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Nick said:
WOR has a better daytime signal than WBZC in most of the Philly market. In the night, it covers the entire northeast region.
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The northeast as in the U.S., or as in Philadelphia?

Z88.9 is a Burlington County station as noted in its slogan "The Pulse of Burlington County". The 10,000 watts is needed to cover the large county, and it still has dead spots around the Bordentown area and in the extreme southeast part of Burlington County. Its 10,000 watts just happens to make its way to Philadelphia because the laws of physics are not defined by county lines.
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You have studied the frequency well, grasshopper! But it's also .47kW. Do you know how that is?

Where does the 60 dBµ fall?

I think it's far more likely that this PPM 'twitch' took place in the outlying survey area in NJ. Will the BZC rep please provide this forum with the zipcode-level information Arbitron supplied to reveal where these 'pops' took place? I'm sure I've read somewhere that a suburban swath either side of the Delaware is included in addition to the Philly proper numbers. Anomaly, perhaps?

Arbitron's ratings are a representative sample of the entire audience. Therefore, a few listeners with PPMs would scale up to the cume of 36,000. That figure is supposed to be an accurate estimation of the cume.

Many regular colleges don't have their own radio station, and it's even rarer for a county college to have a radio station.
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I love it when you get pedantic, Nick. Yes, I have an understanding of how statistical samples are made and extrapolated.

And yes, I understand that a few colleges with the impetus, presence of mind and attorneys retained to petition the FCC to grant them a license are (unfortunately not too) rare. I also understand that the majority of signals are nonetheless squandered on formatics and 'training' people for radio.
 
>>> You have studied the frequency well, grasshopper! But it's also .47kW. Do you know how that is?

Like many non-comms under the shadow of Channel 6, the Horizontal power is
lower or non-existent. WBZC is 470 watts Horizontal and 10,000 watts Vertical.
They probably got so much Horizontal power because the transmitter is out in
the middle of nowhere, near Chatsworth. It's all based on how many people
live near your tower. Out there ... maybe 50 ... hah
 
Tom McNally said:
>>> You have studied the frequency well, grasshopper! But it's also .47kW. Do you know how that is?

Like many non-comms under the shadow of Channel 6, the Horizontal power is
lower or non-existent. WBZC is 470 watts Horizontal and 10,000 watts Vertical.
They probably got so much Horizontal power because the transmitter is out in
the middle of nowhere, near Chatsworth. It's all based on how many people
live near your tower. Out there ... maybe 50 ... hah
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Is it also because of the way TV receiving arrays are primarily horizontal, therefore the vertical signal is less obtrusive?

Car antennas are vertical, and the radios are more sensitive, so driving BZC is different than in my lil office in South Philly with a decent receiver and dipole.

Philly is about 50 miles from the transmitter, pitched between the distant and the fringe coverage area. See radio locator.
 
softmachine said:
Nick said:
WOR has a better daytime signal than WBZC in most of the Philly market. In the night, it covers the entire northeast region.
Click to expand...

The northeast as in the U.S., or as in Philadelphia?

Z88.9 is a Burlington County station as noted in its slogan "The Pulse of Burlington County". The 10,000 watts is needed to cover the large county, and it still has dead spots around the Bordentown area and in the extreme southeast part of Burlington County. Its 10,000 watts just happens to make its way to Philadelphia because the laws of physics are not defined by county lines.
Click to expand...

You have studied the frequency well, grasshopper! But it's also .47kW. Do you know how that is?

Where does the 60 dBµ fall?

I think it's far more likely that this PPM 'twitch' took place in the outlying survey area in NJ. Will the BZC rep please provide this forum with the zipcode-level information Arbitron supplied to reveal where these 'pops' took place? I'm sure I've read somewhere that a suburban swath either side of the Delaware is included in addition to the Philly proper numbers. Anomaly, perhaps?

Arbitron's ratings are a representative sample of the entire audience. Therefore, a few listeners with PPMs would scale up to the cume of 36,000. That figure is supposed to be an accurate estimation of the cume.

Many regular colleges don't have their own radio station, and it's even rarer for a county college to have a radio station.
Click to expand...

I love it when you get pedantic, Nick. Yes, I have an understanding of how statistical samples are made and extrapolated.

And yes, I understand that a few colleges with the impetus, presence of mind and attorneys retained to petition the FCC to grant them a license are (unfortunately not too) rare. I also understand that the majority of signals are nonetheless squandered on formatics and 'training' people for radio.
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Theres no twitch with the numbers. First off we do not subscribe to arbitron because it way to expensive but a simple phone call and they will help you out with the basic PPM numbers. We have a solid listener base. Go out to both military bases and find out what a lot of the personal are listening too. We have had 4 shows in the past two years and all over them have had over 2000 people show up. What other college station is giving away tickets to major events in the region? How about a station vehicle from a major car dealership worked through underwriting? The station has been a finalist for the Philadelphia Air Awards in 7 categories in the past two years. We werent up against college stations but the commercial ones. IF you got anymore questions please feel free to email me at [email protected] or call 609-894-9311 ext. 1189
 
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