There is a station getting ready to flip in Tallahassee to talk. How do I know this? Let's just say I had a call from WW1 asking if is it ok if The Dennis Miller Show can coexist with me since I signed him on to run on my airwaves and I have the Tallahassee market as an exclusive...More as it all develops and I ain't saying any more than that for now...
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Station Flip In Tally???
- Thread starter WJEPPD
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Aww, come on... why don't you tell us anyway? It most likely is one of the "failing" FMs grasping for something to make the station profitable. Tallahassee, like many markets these days, is over "radioed" and there are only so many radio advertising dollars in the market to go around for everyone. Of course, the big FMs such as WGLF and WTNT are going to get the lion's share first. That's a given since they are the "big boys" in town and have been for years. I will admit that some of the other stations in that market have done quite well for themselves lately.
Keep us posted on the "Big Switch".
Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
Keep us posted on the "Big Switch".
Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
WJEPPD said:
Woody, I'm trying to have a little respect for you, honest.. I know you're trying to build a station up there in Thomasville.. but I would've SAID NO, and kept your exclusive... now people in tallahassee have no reason to tune to you if they can get the programming from a closer, better signal!
Poledo,
What's even funnier is that Opus Broadcasting flipped WUTL 106.1 FROM talk during the summer due
to a 0.6 share! They're playing an oldies (of sorts) format now, and I understand their ratings are going up..a little.
WFLA 100.7 is ranked third in the market. It is CC's conservative talker.
Doesn't seem to matter who flips to what anymore..it'll all flip again in a few months, except
for the sattelite fed dreck and brokered stations. Can't get rid of them..
Your elevator music mystery station on 530/540 has a better chance of getting listeners than what's here.
(4 AMs and an FM are no-shows in Arbitron.)
What's even funnier is that Opus Broadcasting flipped WUTL 106.1 FROM talk during the summer due
to a 0.6 share! They're playing an oldies (of sorts) format now, and I understand their ratings are going up..a little.
WFLA 100.7 is ranked third in the market. It is CC's conservative talker.
Doesn't seem to matter who flips to what anymore..it'll all flip again in a few months, except
for the sattelite fed dreck and brokered stations. Can't get rid of them..
Your elevator music mystery station on 530/540 has a better chance of getting listeners than what's here.
(4 AMs and an FM are no-shows in Arbitron.)
This sounds very strange indeed.
Miller was on WUTL (Opus Talk) prior to the Oldie change.
Clear Channel putting two talk outlets is a real long shot. Perhaps they wish to run a best of Miller on the weekends.
They just purchased a translator which may be used for their sports AM WNLS. Maybe Miller is for it?
The last scenario might be a change in the wind for either the smooth Jazz station or perhaps for Cumulus's WGLF which has fallen on bad ratings for sometime now. Only time will tell.
Miller was on WUTL (Opus Talk) prior to the Oldie change.
Clear Channel putting two talk outlets is a real long shot. Perhaps they wish to run a best of Miller on the weekends.
They just purchased a translator which may be used for their sports AM WNLS. Maybe Miller is for it?
The last scenario might be a change in the wind for either the smooth Jazz station or perhaps for Cumulus's WGLF which has fallen on bad ratings for sometime now. Only time will tell.
That's what I though, but somehow I haven't made it to Tallahassee since Christmas so I'm not familiar with the current slate of stations there. Is 106.1 still running Scott Shannon, the same format WMGR is running? I'll be back in town on Wednesday if people don't start rioting after the election results come in.Alan McCall said:
It's hard to believe that 100.7 was ranked #1 a few years back and had the plug pulled.Alan McCall said:
What happened to the old AM news talk in Tallahassee when WFLA signed on?
If any CC station overlapping with Thomasville were to flip to talk, the one that seems most likely is 97.3. Most of SW Georgia is without a news/talk station and it covers Albany well and would probably pull some listeners from Tallahassee if they didn't duplicate WFLA's programming 24/7.
I would have thought that CC would be selling off their Albany stations, but it doesn't appear that they've been transferred to the "Aloha Trust."
Poledo,
The old AM news talk is now 1270 The Team, running Fox Sports and Seminole sports.
I believe 106.1 is programmed "in house." I haven't listened in several weeks but it was jockless the last time
I heard it.
The other recent change here is that Cumulus dropped ESPN from 1410 to return to gospel.
The old AM news talk is now 1270 The Team, running Fox Sports and Seminole sports.
I believe 106.1 is programmed "in house." I haven't listened in several weeks but it was jockless the last time
I heard it.
The other recent change here is that Cumulus dropped ESPN from 1410 to return to gospel.
Louis_009 said:
Yeah, but that wont prevent a station in Tallahassee from getting or having him.
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Dennis Miller is on 100.7 FM WFLA weeknights 10p-1a. Just started this week.
They were running a re-run of Coast to Coast AM at 10p. Looks like they went with a non-repeat show.
So much for a "station flip". Tallahassee's #1 and only talker got Dennis it looks like.
They were running a re-run of Coast to Coast AM at 10p. Looks like they went with a non-repeat show.
So much for a "station flip". Tallahassee's #1 and only talker got Dennis it looks like.
poledo said:
Poledo,
Are you refereing to 97.3 licensed to Bainbridge, Georgia? If so, I agree that would make an excellent Tallahassee radio station, possibly news-talk. I never understood the logic behind moving that station to Albany instead of Tallahassee in the first place. Does Clear Channel still own it?
Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
[email protected]
Yeah, Bainbridge's WRAK 97.3. They used to have a short tower somewhere on 84 between Bainbridge and Thomasville with pretty good Tallahassee coverage but had to upgrade to keep their C1 status. From what I've heard, they moved to a tall tower in the middle of nowhere to maximize their signal. They would have had to downgrade to move toward Tallahassee. Now that so many more stations have signed on (97.3 in Gainesville, 97.7 in Bonifay, etc...) they're stuck. Even though Albany is not a top 100 market, Clear Channel never transferred the license for WRAK to the "Aloha Trust", so I guess they plan on keeping it.
It's still cool though, you have a 100kw station that covers small towns and rimshots 3 markets, really a unique situation these days. All those small towns that get city grade coverage from WRAK, including about 20 county seats, they could really benefit from a good quality southern news/talk station. I assume they would have to be the primary station for Albany in order to get Rush and Hannity from Cumulus' WALG, but if they programmed different shows than WFLA the rest of the day (or time shifted them) they could pull some listeners from Tallahassee and Dothan too.
It's still cool though, you have a 100kw station that covers small towns and rimshots 3 markets, really a unique situation these days. All those small towns that get city grade coverage from WRAK, including about 20 county seats, they could really benefit from a good quality southern news/talk station. I assume they would have to be the primary station for Albany in order to get Rush and Hannity from Cumulus' WALG, but if they programmed different shows than WFLA the rest of the day (or time shifted them) they could pull some listeners from Tallahassee and Dothan too.
Poledo,
There another WFLA-FM on 94.5 from Panama City I think Dothan can hear Panama City's 94.5 WFLA-FM 94.5 has a very good singal it's can also reach Tallahassee as well. For 97.3 from Albany it's a clear channel radio as well with 60's and 70's music I remeber when 97.3 used to be a very good top40 station a few years back.
There another WFLA-FM on 94.5 from Panama City I think Dothan can hear Panama City's 94.5 WFLA-FM 94.5 has a very good singal it's can also reach Tallahassee as well. For 97.3 from Albany it's a clear channel radio as well with 60's and 70's music I remeber when 97.3 used to be a very good top40 station a few years back.
Yeah, Panama City has it's own WFLA, 94.5 WFLF-FM, but the station's transmitter is down near Apalachicola, I think. It's signal isn't very good anywhere on I-10 so It can't reach Dothan. Dothan has a news/talk FM on 105.3 (I could be wrong about the exact frequency, it's new) and they also have an old News/Talk AM, but neither have large coverage areas. You're down there in Sopchoppy, so everything from Panama City is going to come in like a local for you. Those of us on the poor side of Quincy have a hard time even picking up WFLA 100.7
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