Here's an article just posted on al.com about the upcoming "News Talk 100 WAPI".
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/02/live_1005_to_switch_to_news-ta.html
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/02/live_1005_to_switch_to_news-ta.html
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Charles1 said:
Not many I would surmise. And if you count the AM simulcasts, there are actually eight Birmingham stations offering talk, although you could argue that WXJC AM and FM aren't full-fledged talk since they offer "The Caravan" and other Christian programming. I would bet that once WAPI-FM comes on the air (I'm supposing that will be the calls since the stations are going to be rebranded "News Talk 100 WAPI"), Birmingham will soon have two less talk stations, as WYDE-AM and FM will probably bail out at that point. WYDE can only take so much more of the other talk stations "eating away" of their already dismal ratings.
It would make too much sense for WYDE to bail on talk (again); then again, it would have made more sense for them not to have gotten back into the talk radio wars again, anyways.
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I've said it several times on here, as have several other posters: until Crawford decides whether they want 101.1 to be a Birmingham station, a Huntsville station, or even a Gadsden station, it's doomed to fail. Right now, their tower is 45-60 miles from any of those three cities, and doesn't do an adequate job of covering any of them. And while Cullman County is growing, it isn't growing that fast. Realistically, Crawford should look to change the COL of WYDE to a small town in Blount County like Blountsville, Remlap, Allgood or Snead and broadcast off WPXH-44's or WTJP-60's tower to cover Birmingham and Gadsden, or maybe somewhere in Morgan County like Falkville, Priceville or Eva, then go after the Huntsville-Decatur-Shoals market by broadcasting off of the tower of either 19, 31, 48 or 54.
may
I've said it several times on here, as have several other posters: until Crawford decides whether they want 101.1 to be a Birmingham station, a Huntsville station, or even a Gadsden station, it's doomed to fail. Right now, their tower is 45-60 miles from any of those three cities, and doesn't do an adequate job of covering any of them. And while Cullman County is growing, it isn't growing that fast. Realistically, Crawford should look to change the COL of WYDE to a small town in Blount County like Blountsville, Remlap, Allgood or Snead and broadcast off WPXH-44's or WTJP-60's tower to cover Birmingham and Gadsden, or maybe somewhere in Morgan County like Falkville, Priceville or Eva, then go after the Huntsville-Decatur-Shoals market by broadcasting off of the tower of either 19, 31, 48 or 54.
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