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COG to CMG

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Radio-Info and AllAccess are reporting that Curtis Media Group is buying WCOG 1320 AM in Greensboro.
 
What kind of signal does WCOG have?

It makes me wonder if Disney will sell WGFY 1480 Charlotte, a station with a truly horrible signal. I wonder if Don Curtis is interested in the biggest city in North Carolina? I don't know if the signal can be improved, I know that Disney tried.

CMG is a different kind of operator that I'd like to see in Charlotte.
 
Is it just me, or is WGFY a poor choice of call letters for a Disney radio station?
 
I can't imagine they would mean anything, DtotheJ.
Sometimes the FCC's random assignments just work out that way! :makes exaggerated sweeping motion, snaps fingers:
 
Could be the new format for W City Of Greensboro be Spanish? Will Curtis go after the money left behind by La Preciosa in the Triad?
 
. Would love to see WCOG return to an oldies type format. I grew up with AM and I believe a lot of folks that love music from the 60's would have no trouble listening to AM. just my thoughts though.
 
. Would love to see WCOG return to an oldies type format. I grew up with AM and I believe a lot of folks that love music from the 60's would have no trouble listening to AM. just my thoughts though.


I enjoy Oldies too, but the bad news with the format is revenue. Also you have THZ sitting on an FM signal. If it comes to a business decision, there’s more than a million dollars left on the table (Hispanics) for somebody to pick up. IMHO.
 
I have noodled around the internets a lot, and have never seen the "bad GFY" come up.
So I had to look up the other one, and it wasn't even the first GFY acronym option listed on that website.
And it's banned from license plates?
Man I feel like I'm sheltered now or something. Guess I should spend more time on the political forums. Nah, that would be more of a waste than being sheltered....
 
There is a great oldies station at 94.1! Majic 94.1 does a pretty good job with the oldies or classic hits format. To bad they may not be around very much longer.
 
Curtis put oldies on WKIX, another top 40 station from the 60s and 70s. That gives oldies fans hope.

Personally, I'm holding out for what WCOG did when they were WGLD from 1989 to 1994. I have it where I live during the day but the interference is annoying when I go to Winston-Salem. Summer is coming and I'll have to turn on the air conditioner, which makes that worse.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
What kind of signal does WCOG have?
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It's a 5KW signal day & night... at day the signal is aimed southwest but only slightly so... at night the signal is very much aimed southeast to obviously protect other stations on that frequency.

In its last days as Radio Disney, WCOG definitely had some engineering difficulties - in the past it would come in booming clear to the eastern part of Greensboro - later on, in the twilight hours the signal would be awfully bad... and since the signal was especially aimed in our direction it's pretty pathetic.

If engineered correctly, and from its site north of PTIA, it should cover Guilford County very well as well as East Forsyth. Since the signal in the day is aimed SW slightly, Davidson County should get good daytime reception, whereas south Alamance and NE Randolph should get WCOG better at night than in day.

But then AM has its quirks - my former hometown radio station just 35 miles SW of Central London had a whopping 750 watts of output power on 1566 Khz and there's been plenty of reception reports of this station in Germany. Ground conductivity helps massively too, and NC's ground does not co-operate well for AM.

Also remember Curtis already operates WPCM - Oldies and Beach on 920AM out of Burlington. In theory WPCM could be paired with WCOG , and strangely it might be possible for people in Burlington to get 1320 better than 920 at night, since WPCM powers from 5kw day to a whopping 55 watts at night.
 
Christopher Chenn said:
vchimpanzee said:
20 years ago I couldn't pick up WCOG at night in High Point.

I could pick up WAAA, which was strange.
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WAAA never operated properly. Know what I mean?
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Whatever they did, I could hardly pick it up in Winston-Salem during the day during 2005 and 2006. They always had the station ID at the top of the hour on WIST, with whatever call letters happened to be parked there. With all the trouble WIST has in Winston-Salem, I would have appreciated them, but their signal was even worse. That was IN Winston-Salem. They were, however, airing the WIST programming.

They've finally fixed the signal, at least during the day, but now it's not serving much of a purpose.
 
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