One Oh Seven Five-Alive - Must Be Closer

[Betrayed]

Just before 6:00 PM as the kids were tuning in for Adventures In Odyssey, I caught just the end of this. It sounded like they were talking about the pair of AM's, 1040 AM and 1160 AM as "your stations for inspiration, education and contemporary Christian music". I assume in addition to 1160 in Lehighton they were talking about WCHR in Flemington, N.J. That still doesn't fill the coverage void for the 107-5 Alive listener in the Boyertown and the Bux-Berks-Montco-Lehigh 4 corners area. 1160 is barely detectable outdoors and WCHR just slightly better. Indoors- nothin'.

And the intrige continues. What will the new format be.

 

[BobAltimari]

> Just before 6:00 PM as the kids were tuning in for
> Adventures In Odyssey, I caught just the end of this. It
> sounded like they were talking about the pair of AM's, 1040
> AM and 1160 AM as "your stations for inspiration, education
> and contemporary Christian music". I assume in addition to
> 1160 in Lehighton they were talking about WCHR in
> Flemington, N.J. That still doesn't fill the coverage void
> for the 107-5 Alive listener in the Boyertown and the
> Bux-Berks-Montco-Lehigh 4 corners area. 1160 is barely
> detectable outdoors and WCHR just slightly better. Indoors-
> nothin'.
>
> And the intrige continues. What will the new format be.
>

Sounds like they will hook up 1160 with 1040 the former WJHR. True, it'll be far outtrumped by the massive 107.5fm signal.

As far as a new format.....it's anyones guess. Remember, March 3 is a week away Friday
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[John1]

Very interesting - if you go to the WCHR website wchram.com you will see links to coverage maps for WCHR 1040 AND WBYN 1160! "Your Station for Inspiration" has been WCHR's slogan going back to 94.5. Sounds more like WBYN will become a simulcast of Nassau's WCHR rather than "Alive 1160" as the WBYN website shows.
WCHR puts out a pretty good signal in Bucks & Montgomery counties during the day but is pertty much gone at night, but nothing like 107.5 puts out over the areas where the WBYN sponsors are - Souderton, Telford, etc.


> > Just before 6:00 PM as the kids were tuning in for
> > Adventures In Odyssey, I caught just the end of this. It
> > sounded like they were talking about the pair of AM's,
> 1040
> > AM and 1160 AM as "your stations for inspiration,
> education
> > and contemporary Christian music". I assume in addition to
>
> > 1160 in Lehighton they were talking about WCHR in
> > Flemington, N.J. That still doesn't fill the coverage
> void
> > for the 107-5 Alive listener in the Boyertown and the
> > Bux-Berks-Montco-Lehigh 4 corners area. 1160 is barely
> > detectable outdoors and WCHR just slightly better.
> Indoors-
> > nothin'.
> >
> > And the intrige continues. What will the new format be.
> >
>
> Sounds like they will hook up 1160 with 1040 the former
> WJHR. True, it'll be far outtrumped by the massive 107.5fm
> signal.
>
> As far as a new format.....it's anyones guess. Remember,
> March 3 is a week away Friday
>

 

[BobAltimari]

> Very interesting - if you go to the WCHR website wchram.com
> you will see links to coverage maps for WCHR 1040 AND WBYN
> 1160! "Your Station for Inspiration" has been WCHR's slogan
> going back to 94.5. Sounds more like WBYN will become a
> simulcast of Nassau's WCHR rather than "Alive 1160" as the
> WBYN website shows.
> WCHR puts out a pretty good signal in Bucks & Montgomery
> counties during the day but is pertty much gone at night,
> but nothing like 107.5 puts out over the areas where the
> WBYN sponsors are - Souderton, Telford, etc.
>
>
It'll probably be the best of both worlds.....CHR programming getting into the Lehigh Valley and vice versa...however with one central point.

Then, as far as 107.5 goes....in the words of a popular Ron and Fez clip:

"....and boom goes the dynamite"!
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[John1]

Re: One Oh Seven Five-Not-Alive - This Week?

I put on WCHR Friday and whatever program was ending, they said it would be heard at a new time Monday, so it sounds like 1040 is making some program changes (to incorporate some WBYN music, perhaps?).

Will 107.5 flip this week as rumored?


> > Very interesting - if you go to the WCHR website
> wchram.com
> > you will see links to coverage maps for WCHR 1040 AND WBYN
>
> > 1160! "Your Station for Inspiration" has been WCHR's
> slogan
> > going back to 94.5. Sounds more like WBYN will become a
> > simulcast of Nassau's WCHR rather than "Alive 1160" as the
>
> > WBYN website shows.
> > WCHR puts out a pretty good signal in Bucks & Montgomery
> > counties during the day but is pertty much gone at night,
> > but nothing like 107.5 puts out over the areas where the
> > WBYN sponsors are - Souderton, Telford, etc.
> >
> >
> It'll probably be the best of both worlds.....CHR
> programming getting into the Lehigh Valley and vice
> versa...however with one central point.
>
> Then, as far as 107.5 goes....in the words of a popular Ron
> and Fez clip:
>
> "....and boom goes the dynamite"!
>

 

[Betrayed]

Re: One Oh Seven Five-Not-Alive - This Week?

> I put on WCHR Friday and whatever program was ending, they
> said it would be heard at a new time Monday, so it sounds
> like 1040 is making some program changes (to incorporate
> some WBYN music, perhaps?).
>
> Will 107.5 flip this week as rumored?
>
>
And if so, to what? The speculation seemed tilted toward classic rock/hits, nudging out country. Y102 might have thought so too, with their subtle balancing act of 'today's rock hits Y102' and 'classic rock hits on classic rock Y102'. I was wondering, if you're gonna flip to a format and somebody established nukes you by stealing your audience, do you forge ahead and flip as planned, trying to win a shootout, or do you go with Plan B

 

[John1]

Re: One Oh Seven Five-Not-Alive - This Week?

There was a time that a station had everything ready before flipping - new jocks hired based on the format, music in place, promotions ready, etc. so going to a Plan B was difficult. These days the approach is a fast flip with 10,000 songs in a row while you start to think about everything else. Now with so many stations voicetracked and jocks interchangeable by format, any last minute change could happen. Nassau has stations in a number of formats to assist a transition.

A somewhat related story of being too far to turn back in the old days was in Philadelphia in October, 1982 when WUSL switched overnight from country to urban as "Kiss 99", copying the Kiss name from New York's Urban station. The owners of WKSZ 100.3 in Media, not yet on the air (the station had been dark since the FCC shut down former owner Carl McIntire in 1973), threatened to sue WUSL because they were already planning to use the Kiss name as "Kiss 100", with documentation that they had "already had the Kiss 100 stationery printed up" so they couldn't change the name! So WUSL went to Plan B as "the New 99 FM", and then Plan C as "Power 99".



> And if so, to what? The speculation seemed tilted toward
> classic rock/hits, nudging out country. Y102 might have
> thought so too, with their subtle balancing act of 'today's
> rock hits Y102' and 'classic rock hits on classic rock
> Y102'. I was wondering, if you're gonna flip to a format
> and somebody established nukes you by stealing your
> audience, do you forge ahead and flip as planned, trying to
> win a shootout, or do you go with Plan B
>