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His stream sounds nice.. For a 75,000 investment, not bad and yes, he's wide on the classic/oldies thing.... But, I tried the same thing in a three AM one commercial FM town of 33,000 and needed about 200k to have made it work, not 100k... I just sold the FM translator, so it 'ain't' all bad....
Good for you Skipperthomas on the sale of your translator! WFOY and WSOS both have an opportunity to be a player in the market but feel both will fall short of the mark due to a number of factors.
Seems to me that St. Augustine radio has not changed much since I last checked here a month or so ago. Did spend a few minutes today with the stream for both the Geddings and Phillips stations and both have problems. Feel the biggest problem facing Phillips is they have yet to get either of their FM's on the air and honestly if the professionalism on WFOY is not corrected it want make much difference. Locals tell me there is little to no sales efforts at Phillips and that Geddings is soaking up much of the local revenues. Are they giving it away or selling it dirt cheap is yet to be determined. All in all I feel that Steve Kingston will be the winner in this battle.
How can a broadcast facility that is adding two FM's only have one (1) salesperson? There is virtually no way that one person can handle that many accounts and produce any degree of revenue growth much less profit? I would only assume the new manage and Ms. Phillps are full time on the street. I do hope their sales efforts are better than the on air presentation.
How can a broadcast facility that is adding two FM's only have one (1) salesperson? There is virtually no way that one person can handle that many accounts and produce any degree of revenue growth much less profit? I would only assume the new manage and Ms. Phillps are full time on the street. I do hope their sales efforts are better than the on air presentation.
They may be adding more soon but when it was the 2 AM stations my supervisor even said there was not enough full time people to hae full time people there.
So what does that post mean? "there were not enough people to have full time people there"? If you are going to opertate 2 radio stations, both with translators, it would seem to me there needs to be some kind of sales force. It is my guess they have no sales team and most likely no idea what to do. Sad!
Well Ms. Phillips would do sales as well but what i meant is that a good bit of operations around the station were automated,thus not needing many people there at all.At any one time the most people that would be was usually 4 (Maybe more if potential clients were in that day.)
Since they put WOK on to 104.5 it could put pressure on WFOY. The reason being many listeners of WFOY listen because they can hear Rush Limbaugh and having him on another station with a stronger signal would be in direct competition with WFOY
No change - WOKV on 690 had a stronger signal than WFOY in much of St. Johns County anyway, so what difference will the FM make? None.
The real question here is does 1170 even make it? I know there wasn't much of an investment initially, but there is now. Will the new player really become a player?
I hear that Phillips has received final approval to add the translator to WFOY and will soon have the imporved FM they have been talking about for months. Unfortunately I don't know if the FM will make any difference as they seem to be unfocused and certainly not ready for "prime time". Also understand the husband, Kevin Geddings, who owns WSOS has received FCC approval to increase his translator power to 200 0r 250 watts. If he could get his programminmg together he could be sitting pretty in the market. Will be interesting to sit back and watch to see who wins and what happens. My money is on WSOS.
How did Geddings do that? Last I heard his translator application was denied as it was a non-comm frequency - how did he get around that? I don't see where they okayed the frequency change, much less a power increase.
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