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South 107 finally gets signal upgrade, and picks up NASCAR

Thanks for the news Rodney,this is a partial good news,but I still think mrn and prn will still want a station who is actualy in Atlanta.
 
Is the second tower move the reason for the city of license change?
 
No the second move will take the tower near the airport in Atlanta. In fact one of the things that has to be worked out is with the AFF. Not sure what the power will be then, but it will be a true Atlanta station when it happens.
 
Wonderful...now I can't listen to NASCAR on the radio anymore. When the races are not on Fox I listened to them instead cause I don't care for TNT or ESPN/ABC's coverage at all. Now I'm SOL in Lawrenceville. Bah!
 
I agree,mrn/prn are going to have to get a station that has a tower in Atlanta,and besides AMS is going to want to have a local prn affaliate at the track during the race weekends,there's no way South 107 is going to drive all the way down from Rome.
 
Brian Donegan said:
Wonderful...now I can't listen to NASCAR on the radio anymore. When the races are not on Fox I listened to them instead cause I don't care for TNT or ESPN/ABC's coverage at all. Now I'm SOL in Lawrenceville. Bah!
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Wanna bet that WNGC and Bear pick up NASCAR? Although if Cox insists on the "no sports on FM" rule...
 
Brian Donegan said:
Wonderful...now I can't listen to NASCAR on the radio anymore. When the races are not on Fox I listened to them instead cause I don't care for TNT or ESPN/ABC's coverage at all. Now I'm SOL in Lawrenceville. Bah!
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Get XM, dude...
 
NASCAR and racing fans on the Southside don't have a problem! 92.5 The Bear is carrying a race every Saturday and every Sunday starting with the Daytona 500! We carry PRN and MRN races. We carry the Indy 500, the Brickyard 400, and Indy style races from Chicago, Miami, and Texas! We carry the NASCAR talk shows on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday nights. We have our own LIVE & LOCAL NASCAR/Local race tracks show on Wed at 7pm. (Southern Race Week with William Barber & Chadalac). We will be broadcastling LIVE from AMS on Wed, Thurs, Fri, & Sat during both Atlanta Race Weeks. We will be giving away tickets to Daytona, Taledaga, Indy, Brickyard, and both Atlanta races to our listeners.

We get reports of listeners pretty far north even though we concentrate on our home area of South Metro. Try a good radio and see if you can't pick us up. We might be your NASCAR station after all.

Thanks
Joe P.
 
jabba17 said:
Wanna bet that WNGC and Bear pick up NASCAR? Although if Cox insists on the "no sports on FM" rule...
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Actually, North Georgia Country 106.1 FM WNGC is the Eastern football flagship for the Georgia Bulldogs. I don't know where you heard about the "no sports on FM" rule. Of course, if you're trying to listen to Georgia Bulldogs online via the internet, the games are blacked out on both AM and FM with the exception of Georgia 105.1 WZGA-FM in Helen (football affiliate during high school football season only), 93MGRmusicradio/AM 930 WMGR in Bainbridge (football affiliate only), NewsTalkSports AM 1600 WFIS licensed in Fountain Inn, SC, Simpsonville, SC, Mauldin, SC, & Greenville, SC (football & select men's basketball games), and 107.9 the Duke WOGT-FM licensed in East Ridge, TN & Chattanooga, TN (football affiliate). Those 4 stations are the web-streaming affiliates for the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network. I apologize for digressing. Anybody who wants to return back to the main topic, please feel free to do so.
 
Let's see, Nascar was trashed when it was on WYAY 106.7 True Oldies now everyone is doing cart wheels because a fringe signal is gonna start airing it. I agree with a previous post, if you like Nascar so much pay for it and get XM. Crystal clear signal.
 
amlover said:
Let's see, Nascar was trashed when it was on WYAY 106.7 True Oldies now everyone is doing cart wheels because a fringe signal is gonna start airing it. I agree with a previous post, if you like Nascar so much pay for it and get XM. Crystal clear signal.
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This is so true.. Amen and Amen.. What makes anyone think you can recieve this signal better than the booming True Oldies?
 
AMFMRadFan said:
jabba17 said:
Wanna bet that WNGC and Bear pick up NASCAR? Although if Cox insists on the "no sports on FM" rule...
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Actually, North Georgia Country 106.1 FM WNGC is the Eastern football flagship for the Georgia Bulldogs. I don't know where you heard about the "no sports on FM" rule. Of course, if you're trying to listen to Georgia Bulldogs online via the internet, the games are blacked out on both AM and FM with the exception of Georgia 105.1 WZGA-FM in Helen (football affiliate during high school football season only), 93MGRmusicradio/AM 930 WMGR in Bainbridge (football affiliate only), NewsTalkSports AM 1600 WFIS licensed in Fountain Inn, SC, Simpsonville, SC, Mauldin, SC, & Greenville, SC (football & select men's basketball games), and 107.9 the Duke WOGT-FM licensed in East Ridge, TN & Chattanooga, TN (football affiliate). Those 4 stations are the web-streaming affiliates for the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network. I apologize for digressing. Anybody who wants to return back to the main topic, please feel free to do so.
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Someone else mentioned on this board that Cox generally doesn't like to put sports on FM. WNGC was carrying UGA before Cox bought them, so I wouldn't have expected them to just up and dump UGA (even if they could do so without a contractual issue), although it might get interesting now that WNGC and WSB have the same ownership.
 
I wish everyone would move sports and talk shows to AM and keep music on FM, but I know the money is too good for some sports, such as Bulldogs football. When I look for a game or talk, I usually check AM first and when I look for music, I check FM. If I check FM for music and if I hear a game, I scan until I find music I like. There is nothing worse than looking for music and finding the same football game or the same baseball game or the same NASCAR event on five or six FM signals and ten AM signals. This is one of the leading reasons for the increase in MP3 players and Satellite radio among music listeners. Someone who really loves the sport will watch it on TV and if they can't, they should have an AM radio. At least limit the number of stations in the same market that can air the same sports event. As someone who has listened to NASCAR on the radio, I can tell you they act as if five cars are side-by-side in turn three, battling for the lead and about to crash, when on TV you see the same five cars at least three car-lengths apart from each other circling the track. ;D As big as this market is, it doesn't rank as high as it should. It should rank as #1 for NASCAR, but it doesn't. Tickets to Atlanta Motor Speedway don't sell-out as fast as they should and it is common to find plenty of empty seats there when watching on TV. I think most NASCAR fans are along the edges of this market. The core city area and suburbs have few NASCAR fans. Fox 5 is the only TV station with decent NASCAR coverage on the news. When considering the actual size of the market, this really isn't a good NASCAR market.
 
RhubarbFan said:
I don t see WNGC dumping UGA football with them being in UGA backyard.
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Yeah, but you could say the same about WSB and WDUN, coverage-wise, and maybe add WZGA to boot, not to mention other affiliates. I'm surprised someone hasn't made an issue of this with all of the duplicated coverage.
 
I am familiar with most of the Atlanta area signals and where they fade when leaving the city and in South107's defense, the SE side of Atlanta is their worst area but the rest is covered with their current 50KW power level. When I travel south on I-75 I can get them with a good signal to Hogansville which is about 30 miles South of Atlanta. That does not sound like a fringe signal since their tower is about 40 miles Northwest of the city.

From looking at the 100KW signal map, it looks as though the city grade only misses downtown Atlanta by about approx 15-20 miles so do you really believe Paul Stone would put all of this money and effort into this upgrade without Atlanta falling into this little red circle. I bet this story is only just beginning and the fellas "fringe" is already growing up with the 100KW but I bet it will get even stronger with Atlanta falling into that red circle before it's over.

I have also heard South107 in Chattanooga, Tn, market #106, so the 100KW would have to make that coverage better. Where the distance hurts them is getting into the buildings.

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>Let's see, Nascar was trashed when it was on WYAY 106.7 True Oldies now everyone is doing cart wheels because a fringe signal is >gonna start airing it. I agree with a previous post, if you like Nascar so much pay for it and get XM. Crystal clear signal.
 
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