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So WHO was on WWKX?

onetake said:
I forget the order of "move in's" to Nashville but seemed to remember 104 being one of the first.It covered northside and downtown well and when their sales people got out and noticed all the holes in parts of town like Brentwood and Green Hills they realized some revenue potential was lost. Never seemed listenable in Franklin. But for a while the answer out of gallatin was to push the modulation up even louder. This was before the current days of cleaner limiters that mask some of the overmodulation. But Kicks sounded good talent and music wise, but was sometimes a challenge to take noting the real local stations like 92, 95, 98, 103, and 106 were full, impressive and everywhere.
Didnt they relocate the tower/transmitter site?
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You bring up an interesting point, albeit indirectly. Maybe we need a few move-outs. Maybe we need a few stations that service the surrounding area a little more, and Nashville less. The Cromwell stations do a reasonably good job of this (while still covering Nashville--most of them, anyway), but it seems like we may have too many stations for a town our size. Of course, the Cromwell stations will never be real players here, but they seem to know that. Most of the rest of them seem to think that they should all be #1, but that is, of course, impossible, unless there is a 17-way tie for #1, also unlikely.

May not be as glamorous to be Murfreesboro-centric or Clarksville-centric, but that may be where their real audience (and thus their survival) lies.
 
onetake said:
I forget the order of "move in's" to Nashville but seemed to remember 104 being one of the first.
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actually WWKX wasn't really a move-in...they were on the same tower up on 109 that WFMG and WHIN-FM used previously (that tower's original function was to microwave ABC programming to WBKO-TV in Bowling Green).
WWKX did go from 50kw to 100kw...but didn't move to the tower on I-24 until 1987.
the move-in's included WMTS-FM 96.3 and WCOR-FM 107.3 moving from Murfreesboro and Lebanon sites to a shared tower off what is now 840 in Gladeville...(M-96 and US-107). Dickson's 102.3 moved to 102.5 and a tower in Charlotte...and before all those...100.1 moved from Franklin as WIZO to atop the Brentwood tower shared with 90.3/103.3/105.9.
 
forgot 101.1...moving from Russelville to the Cross Plains tower as WBVR...later WJCE/WJZC/WZTO/WUBT
 
I was calling 104 a move in because it was a Gallatin station. They never wanted to believe they were a move in but prior to power increases and jacked up moduation, nobody I knew ever heard of or actually heard them. 92Q with that stubborn little stick suddenly made everybody want to be somebody.

Firepoint caught my point about all the move ins. Doesn't matter now in discussing or arguing but Nashville was considered over radioed years ago. I'm basing that on revenue vs profit flow and margins. Any broker will tell you market #44 never got maximized because of all the stations appearing out of nowhere. The increased competition made Nashville a lower priced market for what a spot could bring.

Keep in mind even before Atlanta was a top 10 market, for years it was #4 in revenue. Some would say it was UNDER radioed and that has adjusted with some move ins. But strictly from an ownership perspective Nashville is a more challenging market, and I'm sure real sure more stations gave it better radio, just more stations.

Everything is cluttered. This is a subject change but has bothered me today. Anybody think we need any more cable tv channels? Anybody got a good idea for new programming?
Imagine you run a tv station and get word today that YOUTUBE is planning on spending $100 million to add 20 more channels. 20 channels of what? Just more clutter and an audience spread thinner
 
This place is heaven compared to the most over radioed market(s) on Earth - Panama City - Fort Walton Beach/Destin and Pensacola, FL. There is literally a station on every frequency. Best part...radio companies literally pay the advertiser to run spots. Cluster on top of clutter. I have heard it said that there are more listenable signals along that coast than NYC and LA. Heck, Delilah is on six listenable different stations at night...heaven indeed.
 
Tibbs2 said:
This place is heaven compared to the most over radioed market(s) on Earth - Panama City - Fort Walton Beach/Destin and Pensacola, FL. There is literally a station on every frequency. Best part...radio companies literally pay the advertiser to run spots. Cluster on top of clutter. I have heard it said that there are more listenable signals along that coast than NYC and LA. Heck, Delilah is on six listenable different stations at night...heaven indeed.
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And I'm sure that some of those stations can be picked up from up to 50 miles out to sea! :eek: Great if you're out there on a boat, but otherwise a waste of frequency and bandwidth.

And I will count my blessings! I can only pick up two Delilah affiliate stations! ;) (The other one is Lite 98.7 out of Hopkinsville.)
 
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