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From Kiese's Blog: WHIO-FM moving to Sharonville

Absolutely STUOOOPID! Losing Kool 95/Oldies 95 to The Point is one thing. Simulcasting 'HIO-AM (and Rush) was a halfbrained move....Now moving to Cincy with reduced power....DUH!!! Give 95.7 back to "PT" in Piqua and let them run it right..as the local station it was intended to be!!! Greed is ruining commercial radio.
 
Are you people dense? WHIO-FM is far more valuable and reaches many more people as a 6kw station in Cincinnati than it does as a 50kw station in Piqua. Imagine this: You have a 50kw AM station in the middle of rural Mississippi, AND you have a 500 watt AM station in the middle of the city of St. Louis. Which station do you think reaches more people and is more valuable? The 500 watter in St. Louie!

If you'd take the time to do a little research, you'd see that with the 95.7 move to Cincinnati, 95.3 gets to move much closer to Dayton and becomes a full market signal. Check it out and check out who did the engineering:

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=465304
 
kirkiefan said:
Absolutely STUOOOPID! Losing Kool 95/Oldies 95 to The Point is one thing. Simulcasting 'HIO-AM (and Rush) was a halfbrained move....Now moving to Cincy with reduced power....DUH!!! Give 95.7 back to "PT" in Piqua and let them run it right..as the local station it was intended to be!!! Greed is ruining commercial radio.
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Good point KF. The FCC is as useless as %$#'s on a boar.

AND now the latest news...980 WONE is reducing power to 5 watts and moving to Los Angeles where it's reported that they'll get a boost in the Arbitron Ratings.... (Actually might not be a bad idea as anything would be an improvement)...

We interrupt this broadcast now for a special bulletin....95.7 WHIO FM has been sold to a Chinese Company for an undisclosed payment. Rumor has it that Tecsun Radio Company, a manufacturer of Radio's is leveraging their manufacturing business by making a strategic crossover into the radio broadcasting business. Tecsun plans on increasing tower height to 80,000 ft and power to 1 million watts to compensate for the move to Beijing....more details as they come available. And...Now...back to our regularly scheduled programming already in progress.
 
The owners of WIFE, Connersville, that city's only FM station, reportedly got 22 or 23 million for selling it to Radio One, and none of that money was for their existing employees, contracts or 'intellectual property', it was all for the frequency.

If Cox sells 95.7, they should get money in the same ballpark, and if they don't sell it, it's because they think they can make equivalent money.

They'd probably like to put the signal further south, so they may be a little weak in NKY because of distance and in downtown because of strong signals all over the place, but they'll have one of the strongest signals in North to NE Hamilton County, SE Butler County, and SW Warren County, economically the hottest part of the tri-state.

If you don't like it, your beef is with the FCC, because their rules for how radio stations are located and what markets they supposedly serve, "first local service" etc., are a total joke.

If Congress passed a law saying that anyone that could draw up an engineering plan, using equal or lower wattage, that did a better job than an incumbent station at putting signal into the station's community of license, would be awarded the frequency, you would see total chaos because very few FM stations licensed to suburbs of major cities actually have transmitters in those suburbs, or any particular interest in serving those suburbs.

The only exceptions: lower powered stations, generally non-commercial.
 
RATCISDJ94 said:
kirkiefan said:
Absolutely STUOOOPID! Losing Kool 95/Oldies 95 to The Point is one thing. Simulcasting 'HIO-AM (and Rush) was a halfbrained move....Now moving to Cincy with reduced power....DUH!!! Give 95.7 back to "PT" in Piqua and let them run it right..as the local station it was intended to be!!! Greed is ruining commercial radio.
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Good point KF. The FCC is as useless as %$#'s on a boar.

AND now the latest news...980 WONE is reducing power to 5 watts and moving to Los Angeles where it's reported that they'll get a boost in the Arbitron Ratings.... (Actually might not be a bad idea as anything would be an improvement)...

We interrupt this broadcast now for a special bulletin....95.7 WHIO FM has been sold to a Chinese Company for an undisclosed payment. Rumor has it that Tecsun Radio Company, a manufacturer of Radio's is leveraging their manufacturing business by making a strategic crossover into the radio broadcasting business. Tecsun plans on increasing tower height to 80,000 ft and power to 1 million watts to compensate for the move to Beijing....more details as they come available. And...Now...back to our regularly scheduled programming already in progress.

;D This post was hilarious! Now, in all seriousness, I am willing to bet that if Cox keeps simulcasting 'HIO-AM, maybe it is to try to compete with 700 WLW. We'll see I guess...
Also, does anyone know about what format is going on 95.3 after they move from Xenia to Beavercreek? I would doubt they'd keep Classic Hits on that signal after the move, but who knows? Stranger things have happened in this business...

BTW, doing ANYTHING with the legendary 980 WONE signal would be an improvement! ;D
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