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So How Long Before 105.5 Kicks The Bucket?

I'm not sure the staff thing means much other than it is a financial decision.

The morning guy has been in the area for a long time, and Cumulus has some goodwill invested in him. They probably figure that he'll adapt to the format. As for the mid-day and PM drive, they guys are relatively young and probably work for cheap. They probably have other duties in the cluster and wear several hats. The DJs aren't really all that chatty. They just move things along formatically. So, there's really no need to turn the staff over.
Nights are off the bird.

Like I said above, I hope they succeed.

Their signal is what it is. Pretty potent to the north, but lousy to the south and east. The Danbury booster helps to fill things in a bit, but it will never have an I-95 quality signal. The same goes for 98Q, although their TX is right in Danbury, so it seems more potent. Go 15 minutes south and it gets beat up just as bad (if not worse) as 105.5.

Cumulus needs to tweak that processing. It sounds flat and lifeless to me.
 
they need to up their output power!!! in bayville, ny (on long island) i can get the station to tune in, but as soon as i go further south, it cuts out to static!!!!

TURN UP THE OUTPUT and cover long island!!!!!!
 
Java said:
they need to up their output power!!! in bayville, ny (on long island) i can get the station to tune in, but as soon as i go further south, it cuts out to static!!!!

TURN UP THE OUTPUT and cover long island!!!!!!
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The FCC might not take kindly to that.
 
Java said:
they need to up their output power!!! in bayville, ny (on long island) i can get the station to tune in, but as soon as i go further south, it cuts out to static!!!!

TURN UP THE OUTPUT and cover long island!!!!!!
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The Greater Danbury market is all they need to cover. That works just fine for WLAD/WDAQ/WREF. That's their local area where their potential revenue is. Go south of Redding on Route 7 and you're in the Stamford/Norwalk metro. Long Island needs to get their own country station, and WDBY isn't it. Other 105.5's in North Jersey, New London and Springfield wouldn't take kindly to them jacking up their wattage.
 
GlennO said:
station, and WDBY isn't it. Other 105.5's in North Jersey, New London and Springfield wouldn't take kindly to them jacking up their wattage.
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Neither would the 2nd adjacents in New York City and Great Barrington, and 1st adjacent in the Albany area.
 
Necrat said:
GlennO said:
station, and WDBY isn't it. Other 105.5's in North Jersey, New London and Springfield wouldn't take kindly to them jacking up their wattage.
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Neither would the 2nd adjacents in New York City and Great Barrington, and 1st adjacent in the Albany area.
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Would WHCN be likely to complain, too?
 
Bottom line is that 105.5 is jammed in there pretty good as is currently built.

Similar case for just about any station you can think of in the Northeast.
 
Would a simulcast of WDBY Kicks 105.5 on sister Cumulus station WFAF 106.3, in Mt. Kisco NY, make sense? I've heard at least one business in the Mt. Kisco area advertise on the station. Perhaps there would be more if they could be heard better in northern and central Westchester County.
WFAF currently rebroadcasts WFAS 103.9. But WFAS can be heard OK in most of the places that WFAF covers. Though WFAF does not have a great signal, it could extend the range of WDBY quite well into parts of nearby Westchester County and sections of Nassau and Rockland counties.
 
Barry said:
Would a simulcast of WDBY Kicks 105.5 on sister Cumulus station WFAF 106.3, in Mt. Kisco NY, make sense? I've heard at least one business in the Mt. Kisco area advertise on the station. Perhaps there would be more if they could be heard better in northern and central Westchester County.
WFAF currently rebroadcasts WFAS 103.9. But WFAS can be heard OK in most of the places that WFAF covers. Though WFAF does not have a great signal, it could extend the range of WDBY quite well into parts of nearby Westchester County and sections of Nassau and Rockland counties.
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That does make sense, especially when nobody out of NYC offers country. 105.5 & 106.3 actually did simulcast a few years and several formats ago.
 
I remember 1996 when WLIE 102.5 "Now WBAZ" long island "not related to the current station in Islip" Went on.They had a excellent signal here in southern ct. I had no idea far east their signal went ,if it tickled the fm antennas in the big apple.It was a good station,I tuned in when i got tired of Country 92.5.it only live not even a year.
 
CTListener said:
There was a country format on 740 (WMJC) for a while in the early '90s. It came in fairly well here in Meriden.
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740 still does come in good in Central CT. (I don't know it what direction, but I heard their 25KW signal is horribly out of pattern. The engineer at 740 outside of Philly says 740 Long Island comes in in places 740 from the Philly-area should be coming in). Actually the calls were WGSM. WMJC was their FM sister station, which was doing Country at 94.3 FM. Yep. Then it went to Radio Disney. Then simulcast sister station WHLI. Then was sold to K-Communications. Went dark. Came back as Radio Korea (or something like that). Went dark again. Sold to Dr. Yoon. Became WNYH. Became a mix of Oldies and infomercials. Then from October 08 until March 09 they were LMA'd to One Caribbean Radio for part of the day. Then they went back to the Oldies and Infomercials. And since October 09 they've been Radio Korea again.
 
WPPCProductions said:
Now we have 4 country music station here in connecticut, of course depends where you are sitting with the radio.they are playing all the same new tunes ,are they? WWYZ,WCTY 97.7 ,KIX 97.9 and Kicks 105.5 .Back in this time 1978 we've lost WIOF to Magic 104.
WPPCProductions said:
I remember 1996 when WLIE 102.5 "Now WBAZ" long island "not related to the current station in Islip" Went on.They had a excellent signal here in southern ct. I had no idea far east their signal went ,if it tickled the fm antennas in the big apple.It was a good station,I tuned in when i got tired of Country 92.5.it only live not even a year.
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CTListener said:
There was a country format on 740 (WMJC) for a while in the early '90s. It came in fairly well here in Meriden.
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I can recall when there was speculation that WRKI was going to flip to country and that was around 1996-97.
 
Well, I'll give Kicks credit. In just about five weeks, the Facebook fan page of Kicks 105.5 is destined to exceed 1,000 fans. Props to them... now, let's see if you can catch that pickle that has more fans than Betty White on "SNL," or whatever it is... ;)
 
It's a good station if you can pick it up. I know someone who lives in the Newtown-Monroe area who says he has trouble picking it up. What I do know for a fact is YOU CAN NOT pick up KICKS 105.5 in Wolcott, so I don't know why Linda Chadborne (sp?) the owner of Illusion's Dance Club in Wolcott posted on KICK's fan page that she would advertise with them.
 
Signal might not hit Wolcott...but there arent any other bars like it in the area... people will drive to the area....nitch market....
 
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