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NEW AM STATION MOVING TO CINCINNATI

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Stations flocking to Cincinnati all over the place. Saw this while looking at signal coverage and there is a station wanting to get a piece of the Cincy action. It happens to be WXGO currently serving Madison Indiana however, it wants to move into Indiana's Aurora with a directional signal coverning downtown Cincinnati.

Just curious if anyone else notices and/or knows anything about it.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WXGO&service=AM&status=C&hours=D
 
This has been in the works for some time. I'd rather be one of 3 stations in Madison than 1 of 35 or so in Cincy with a worthless signal. I hope the person who dreamed this up knows what he's doin'...I feel a bankruptcy comin' on.
 
O.M.G! If you flip the picture of that pattern 90-degrees to the left, it looks like the old comics character Jughead... Or something else downright obscene :eek: I'll bet that one's a real "Phase-master". Is the "Elvis Station" coming back?
 
Dick Plessinger told me about this project last fall, before he died. I tried to find a 5-10 acre lot for him close to the Ohio/Indiana border along the Ohio River. I couldn't find one in the time allowed, so I don't know what eventually happened. Dick relapsed in November, and I don't remember what part he was playing in the project.
 
I read an article on a local newspaper website, in Madison I think, which no longer seems to be available on the internet, quoting the owner or GM of this station saying they had done this on spec, and hadn't actually decided whether to build out the station. The last time I went by the site some months ago, there was no sign of any attempt to build anything there, although there was a path through the trees on this hilly farmland and a gate leading into the area.

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=346606

The signal pattern is basically a beam aimed across Hebron to Delhi... but not powerful enough to get any audience in Delhi. You could hear it in Aurora, but it wouldn't be commercially viable in Greendale or in the hilltop area of Lawrenceburg. The signal is designed to barely cover the northwesternmost part of Aurora with a null, so if Aurora expands much in the future on that side of town, there will be parts of Aurora where the station would only have a fringe signal.

On top of that, near dawn and dusk you'll often get interference from WXYT, Detroit.

If you use the rule of thumb that the commercially viable part of an AM signal in an urban area is 10 mv/meter, the station won't even cover Aurora at that level, and I 'm guessing it won't even cover all of Hebron. But it'll cover every bit of city of Petersburg... well technically Petersburg isn't a city, but there are some people that live there.
 
Here Ye, Here ye,

As a matter of fact, there are some people that live in Petersburg and I'm one of them. I wouldn't trade living in Petersburg for the big city at any time. The people of Petersburg primarily listen to Eagle 99.3 FM & and we still like to watch black and white TV and drive around in our AMC Gremlins.
 
Sounds like you live in Mayberry. I've been in search of Mayberry for 30 years. I told my wife years ago, I should write a book and entitle it "In Search of Mayberry", chronicalling our vacations over the years.
 
I was actually born and raised in Madison. 1270 WXGO did a good job of covering the Madison area with satellite oldies, local news, and carrying certain regional sports teams (Cincinnati Reds) and high school football/basketball. It is owned and operated with sister FM station 96.7 WORX.

I actually talked to the manager's oldest son not too long ago who informed me that the manager & his wife moved out of town with plans to operate the AM out in Aurora. I don't know all the details because I wasn't able to talk to him for a long time. However, he did mention that 96.7 FM was broadcasting digitally (meaning capacity for a second channel), so they felt the AM signal wasn't too useful in town anymore.

Personally, I don't really understand the move... with a signal pattern as tight as the station will have in Aurora, I don't see how it could even do anything in the market. Meanwhile, in Madison, they fill a nice niche and work well in combo with the FM (not to mention there is actually land area under the current signal pattern). I guess it is nice at least for Madison in that losing a station means losing their AM and not losing their FM; some other places are not quite that fortunate (think WIFE Connersville).
 
major said:
Sounds like you live in Mayberry. I've been in search of Mayberry for 30 years. I told my wife years ago, I should write a book and entitle it "In Search of Mayberry", chronicalling our vacations over the years.
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Get your resume dusted off! There is an opening at THE station in Mayberry. Nights. On the 1kw AM. It's a daytimer.
 
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