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Great News for Tallahassee's ESPN Fans

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Louis_009

Some good news for the Tallahassee's ESPN fans.... Tampa Bay's AM-1040 will be ESPN Radio begins on Oct.13th.

WWBA-AM NewsTalk AM-1040 moves to the 50,000 watts AM-820 former WMGG (spanish) and Tampa's ESPN Radio is currently on Tampa's AM-1470 will move to AM-1040 for more info to the the Tampa/St.Petersurg board. I just wanted to bring this up to the all the ESPN fans in Tallahassee....

Here are some Tampa Bay's AM stations that reach Tallahassee area

AM-620-WDAE- The Sports Animal
AM-820-WMGG (now WWBA NewsTalk 820) former spanish
AM-1040-WWBA (to be ESPN Radio on Oct.13th)
 
Louis_009 said:
Some good news for the Tallahassee's ESPN fans.... Tampa Bay's AM-1040 will be ESPN Radio begins on Oct.13th.

WWBA-AM NewsTalk AM-1040 moves to the 50,000 watts AM-820 former WMGG (spanish) and Tampa's ESPN Radio is currently on Tampa's AM-1470 will move to AM-1040 for more info to the the Tampa/St.Petersurg board. I just wanted to bring this up to the all the ESPN fans in Tallahassee....

Here are some Tampa Bay's AM stations that reach Tallahassee area

AM-620-WDAE- The Sports Animal
AM-820-WMGG (now WWBA NewsTalk 820) former spanish
AM-1040-WWBA (to be ESPN Radio on Oct.13th)
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That's good. But it would probably be better for ESPN Radio fans in Tallahassee to have a full-power station with a clear signal broadcast locally, not from a station broadcasting roughly 200 miles away.
 
and at night.. forget it unless the pattern covers tall.
the MW band is flooded with mexican/cuban crap.

-Rob
 
forgot to mention, does the signal go down at night? if so, then it's not a local TAL station!

-Rob
 
Rob,

1040 is definitely not a local TAL station in any case. It's licensed to Pinellas Park.

The former Tallahassee ESPN station on 1410 is 5000 watts day but drops to 18 watts at night. So it
may as well be a daytimer. I can't get it at night @ 9 miles from the transmitter site.
 
Well, during tropo they can hear 98.1 the ticket. when i went through tall. i heard Z96 and COAST with QRM but it was there.

-Rob
 
Not a common option. You're lucky to pick up the Ticket in Mariana. DXing FM stations across the Apalachicola River is always tough. You've got a deep valley and a tall ridge there. That's probably why Tallahassee got their own ABC and NBC affiliates, it was just too hard to pull in channels 7 and 13 from Panama City. How often do you pick up Gulf 104 or Star 98 in FWB? Do you ever do any TV DX Rob? Tampa and Columbus are easy, Tallahassee and Albany never show themselves.

Back to the 'Noles, how well does WOOF 560 reach Tallahassee?
I don't know anything about pro sports, but do any Tallahassee stations carry Auburn, Alabama or Miami football? Or is there no demand?

robfwb said:
Well, during tropo they can hear 98.1 the ticket. when i went through tall. i heard Z96 and COAST with QRM but it was there.

-Rob
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Poledo,


Tallahassee used to have an Miami football game on 105.7 WVHT-FM (now WFRF-FM) a few years ago. I am from Crawfordville and I do pick up AM-560 WOOF The Ball on my suv and on my Pioneer Recevier VSX-516 in my bedroom thier singal can reach some areas of Tallahassee. I do pick up Tampa Bay's AM stations as well during the daytime.
 
i've heard 104 a few times. and 98.9 as well.

didn't know about that. i wouldn't mind seeing appla. someday.

-Rob
 
Driving down into the Apalachicola river valley, to cross a bridge, you loose any decent FM reception. Once you reach the higher ground on the west side of the river Tallahassee stations come back in, but they are not as strong and are gone within 20 miles.
The only place that I have ever been with worse FM reception is in the two Mobile Bay tunnels. When 92-ZEW had their transmitter on top of the tall building at the Mobile end of the tunnels, you could carry it for all but about 100 feet, now no stations carry through there.

There's a whole lot of land for sale in the Apalachicola river area now. If you can handle staying down south with us rednecks, it should be a good investment. We've got a new international airport coming to Panama City and there is an interstate planned from Atlanta to Panama City. It'll all take time, but eventually all that Big Bend/St. Joe Paper land will look like Destin.
 
Alan McCall said:
The former Tallahassee ESPN station on 1410 is 5000 watts day but drops to 18 watts at night. So it
may as well be a daytimer. I can't get it at night @ 9 miles from the transmitter site.
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How did ESPN Radio end up there? I'm sure it never had any live sports p-b-p contracts, other than stuff from ESPN Radio itself.
 
AM here is dead unless you put up a directional 10KW station. (what our area needs)

I don't think a 1,000 KW would cover tall. at night

-Rob
 
Rob is doesn't matter if you have 100,000 watts on AM, in the panhandle of florida, there is absolutely NO ground conductivity....that is needed for AM to "get out" ....in the midwest, a 250 watt station on 900 khz will beat out a 50kw station on 900 in the panhandle in coverage
 
How did ESPN Radio end up there? I'm sure it never had any live sports p-b-p contracts, other than stuff from ESPN Radio itself.
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Don't know. It's a Cumulus station, and they are the ones that put it on 1410 (their only AM in the market)
 
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