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Atlanta has a new station, what about Pensacola?

CBS owns the Atlanta station.

It appears that the only possible format changes or tweaks to full power FMs locally would lie strictly in the hands of Cumulus. Probably a flip for 106.1. Who knows what 100.7's future holds? 102.7 could get killed by the Cat if they aren't careful, but that would probably take a couple more years.

I have a feeling that CC will work with CHR on 107.3 for a while longer, but without some change in it's signal it will wind up with a spoken word format before any other local CC FM. The other CC FMs are all very stable.

Also, look to the Apex group of 92.1, 98.1, 102.1, 103.1 down in FWB. Country will live on 98.1 forever, but the ownership may change due to it being a very valuable signal. I wouldn't be surprised to see a change on one of those stations tomorrow.

The fate of the short term future of our radio dial lays in the hands of AM stations and FM translators.
 
Is the game a registered trademark or can anyone (Hale or whoever) use it?

What station tomorrow do you see changing?

-Rob
 
I think we're done with changes here for a while. My bet is on Cumulus taking a wait and see attitude on how 104.1 erodes 106.1's numbers. They may not have any effect at all; people may well be loyal to their "local" frequency even if it's 99.9% duplication.

Ideally, I'd like to see CC flip 107.3 to talk, but since it's a Pensacola station they'd be at the mercy of waiting on WCOA-AM to lose all its contracts with Premiere's shows. But if that were to happen, Cumulus would be wise to make the AM & FM a full simulcast instead of this breakaway thing they got going on now. That would certainly open the door to moving the talk to a more local signal (106.1) and doing something different with 100.7.

Of course, if it's and but's were candy and nuts…
 
What is the true situation with WRRX 106.1? I never listen to the station, it's not my cup of tea. I have stopped on it while "seeking" the dial several times since the WDLT move to 104.1 and 106.1 was playing the same commercials and songs, just slightly delayed. Does WRRX have any local Pensacola air talent? Besides the handful of local Pensacola commercials is there any difference between 104.1 and 106.1 that I'm not seeing? What would 106.1's listeners be loosing out on if they had to listen to Mobile's 104.1 for Urban AC? If 93BLX can cover both markets with top ratings I don't see why WDLT can't do the same.

I guess I should also ask, does WDLT have local Mobile DJs on air or is it all VTd or satellited? If WDLT does have local DJs have they started acknowledging Pensacola and the other towns that are now in their coverage area?

Pensacola really could use a non-country music radio station with local DJs (ala 99 Rock in FWB, constant interaction with FWB and Destin listeners all day long... maybe even too much on air listener-DJ interaction). As it stands right now TK101 and Talk Radio 100.7 are both targeting Mobile listeners leaving us two country stations and WMEZ targeting Pensacola. Not much local variety for a city the size of Pensacola. The minority population in Pensacola is so much smaller than other southern cities that I don't believe that 106.1, the only LOCAL Pensacola FM, should target that audience.

If Cumulus neuters and nationalizes WXBM it will fail opening up that frequency for a new format.... but that will take at least two years.
 
WXBM needs to move their tower east too. Keeping their height and power. Give 98.1 some competition. Mobile doesn't need all of those country stations, here it seems to be the format of choice. I wonder if XBM is on a TV tower look how high it is. Their signal is crap here, my radio doesn't even pick it up on the scan yet they advertise "ft walton beach"

Mobile has enough country stations, they got KSJ, 99.1 out of pasaguala, cat 98.7 and Kicking 107.9 If XBM moved east, I doubt if anyone would noticed.


-Rob
 
holding my tongue Tibbs.....................by the way had some Hendricks this past weekend at the Epcot International Wine and Food Festival....Hendricks was sponsoring one of the booths......mighty fine stuff....they were doing a Singapore Sling....which is probably is probably sacrilegious to a serious Hendricks person ......deer season is coming up....saving my anger for the bucks......gonna let Rob slide tonight
 
musiconradio.com said:
WXBM needs to move their tower east too.
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Yes let us move a top rated station towards a smaller market. ::)
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Well, Clear Channel did move WBUV 104.9 from Mobile to Biloxi. It may actually make sense to move some station from Pensacola down toward FWB if it made room for another station to upgrade or move into Mobile. Could a move of 102.7 east and a downgrade of FWB's 103.1 to class A create a spot for WOSM 103.1 to move into the Mobile metro on 102.9?
 
WBUV was moved because of ownership limits. Not because of format or ratings. Fort Walton has too many stations now. The piece of ad pie is already thin.

Cumulus has maxed out the ownership cap at FWB or is close.
 
I think there's plenty of space to move that nearly 2,000 foot tower of WXBM's right in to Pensacola. There's a big field next to the airport with nothing in it, a tower would fit perfectly. And they could even let Rob plug in the strobeys!
 
Zach said:
I think there's plenty of space to move that nearly 2,000 foot tower of WXBM's right in to Pensacola. There's a big field next to the airport with nothing in it, a tower would fit perfectly. And they could even let Rob plug in the strobeys!
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How many men does it take to build a 2000 foot tower?

Wait, never mind. I forgot how bad I was at telling jokes.
 
Station Status Licensed Class C [Help] FM Station
Area of Coverage View Coverage Map
Effective Radiated Power 100,000 Watts
Height above Avg. Terrain 488 meters (1601 feet)
Height above Ground Level 488 meters (1601 feet)
Height above Sea Level 520 meters (1706 feet)

well, it's damn close to a 2,000 foot tower. Which is why I wanted to know is this a TV tower or just used for XBM?

-Rob
 
I think all the tall Baldwin county towers have TV stations on them except Cat Country's stick. I'm too lazy to look it up and luckily I'm not crazy enough to already know.
 
CBS is the owner of 92.9 and has been since the early 70's

CBS is converting many affiliates to all sports

Former Z-93 and Dave FM

The best Classic Rock station in Atlanta since the 70's, then as DAVE FM, was the best to introduce a genre of indie-music.
The last thing Atlanta needs is another sports station. Doubt it will do well.

As a side note, Margot who was the former PD at both Z93 and DAVE, is now 'building' an internet radio network with the same indie format so popular with Atlanta listeners. She is generating much enthusiasm with Atlanta about the coming project, called EAV Radio (East Atlanta Village)
 
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