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Christmas 92.9 WIIN 780

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flytrap

Not sure when they did this, but 780 is all Christmas. 92.9 it too weak to hear, all I hear is Hazelhurst. AM audio is messed up, some clicking sounds in the background, sounded fine when it was country. BTW, on a recent road trip up the trace, I was surprised at how far AM 780 got out. I was still picking it up long after 96.3 was gone. Still listenable all the way to Jeff Busby park, still audible to just south of Tupelo with the motor running. WJDX was no where to be found north of Kosciusko, I thought 620 got out better than that. But 780 and 1180 about the only Jackson stations to make it much farther than Kosciusko, but I think 780 won.
 
Found the coverage map on the FCC website. Looks like the FM is somewhere around Beasley Road 58 watts. doesn't get much further south than I-20. They are IDin mainly as Christmas 92.9 even though the translator is mostly inaudible.
 
780 is really a strong station.

I remember about fifteen years ago when the station moved to a rock oldies format. I was driving south on Interstate 55, and I could hear the station until I nearly got to Louisiana. I have also heard it in the Mississippi Delta.
 
Back when it used to simulcast Rock 102, David Adcock who did his "Tunes till Two" show on Sunday morning would sometimes mention that he got request from someone in Arkansas. I assume they were listening to AM since 101.7 couldn't have been more than 3000 watts back then. I hope 780 fixes their audio problems before they go to regular programming. I don't understand how a simple format change can wreck the audio. Same station, just different music. They must be using some faulty playback equipment. The 96.3 simulcast sounded a lot cleaner. Now it sounds funny and frying.
 
I listened to 780 for much of the day. Around 12:45, the station went into static. When the music returned, there were still audio problems.

My question is about 92.9. What station is that which seems to be simucasting 780?
 
I looked up 92.9 its only 58 watts, so it only covers a few miles around north jackson and down to the Fondren area. I finally heard a little bit of it in Pearl but it was unlistenable due to being hammered by 92.9 in Hazelhurst. From what I can tell the audio sounded fairly clean. I flipped over to 780 when I lost 92.9 and it still had a growling, frying sound, the clicking noise wasn't noticible. But still worse audio from what it was before the change.
 
I wonder what format they are going to go back to on AM 780 after Christmas. I guess this is the Radio People's answer for not doing All Christmas on Mix 98.7 this year. AM780 sounds fine from a distance, since I can pick them up on AM this year. But AM 780 goes off at night. Another translator or two around the metro area might help next year at this time of the year if they insist on using a translator to simulcast AM780 with a translator
 
Who knows, just as long as its not "Winners News Network" (Amway style motivational cassettes), "Womens Talk" or some throw-away format. However "Blues 780" was pretty cool.
 
Even though I am male, I enjoyed both the Women's Talk and the African-American talk station. I loved the Oldies and The Music of Your Life-style formats. I did not care for the motovation talk that was on for a number of years.
 
I have still been wondering about the identity of 92.9: what are the call letters and where is it.

Late this afternoon, the station gave some call letters for 92.9 which I did not hear and identified the station as "Cedar Hill" or "Seager Hill."

It then gave WIIN as 780 in Jackson (not anywhere in Madison County).
 
Back on the air. Missing instruments and background vocals. One whole channel missing. Do you want me to send you a Y adapter guys? That is one of my pet peeves about music AM's and mono FM stations. (87.7) If I notice it, why don't they?
 
richllewis said:
I wonder what format they are going to go back to on AM 780 after Christmas. I guess this is the Radio People's answer for not doing All Christmas on Mix 98.7 this year.
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They didn't do it last year either. In fact, has 98.7 ever been all-Christmas? There were times when they were all-Christmas on the weekends and when John Tesh was on at night.
 
danfling said:
Even though I am male, I enjoyed both the Women's Talk and the African-American talk station. I loved the Oldies and The Music of Your Life-style formats. I did not care for the motovation talk that was on for a number of years.
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The network that carried the women's talk format folded, which is why 780 switched from it. I remember the African-American talk format. I'm an AA and it was one of the most horribly executed stations I've ever heard. I did like the format itself (and was somewhat ahead of its time), but it was very hard to listen to. Now that there are more established AA talkers out there, I'd like for that format to come back. I'm surprised Inner City didn't try it with WJNT after they lost Limbaugh and Hannity. We have way too many conservative-leaning talk stations in town. No, I'm not making a political statement about it, but it would be nice to try something different.
 
danfling said:
I have still been wondering about the identity of 92.9: what are the call letters and where is it.

Late this afternoon, the station gave some call letters for 92.9 which I did not hear and identified the station as "Cedar Hill" or "Seager Hill."
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Probably Cedar Hills, as that was the ID when it was 92.7. The only Cedar Hills I know is the subdivision off MS 18 in south Jackson (shout out to my old hood, BTW). I wonder how the FCC let them get away with using a subdivision as a city of license.
 
I have heard this identification two or three more times, and it sounds (as it did to me the first time I heard it last Saturday) as though they are saying "Segar Hills." Of course, I may be hearing it wrong.

Also, I made a mistake about the FM. The location is identified as "Ridgeland-Jackson" - not just "Jackson."
 
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