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Is 690AM WIST or WTIX??

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sawtooth_mcmull

both websites are up but i am confused. i can't pick up 690 here in the river parishes too well to hear anything and when night falls forget it................. :p
i remember that station used to be a nice little powerhouse before katrina........what happened?

brian
 
After Katrina 690 changed calls to WIST to differentiate itself from TIX-FM. WIST-FM was, and may still be, a station Mr. Buck owns in North Carolina.

Also, since Katrina they are operating on reduced power. They haven't had any ratings or revenue to speak of in the past 5 years. When you don't even show up in the ratings and you measure your audience in the low hundreds, you're never going to make money. Ask WGSO. At least with WIST the "hundreds" is plural. It might only be 200 but it's at least twice what WGSO's audience is.
 
690AM WIST

Just what power/pattern is WIST operating? They have a listenable signal in the Alabama coastal counties of Mobile and Baldwin in the daytime. I can hear them here in Montgomery, Alabama (with other skip) around sunset and later.
 
While handy, R-L doesn't reflect applications and STAs. An FCC search confirms that they continue to operate post-Katrina with 2.5 KW day and 1.25 KW night non-D.
 
Doctor_Technical said:
While handy, R-L doesn't reflect applications and STAs. An FCC search confirms that they continue to operate post-Katrina with 2.5 KW day and 1.25 KW night non-D.
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That's incredible...I have heard WIST at night recently with their power only 1.25kW? I'm in northern Illinois.
 
I've picked WIST as clear as WLNO or WDOT here in Kilgore TX a few months ago. They must have been doing some testing with high power.
 
Or more likely went non-DA or was operating on the day pattern. Nite pattern would put practically nothing in that direction.
 
104.9 is now mentioned on the WIST website. It's K285FF, a translator licensed to Metairie.
 
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