Gainesville-Ocala Wish List...

[gamefreak]

I don't even consider WHHZ and WKZY Ocala or Gainesville Stations. Both stations DON'T cover Ocala. (WHHZ is even weaker than most of the Bithlo Orlando stations from Downtown.) Then just rimshots Gainesville with a 60DBu Signal. (Thats from downtown. Not including the east.) The owners of both stations should just market them as local Dixie County stations.

WMFQ at least somewhat covers Gainesville. (However has difficulty covering areas of Alauchua Co North of Gville'. ) Simliar with WTRS. WSKY has decent but not great coverage for both cities. (Starts getting fuzzy towards The Villages.) Luckily its talk and not music. Same with WRUF 103.7

KTK and K-Country covers both cities well.

Could anybody tell me how WRUF is doing ratings wise since the switch. Is the station actually fairing well against WOGK and WTRS.

 

[jmtillery]

I don't even consider WHHZ and WKZY Ocala or Gainesville Stations. Both stations DON'T cover Ocala. (WHHZ is even weaker than most of the Bithlo Orlando stations from Downtown.) Then just rimshots Gainesville with a 60DBu Signal. The owners of both stations should just market them as local Dixie County stations.

WMFQ at least somewhat covers Gainesville. (However has difficulty covering areas of Alauchua Co North of Gville'. )

WHHZ and WKZY actually have a much better signal over Gainesville than WMFQ has over the same geographical area. It makes more sense to leave WHHZ and WKZY as they are serving Gainesville as ad revenues would drop considerably pulling either of these stations out of Gainesville and concentrating, instead, on Dixie County.

The Bitho class Cs each have 70dBu signals over Orlando which is city grade, so these stations are doing what they were intended to do.

 

[cd637299]

I don't even consider WHHZ and WKZY Ocala or Gainesville Stations. Both stations DON'T cover Ocala. (WHHZ is even weaker than most of the Bithlo Orlando stations from Downtown.) Then just rimshots Gainesville with a 60DBu Signal. The owners of both stations should just market them as local Dixie County stations.

WMFQ at least somewhat covers Gainesville. (However has difficulty covering areas of Alauchua Co North of Gville'. )

WHHZ and WKZY actually have a much better signal over Gainesville than WMFQ has over the same geographical area. It makes more sense to leave WHHZ and WKZY as they are serving Gainesville as ad revenues would drop considerably pulling either of these stations out of Gainesville and concentrating, instead, on Dixie County.

The Bitho class Cs each have 70dBu signals over Orlando which is city grade, so these stations are doing what they were intended to do.

Ahhhh, but what about the AM 1580 in Bithlo? yuk yuk

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[jmtillery]

I don't even consider WHHZ and WKZY Ocala or Gainesville Stations. Both stations DON'T cover Ocala. (WHHZ is even weaker than most of the Bithlo Orlando stations from Downtown.) Then just rimshots Gainesville with a 60DBu Signal. The owners of both stations should just market them as local Dixie County stations.

WMFQ at least somewhat covers Gainesville. (However has difficulty covering areas of Alauchua Co North of Gville'. )

WHHZ and WKZY actually have a much better signal over Gainesville than WMFQ has over the same geographical area. It makes more sense to leave WHHZ and WKZY as they are serving Gainesville as ad revenues would drop considerably pulling either of these stations out of Gainesville and concentrating, instead, on Dixie County.

The Bitho class Cs each have 70dBu signals over Orlando which is city grade, so these stations are doing what they were intended to do.

Ahhhh, but what about the AM 1580 in Bithlo? yuk yuk

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If you will note, I gave reference to the Bithlo class Cs. Perhaps I should have added "FM" to indicate I am referring to the Bithlo class C FMs.

As for the Bithlo AM, which I believe is WNTF-AM, and was a COL change from Mount Dora, I haven't followed this station well enough to give any kind of an opinion other than to say it does not have any kind of meaningful signal over Metro Orlando; However, this station is a class D AM and not a class C AM.

 

[vadar]

Bring back Rock 104!!! ;D

 

[ThatGuyOnTheRadio]

I don't even consider WHHZ and WKZY Ocala or Gainesville Stations. Both stations DON'T cover Ocala. (WHHZ is even weaker than most of the Bithlo Orlando stations from Downtown.) Then just rimshots Gainesville with a 60DBu Signal. (Thats from downtown. Not including the east.) The owners of both stations should just market them as local Dixie County stations.

WMFQ at least somewhat covers Gainesville. (However has difficulty covering areas of Alauchua Co North of Gville'. ) Simliar with WTRS. WSKY has decent but not great coverage for both cities. (Starts getting fuzzy towards The Villages.) Luckily its talk and not music. Same with WRUF 103.7

KTK and K-Country covers both cities well.

Could anybody tell me how WRUF is doing ratings wise since the switch. Is the station actually fairing well against WOGK and WTRS.

WHHZ and WKZY have the same owner, and Mark is right. Focusing JUST on Dixie county (the smallest county in the market) would result in virtually no revenue. For the record, both stations are on the same tower and located in Gilchrist county.

Luckily, they are working all counties. Levy, Gilchrist, Dixie and Alachua. If you take a listen, especially to WHHZ you will hear clients from each of those counties.

 

[gamefreak]

I was talking about listening to the Bithlo Class C's in Downtown Ocala. (Not Orlando) Often times when up in Ocala the only Hot AC I can pick up is WOMX. (On a good car stereo) Not a good signal but KZY is even worse. So if I want a Hot AC in Ocala its 105.1 out of Orlando.

My friend who is a big rock fan listens to WXTB out of Tampa. (From the house in Citrus County.) Doing the daily commute to Ocala means the signal of WXTB starts getting fuzzy the more to the north you go. Well then he starting listening to WHHZ. The signal is just as bad over Ocala as WXTB. So now he justs listens to CD's.

WMFQ at least covers Gville' with a 52 Dbu Signal. While not great its better than the 40DBu rimshot WHHZ has in Ocala. I can actually listen to 92.9 in Gville'. Abiet with a few fuzzy spots.

 

[jmtillery]

I was talking about listening to the Bithlo Class C's in Downtown Ocala. (Not Orlando) Often times when up in Ocala the only Hot AC I can pick up is WOMX.

My mistake. I thought you were comparing the Bithlo signals over target Orlando with WKZY's and WHHZ's signals over target Gainesville. The fact of the matter is the Bithlo signals were never intended to cover Ocala. These signals target Orlando, the Space Coast and Daytona Beach. Any coverage over Ocala can be considered a bonus.

Doing the daily commute to Ocala means the signal of WXTB starts getting fuzzy the more to the north you go.

Same as with the Bithlo stations targeting Orlando, WXTB and all the stations transmitting from the Riverview tower are strategically placed at each respective station's tower location to maximize city grade coverage over as much of Tampa Bay as a whole as possible. They have no desire to cover any portions of Ocala. If any of these stations do reach Ocala, same as with Bithlo, consider that to be a bonus. Out of all the Tampa Bay stations, WXTB has the best signal to the North since this station is a full class C FM with its tower located near Holiday due North of Tampa Bay.

WMFQ at least covers Gville' with a 52 Dbu Signal. While not great its better than the 40DBu rimshot WHHZ has in Ocala. I can actually listen to 92.9 in Gville'. Abiet with a few fuzzy spots.

I would have thought WMFQ's signal is a little weaker than a 52dBu over Gainesville. However, WHHZ cannot reach Ocala any better than it does due to protection requirements and a short-spacing conflict with second adjacent WRUM 100.3 C located at Bithlo. Otherwise I'm sure Pamal Broadcasting would take measures to move the tower closer to Gainesville and Ocala to maximize coverage over the entire MSA.

 

[gamefreak]

I am aware that an Orlando station is intended to cover Orlando and a Tampa station is intended for the Tampa Bay MSA, I was making my case that some Orlando stations cover Ocala better than most in market Gville' stations. (Despie Ocala not being the target audience for Orlando broadcasters.)

Oh and WHHZ also has to worry about Clear Channel WMTX. WKZY with C.C WXXL.

Well WHHZ and KZY could set these stations up on 2 or 3 class A's, Similar to Wind FM. I'm guesiing finaces will be the issue with that idea.

My main wish list will be to have a good Hot AC or Top 40 cover Ocala. Also a Rock station. (Why UF thought 103.7 could go against WOGK I don't know.)

I was just in Gainesville yesturday with 92.9 on in the car. The station mantained a decent signal where I was at. (Shands Hospital) Its starts getting fuzzy however when you get into the Santa Fe area and towards Alauchua. Listend to it through Williston and Levy County as well with few problams.

http://zipsignal.v-soft.com/

Actually WMFQ pulls in a 53 DBu signal from Shands. Here is a link to V-Soft signal strength utility for Gville.

 

[jmtillery]

That's a very interesting website. Thank you for the link.

 

[vadar]

Yeah 92.9 use to have a whopper stick before all these lame LPFM's crowded the FM dial.