Local News/Talk??

[RoddyFreeman]

The irony is that with just 5 "K" GST had much greater coverage and signal quality at 920 than it does now at 640 with reputedly a lot more power that goes mostly nowhere.

I've seen other posts here that talk about how poor the WGST daytime signal is, and I just don't buy it. It's 50,000 watts at 640 and is almost non-directional. It travels farther than 920 now does with 14,000 watts. Nighttime...now that's a whole different story.

 

[bnaivar]

Are you sure you're not confusing signal quality with content quality Roddy?

 

[secondchoice]

The irony is that with just 5 "K" GST had much greater coverage and signal quality at 920 than it does now at 640 with reputedly a lot more power that goes mostly nowhere.

I've seen other posts here that talk about how poor the WGST daytime signal is, and I just don't buy it. It's 50,000 watts at 640 and is almost non-directional. It travels farther than 920 now does with 14,000 watts. Nighttime...now that's a whole different story.

North of Canton and 640’s signal most of time can not stop on scan on my radio in the middle of the day. 750, 680 do almost always. Even 1550 sounds better than 640. I don’t know if it because of Canton’s 1290 and Cartersville’s 1270 are almost 2 times 640. Another reason might be 650 in Nashville which is listenable a surprising amount of time considering the ground conductivity. 790 is even has less “static” than 640. Or maybe my radio has a bad programming filter built in.

 

[JR1967]

As far as news-I stream KYW (1060 AM) out of Philadelphia. Their station is usually in the top 3 stations based on the arbitrons. I rarely even listen to AM radio in Atlanta anymore, except when a major Weather Event breaks out (ie. tornadoes, thunderstorms), then it's WSB for me, since you can't pick up any of the other AM's further than their prospective parking lot studios.

WSB could use someone like Wes Minter back on at nights. I remember him back from the late 80's until the Gulf War doing the 8-Midnight slot.

 

[JR1967]

The irony is that with just 5 "K" GST had much greater coverage and signal quality at 920 than it does now at 640 with reputedly a lot more power that goes mostly nowhere.

I find WGST's audio sound among the worst I have ever heard in any large or small market. I compare that when I lived in Southern California and found the audio signal on KFI 640 among the best ever.

 

[Radio1360]

There is not enough news in Atlanta to support one.

What?! With all the house fires, falling trees, the recent floods, traffic accidents, smash 'n grab robberies, and child abductions that go on here on here in the ATL, it's not enough news?! Come on!! This city screams for 24/7 news!

 

[fortt3]

What?! With all the house fires, falling trees, the recent floods, traffic accidents, smash 'n grab robberies, and child abductions that go on here on here in the ATL, it's not enough news?! Come on!! This city screams for 24/7 news!

This city screams for 24/7 TRAFFIC as good and as frequent as WSB in the morning !

 

[trusty]

Quote from: Radio1360 on Today at 06:03:36 PM
What?! With all the house fires, falling trees, the recent floods, traffic accidents, smash 'n grab robberies, and child abductions that go on here on here in the ATL, it's not enough news?! Come on!! This city screams for 24/7 news!

This city screams for 24/7 TRAFFIC as good and as frequent as WSB in the morning !

...took the words right off my keyboard...

 

[Nate Wesley]

There is not enough news in Atlanta to support one.

With all of the weekday business travel (some of it non-corporate or non-profit) and transplants from other regions that Atlanta gets? You could easily get away with more national news and feature coverage from that audience alone.

 

[jaxradidio]

What?! With all the house fires, falling trees, the recent floods, traffic accidents, smash 'n grab robberies, and child abductions that go on here on here in the ATL, it's not enough news?! Come on!! This city screams for 24/7 news!

This city screams for 24/7 TRAFFIC as good and as frequent as WSB in the morning !

And by people who have longer than 2.5 seconds to give you a traffic report and are coming to you from something that at least sounds better than a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru speaker.

 

[BarryATL]

I was listening to WSB's traffic reports this afternoon. I know the city very well including the burbs. Because they talk so fast it is hard to keep up with the area they are talking about. It is almost not helpful.

 

[gooberhead]

I'd have to agree with the comment on 750's traffic. They jump around from reporter to reporter, and talk so fast.......... very hard to keep up with......

 

[jabba17]

When I have the car with the XM I listen to the ATL/MIA weather/traffic channel...only problem is that more often than not I have to wait for the ATL programming to come around again because I tune in at the end...and a lot of times the traffic reports are stale.

WSB needs to down a couple Ritalins and SLOW DOWN!!! And lose the teasers, at least some of them--or save them for the news. I get the point of the teasers, but it's getting to the point of why-bother-waiting.

I'm guessing that georgia-navigator.com on mobile devices is going to be a gamechanger for radio traffic...there ought to be an app for that if there isn't already. Mash that up with your Google Maps.

 

[Nimbusflux]

I was listening to WSB yesterday afternoon and heard Clark Howard doing his Christmas Kids show from a local Wal-Mart and later on, Mark Arum came on with his show. It was so nice to hear them talking with local people. Arum was doing a show about Tiger Woods, a national topic, but was talking about it with local people and getting their thoughts and perspectives. Why can't they do this all of the time. Do the suits at Cox think Atlantans will not listen to programming that addresses the national topics and how they effect people here in the city of Atlanta? Or even better, how local topics will effect local people?