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If this isn't proof that we are a minor league sports town, what is? The Rays are perhaps the best team in baseball, and they are not picked up in their secondary market.
And sports talk was proposed as a possible format for an FM station? Not in this market. The old Travel Information
Radio would get better ratings than anything sports-related.
And sports talk was proposed as a possible format for an FM station? Not in this market. The old Travel Information
Radio would get better ratings than anything sports-related.
95.9 carries the Atlanta Braves, you'd think you could get a state team at least considering they carry the UF Gators and O-Town Magic. Regardless, listening to sports on FM is a real treat, especially seeing how the rest of Central FLA is only covered by low-watt AM's since 1060 lost ESPN and way back when 540 was the TEAM.
That is a great idea. Does Disney still own the 990 frequency? I don't know how far the signal travels at night, but it has to
be farther than the 190 watts of 1080. At present, ESPN cannot be heard past Winter Park at night.
Hasn't Disney been selling off stations in small and medium markets?
be farther than the 190 watts of 1080. At present, ESPN cannot be heard past Winter Park at night.
Hasn't Disney been selling off stations in small and medium markets?
raykroc said:
WDYZ-AM 990 is still owned by Radio Disney/ABC. The station operates with a directional-two (DA-2) antenna pattern with 50kw-D and 14kw-N. The night pattern is East/West and appears to have fairly decent nighttime coverage, covering all of Metro Orlando and many of the outlying areas. It should be no problem for ABC to place ESPN on the 990 signal since ABC/Disney owns the station and the ESPN network. However, I'm sure at least part of the reason Radio Disney wants that 50kw signal is because it covers Disney World/EPCOT/MGM quite well whereas another AM signal may not have the same coverage area. Still, I believe from an economic standpoint ESPN on the bigger signal will attract bigger ad dollars than Radio Disney is garnering on the 990 frequency.
>> WDYZ-AM 990 is still owned by Radio Disney/ABC. The station operates with a directional-two (DA-2) antenna pattern with 50kw-D and 14kw-N. The night pattern is East/West and appears to have fairly decent nighttime coverage, covering all of Metro Orlando and many of the outlying areas. It should be no problem for ABC to place ESPN on the 990 signal since ABC/Disney owns the station and the ESPN network. However, I'm sure at least part of the reason Radio Disney wants that 50kw signal is because it covers Disney World/EPCOT/MGM quite well whereas another AM signal may not have the same coverage area. Still, I believe from an economic standpoint ESPN on the bigger signal will attract bigger ad dollars than Radio Disney is garnering on the 990 frequency. <<
While WDYZ covers the Disney World area during the day, it is very difficult to pick them up once they power down for the evening there. It's too bad they could not put some kind of booster station over there, or open up the pattern some more to better cover the area. I know before they took over, 990 was only 5000 watts at night. I believe it was mentioned once already, but 1080-WHOO is not owned by Disney. Also if memory serves me correctly when Radio Disney first came on here in Orlando, 540 (later 740) The Team (WWZN, WQTM, or whatever the calls were at the time on those Paxon/clear channel stations) was an ESPN affiliate.
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WDYZ&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
While WDYZ covers the Disney World area during the day, it is very difficult to pick them up once they power down for the evening there. It's too bad they could not put some kind of booster station over there, or open up the pattern some more to better cover the area. I know before they took over, 990 was only 5000 watts at night. I believe it was mentioned once already, but 1080-WHOO is not owned by Disney. Also if memory serves me correctly when Radio Disney first came on here in Orlando, 540 (later 740) The Team (WWZN, WQTM, or whatever the calls were at the time on those Paxon/clear channel stations) was an ESPN affiliate.
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WDYZ&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
The nighttime WDYZ pattern was "let out" from 5,000 watts to 14,000 watts while it was WHOO and owned by Cox Radio before it was sold to Radio Disney. And, yes, the current WHOO-AM 1080 is owned by Genesis Communications, Inc.
WFLF 540 was sports formatted as WQTM "The Team" before Clear Channel decided to swap formats with News-Talk WWNZ-AM 740 a/k/a "740 Winz". I believe one or both stations may have been an ESPN affiliate at one time.
WFLF 540 was sports formatted as WQTM "The Team" before Clear Channel decided to swap formats with News-Talk WWNZ-AM 740 a/k/a "740 Winz". I believe one or both stations may have been an ESPN affiliate at one time.
An interesting thing happened yesterday, I sure someone can explain, living in a country setting, (the wood's) I was listening to Clark Howard in the vehicle through all the static on WDBO, and upon turning into my driveway and just before turning the vehicle off "BOOOOOOM" WDBO went from almost inaudible to what sounded to me like WDBO boosted from whatever KW they are now
to a 50 KW station in the blink of an eye all of this was around 2PM. Needless to say total amazement sounded as though I was sitting right next to the transmitter.
Did WDBO boost, add some cool little goodies to their transmitter or will somebody dash all of my hopes and tell me, it's just a flook? Meanwhile, being purely lazy I suppose I could go out to the vehicle turn the radio on and see if I get a repeat of yesterday's anomaly. I'm hoping more along the lines of some cool little transmitter "Goodies".
to a 50 KW station in the blink of an eye all of this was around 2PM. Needless to say total amazement sounded as though I was sitting right next to the transmitter.
Did WDBO boost, add some cool little goodies to their transmitter or will somebody dash all of my hopes and tell me, it's just a flook? Meanwhile, being purely lazy I suppose I could go out to the vehicle turn the radio on and see if I get a repeat of yesterday's anomaly. I'm hoping more along the lines of some cool little transmitter "Goodies".
Stormy. My first question is how far away do you live from the WDBO TL? And, have you noticed a signal strength change at the specified location at any other time? If the answer is no, I would speculate that one of two things may have happened.
One, for whatever reason WDBO may have been operating with lower power, nighttime directional patten, or both and went back to its full 5kw-omni pattern just as you pulled into your driveway.
Two, you may live in the path of one of WDBO's null areas, meaning the signal was barely there only to become suddenly present when you moved your vehicle out of the null and into its full strength area. It may be the null line runs through your driveway.
Another posssiblity would be nearby power lines or appliances in-doors in use at the time. Something as simple as a nearby food processor in operation can be enough to distort an AM signal reception. Once the appliance has been turned off, the AM signal clears as there is nothing else interfering with the signal.
One, for whatever reason WDBO may have been operating with lower power, nighttime directional patten, or both and went back to its full 5kw-omni pattern just as you pulled into your driveway.
Two, you may live in the path of one of WDBO's null areas, meaning the signal was barely there only to become suddenly present when you moved your vehicle out of the null and into its full strength area. It may be the null line runs through your driveway.
Another posssiblity would be nearby power lines or appliances in-doors in use at the time. Something as simple as a nearby food processor in operation can be enough to distort an AM signal reception. Once the appliance has been turned off, the AM signal clears as there is nothing else interfering with the signal.
JMTILLERY thanks for answering back, I'll render a guess I'm 35-40 Miles south if the tower is still located at their office's on John Young parkway.
Your null idea has some weight, although I'm unable to re-duplicate what I had heard, so back to square one. After reading back over your postings I'm now more inclined to think its more on my end, stock radio in the vehicle and interference from the vehicle's electronics that ultimately give me nothing more then static on the AM side of things. So I should take back all of the bad thing's I've said about WDBO in the past, I'm thinking it's all on me, as a first class ticket holder I suppose to know all about these sort of things, well afraid not, operating and understanding transmitters no problem, operating on-them that's another story, but I'm glad I can count on you for an answer....Replacing the condenser on your distributor to clear thing's up is not an option anymore.
Your null idea has some weight, although I'm unable to re-duplicate what I had heard, so back to square one. After reading back over your postings I'm now more inclined to think its more on my end, stock radio in the vehicle and interference from the vehicle's electronics that ultimately give me nothing more then static on the AM side of things. So I should take back all of the bad thing's I've said about WDBO in the past, I'm thinking it's all on me, as a first class ticket holder I suppose to know all about these sort of things, well afraid not, operating and understanding transmitters no problem, operating on-them that's another story, but I'm glad I can count on you for an answer....Replacing the condenser on your distributor to clear thing's up is not an option anymore.
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