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Funny signs and billboards in Louisville

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Is it just me, or are there an awfully lot of funny signs In THE VILLE, quite a few on I-65 through downtown with people with stupid-funny looks on their faces, I also saw a sign for a Cigarette shop called Cox Smokers. The trip through Louisville is always good for a few laughs. I did notice that LRS and GZB still have weak spotty signals in downtown and east, also, you have a new Hot AC on 104.3,,,, Cant DX WLKT Lexington, or WJJK Indianapolis in Louisville anymore.
 
Mid West Clubber said:
Is it just me, or are there an awfully lot of funny signs In THE VILLE, quite a few on I-65 through downtown with people with stupid-funny looks on their faces, I also saw a sign for a Cigarette shop called Cox Smokers. The trip through Louisville is always good for a few laughs. I did notice that LRS and GZB still have weak spotty signals in downtown and east, also, you have a new Hot AC on 104.3,,,, Cant DX WLKT Lexington, or WJJK Indianapolis in Louisville anymore.
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GZB has a much improved signal in those areas. They formerly had a "main transmitter site" in Lanesville Indiana that might as well have been off the air for all they cared. The site they cared about was an on-channel booster on the hill above Caesar's, right next to the river across from Louisville's west end. They were finally able to turn off the Lanesville site make the booster site their main transmitter site, significantly raising the antenna and more than doubling their effective radiated power. That all happened in the fall of 06.

That station on 104.3 has been there since the late 90s in one form or another. (Rap, Country, now The Way FM) It's covereage has never changed. So I expect WJJK or WLKT, both on 104.5, have been wiped out all that time.

Do you not make it to Louisville very often?
 
You really have to get out of the shadow of downtown to be able to catch either of the 104.5s-it was not unusual to hear The Cat and Jack FM fighting each other off in southeastern Louisville. Even 104.3 WAYI doesn't sound too great downtown.
 
I know about all the other formats on 104.3, but I swear to god that 104.3 was a Dead Off the Air signal in early december last time I was down, and you could here WLKT and WJJK fighting it out all over town. My girlfriends car can still get WLKT out around Middletown and Jeffersontown, but I have to be in Shelby County, around the simpsonville exit to hear WLKT in my car, its an older Mercury from the early 90s, not the best sensitivity or selectivity.
 
WLRX/WAYI was off the air from the time the sale from Radio One to WAY-FM closed to 1/15/08 (not counting the time the transmitter was accidentally turned on, but was broadcasting nothing).
 
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