disney fanatic said:
WGNA is the only country station in Albany had the spectacular ratings.
Yes, WGNA is the only country station in the Albany market, and yes they have decent ratings in most dayparts thanks to having a format that shares well with several others (i.e. N/T, AC, Classic Rock), and having some choice rural/suburban diary placement. If PPM's are ever used in this market though, you'll see GNA's numbers head south purdy darn quick.
WKLI did great ratings especially with the Christmas season and WTRY had oldies on where they still have Tom Kent on.
Umm, nope. WTRY went all-xmas as well, as they do every year.
Tom Kent can also be heard on WUBE. But Tom Kent is a waste of space playing the music that what it's now called "Classic Top 40". WBPM and WTRY did the same exact show. Can Albany listeners could not get "Cool 92.9"? That's far away, I heard what is up in Albany, they have "Cruisin' 93.5" on there from Hudson, NY where it goes up to Albany. Can the Hudson Valley can hear WTRY? No!
Your posts give me a headache. Let's break this down. First off, Tom Kent's show is rockin! A modern oldies format, of which 50's & early 60's are thankfully no longer a part of. The show is nationally syndicated, so yes it will be heard on stations in different markets.
WUPE carries it for Western MA, WTRY carries it for the Capital Region, and WBPM carries (carried?) it for the Hudson Valley. WZCR did not carry that show, I think they run Mike Harvey's program instead. Kent is an excellent jock, putting on a very listenable show each night.
Now, as for signal overlap... 92.9 and 93.5 have a comparable signal in Albany proper, but both stations are not listenable on the average radio. Both stations can be heard in the car up to about Exit 8 on I-87, before northern stations start taking over the channels. 92.9 throws a better signal up & down the valley, whereas 93.5 is strictly a local signal for Hudson & Catskill. In fact, where I lived in Greene County (all of 13 miles from WZCR's stick) their signal totally stunk while 92.9 (22 miles distant) was clear.
WUPE can be heard in parts of the Albany metro, but that signal is only reliable on eastward facing hills. 100.1 is topographically blocked to most of the immediate Capital District, although the signal does pass thru to parts of Saratoga County ok.
WTRY is obviously a difficult catch in the Hudson Valley, thanx to 1st adjacents WKZE and WCTW.
One other oldies station you seem to always overlook, that being WCKM Lake George. 98.5 used to put a decent signal all the way down to Clifton Park until WTRY fired up their digital noise generator IBOC transmitter. Now WCKM is lucky to be listenable anywhere in or south of Saratoga Springs.
Any other off-topic observations you wish to discuss? Or will you persist on turning every thread here into a comparison of out-of-market stations? (This *was* an Albany thread at first)