Pittsburgh need a Hip Hop station with strong class B reception.

[MsMusicRadio]

Nobody took the bait and created :-[ a line-up named after dogs or cats. Bummer

 

[Parttimer]

There is a good deal of irony surrounding all of this.

First off, Keymarket moved FM 98.3's city of license from Charleroi to Duquesne and its tower site to the same location as WDSY, meaning for a time two rival country stations were transmitting right next to each other.

Second, FM 100.1's move to the WKST tower (more irony given the occasional urban sounds on FM 96.1) would make FM 100.1 a city-grade station in Duquesne, McKeesport and Clairton, three cities probably better served by urban sounds than country, though musical formats aren't supposed to be a consideration as far as the license goes.

Then again, the religious broadcasters with such cities of license as Beaver Falls, Millvale, Monroeville, Duquesne and Confluence probably wouldn't know any of their COLs if they suddenly woke up with their studios right in the heart of any of those cities. (Could you imagine what would be the reaction if K-Love suddenly was moved from the West Coast to Duquesne?)

Not that I should single out any broadcaster who wants to be a Pittsburgh operator but uses a COL of, say, Wilkinsburg or Braddock or Irwin or Jeannette or McKeesport or New Kensington or Greensburg or Apollo or ... you get the idea, but I again digress.

COL is a concept that stopped being relevant at least 20 years ago.

Towers are just a business, you can rent space to a competitor or someone who doesn't cross your path, the money's all the same.

 

[only1moore]

Kiss 96.1 is probably the closest you'll get to Rhythmic CHR, even then you'd have to endure Carly Rae Jepsen and Gotye like 10 times in order to hear Nicki Minaj, David Guetta, etc. just once

Unfortunately, Gotye and Carly Rae Jepsen are also charting at Rhythmic, too.