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B101 Long Isl. claims: "New York's Only Oldies Station."

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Garrett

Forgive me if this has been posted before, but I noticed that B101's website now claims to be the Oldies station for NY. I don't know much about the NYC market. What is B101's signal with relation to NYC?
 
I assume you mean B103? WBZO doesn't really have much of a signal anywhere in the five boroughs....their signal is best in Eastern Nassau and Western Suffolk. On the North Shore of LI there's interference from the 103.1 translator in Stamford, and in the city proper, the other 103.1 translator in Bergen County blocks out B103 in most areas.

There's also Kool 96.7, which is in Connecticut, but which ironically has a much better signal over the five boroughs and the North Shore of LI.

> Forgive me if this has been posted before, but I noticed
> that B101's website now claims to be the Oldies station for
> NY. I don't know much about the NYC market. What is B101's
> signal with relation to NYC?
>
 
> Forgive me if this has been posted before, but I noticed
> that B101's website now claims to be the Oldies station for
> NY. I don't know much about the NYC market. What is B101's
> signal with relation to NYC?
>

The station cannot be heard at all in Brooklyn because of the Soca pirate. Most of Queens can't get it either due to the pirate. Forget about Manhattan and Staten Island. I don't know about the Bronx.
 
What about WMTR and WNNJ? How close to the city do they get? They certainly are the oldies stations for the New Jersey Suburbs! And how close does WJRZ get? (This is ignoring the wishful ranges on Radio Locator which don't seem to take into account factors like interference from other stations.)
 
> What about WMTR and WNNJ? How close to the city do they
> get? They certainly are the oldies stations for the New
> Jersey Suburbs! And how close does WJRZ get? (This is
> ignoring the wishful ranges on Radio Locator which don't
> seem to take into account factors like interference from
> other stations.)
>

I know 1360 WNNJ doesn't come in, but I'm not sure about WMTR. It is more likely with them though.<P ID="signature">______________
Kevin</P>
 
> > What about WMTR and WNNJ? How close to the city do they
> > get? They certainly are the oldies stations for the New
> > Jersey Suburbs! And how close does WJRZ get? (This is
> > ignoring the wishful ranges on Radio Locator which don't
> > seem to take into account factors like interference from
> > other stations.)
> >
>
> I know 1360 WNNJ doesn't come in, but I'm not sure about
> WMTR. It is more likely with them though.
>
Scott Shannon's "True Oldies" on am 850 is the new name of the game,great 50s and 60s stuff,and the classic Shannon commentary/hosting chores.
 
> And how close does WJRZ get?

With a good radio, you can pick up WJRZ/100.1 as far north as about Holmdel, NJ, but it is really only listenable in the car and on most radios south of Eatontown, NJ (Exit 105 on the Garden State Parkway). Go much north of the Monmouth and Middlesex border and you have lots of interference with WHTZ/100.3 which totally wipes out 100.1's signal. From Eatontown, it is a good 50 miles from there to the center of Manhattan, so I do not think that WJRZ is going to benefit much from 101.1's changeover except in the far southern suburbs.

-Mike
 
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