These Breakfuss Club billboards on the sides of RIPTA busses are a good idea. I'm not sure if they're only on routes in greater Providence, but they make sense even though you really can't look at this format as being popular only in urban areas. Anyone know if they're being used on busses in suburban areas too?
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Hot 106's rolling billboards
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They won't help anyway.With all due respect that's a pretty good show but anyone who wants to listen to it already knows about it.Other than the Latino stations they're not going to pull a morning audience away from anyone else in the state.Their competition is Jamn and I'm sure the hip hop audience knows who's on first on both Hot and Jamn.
Jam'n 94.5
Jam'n could even advertise on busses or billboards with its signal that blasts into most of RI, except for the southwest corner and south county coast. Hot 106 can barely be heard in the west end of Providence and east end of Johnston because of the Lite Rock 105 tower. You can't hear it at all in these areas on a walkman portable radio with all of the signal overload from Lite Rock 105. It also fades in and out on a good car radio. I live right next to the Lite Rock 105 tower and have a portable RadioShack DX 375 with digital tuning and Local/DX signal switch. If you adjust the antenna just right you can hear Jam'n 94.5 loud and clear with no interference. This was also with the signal switch on DX. Jam'n also has a much better signal than Hot 106 on my car radio where I live. No matter what I do with the switch or the antenna on the portable DX 375, I cannot recieve better than a very poor signal from Hot 106.
Jam'n could even advertise on busses or billboards with its signal that blasts into most of RI, except for the southwest corner and south county coast. Hot 106 can barely be heard in the west end of Providence and east end of Johnston because of the Lite Rock 105 tower. You can't hear it at all in these areas on a walkman portable radio with all of the signal overload from Lite Rock 105. It also fades in and out on a good car radio. I live right next to the Lite Rock 105 tower and have a portable RadioShack DX 375 with digital tuning and Local/DX signal switch. If you adjust the antenna just right you can hear Jam'n 94.5 loud and clear with no interference. This was also with the signal switch on DX. Jam'n also has a much better signal than Hot 106 on my car radio where I live. No matter what I do with the switch or the antenna on the portable DX 375, I cannot recieve better than a very poor signal from Hot 106.
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Re: Hot 106's rolling billboards - saw one today
Yes but in Warwick & Wickford people see the billboard & think Tessa is Condoleezza Rice.
jazzjock said:
Yes but in Warwick & Wickford people see the billboard & think Tessa is Condoleezza Rice.
Caught this morning at the 11 City Line terminus in Providence. Bus 0467 is one of three I have seen with HOT billboards!
Jazzy
http://photosbygeoff.fotopic.net/p34763570.html
Jazzy
http://photosbygeoff.fotopic.net/p34763570.html
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Ill alert the media
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jazzjock said:
Do they have any on planes?
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AKLes
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Ill alert the media said:
All those things get expensive. Only Disney-sized corporations can afford to have planes painted up as billboards:
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/company/fleet/fleet.asp
Once there check out the two planes with the Disney paint!
Now for the memories department you knew was coming:
Back in the day at WYNG, 1590, when owned by Attleboro Radio Association...
No money for billboards.
Traded out two 1953 Fords with a dealer. Really junk cars that should never have been driven.
Traded out elaborate station paintjobs with a sign shop.
Drove each one to a busy intersection each morning; parked it for the day where it ALMOST blocked traffic. Stayed there until evening or until the police called and asked that we, though the parkings spot was always legal, move it. Went on for months until Big Ange borrowed one, the one with the antenna "pipe" through the roof. He drove it under the canopy of an Industrial National Bank, damaging the canopy, the car in line behind him, and tearing the roof of the station "rolling billboard" open.
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