Muskogee and McAlister, near Eufaula. It looks like 1550 shoots southeast from the southwest side of town... how does THAT work for Tulsa? It looks like they ought to be blowing down Beggs... :
Tulsa heavily supports high school sports, gets fairly excited about college sports, and more casually watches professional teams... not the best market for sports radio.
We already have a Tulsa 25kw (1430 AM) and another, weaker Tulsa signal, one running Fox sports, another running ESPN sports...
No, neither of those are local sports, but my point is for a mild to moderately interested sports town, to already have wall-to-wall national sports coverage on two stations, and then try to bring in two out of town signals for national and local sports.... I tend to think we're over-saturated.
Oklahoma sports fan in western Arkansas and on the Oklahoma / Texas border would likely disagree with me on the value of the Animal on 97.1. ;D
And PLEASE, please, PLEEEEEZZZEEEE somebody shut OFF the stereo pilot on 97.1... you're not carrying any stereo programming, and it effectively reduces your effective coverage by in effect raising the noise level... actually it's not "in effect," it really DOES raise the noise, static and hiss levels, especially in your fringe coverage area...
LIKE TULSA.
With the advent of some of the nice HD tuners out there like the Sony XDR-F1HD there is a fix for that ;D
I just love DSP radios that mask and blend the garbage right out.
I just love DSP radios that mask and blend the garbage right out.
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kjl
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agree on over-saturated. I keep hearing on 97.1 they are working on a tower is that true?NightAire said:
No idea! It sure would be a good idea... swing that tower to northwest of Muskogee while still putting a city-grade over the town... but I didn't see anything on the FCC's website about a new tower location, and if they're doing something THAT expensive, I'd sure get my licensing ducks in a row BEFORE any tubing went up in the air.
...but if you were REALLY putting a great signal over Tulsa (which can be done with a Muskogee city of license, as KHTT [106.9 / K-Hits] shows), would you spend all that wattage on sports / talk?
...well, at least I wouldn't...
...but if you were REALLY putting a great signal over Tulsa (which can be done with a Muskogee city of license, as KHTT [106.9 / K-Hits] shows), would you spend all that wattage on sports / talk?
...well, at least I wouldn't...
yeah KYAL I believe has a permit to upgrade to a full super C and will hopefully gain more of Tulsa.
By golly, I missed that CP on my first search...
It looks they'll double their tower height (300 to 600 m) and the tower site moves a little, to the north - northeast. They'll be on the other side of Eufaula's lake, closer to Warner... an improvement, but not a great improvement; they're still south of Muskogee.
I'll be interested to see how the new signal sounds, but it still looks like a rim-shot, considering that KHTT is between Bixby & Haskell and when they have power issues they get spotty in Tulsa...
It looks they'll double their tower height (300 to 600 m) and the tower site moves a little, to the north - northeast. They'll be on the other side of Eufaula's lake, closer to Warner... an improvement, but not a great improvement; they're still south of Muskogee.
I'll be interested to see how the new signal sounds, but it still looks like a rim-shot, considering that KHTT is between Bixby & Haskell and when they have power issues they get spotty in Tulsa...
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