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Nice article in the IBJ this week on XL950
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So the point of this article was that the station seems to be ok [financially] as the #3 AM sports station in the market [and a rim shot at that].
Just for fun, if any of you had free rein to program this station any way you wanted, what would you do with it??
Just for fun, if any of you had free rein to program this station any way you wanted, what would you do with it??
XL950 has the best syndicated sports talkers with the Czaban, Cowherd, and Scott Van Pelt. I'd rather listen to 950 than WNDE almost any daypart.
What other formats would be viable on 950? Not many. A simulcast with 95.9 FM might make sense. If I had a non-broadcasting fortune to back up the operation of, I might try a music format like standards or jazz.
What other formats would be viable on 950? Not many. A simulcast with 95.9 FM might make sense. If I had a non-broadcasting fortune to back up the operation of, I might try a music format like standards or jazz.
I agree the station is way deep in the pack. The station is not a rimshot though. Lyman Ayres spent big money in 1959 building the transmitter plant on 56th street. The signal beams to downtown. Rimshot has in the past described things outside of 465.
Agree with that Chief...I'd call it a Louisville or Cincinnati rimshot before an Indy rimshot. I might go rimshot at night...except that it doesn't reach the rim very well then.ChiefEngineer said:
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I would keep it sports. Another option would be a home shopping/auction format that would generate more revenue...bug would admittedly be a ratings loser.
XL950 is more of a Muncie/Marion Market Rimshot than an indy rimshot LOL. its sister station 95.9 is the rimshot if anything
Not sure why this station isn't considered a rim shot if it cannot cover the entire metro, even during the day. Maybe I miss labeled this because its directional south but my point was that the station isn't a full metro grade signal - It's weak on the north side. So the discussion is still valid - would you program this any differently knowing you cannot cover the entire metro?
1070 is in Zionsville and changed format because it couldn't cover Carmel. When both WIBC and WXLW were built the area north of 56th street was farm fields.
WHHH had to get a waiver because it didn't provide a 70dbu to all of Marion County.
WHHH had to get a waiver because it didn't provide a 70dbu to all of Marion County.
WXLW Has to Beam a Majority of its Signal south because of 950 AM in Chicago (Cant recall the calls off the top of my head) and WWJ also on 950 out of Detroit. Because if they didnt Kokomo and places north would have a major paradox of Signalsundertheradar said:
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True, but it just doesn't go north of I-70 at night and doesn't do well north of 71st St. during the daylight.
Meanwhile, the signal is killer is Bartholomew, Brown and more southerly counties, even at night.
A de facto, if not de jure, rimshot.
The transmitter site is at 56th and Georgetown. This is well North of I 70. Years ago it had the resulting power of 15 watts at 71st and Michigan (Norm Beatty RIP) but the array performs less as it did in those days. Even on a poor radio it can be ehard daytime at Frys at 96th street and I 69. They did a paid remote there about a year ago.
Rimshot was always a reference to Franklin, Shelbyville, Noblesville, Plainfield, Danville, or stations out of the bowl contour of Indy. XL has a great signal but it is AM. People being able to listen and not listening are two different things.
Rimshot was always a reference to Franklin, Shelbyville, Noblesville, Plainfield, Danville, or stations out of the bowl contour of Indy. XL has a great signal but it is AM. People being able to listen and not listening are two different things.
Beg to differ Chief - signal sucks up north. Don't know what you're listening to the station on at Fry's that you claim the signal is fine - but it ain't so. I live in Fishers - barely audible in the car during the day - definitely gone altogether at night.
No matter where the transmitter and tower are, this is NO METRO GRADE signal. Nothing north of 71st street during the day, and nothing north of I70 at night is about right on a car radio, at least on the east side. Nothing in house on the north side [at least on common household radios].
So, "rimshot" may not be the right term for this AM, but total lack of Indy metro coverage isn't. Rimshot would be the correct "term" for the FM at least last I knew. Tower/antenna/transmitter in Franklin.
No matter where the transmitter and tower are, this is NO METRO GRADE signal. Nothing north of 71st street during the day, and nothing north of I70 at night is about right on a car radio, at least on the east side. Nothing in house on the north side [at least on common household radios].
So, "rimshot" may not be the right term for this AM, but total lack of Indy metro coverage isn't. Rimshot would be the correct "term" for the FM at least last I knew. Tower/antenna/transmitter in Franklin.
The facility is North of I 70 so not being able to hear it N of I 70 is a myth. This is where the transmitter is. On the East side there may be power line issues which are increasing on AM stations. I hear the station admittedly at I 70 on my table top radio East Of Indy.
The quality of AM radio has decreased in the past few years. There are multiple junk FM radios too. I would say that the 1970's may have been the peak of quality AM radios. FM radios have also peaked and continue a downward spiral.
For FM the Techsum radios are super. I am waiting on 6 from Hong Kong. I bought several SONY tabletop radios at Fry's for FM. I haven't tried AM on these.
Even in the 90's there were IPL issues with power lines at the WXLW site. IPL was not happy about addressing them at that time. Buzzing transformers are the equivalent of Spark Gap transmitters. This is still a problem.
The quality of AM radio has decreased in the past few years. There are multiple junk FM radios too. I would say that the 1970's may have been the peak of quality AM radios. FM radios have also peaked and continue a downward spiral.
For FM the Techsum radios are super. I am waiting on 6 from Hong Kong. I bought several SONY tabletop radios at Fry's for FM. I haven't tried AM on these.
Even in the 90's there were IPL issues with power lines at the WXLW site. IPL was not happy about addressing them at that time. Buzzing transformers are the equivalent of Spark Gap transmitters. This is still a problem.
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