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New 92.7 on the air

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paradioguy

ESPN radio is off and now it is New 92.7 playing today's new music. 92.5 in Lancaster now simulcasting Rocky 98.5. Am 1490 WLPA is simulcasting Rocky 98.5 also. I must say the sound quality is really really bad. Very hard to listen to.
 
paradioguy said:
ESPN radio is off and now it is New 92.7 playing today's new music. 92.5 in Lancaster now simulcasting Rocky 98.5. Am 1490 WLPA is simulcasting Rocky 98.5 also. I must say the sound quality is really really bad. Very hard to listen to.
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So is New 92.7 basically a CHR/Top-40 station? And does 92.5 sound like crap or just 1490? I know the 92.5 being adjacent to 92.7 causes issues with some radios.
 
All three sound like someone put a pillow over my speakers. Muffled, scratchy and you have to turn volume up to hear it. When I change it from 92.7 to 103.3 for example, I get blasted out. Yes it is a CHR.
 
Just what the market needs, another CHR. I'm thinking there's no way that little class A can compete with the two existing class B CHR's in the market.
 
I agree, why would they put 98.5 on 92.5 here in Lancaster? Since 92.7 is so weak wouldnt you want it on 92.5 also for better coverage? Rocky comes in real clear here why put it on 92.5?
 
paradioguy said:
I agree, why would they put 98.5 on 92.5 here in Lancaster? Since 92.7 is so weak wouldnt you want it on 92.5 also for better coverage? Rocky comes in real clear here why put it on 92.5?
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I always remember 98.5 fading in and out a bit driving around Lancaster. But I guess it depends on where exactly you are.
 
would it have been a better move to keep the fun brand with the signal not as strong? wroz fm was #5 in lancaster in the spring and #9 of spring of 2021 as well?
 
TODDMAYOR said:
would it have been a better move to keep the fun brand with the signal not as strong? wroz fm was #5 in lancaster in the spring and #9 of spring of 2021 as well?
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I was thinking the same thing, maybe the "Fun" branding wasn't part of the sale? Possible Hall wanted to sunset the brand, or even that Forever didn't want it.
 
paradioguy said:
They need to move 92.5 to a new location. It wipes out 92.7 completely in and around Lancaster city.
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Since 92.5 is a translator of WLPA 1490 AM, and WLPA's service contour is pretty small, they couldn't move it too far. Better solution would be to move it to a different frequency (99.1 looks the most open, but would still interfere with WHKF from Harrisburg).

The FCC should have never authorized 92.5 in the first place. Heck, they shouldn't have authorized most translators. 102.1 in Elizabethtown completely wipes out Q102 from Philly, which I used to be able to get in the Lancaster area. I don't particularly like Q102, but all these translators are making DXing less fun.
 
I'm very curious how WNUU will do in the ratings. According to the Longley-Rice maps on https://www.rabbitears.info/fmq.php the other CHRs (WLAN and WWKL) are about just as strong in York as WNUU. I was hoping that Forever would bring back one of the formats we lost like Alt 99.3 or Fun 101.3, but of course not. I'm thinking it will do better than the 0.2 share it got as a sports station, though.
 
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