According to Reds.com, they are back on WKRD 101.7. Guess we have to move to Shelbyville, or sit outside in our car to hear The Reds again.(This is the same crappy signal they were on before moving to 93.9/1450 in 2008).Pitiful that The Reds can't be on a decent signal in Louisville.almaniac27 said:
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CUMULUS SHUT DOWN IN LOUISVILLE?
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radiofan502 said:
Why don't they simulcast with 101.7 and WKJK? Or are Steve Malzberg's ratings too good to sacrifice? ;D
radiofan502 said:
Humm, sounds like a little bit of collusion going on there considering the Reds network is owned and managed by Clear Channel. Are they not broadcasting on 790?
Be kind of hard to have the Louisville Bats (Which 790 is the flagship station) and the Reds on 790 at the same timeBengalsfan said:
Just checked Reds.com again tonight. Now Louisville isn't listed at all as having an affiliate. What's going on?
I think the 1550 station you heard mentioned was WCVL in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Everything you said about WOCC is true, but it advertises itself as "radio for Harrison County." On a good radio, you can hear it in parts of Louisville. I highly doubt it would start broadcasting the Reds.almaniac27 said:
MikeStandardsFromIndiana said:
That won't stop them from trying, this is Clear Channel after all.
Just pay $20 for mlb at bat for the entire season. You get the direct 700 WLW feed and they NEVER pre-empt the Reds for anything. Plus they have live local talent there around the clock. It's strange to hear live weather bulletins. It is well worth it. I've given up on Louisville radio. It has sunk so far it is past hope for any recovery. The Reds have not been on a good station down here for years. 101.7 is a joke just like 1450 was. The signal is impossible to pick up.
I'd love to see what happened if nobody here could here Ripp (UK) games. There would be a full scale riot! But then they are on a dozen stations so that will never happen. I keep my satellite radio for Colts and IU sports since they are not carried around here either. Well the Colts are but not their post season games.
I'd love to see what happened if nobody here could here Ripp (UK) games. There would be a full scale riot! But then they are on a dozen stations so that will never happen. I keep my satellite radio for Colts and IU sports since they are not carried around here either. Well the Colts are but not their post season games.
The Reds network is pretty sad west of Cincy. Virtually all of the stations in Indiana are peashooter AMs which draw a zero rating. It looks like the same is true for a lot of the Kentucky stations. Suppose it has something to do with them being on the Big Juan (couldn't resist), WLW?
PTBoardOp94 said:
That has a lot to do with it. Why would a station within 70 miles of Cincy want to affiliate with them with this booming signal to compete with? And honestly, I see more Bengals apparel in Louisville than I see Reds....not that I'm biased or anything.
gr8: If you had to assign Indianapolis to a Major League Baseball team, which one would it be? Cubs? I almost never see people walking around town wearing baseball caps or t-shirts or other merchandise.
Reds baseball in Indy airs on WXLW (XL950), which covers ... maybe half of the metro at night. That's being generous.
That might be the best signal to receive Reds games in Louisville. I've never tried to tune it after dark, but I've heard reports that 950 is audible in Louisville at night.
Reds baseball in Indy airs on WXLW (XL950), which covers ... maybe half of the metro at night. That's being generous.
That might be the best signal to receive Reds games in Louisville. I've never tried to tune it after dark, but I've heard reports that 950 is audible in Louisville at night.
I have heard it in Louisville at times. Its got a nice tomato shaped patterned booming south out of Indy.PTBoardOp94 said:
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WXLW&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
I listened to it again the past two days. Heard it pretty clearly each time, once in Louisville on Newburg Rd. Seems they are broadcasting in mono, maybe in the hopes of getting into the Louisville area better. Looks like they are transmitting from south of Vine Grove. I guess they can't move any further north due to the Shelbyville 101.7 signal.scanman1809 said:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=37.71806,+-86.01639+(WTHX-FM)&om=1
They also can't move it any further north due to WMJM-FM 101.3 which is licensed to Jeffersontown, Kentucky, an eastern suburb of Louisville. This is another area of the FM band that is overcrowded, similar to 105.1, 105.3, 105.7 and 105.9. You can add 88.1, 88.3 and 88.5 as a crowded area as well.KyDXIn said:
The whole FM market around Louisville is way over crowded. I can get 3 stations at once using my old Zenith Transoceanic. I can hear 101.3, 101.5, and 101.7 all at the same time. That said none of my other radios will even pull in 101.5 from Elizabethtown. I wonder why FM is like that here? I thought there were restrictions on that many stations being so close together.
Problem is 700 just doesn't come in well in Lousiville and hardly at all at night. Something to do with this being the point where the groundwave bounces down and up to become the skywave or something. I'm not up on the technical aspect. I know I can keep a good signal on 700 all the way across southern Indiana on US 50 but then I am away from the metro area which gives off tons of RF interference. When the power went out in May I could tune in many AM stations in the daytime with no trouble at all.
The Reds are on a lot of "graveyard" stations as BobontheJob referred to them. I know 1450 is one of those locations on the dial. Stations reserved for low power local AM broadcast with no 50kw flamethrowers allowed on those frequencies.
Chad
Problem is 700 just doesn't come in well in Lousiville and hardly at all at night. Something to do with this being the point where the groundwave bounces down and up to become the skywave or something. I'm not up on the technical aspect. I know I can keep a good signal on 700 all the way across southern Indiana on US 50 but then I am away from the metro area which gives off tons of RF interference. When the power went out in May I could tune in many AM stations in the daytime with no trouble at all.
The Reds are on a lot of "graveyard" stations as BobontheJob referred to them. I know 1450 is one of those locations on the dial. Stations reserved for low power local AM broadcast with no 50kw flamethrowers allowed on those frequencies.
Chad
KyDXIn said:
That 101.5 in Etown went ESPN when WIEL 1400 went dark for a tower move. Dropped CHR off 107.3, moved rock product (The Point) there, moved ESPN to 101.5, swapped calls. It is mono, since its no longer music...had a nice processor needed elsewhere, and of course mono gets out better. It does better west and south..I get it no prob down here in Glasgow....even get it on I-65 south of the Cumberland Parkway. Yeah, city-of-license is Vine Grove, the tower is really more in the Blue Ball area...no surprise its gets into Corydon at all. 101.5 signed on, I believe, around the time the 101.3/101.7 switch happened, so yeah there is some consideration there. And for your techie info, STL is Comrex BRIC on Windstream DSL...works pretty well!
Found out today that The Reds will be on WNDA 1570 & WTSZ 1600 starting tomorrow night. Which means that after dark, you can't hear them in Louisville. Now they are on 2 almost nonexistent signals. They might as well went back to WKRD 101.7. What is wrong with Louisville radio that we can't have The Reds on a decent signal?almaniac27 said:
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