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CHR RADIO IN CAPE COD

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96.3 The Rose has been gone since April, is there really no CHR station serving the cape anymore?

What's the closest thing they have to CHR?

106.1?

Fun 107's fringe signal?

Here's an idea, flip WFCC to Top 40!
 
There's a station with the call letters WFCC??? I would love to see the FCC fine that station :D

BTW, I agree with you completely. Cape 104 temporarily filled that hole, but its been months now since the Cape had a CHR.

PS WFCC would also be able to serve Top 40 music for Nantucket so the guys from Wings will have something to listen to ;D
 
Would WCRB aka WGBH Classical do a deal to run classical on WFCC? Cape Cod Broadcasting recently declared bankruptcy...pass the collection plate again for "Listeners Like You"...
 
raccoonradio said:
Would WCRB aka WGBH Classical do a deal to run classical on WFCC? Cape Cod Broadcasting recently declared bankruptcy...pass the collection plate again for "Listeners Like You"...
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107.5 does have a decent signal, too - that could help a little in the more extreme areas of the South Shore (Plymouth, Kingston) that have no chance of getting 99.5.

Don't forget, though, that everyone who fills out diaries on the Cape is old - thus young formats like CHR have historically failed. Cape Cod's top four stations, according to the Fall 08 ratings, were 95XTK, Ocean 104.7, WQRC 99.9, and WFCC 107.5. 103.9, then a CHR, is way at the bottom.
 
I miss 96.3 The Rose. Another great New England music station gone :mad: . AM 850 WEEI come in just fine on The Cape. WEEI does not need be on 96.3 . Butch from Cape,didnt have a problem listening to AM 850 (RIP).
 
rapking said:
I miss 96.3 The Rose. Another great New England music station gone >:) . AM 850 WEEI came in just fine on The Cape. WEEI does not need be on 96.3 . Butch from Cape Cod,didn't have a problem listening to AM 850.
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Actually, Rapking, Cape Cod is mostly sand, and sand has Horrible ground conductivity. Sure, its fine if you actually listened to it at the beach, but once you go inland, WEEI's signal is horrible. Even out here on Nantucket it's good at the beach, but once you get into town the signal fades greatly.
 
AckDX said:
Cape Cod is mostly sand, and sand has Horrible ground conductivity. Sure, its fine if you actually listened to it at the beach, but once you go inland, WEEI's signal is horrible. Even out here on Nantucket it's good at the beach, but once you get into town the signal fades greatly.
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OTOH, WRKO, thanks to a path from Burlington that must be about 80% salt water and a directional pattern that is much closer to a figure eight than WEEI's, is darned near local in Chatham, which is right at the elbow of the Cape on the south side. That and the similarly better coverage of southern NH are good reasons why Entercom ought to consider a frequency swap between WRKO and WEEI. Why shouldn't the cash cow have the superior signal? (Unless, the FCC does away with the ratchet rule, which might make it possible for WEEI to move to Burlington and diplex with WRKO.)
 
106.1 WCOD is still mostly pop rock, and so is 99.9 WQRC, not to mention the waste of 2 signals, 101.1 and 93.5 Frank FM which is another mostly rock station. The 101.1 signal from Mashpee can be heard well to Provincetown. It would be great if Fun 107 (107.1) in New Bedford, could also get the 93.5 signal in Brewster which would provide clear coverage from Barnstable to Provincetown. Or, how about a Movin type station on the Cape that played only hip-hop, R&B, and dance. Maybe that would shake up some of these other mostly pop rock stations like 106.1 WCOD and 99.9 WQRC. There really is too much rock music on the Cape, so a dance station would be most welcome.
 
DanStrassberg said:
That and the similarly better coverage of southern NH are good reasons why Entercom ought to consider a frequency swap between WRKO and WEEI. Why shouldn't the cash cow have the superior signal?
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But is the Cape and those parts of southern NH part of the Boston market? Moving WEEI would mean trading the bad signal of 850 for the horrible signal of 680 in MetroWest. Plus, WEEI seems to have its Cape signal under control with 96.3 FM, and rumors are than one of the formerly-Nassau FMs in the Concord, NH area will end up with WEEI once their musical chairs are complete.
 
Normally, I don't respond to ridiculous streams like this one, but I couldn't pass it up.....

And I don't want to put my two cents in either, so I'll just respond to the post themselves.

“There's a station with the call letters WFCC??? I would love to see the FCC fine that station” – what an incredibly dumb thing to post, as all station calls are legally assigned. Where have you’ve been for 20 years that you did not know that WFCC was on Cape Cod? In fact, if you didn’t know that, which means you are out of touch with what is happening in that market, why comment on the market at all? You just look foolish.

But wait, there's more.

“Would WCRB aka WGBH Classical do a deal to run classical on WFCC?” – ...sigh......WFCC is WCRB. Do your homework on its programming team before posting such nonsense.

“Don't forget, though, that everyone who fills out diaries on the Cape is old.” – ....OMG........right, because Arbitron selects only the 70-plus demo to mail its diaries to, and everyone who lives on the Cape is over 65. It's a fact!

And that’s why it would make PERFECT sense to start…….

“a Movin type station on the Cape that played only hip-hop, R&B, and dance.” – because all those old, white people who live there would just LOVE that!

“Maybe that would shake up some of these other mostly pop rock stations like 106.1 WCOD and 99.9 WQRC. There really is too much rock music on the Cape, so a dance station would be most welcome.” – ‘pop rock’? 'POP ROCK'???? man, we gotta tell all those old people who got a diary this book that 'pop rock' does not mean classical........
Jeez, you guys, COME ON!!!!!!
 
Pop rock, isn't that what it is?  :)  It's not hard rock or classic rock, but the rock you hear on Top 40 and Hot AC stations like 106.1 WCOD and 99.9 WQRC.  If there was any station that the older people would listen to on the Cape, it would be 107.5 WFCC (especially the wealthy), and also 95.1 WXTK and Ocean 104.7 WOCN.  But if what you say is true, that the Cape Cod radio listenership is mostly older people, than wouldn't there be a station playing music like big band, swing, or adult standards?  Amazingly the Cape had a hard enough time trying to keep a local oldies station over the last few years.  Now they got Dunes 102.3, a satellite network oldies station which can only reach the outer Cape (Provincetown to Chatham) with a decent signal.  103.3 WODS can also be heard well especially along the Cape Cod Bay side and outer Cape.   But.............for those younger people (and some adults who like hip-hop, R&B, and dance music) it would be great to have a Movin type station, or for Fun 107 to get the 93.5 signal on the Cape.  Fun 107 already mentions that it is the only station built for southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape, but it would make more sense to say that if the station could be heard well across the entire Cape, instead of only west of Barnstable.  
 
radiojay1 said:
But if what you say is true, that the Cape Cod radio listenership is mostly older people, than wouldn't there be a station playing music like big band, swing, or adult standards?
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103.9 WOCN was historically an adult standards station before evolving to more of a soft AC, and now at 104.7 it is still a softer mainstream AC. Adult standards stations are dead even in older markets - Beasley had the #1 station 12+ in Las Vegas with 104.3 KJUL, but pulled the plug a few years ago because the billing was terrible. The oft-mentioned 105.5 WDUV in Tampa is still very much a gold AC but it doesn't border on adult standards as it did just a few years ago.
 
Fun107 has a good signal in Bourne,Falmouth,Sandwich,Mashpee, and in most of Barnstable..All they would have to do is up their power off the southeastern side of their tower in New Bedford. I am surprised they havent,they are the most upbeat station on the dial...the Cape is ready for the taking..A small market, screaming for a little excitement...there is no station with a pulse on Cape... and yes there is a lot of "older" listeners here..does anyone give a crap about the 25-45 year olds and younger people both men and women who still are here trying to make a living? Fun has it right, listen to what they play and look at their numbers in the last book..All I hear from the towns is "whats happening to our younger work force??" Ill tell ya, they go to HS, then leave for college, they realize its easier to survive with more chances to grow elsewhere than the Cape and dont come back!
 
I'm not sure what the rules are for them to boost power (possibly going directional toward the cape), but I know they would need to protect some or all of the following... co-channel 107.1 WERZ Exeter, NH and 107.1 WLIR Hampton Bays, NY, plus adjacent channel 107.3 WAAF Westborough, MA and 106.9 WCCC Avon, CT.
 
If they were ever to do a power upgrade, their main worry would be WAAF. However if WAAF beings to operate under their Construction Permit full time, they could make even more of an upgrade.

However Citadel is so tight for money right now, I couldn't picture them doing this in the near future.
 
WFHN is sandwiched in where it is. They are short to the NW (WAAF, both CP and LIC sites) and east (WFCC). I haven't really studyed it, but WFHN is probably too short to WERZ to go north.

The only hope to improve the cape signal would for someone to purchase one of those religious translators on the island, someone NOT affiliated with Citadel, and repurpose it to translate WFHN.
 
CHRles said:
There's a station with the call letters WFCC??? I would love to see the FCC fine that station :D

BTW, I agree with you completely. Cape 104 temporarily filled that hole, but its been months now since the Cape had a CHR.

PS WFCC would also be able to serve Top 40 music for Nantucket so the guys from Wings will have something to listen to ;D
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In town WFCC has a hell of a time with multipath issues. In one of my bandscans near the center of town, the signal was garbled.
 
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