AM 980

[aircapjim]

Anyone know the status of WYFN? Was their transmitter site badly damaged in the flood? Are they going to come back on? Part of me wishes I had the money to buy that frequency. So much could be done with it

 

[loves radio 2]

Anyone know the status of WYFN? Was their transmitter site badly damaged in the flood? Are they going to come back on? Part of me wishes I had the money to buy that frequency. So much could be done with it

Just curious...what would you do with it? It's nighttime signal doesn't cover all of Davidson County.

 

[romer979fm]

Anyone know the status of WYFN? Was their transmitter site badly damaged in the flood? Are they going to come back on? Part of me wishes I had the money to buy that frequency. So much could be done with it

Just curious...what would you do with it? It's nighttime signal doesn't cover all of Davidson County.

just asking...where is the 980 signal lacking in Davidson County? I only travel a small portion most of the time, and 980 seems fine at night
(present situation excluded). last Saturday on my way in at 4:30a...980 was off...as was 900...880 had a dear carrier...as did 810 (which
sounded like a local - day power still up I guess)...650 was still fine-tuning from their move to the transmitter site and the audio sounded out of phase...

 

[loves radio 2]

Anyone know the status of WYFN? Was their transmitter site badly damaged in the flood? Are they going to come back on? Part of me wishes I had the money to buy that frequency. So much could be done with it

Just curious...what would you do with it? It's nighttime signal doesn't cover all of Davidson County.

just asking...where is the 980 signal lacking in Davidson County? I only travel a small portion most of the time, and 980 seems fine at night
(present situation excluded). last Saturday on my way in at 4:30a...980 was off...as was 900...880 had a dear carrier...as did 810 (which
sounded like a local - day power still up I guess)...650 was still fine-tuning from their move to the transmitter site and the audio sounded out of phase...

980 has no nighttime coverage in the OHB/Whites Creek Area, for several miles. I know from trying to listen to Duncan and Joe when they had Sportsnight on WSIX.

980's transmitter is in Neely's Bend which experienced severe flooding.

 

[jetfli]

Anyone know the status of WYFN? Was their transmitter site badly damaged in the flood? Are they going to come back on? Part of me wishes I had the money to buy that frequency. So much could be done with it

FYI YFN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBSJGfTnRI0

 

[K4WRF]

Anyone know the status of WYFN? Was their transmitter site badly damaged in the flood? Are they going to come back on? Part of me wishes I had the money to buy that frequency. So much could be done with it

Just curious...what would you do with it? It's nighttime signal doesn't cover all of Davidson County.

just asking...where is the 980 signal lacking in Davidson County? I only travel a small portion most of the time, and 980 seems fine at night
(present situation excluded). last Saturday on my way in at 4:30a...980 was off...as was 900...880 had a dear carrier...as did 810 (which
sounded like a local - day power still up I guess)...650 was still fine-tuning from their move to the transmitter site and the audio sounded out of phase...

980 has no nighttime coverage in the OHB/Whites Creek Area, for several miles. I know from trying to listen to Duncan and Joe when they had Sportsnight on WSIX.

980's transmitter is in Neely's Bend which experienced severe flooding.

980's (old WSIX-AM) deepest null is in that exact direction protecting KMBC in Kansas City. For the most part, the signal is good across the rest of the area. It does vary greatly night-by-night due to what I suspect are other stations on that frequency operating daytime facilities at night. Co-channel interference is very difficult to weed out on class "B" channels. To make things worse, there has been a sharp increase in ambient noise over the past few years mostly man-made. CFL's, LED lights and switching power supplies will be the death of AM I am afraid.
w/

 

[aircapjim]

Thanks for the info. Yes, I grew up in Kansas and used to listen to KMBZ in Kansas City before it went Conservative News/Talk. As for what I would do with the station, Sports Talk, possibly oldies, maybe Business News. I would love to do all News, but that is just a fantasy. Waitt, what do you think about the idea of increasing AM stations' power by 400 percent as some Consultant engineer recommended?

 

[K4WRF]

Thanks for the info. Yes, I grew up in Kansas and used to listen to KMBZ in Kansas City before it went Conservative News/Talk. As for what I would do with the station, Sports Talk, possibly oldies, maybe Business News. I would love to do all News, but that is just a fantasy. Waitt, what do you think about the idea of increasing AM stations' power by 400 percent as some Consultant engineer recommended?

It ain’t never gonna happen for a myriad of reasons but specifically regulatory, economic, and technical. Even if by some far stretch of circumstances the FCC would even consider it, the technical implementation is fraught complications at every turn.

 

[Kyle Cantrell]

This thread, and the discussion of 980's null, brings back a lot of memories. Growing up in White's Creek, where I lived until I was nine, we had an old Philco console radio/phonograph (with the record player long since removed) which sat in our kitchen. In those days, my mother was an avid WSIX listener, and always had that radio tuned to 980 as she cooked breakfast. In my mind can still hear that "rumble" of distant stations behind WSIX's stronger signal on cold winter mornings while the DA was still on. I never understood what that sound was; I just knew that after daylight, the station sounded so clear and just boomed out of that speaker. But it's that spongy, fuzzy sound that has stuck in my mind all these years.

It's funny how things get into your consciousness. I'll always associate that sound--along with newsman Charlie Scott's voice saying "Briggs...the paints made FIRST...to LAST"--with mother, home, the smell of breakfast cooking, and the sound of that old Philco on a cold morning.

 

[Journeyman]

It's funny how things get into your consciousness. I'll always associate that sound--along with newsman Charlie Scott's voice saying "Briggs...the paints made FIRST...to LAST"--with mother, home, the smell of breakfast cooking, and the sound of that old Philco on a cold morning.

all of that and for us older folks Buzz Benson

 

[Bob E. Nelson]

This thread, and the discussion of 980's null, brings back a lot of memories. Growing up in White's Creek, where I lived until I was nine, we had an old Philco console radio/phonograph (with the record player long since removed) which sat in our kitchen. In those days, my mother was an avid WSIX listener, and always had that radio tuned to 980 as she cooked breakfast. In my mind can still hear that "rumble" of distant stations behind WSIX's stronger signal on cold winter mornings while the DA was still on. I never understood what that sound was; I just knew that after daylight, the station sounded so clear and just boomed out of that speaker. But it's that spongy, fuzzy sound that has stuck in my mind all these years.

It's funny how things get into your consciousness. I'll always associate that sound--along with newsman Charlie Scott's voice saying "Briggs...the paints made FIRST...to LAST"--with mother, home, the smell of breakfast cooking, and the sound of that old Philco on a cold morning.

So many things come to mind with your comments, Kyle (and Watt, too). Just a few memories:

1). Charlie Scott was one of the kindest people I ever knew in the radio business. When I worked mornings on the FM, he'd bring Krispy Kreme donuts and coffee up from the newsroom downstairs for those of us in radio, Bill Jenkins over on the AM and me playing Metropolitan Country.

2). Before the AM moved to Neely's Bend, it's old location was off McGavock Pike (later home to WSM for a few years). That may have been the finest sounding AM facility I've ever heard. They had a slight touch of reverb that was added to the transmitter and some device that enhanced the high end. It wasn't like WABC's reverb but was distinct to WSIX. The only other station that sounded like it was WSMB/1350 in New Orleans.

3). The old site, of course, also had the null up towards White's Creek and Joelton. However, being a few miles closer in, my perception was that the signal was hotter over the Nashville area than when the move was made to the new site in the early 70's. That Neely's bend site flooded in March 1975, if I recall correctly.

4). Under the guidance of PD Bill Gerson, WSIX was a remarkably well-programmed station. During the 60's, WKDA had the teens and younger adults but the older audience was captured by WSIX/980 in the immediate survey area. WSM was stronger in the outlying areas and WLAC's block programming wasn't much of factor.
And they had an all-star lineup of news talent including Charlie Scott, Ernie Keller, Jim Freeman, Mike Thompson and others.

 

[K4WRF]

I have a WSIX memory that cannot be erased from my mind. The last TV and Radio GE Christmas Party known as “the last supper”, the stations were waiting FCC approval to be sold to separate bidders. There was quite a spread the Old Richland Country Club including food and open bar. Everybody attended and the spectacle of the evening was Chuck Scott actually dancing. He would take two steps and pause to pull up his pants.

Once while giving a tour at 441Murfreesboro Rd, Chuck and Jim Kent were in the FM control room and I joked with the visitors that when Jim first came to work at WSIX, he had to contend with dinosaurs. Chuck has a unique sense of humor and he laughed so hard his whole body was shaking.

Both gentlemen of the highest caliber.

 

[loves radio 2]

It's funny how things get into your consciousness. I'll always associate that sound--along with newsman Charlie Scott's voice saying "Briggs...the paints made FIRST...to LAST"--with mother, home, the smell of breakfast cooking, and the sound of that old Philco on a cold morning.

all of that and for us older folks Buzz Benson

I remember Buzz Benson on WMAK doing the morning shift.

 

[loves radio 2]

I have a WSIX memory that cannot be erased from my mind. The last TV and Radio GE Christmas Party known as “the last supper”, the stations were waiting FCC approval to be sold to separate bidders. There was quite a spread the Old Richland Country Club including food and open bar. Everybody attended and the spectacle of the evening was Chuck Scott actually dancing. He would take two steps and pause to pull up his pants.

Once while giving a tour at 441Murfreesboro Rd, Chuck and Jim Kent were in the FM control room and I joked with the visitors that when Jim first came to work at WSIX, he had to contend with dinosaurs. Chuck has a unique sense of humor and he laughed so hard his whole body was shaking.

Both gentlemen of the highest caliber.

I never had the opportunity to meet Charlie Scott, but I met Jim Kent 40 years ago this month and we were friends till his death. He was truly a gentleman in every sense of the word and had one of the best broadcast voices I ever heard.

 

[onetake]

what's the story on 1300am

In addition to some unprofessionally produced "ministries" on the air, the signal is not there...at times it feels like two signals on the same frequency.

980 is ok
1160 back strong
most other ams in good shape.
but 1300 is still, a month later, in poor shape.

anybody know why?

 

[firepoint525]

what's the story on 1300am
In addition to some unprofessionally produced "ministries" on the air, the signal is not there...at times it feels like two signals on the same frequency.
980 is ok
1160 back strong
most other ams in good shape.
but 1300 is still, a month later, in poor shape.
anybody know why?

My guess is because George McClintock and Watt Hairston are no longer there.

 

[loves radio 2]

what's the story on 1300am
In addition to some unprofessionally produced "ministries" on the air, the signal is not there...at times it feels like two signals on the same frequency.
980 is ok
1160 back strong
most other ams in good shape.
but 1300 is still, a month later, in poor shape.
anybody know why?

My guess is because George McClintock and Watt Hairston are no longer there.

Nashville radio is better off with George McClintock gone!

 

[anotherguyTN]

Nashville radio is better off with George McClintock gone!

AMEN!!! WNQM, WWCR, and their sister stations in Memphis, Knoxville, etc. need to quit the sham of claiming to be "Christian" stations. Their god (little g) is the almighty dollar.

 

[loves radio 2]

Nashville radio is better off with George McClintock gone!

AMEN!!! WNQM, WWCR, and their sister stations in Memphis, Knoxville, etc. need to quit the sham of claiming to be "Christian" stations. Their god (little g) is the almighty dollar.

I know McClintock and he's NUTS!!!

 

[firepoint525]

Nashville radio is better off with George McClintock gone!

AMEN!!! WNQM, WWCR, and their sister stations in Memphis, Knoxville, etc. need to quit the sham of claiming to be "Christian" stations. Their god (little g) is the almighty dollar.

I know McClintock and he's NUTS!!!

Granted, McClintock is strange, and everything said here about him (since my last reply) is true, but he (generally) ran a tight ship, and generally didn't let engineering-related matters slip.