Right at 6 AM they played "Silly Love Songs" followed by a minute or so of dead air before both AM and FM went off leaving a readable signal on 101.1 out of Nashville.
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Right now, as of 6 AM, WYDE FM and AM are both off the air
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This just in- since being off the air WYDE has had the best numbers its ever had since signing on Jul 5, 2007. Stay tuned for updates.
Chad-Stevens said:
They were back on around 9 am this morning, although the FM signal doesn't seem up to par. I was up in the Shades Mountain area this morning listening to WYDE-FM. Usually I get a really good signal, but this morning it was fair at best. Maybe they're operating with reduced power?
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, that's good to know, considering WYDE's ratings continue to slip slide away._______________________
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I don't know how long they were off, but it was for at least 15 minutes before I had to go in to work today.passtheword said:
Is it Just me or is this been happening too often?
Since they filped on 7/5/07, this is probally the 10th time they've stunted as " Dead air 101 WYDE" that's the only time they actually have a UNIQUE slogan. Otherwise, their signal is great. Back in may, I heard them with an OK signal until MM 179 neat Prattville. With their tower near exit 304m, they put a good signal up into Southern Tennessee on any given day also. The only problem is they have bad ratings in BHM and HSV because of their tower here in CullCo. If I owned the station: instead of trying to get sponsors in BHM where the ratings matter, I'd move the studios back to Cullman and try to capture the businesses in all the smaller towns like Cullman, Hartselle, Jasper, Oneonta, Guntersville, Haleyville, Moulton,....... etc.
That's just my opinion
Since they filped on 7/5/07, this is probally the 10th time they've stunted as " Dead air 101 WYDE" that's the only time they actually have a UNIQUE slogan. Otherwise, their signal is great. Back in may, I heard them with an OK signal until MM 179 neat Prattville. With their tower near exit 304m, they put a good signal up into Southern Tennessee on any given day also. The only problem is they have bad ratings in BHM and HSV because of their tower here in CullCo. If I owned the station: instead of trying to get sponsors in BHM where the ratings matter, I'd move the studios back to Cullman and try to capture the businesses in all the smaller towns like Cullman, Hartselle, Jasper, Oneonta, Guntersville, Haleyville, Moulton,....... etc.
That's just my opinion
TALLRED said:
I doubt they would do that. Crawford (and the previous owners) see/saw the potential to make more money marketing the station to Birmingham. Years ago, I always wondered why Eddins Broadcasting, who owned the station at the time, didn't try to move to tower closer in to Birmingham and increase the power. I figured they were sitting on a potential "gold mine" and wondered why they didn't take advantage of that idea. After all, just a few years previously, several of the FM stations outside of Birmingham had begun to coalesce to the Birmingham market and began moving their xmtrs closer to Birmingham, one in particular was Jasper's WWWB-FM (shortly rechristened thereafter as WZBQ, "Z-102"). Of course, the then WFMH-FM did finally make the move about 10 years ago, but the station still sort of flounders around today. When WYDE changed formats last year, the station ID for a while was given as "Cullman-Birmingham" but has since changed to just "Cullman" with no mention of Birmingham. Very odd, considering Crawford really doesn't market the station to Cullman in any sort of way.
I don't think the tower being in Cullman county is to blame for all the station's ills. While it's true that the signal doesn't cover Birmingham as well as the other stations here, it still has a decent enough signal to be viable IMO. The xmtr is even closer to Huntsville than it is to Birmingham, and WYDE doesn't do really better (maybe does actually worse), ratings-wise than it does in Birmingham. I believe the reason WYDE doesn't do well has more to do with the programming (and the folks operating it) than it does with being a flamethrower.
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The reason they didn't (and won't) move to Bham is that they are already maxed out on power where they are. They can be heard in Huntsville, sometimes in Florence and as far south as Montgomery. Few stations have 100,000 watts at 1300+Ft above average terrain, and I don't see them giving that up any time soon.
The real killer is the format. They just can't seem to get their act together.
The real killer is the format. They just can't seem to get their act together.
bdcast_tech said:
Crawford wasted money buying 92.5 when they should've bought WQEM 101.5.
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I've heard that Glen Iris won't sell QEM at any price they've had some pretty good offers and they still so no. As for 92.5, it's a wasted signal. It should have never been put on the air, even though I loved Planet Rock when it was on 92.5. I still have tapes of that station I listen to once in a while. Hard to believe its been gone for about 10 years.
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It's a wasted signal (broadcast in beautiful HDRadio!) for what Crawford does with it, targeting Birmingham when most of Birmingham can't listen. They should sell it to a Walker County owner who'll serve the community.
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