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Rev FM?

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No, not the "Revolution"--but 89.1/WRXV. Maybe the best kept secret in State College radio. 50,000 watts of non-commercial Christian tunes. They just celebrated (?) their first anniversary, and I wondered how they're doing. Mostly wonder how 107.9 K-Love has affected them. Anybody got the inside scoop?
 
> No, not the "Revolution"--but 89.1/WRXV. Maybe the best kept
> secret in State College radio. 50,000 watts of
> non-commercial Christian tunes. They just celebrated (?)
> their first anniversary, and I wondered how they're doing.
> Mostly wonder how 107.9 K-Love has affected them. Anybody
> got the inside scoop?
Signal is awfully spotty around and no one seems to know they exist either! IF they plan on making a go of it, I hope they get out the word with some sort of advertising campaign. A station like that surely cannot rely on just word of mouth can they???
 
> > No, not the "Revolution"--but 89.1/WRXV. Maybe the best
> kept
> > secret in State College radio. 50,000 watts of
> > non-commercial Christian tunes. They just celebrated (?)
> > their first anniversary, and I wondered how they're doing.
>
> > Mostly wonder how 107.9 K-Love has affected them. Anybody
> > got the inside scoop?

> Signal is awfully spotty around and no one seems to know
> they exist either! IF they plan on making a go of it, I
> hope they get out the word with some sort of advertising
> campaign. A station like that surely cannot rely on just
> word of mouth can they???

Around here in Central Pennsylvania's own Bible belt? Sure they can.
 
>
> > Signal is awfully spotty around and no one seems to know
> > they exist either! IF they plan on making a go of it, I
> > hope they get out the word with some sort of advertising
> > campaign. A station like that surely cannot rely on just
> > word of mouth can they???
>
> Around here in Central Pennsylvania's own Bible belt? Sure
> they can.
>
I would not know cause I don't wear that belt. I prefer to let my pants hang low around my ankles and let my stuff fly in the breeze! What a Heathen I am!!!

Aww...seriosuly I would not deny anyone their religion and I have been known to go to church on occasion too...but I see all this religious stuff as one big old sad use of some valuable on-air real estate...especially 107.9 now that is a waste!
 
> > No, not the "Revolution"--but 89.1/WRXV. Maybe the best
> kept
> > secret in State College radio. 50,000 watts of
> > non-commercial Christian tunes. They just celebrated (?)
> > their first anniversary, and I wondered how they're doing.
>
> > Mostly wonder how 107.9 K-Love has affected them. Anybody
> > got the inside scoop?
> Signal is awfully spotty around and no one seems to know
> they exist either! IF they plan on making a go of it, I
> hope they get out the word with some sort of advertising
> campaign. A station like that surely cannot rely on just
> word of mouth can they???
>

May I suggest an advertising campaign on cable television? Lifetime, Fox News, HGTV, ABC Family Channel.

Sorry, the day job got the best of me there for a minute.
 
> >
> > > Signal is awfully spotty around and no one seems to know
>
> > > they exist either! IF they plan on making a go of it, I
>
> > > hope they get out the word with some sort of advertising
>
> > > campaign. A station like that surely cannot rely on
> just
> > > word of mouth can they???
> >
> > Around here in Central Pennsylvania's own Bible belt?
> Sure
> > they can.
> >
> I would not know cause I don't wear that belt. I prefer to
> let my pants hang low around my ankles and let my stuff fly
> in the breeze! What a Heathen I am!!!
>
> Aww...seriosuly I would not deny anyone their religion and I
> have been known to go to church on occasion too...but I see
> all this religious stuff as one big old sad use of some
> valuable on-air real estate...especially 107.9 now that is a
> waste!
>
So is it a waste of real estate if it plays sports, news/talk, songs that call women bitches and ho-s, songs that twang about cheatin' and drinkin', sappy love songs, men hater songs, music about breakin' up, bumpin', grindin' and poppin' it like it's hard?

It's a waste of real estate only if it has music that caters to those who don't want to fill their heads with trash and garbage and prefer to hear music that's uplifting? How about if it's rap/hip-hop, Jesus style? What about music that speaks about real love? How about music about real sex that includes real love? Yeah, that's a big waste of real estate in a neighborhood that is hungry for it and obviously needs it.
 
Apparently no one here reads the CDT? WRXV 89.1 RevFM made the front page of the CDT several weeks ago during the Creation festival in Mount Union where over 100,000 people showed up to hear music that supposedly "no one wants to hear" during the 3 day outdoor event. They celebrated their first anniversary by broadcasting live interviews with the artists from the event and talked with members of the youth group that won 20 all event tickets to the festival from RevFM. Nobody knows about them? Guess again! They got even more publicity by having their banner displayed right next to the main festival stage for all 100,000 people to see. It was regularly mentioned from the main stage that they are a media partner of the festival.

The station is doing just fine for being a relatively new start-up. They've been getting out and meeting people in all the communities within their huge coverage area, doing more live remote broadcasts at non-profit community events this summer than some commercial stations do in a year.

RevFM is a Hot AC/CHR formatted station, where K-Love is a lite AC/AC format. Believe it or not, Christians like different styles of music, too. And, my sources tell me there may be some "signal adjusting" in the works that will improve coverage into State College. I'm sure they wish K-Love weren't here, but I'm also sure 3WZ and G101 wish Forever broadcasting weren't here too. No one likes to have competition, but it makes you work harder to be the best, which should make it better for the listener in the long run.

RevFM has a major advantage over K-Love: They're local. Local weather, local people showing up at community events. All the board members live in the coverage area. Their volunteers are local and loyal. I doubt you'll ever see the head of EMF/K-Love showing his face at a community event in Port Matilda (WKVB 107.9's city of license)!

As for "wasting" dial space -- the 89.1 frequency just sat there empty for years and years just waiting for someone to apply to use it. Those guys saw an opportunity and went for it. Good for them! They're playing a format that no one else is providing - Christian CHR.
 
> Its kinda interesting that the market was flooded with radio stations for years and years. There were so many for a small town. For some reason broadcasters felt the need to gyrate signals to State College. Every little town lost a signal and a tower was plucked up and pushed as close to beaver stadium as it could get. Its still happening, look at 99.5.

All this time the owner count has gone up and down like the waves on the ocean but this is a very interesting time. Now there are to my thinking four players vying for the very small pie. Forever will do what they are good at and try for the national/regional money and after locking up all the stations in the Altoona/Johnstown DMI they have a good argument for that. First Media has a heritage but for how long. Smart people up the food chain and they are aware of any vulnerability. Rev/AMN well you cannot kill a (BLEEP) roach at after the world ends there will be the AMN and (BLEEP) roaches if they can do the dynamic in market stuff that made rev work in its heyday they will be fine. Magnum has to deal with years of the former owners promising to do this and that for so many years. Are they going to stick with it? I have heard about this studio coming and synchronous booster for almost ten years now. They have some great people on the street. It most likely is a very costly nut every month for them to just pay the bills.

I think I have to disagree with the thought of the religious stations being a waste. They were signals that are leftovers. You might not agree with that but our little town is radioed out. If you think that there should be something else on the air then it will most likely just pop up sometime in the near future and for no real reason!

Bottom line for me is how many ways a pie can be cut up. Radio owners are in it to make money after all it is business. The street spot rate is lower now per spot then it’s been in twenty years and in market the amount each station is getting is down. Is that competition or the pie in our town getting ripped apart by seemingly desperate animals instead of cut up and handed out on neat little plates?
 
And the Creation Festival goes back to well...creation I think. I went to Creation when Stryper was the Christian heavy-metal hair band of the 80's.

> Apparently no one here reads the CDT? WRXV 89.1 RevFM made
> the front page of the CDT several weeks ago during the
> Creation festival in Mount Union where over 100,000 people
> showed up to hear music that supposedly "no one wants to
> hear" during the 3 day outdoor event. They celebrated their
> first anniversary by broadcasting live interviews with the
> artists from the event and talked with members of the youth
> group that won 20 all event tickets to the festival from
> RevFM. Nobody knows about them? Guess again! They got
> even more publicity by having their banner displayed right
> next to the main festival stage for all 100,000 people to
> see. It was regularly mentioned from the main stage that
> they are a media partner of the festival.
>
> The station is doing just fine for being a relatively new
> start-up. They've been getting out and meeting people in
> all the communities within their huge coverage area, doing
> more live remote broadcasts at non-profit community events
> this summer than some commercial stations do in a year.
>
> RevFM is a Hot AC/CHR formatted station, where K-Love is a
> lite AC/AC format. Believe it or not, Christians like
> different styles of music, too. And, my sources tell me
> there may be some "signal adjusting" in the works that will
> improve coverage into State College. I'm sure they wish
> K-Love weren't here, but I'm also sure 3WZ and G101 wish
> Forever broadcasting weren't here too. No one likes to have
> competition, but it makes you work harder to be the best,
> which should make it better for the listener in the long
> run.
>
> RevFM has a major advantage over K-Love: They're local.
> Local weather, local people showing up at community events.
> All the board members live in the coverage area. Their
> volunteers are local and loyal. I doubt you'll ever see the
> head of EMF/K-Love showing his face at a community event in
> Port Matilda (WKVB 107.9's city of license)!
>
> As for "wasting" dial space -- the 89.1 frequency just sat
> there empty for years and years just waiting for someone to
> apply to use it. Those guys saw an opportunity and went for
> it. Good for them! They're playing a format that no one
> else is providing - Christian CHR.
>
 
Re: Rev FM/Creation Fest

1977 was the first Christian music festival held at the Agape venue near Mount Union. It was called the "Jesus" festival. I was there for it. Over 5,000 showed up for it way back then when contemporary Christian music was still extremely controversial. A number of early contemporary Christian music artists played that event.

The Creation festival was first held in 1979, and it moved to the Agape venue in 1982, if memory serves me correctly. It keeps getting bigger and bigger every year. 85,000 people on opening night and over 100,000 by the time the festival ended.


> And the Creation Festival goes back to well...creation I
> think. I went to Creation when Stryper was the Christian
> heavy-metal hair band of the 80's.
>
> > Apparently no one here reads the CDT? WRXV 89.1 RevFM
> made
> > the front page of the CDT several weeks ago during the
> > Creation festival in Mount Union where over 100,000 people
>
> > showed up to hear music that supposedly "no one wants to
> > hear" during the 3 day outdoor event. They celebrated
> their
> > first anniversary by broadcasting live interviews with the
>
> > artists from the event and talked with members of the
> youth
> > group that won 20 all event tickets to the festival from
> > RevFM. Nobody knows about them? Guess again! They got
> > even more publicity by having their banner displayed right
>
> > next to the main festival stage for all 100,000 people to
> > see. It was regularly mentioned from the main stage that
> > they are a media partner of the festival.
> >
> > The station is doing just fine for being a relatively new
> > start-up. They've been getting out and meeting people in
> > all the communities within their huge coverage area, doing
>
> > more live remote broadcasts at non-profit community events
>
> > this summer than some commercial stations do in a year.
> >
> > RevFM is a Hot AC/CHR formatted station, where K-Love is a
>
> > lite AC/AC format. Believe it or not, Christians like
> > different styles of music, too. And, my sources tell me
> > there may be some "signal adjusting" in the works that
> will
> > improve coverage into State College. I'm sure they wish
> > K-Love weren't here, but I'm also sure 3WZ and G101 wish
> > Forever broadcasting weren't here too. No one likes to
> have
> > competition, but it makes you work harder to be the best,
> > which should make it better for the listener in the long
> > run.
> >
> > RevFM has a major advantage over K-Love: They're local.
> > Local weather, local people showing up at community
> events.
> > All the board members live in the coverage area. Their
> > volunteers are local and loyal. I doubt you'll ever see
> the
> > head of EMF/K-Love showing his face at a community event
> in
> > Port Matilda (WKVB 107.9's city of license)!
> >
> > As for "wasting" dial space -- the 89.1 frequency just sat
>
> > there empty for years and years just waiting for someone
> to
> > apply to use it. Those guys saw an opportunity and went
> for
> > it. Good for them! They're playing a format that no one
> > else is providing - Christian CHR.
> >
>
 
> Hate to be negative but the inaccurate numbers you quote for creation have NOTHING to do with your station. People in great numbers have been going to the farm for years with or without your banner up or the 20 tickets you gave away. Every commercial station in central Pa gives away concert tickets for every event but we don’t claim to be the sole reason for success at the events. All the stations have had articles in the CDT recently too. The article was on Creation not your station. Plus hummm is not the CDT radios competition? They do pull more money out then all the stations and cable and TV combined. Nice people at the paper they just make all the money.

Hey as a commercial broadcaster I would love to have some of your advantages, no taxes, no ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC. No selling on the street. I would love to get “endowments” and never have to worry about bills or payroll. I guess the lord will provide.

Look at your station as a benefit to the community it serves as it truly is. Its comical to an salty broadcaster to see that now even the religious stations are fighting it out. I am glad you are proud of your station, that’s great. I agree with you that some signals wee dormant in the area however that has nothing to do with the facts of the thread here.

To most of the area Forever was “thinning out the heard” by assuring that the signal in question went religious -that is it. It makes less competing signals for the market.
 
So, what are the accurate numbers if you're so "in the know"? Do you work for Come Alive Ministries, which puts on the festival?

I never said the numbers for creation had anything to do with RevFM. Just that 100,000 people saw the banner and I pointed out that people were listening and winning prizes from the station. The earlier posts on this thread seemed to think that no one knew the station exists.

By the way, I checked with them and RevFM does NOT get endowments. They are a religious organization and are not eligible for state or federal funding and they do pay ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI fees. And, the disadvantages of being a non-comm can be just as bad as the disadvantages of being a comm station. Maybe a little worse because you always have to watch the line between what constitutes a underwriting announcement (for-profit businesses) and what is a commercial spot. Businesses usually want a commercial for their money, and non-comms legally cannot provide that. It's a lot harder to get a business to underwrite than to sell commercial time.

The majority of the support for RevFM comes from listeners. If enough listeners think the station is worthwhile, they support it and it stays on the air. It's still on the air so I guess enough people are supporting it.


> > Hate to be negative but the inaccurate numbers you
> quote for creation have NOTHING to do with your station.
> People in great numbers have been going to the farm for
> years with or without your banner up or the 20 tickets you
> gave away. Every commercial station in central Pa gives
> away concert tickets for every event but we don’t claim to
> be the sole reason for success at the events. All the
> stations have had articles in the CDT recently too. The
> article was on Creation not your station. Plus hummm is not
> the CDT radios competition? They do pull more money out then
> all the stations and cable and TV combined. Nice people at
> the paper they just make all the money.
>
> Hey as a commercial broadcaster I would love to have some
> of your advantages, no taxes, no ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC. No
> selling on the street. I would love to get “endowments” and
> never have to worry about bills or payroll. I guess the lord
> will provide.
>
> Look at your station as a benefit to the community it
> serves as it truly is. Its comical to an salty broadcaster
> to see that now even the religious stations are fighting it
> out. I am glad you are proud of your station, that’s great.
> I agree with you that some signals wee dormant in the area
> however that has nothing to do with the facts of the thread
> here.
>
> To most of the area Forever was “thinning out the heard”
> by assuring that the signal in question went religious -that
> is it. It makes less competing signals for the market.
>
 
Rev FM's Signal

You mentioned impending "signal adjusting" to achieve better coverage in State College. The problem is having the stick 25 miles from the city-of-license and not running enough juice (4400 watts @ 1100 feet, HAAT) to hear it at the Houserville studio. Okay, you CAN (barely) hear it in Houserville--like it's coming in on a tin can & a string. And what's with the 1 watt horizontal rig? That's 1960 FM engineering! Did the designing engineer notice the MOUNTAINS in this area? It's gonna take a lot more than some "adjusting."

> 1977 was the first Christian music festival held at the
> Agape venue near Mount Union. It was called the "Jesus"
> festival. I was there for it. Over 5,000 showed up for it
> way back then when contemporary Christian music was still
> extremely controversial. A number of early contemporary
> Christian music artists played that event.
>
> The Creation festival was first held in 1979, and it moved
> to the Agape venue in 1982, if memory serves me correctly.
> It keeps getting bigger and bigger every year. 85,000 people
> on opening night and over 100,000 by the time the festival
> ended.
>
>
> > And the Creation Festival goes back to well...creation I
> > think. I went to Creation when Stryper was the Christian
> > heavy-metal hair band of the 80's.
> >
> > > Apparently no one here reads the CDT? WRXV 89.1 RevFM
> > made
> > > the front page of the CDT several weeks ago during the
> > > Creation festival in Mount Union where over 100,000
> people
> >
> > > showed up to hear music that supposedly "no one wants to
>
> > > hear" during the 3 day outdoor event. They celebrated
> > their
> > > first anniversary by broadcasting live interviews with
> the
> >
> > > artists from the event and talked with members of the
> > youth
> > > group that won 20 all event tickets to the festival from
>
> > > RevFM. Nobody knows about them? Guess again! They got
>
> > > even more publicity by having their banner displayed
> right
> >
> > > next to the main festival stage for all 100,000 people
> to
> > > see. It was regularly mentioned from the main stage
> that
> > > they are a media partner of the festival.
> > >
> > > The station is doing just fine for being a relatively
> new
> > > start-up. They've been getting out and meeting people
> in
> > > all the communities within their huge coverage area,
> doing
> >
> > > more live remote broadcasts at non-profit community
> events
> >
> > > this summer than some commercial stations do in a year.
>
> > >
> > > RevFM is a Hot AC/CHR formatted station, where K-Love is
> a
> >
> > > lite AC/AC format. Believe it or not, Christians like
> > > different styles of music, too. And, my sources tell me
>
> > > there may be some "signal adjusting" in the works that
> > will
> > > improve coverage into State College. I'm sure they wish
>
> > > K-Love weren't here, but I'm also sure 3WZ and G101 wish
>
> > > Forever broadcasting weren't here too. No one likes to
> > have
> > > competition, but it makes you work harder to be the
> best,
> > > which should make it better for the listener in the long
>
> > > run.
> > >
> > > RevFM has a major advantage over K-Love: They're local.
>
> > > Local weather, local people showing up at community
> > events.
> > > All the board members live in the coverage area. Their
> > > volunteers are local and loyal. I doubt you'll ever see
>
> > the
> > > head of EMF/K-Love showing his face at a community event
>
> > in
> > > Port Matilda (WKVB 107.9's city of license)!
> > >
> > > As for "wasting" dial space -- the 89.1 frequency just
> sat
> >
> > > there empty for years and years just waiting for someone
>
> > to
> > > apply to use it. Those guys saw an opportunity and went
>
> > for
> > > it. Good for them! They're playing a format that no
> one
> > > else is providing - Christian CHR.
> > >
> >
>
 
Re: Rev FM's Signal

WJAC TV 6, which is located on 80 to 88 Mhz (FM), is the reason for 1 watt horizontal. Until WJAC vacates Ch. 6 and moves permanently to it's DTV allotment the FCC will only allow a little bit of horizontal. The guy that engineered WRXV is a brilliant NCE engineer. One reason 89.1 set dormant for years is that no one could figure out how to make it work because of Ch. 6. WRXV's engineer knows Ch. 6 interference issues inside and out. Maybe you don't know as much about engineering an NCE radio station in an area with a channel 6 TV station as you thought.

There is a very long, complicated story behind why the WRXV transmitter is located where it is, which involves Ch. 6 and a mutually exclusive application situation with yet another broadcaster from California who will be coming on the air in State College sometime in the next 3 years. But, I don't think I want to share the story with people who will just pick apart every little detail of what I write. It would be nice if this was a forum where we could discuss local radio without getting so nasty and insulting about everything. I don't think sharing what I know, with this forum is worth it. Guess you all can just stay curious from now on.
 
Re: Rev FM's Signal

> There is a very long, complicated story behind why the WRXV
> transmitter is located where it is, which involves Ch. 6 and
> a mutually exclusive application situation with yet another
> broadcaster from California who will be coming on the air in
> State College sometime in the next 3 years. But, I don't
> think I want to share the story with people who will just
> pick apart every little detail of what I write. It would be
> nice if this was a forum where we could discuss local radio
> without getting so nasty and insulting about everything. I
> don't think sharing what I know, with this forum is worth
> it. Guess you all can just stay curious from now on.
>
Oh my...so much negativity from a Christian :)

Its a forum to discuss ideas and concepts, questions and concerns. Things are bound to be picked apart. Heck people pick me apart all the time and I keep on coming back for more! That's part of the fun. We can all agree to disagree.

Hitman
 
Nasty & Insulting?

Sorry, man--didn't mean to insult anyone--just being a smartass. NCE Channel 6 issues are, indeed, downright arcane, since they come into play so seldom. Thanks for the insight. If that's the case, though--i.e., that WRXV is stuck with vertical only polarization til WJAC vacates Channel 6... and is stuck forever with a tower site in suburban Gardner (West Bald Eagle?)... they might want to re-assess their marketplace and focus on Tyrone/Philipsburg--where people can actually hear the station. As attractive as State College may be, it may not be realistic to expect much audience development there as long as the signal is so marginal. They may find a far more enthusiastic reception serving the people in the heart of the signal--not way the hell out on the fringe. Draw a 10-mile circle around the transmitter site: that's WRXV's market. If not, the risk is that they'll run out of time and/or money before they ever get a chance at cracking SC--Sin City--er, State College.


> WJAC TV 6, which is located on 80 to 88 Mhz (FM), is the
> reason for 1 watt horizontal. Until WJAC vacates Ch. 6 and
> moves permanently to it's DTV allotment the FCC will only
> allow a little bit of horizontal. The guy that engineered
> WRXV is a brilliant NCE engineer. One reason 89.1 set
> dormant for years is that no one could figure out how to
> make it work because of Ch. 6. WRXV's engineer knows Ch. 6
> interference issues inside and out. Maybe you don't know as
> much about engineering an NCE radio station in an area with
> a channel 6 TV station as you thought.
>
> There is a very long, complicated story behind why the WRXV
> transmitter is located where it is, which involves Ch. 6 and
> a mutually exclusive application situation with yet another
> broadcaster from California who will be coming on the air in
> State College sometime in the next 3 years. But, I don't
> think I want to share the story with people who will just
> pick apart every little detail of what I write. It would be
> nice if this was a forum where we could discuss local radio
> without getting so nasty and insulting about everything. I
> don't think sharing what I know, with this forum is worth
> it. Guess you all can just stay curious from now on.
>
 
Re: Nasty & Insulting?

Apology accepted. Wasn't necessarily talking just about this thread, but some of the other threads I've read.

The station has already started to focus on other areas. Live remotes this summer for non-profit orgs. in Clearfield, Altoona and Tyrone, as well as State College. The station could move back to State College (the original application was on Tussey Mtn. near the ski slope) now that the MX situation is cleared up, but an audience has already been built in the Altoona/Clearfield/Huntingdon region. The legal ID even says WRXV, State College, Altoona, Clearfield, Huntingdon. Moving back to S.C. would lose that listening audience. Improvements will increase the signal by 5 to 10db into State College while maintaining the current coverage area. This will make it more listenable in State College, which is the city of license -- so it's gotta be served. The station is now pushing around 35,000 watts equivalent towards S.C. When completed, the station will be a full class B 50,000 watt equivalent station towards State College.



> Sorry, man--didn't mean to insult anyone--just being a
> smartass. NCE Channel 6 issues are, indeed, downright
> arcane, since they come into play so seldom. Thanks for the
> insight. If that's the case, though--i.e., that WRXV is
> stuck with vertical only polarization til WJAC vacates
> Channel 6... and is stuck forever with a tower site in
> suburban Gardner (West Bald Eagle?)... they might want to
> re-assess their marketplace and focus on
> Tyrone/Philipsburg--where people can actually hear the
> station. As attractive as State College may be, it may not
> be realistic to expect much audience development there as
> long as the signal is so marginal. They may find a far more
> enthusiastic reception serving the people in the heart of
> the signal--not way the hell out on the fringe. Draw a
> 10-mile circle around the transmitter site: that's WRXV's
> market. If not, the risk is that they'll run out of time
> and/or money before they ever get a chance at cracking
> SC--Sin City--er, State College.
>
>
> > WJAC TV 6, which is located on 80 to 88 Mhz (FM), is the
> > reason for 1 watt horizontal. Until WJAC vacates Ch. 6
> and
> > moves permanently to it's DTV allotment the FCC will only
> > allow a little bit of horizontal. The guy that engineered
>
> > WRXV is a brilliant NCE engineer. One reason 89.1 set
> > dormant for years is that no one could figure out how to
> > make it work because of Ch. 6. WRXV's engineer knows Ch.
> 6
> > interference issues inside and out. Maybe you don't know
> as
> > much about engineering an NCE radio station in an area
> with
> > a channel 6 TV station as you thought.
> >
> > There is a very long, complicated story behind why the
> WRXV
> > transmitter is located where it is, which involves Ch. 6
> and
> > a mutually exclusive application situation with yet
> another
> > broadcaster from California who will be coming on the air
> in
> > State College sometime in the next 3 years. But, I don't
>
> > think I want to share the story with people who will just
> > pick apart every little detail of what I write. It would
> be
> > nice if this was a forum where we could discuss local
> radio
> > without getting so nasty and insulting about everything.
> I
> > don't think sharing what I know, with this forum is worth
> > it. Guess you all can just stay curious from now on.
> >
>
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by CPAlistener on 07/13/05 03:50 PM.</FONT></P>
 
1. I doubt most of the 100k at Creation were from within Rev's signal range. That may not matter, though -- hey, the people who support Christian causes will toss money down the river if they believe it'll bring on The Second Coming ASAP. (Yes, I'm being flippant, but you get my point.)

2. Rev's signal is not very strong throughout Centre County. It's a State College station.

3. It's not a "waste" of a signal if people support the station enough where it can pay the bills and keep the transmitter on.

4. I wonder how many of the Christian students in the area are listening? I don't know if there are enough devout Christians with money in the State College market alone to carry the torch -- of course, maybe one of y'all has better insight you'd like to share with me.
 
Re: Rev FM's Signal

> > There is a very long, complicated story behind why the
> WRXV
> > transmitter is located where it is, which involves Ch. 6
> and
> > a mutually exclusive application situation with yet
> another
> > broadcaster from California who will be coming on the air
> in
> > State College sometime in the next 3 years. But, I don't
>
> > think I want to share the story with people who will just
> > pick apart every little detail of what I write. It would
> be
> > nice if this was a forum where we could discuss local
> radio
> > without getting so nasty and insulting about everything.
> I
> > don't think sharing what I know, with this forum is worth
> > it. Guess you all can just stay curious from now on.
> > .....



> Oh my...so much negativity from a Christian :)
>
> Its a forum to discuss ideas and concepts, questions and
> concerns. Things are bound to be picked apart. Heck people
> pick me apart all the time and I keep on coming back for
> more! That's part of the fun. We can all agree to
> disagree.
>
> Hitman
>
OK I am somewhat new to radio...only 5 years....but why is it that you HITMAN think that it is only your opinion and the station that you work at matters .... seems to me your ego is a bit too big....but having said that and being from this area my entire life I have never heard you on the radio....maybe there's a reason for that.....maybe people tune you out there as well as here....just an observation
 
I enjoy that type of music. When I lived in the area I tried to listen to it; however, most of the time, even in the car I had difficulty getting a clear signal. If I could pick it up, the processing was so bad I couldn't listen for very long. Until they work out the signal problems and get better processing I don't see many people listening...even if they do like that type of programming. K-Love might be somewhat softer, but they still play many of the same artists. While the 107.9 signal is not the greatest, it is much better than the Rev currently is in most of the region.
 
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