CUMULUS, WHAT CAN THEY DO WITH WNNX ?

[gregg75]

I know all markets are different, but Cumulus just blew up WNNF in Cincinnati today. This was
their lowest station in town (#16). So what keeps them holding on to WNNX (#21) their lowest
station in Atlanta? Somebody there must really love this station.

 

[trhodes96]

I know all markets are different, but Cumulus just blew up WNNF in Cincinnati today. This was
their lowest station in town (#16). So what keeps them holding on to WNNX (#21) their lowest
station in Atlanta? Somebody there must really love this station.

FM sports.... Keep the RG's in the morning and simulcast 680 the rest of the day... can't do any worse than they're doing.

 

[gregg75]

OR they could always sell it after the merger...........that's another option.

 

[jabba17]

OR they could always sell it after the merger...........that's another option.

I still like my idea of selling WNNX to CC for WGST-FM (and enabling CC to have a reason to downgrade WSSL in the SC upstate), and going after Star and WQXI.

 

[InSearchOfGear]

OR they could always sell it after the merger...........that's another option.

I still like my idea of selling WNNX to CC for WGST-FM (and enabling CC to have a reason to downgrade WSSL in the SC upstate), and going after Star and WQXI.

Or, just make a deal with CC to downgrade WSSL another step. They struck a deala few years back for WSSL to go to C0 so WNNX could go to C2, still diectional.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

OR they could always sell it after the merger...........that's another option.

I still like my idea of selling WNNX to CC for WGST-FM (and enabling CC to have a reason to downgrade WSSL in the SC upstate), and going after Star and WQXI.

Or, just make a deal with CC to downgrade WSSL another step. They struck a deala few years back for WSSL to go to C0 so WNNX could go to C2, still diectional.

The WSSL downgrade was in classification only. The station didn't have to do anything to its signal. Getting them to lower power might not be that easy.

 

[InSearchOfGear]

OR they could always sell it after the merger...........that's another option.

I still like my idea of selling WNNX to CC for WGST-FM (and enabling CC to have a reason to downgrade WSSL in the SC upstate), and going after Star and WQXI.

Or, just make a deal with CC to downgrade WSSL another step. They struck a deala few years back for WSSL to go to C0 so WNNX could go to C2, still diectional.

The WSSL downgrade was in classification only. The station didn't have to do anything to its signal. Getting them to lower power might not be that easy.

Huge footprint over-covering small market. They could easily go to C1, drop transmitter power and maybe a few squirrels would notice with the hiehgt they have.

Money talks. ;-)

 

[jabba17]

OR they could always sell it after the merger...........that's another option.

I still like my idea of selling WNNX to CC for WGST-FM (and enabling CC to have a reason to downgrade WSSL in the SC upstate), and going after Star and WQXI.

Or, just make a deal with CC to downgrade WSSL another step. They struck a deala few years back for WSSL to go to C0 so WNNX could go to C2, still diectional.

The WSSL downgrade was in classification only. The station didn't have to do anything to its signal. Getting them to lower power might not be that easy.

Huge footprint over-covering small market. They could easily go to C1, drop transmitter power and maybe a few squirrels would notice with the hiehgt they have.

Money talks. ;-)

The population in the GSP metro isn't that big--but it's spread out all the way from Clemson (some would argue Toccoa) to Spartanburg (some would argue Gaffney). But the signal is probably still too big for that metro.

I wonder if it would be better served by some kind of twin-tower arrangement at each end (reminds me of the old Y106/Y104). But why do that if you have a centrally-located C0 that can do it all?

 

[InSearchOfGear]

The population in the GSP metro isn't that big--but it's spread out all the way from Clemson (some would argue Toccoa) to Spartanburg (some would argue Gaffney). But the signal is probably still too big for that metro.

I wonder if it would be better served by some kind of twin-tower arrangement at each end (reminds me of the old Y106/Y104). But why do that if you have a centrally-located C0 that can do it all?

Atlanta is a commuter Metro. Twin signals work better in smaller towns where people tend to stick closer to home.

 

[jabba17]

The population in the GSP metro isn't that big--but it's spread out all the way from Clemson (some would argue Toccoa) to Spartanburg (some would argue Gaffney). But the signal is probably still too big for that metro.

I wonder if it would be better served by some kind of twin-tower arrangement at each end (reminds me of the old Y106/Y104). But why do that if you have a centrally-located C0 that can do it all?

Atlanta is a commuter Metro. Twin signals work better in smaller towns where people tend to stick closer to home.

I was referring to WSSL in GSP, since that metro basically runs up I-85, not WNNX in ATL.

 

[gregg75]

You guys are putting words into my mouth.

Those last 2 quotes are not from me. I think the QUOTE function on here is used
and abused way too much.

 

[InSearchOfGear]

I was referring to WSSL in GSP, since that metro basically runs up I-85, not WNNX in ATL.

Ahhh. Cool.

 

[mcradiofree]

remember too that Cincy is a secondary market. Atlanta being #7. The numbers cited are 6+ numbers that no one (except #1) pays any attention to. WNNX's cume is still pretty good, and it's heritage is probably an easy sell.

 

[jabba17]

WNNX's cume is still pretty good, and it's heritage is probably an easy sell.

I wouldn't consider WNNX as having any "heritage", except from its tenure as 99X. Rock 100.5 isn't 96 Rock in that respect (96 Rock was 32 years old when CC blew it up in 2006). The only heritage [email protected] has is in its call letters. Although it has done a decent job at picking up those parts of 96 Rock's heritage that CC dropped on the floor when they flipped to Project.