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Re: Admitting my ignorance...
WMC-FM is listed as Hot AC.
Not to sound like a hack radio commercial, but it is the station I hear everywhere... In a lot of stores around Memphis. I've yet to pull up to an intersection and hear someone blaring it, though. That award goes to Hallalujah 95.7.
FM 100's coverage is very disappointing IMHO for a near 300kW station. I'm 100 miles south in Grenada, Miss. and the hip-hop C0 99.7 from Jackson (which is 100 mi. south of me) blows them out of the water on all but the rarest occasions. From what I have read on the Memphis board, there may some antenna maintenece issues affecting performance. A while back someone commented on troubled reception spots within the city of Memphis itself!
D Dean said:
WMC-FM is listed as Hot AC.
Not to sound like a hack radio commercial, but it is the station I hear everywhere... In a lot of stores around Memphis. I've yet to pull up to an intersection and hear someone blaring it, though. That award goes to Hallalujah 95.7.
FM 100's coverage is very disappointing IMHO for a near 300kW station. I'm 100 miles south in Grenada, Miss. and the hip-hop C0 99.7 from Jackson (which is 100 mi. south of me) blows them out of the water on all but the rarest occasions. From what I have read on the Memphis board, there may some antenna maintenece issues affecting performance. A while back someone commented on troubled reception spots within the city of Memphis itself!
99.7 suffered antenna failure a while back.. and it hasn't been the same since the antenna was replaced... also remember they are 290kw but only 100kw Vert. the other is Horizontal which will does you no good without having a horizontal antenna outside..
WJMI has always fought with FM 100 to the south right at about Grenada.. which is actually about 120 or 125 miles from the FM100 tower... Also WJMI is on a tower about 100ft higher up than FM100.
The reception issue in the city of Memphis are due to 2 issues
FM 100 uses a 12 bay antenna to reach such high power...
A 12 bay antenna send most of the power straight out in a narrow horizontal plane in other words not as much energy goes down near the ground closer in to the tower (some stations use "beam tilt" to help with this but I don't think FM100 does)
WJMI has always fought with FM 100 to the south right at about Grenada.. which is actually about 120 or 125 miles from the FM100 tower... Also WJMI is on a tower about 100ft higher up than FM100.
The reception issue in the city of Memphis are due to 2 issues
FM 100 uses a 12 bay antenna to reach such high power...
A 12 bay antenna send most of the power straight out in a narrow horizontal plane in other words not as much energy goes down near the ground closer in to the tower (some stations use "beam tilt" to help with this but I don't think FM100 does)
Nashville needs a radio station like FM 100 in Memphis used to be! If they're letting longtimers like Conley and Prestigiacomo go, how great can they be now! FM 100 was great back in the day. They used to play dance mixes of some of the big '80s hits. Usually, you would need to tune in to an urban or dance station to hear these extended club mixes.
Closest thing to it is South Central's Evansville Corporate Home's "MAC" (Mass Appeal Contemporary), www.wiky.com (104fm/WIKY).... Especially on the "Flashback Weekends" (Friday 3m to Sunday 7m)... ;D
m to Sunday 7m)... ;D
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scottwmro
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Michael said:
WMC-FM, (FM 100 Memphis) is one of the few FM allocations in the country that has almost 300 KW in a horizontal pattern. This was a big consideration when Charles Anderson (consulatnt engineer) was upgrading WMSR (now WWTN) back in the 80's.
There is an application that Lester Turner filed about 4 years ago or so to upgrade WRLT (Lighting 100) to about 4 KW and move the antenna closer in to Davidson County. That application has been blocked, and the commission I guess just left it sitting out there. If Watt is monitoring this, he can explain the story behind this much better than I can.
Scott
scottwmro said:
I don't see (or know of) anything like that?
There was an application filed in 1996 to upgrade to Class C3 (5.4kw/218m) from a site east of Franklin, a bit *further* from Davidson Co. but higher power. It was dismissed 15 months later.
My guess (and it's only a guess) is it was mutually exclusive with WVVR's (100.3 Hopkinsville) upgrade from C1 to C0. (which, by the way, I suspect is now on the air as I'm now hearing occasional adjacent-channel splash on WRLT up here in Pleasant View)
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scottwmro
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w9wi said:
Doug,
Your speaking of the same application I was talking about, I just couldn't remember the whole story, due to I didn't keep up with it. I think WRLT is just stuck where it is and can't go anywhere. It's just really a southern Davidson/Williamson County Station.
It has a unique audience and that demo will go buy the receivers just to pick it up. O'm surpirised over the years that Lester hasn't filed for translators in target places to rebroadcast the Lightning Format.
I hear Lightning 100 as an SM95 type station. Both have a similar format, target audience in the high income demographics. Granted there is quite the signal and power differecnes. SM95 played well to the Green Hills and Brentwood demographics back in the day, even with their 3 share.
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