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The Gospel Truth

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johnbasalla

The Cleveland area has three AM Black Gospel music stations. I decided to find out which one sounds the best - audio quality wise.
#1: WCCD AM 1000 - A daytimer with a good beefy AM radio sound. The owners are from California, but it seems they care (or got lucky) about/with the sound of their facility.

#2: WJMO AM 1300 . Has that thin sound so often associated with small AM stations. It's not terrible, but you'll never mistake it for major stations. I wonder if it's their transmission equipment or their on-air feed. Sounds better suited to a talk station.

#3: WJTB AM 1040. Poor quality all around. The sound is thin...thinner then WJMO. It's also returned to being at a low level. A few years ago it was super-terrible, not even understandable sometimes. Then it got better, but now has slipped down again, although not as bad as it was at its worst.
 
I can't help but think what would be if someone managed to wrangle away WJTB from Mr. Taylor and his son. That signal is truly wasted like none other in Cleveland; possibly the entire state. As for their audio quality, it's possibly due to having phone lines instead of microwave transmissions to the tower.

As for the studios... just drive down Elyria Avenue heading to Broad Street, and it's a pathetic run-down little shack next to Expressway Oil Change (with several iconic Obama "Hope" posters plastered on the windows, now badly faded with sunlight). It looks to be held up only with Scotch® tape and papier-mâché.
 
Re: Another competitive station?

Does this depressed market need or want another quality station competing for ad dollars? I think that could probably hurt the other broadcast businesses in the area, as if they aren't hurting enough as it is.
 
Nathan Obral said:
As for the studios... just drive down Elyria Avenue heading to Broad Street, and it's a pathetic run-down little shack next to Expressway Oil Change (with several iconic Obama "Hope" posters plastered on the windows, now badly faded with sunlight). It looks to be held up only with Scotch® tape and papier-mâché.
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Kinda symbolic isn't it?
 
Ohio radio man said:
Nathan Obral said:
As for the studios... just drive down Elyria Avenue heading to Broad Street, and it's a pathetic run-down little shack next to Expressway Oil Change (with several iconic Obama "Hope" posters plastered on the windows, now badly faded with sunlight). It looks to be held up only with Scotch® tape and papier-mâché.
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Kinda symbolic isn't it?
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If memory serves me correct, it's the same studio that infamously was torched back in 1989 - apparently, under more than dubious circumstances. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that it hasn't been blown away in a windstorm. :D

Note, too, that WDLW/1380 was in the then-condemned Antlers Hotel in downtown Lorain prior to WOBL's owners, Doug & Lorie Wilbur, purchasing it for virtually nothing, and basically rebuilt the whole thing from scratch -- and that was before they flipped it to an English-speaking oldies format. Both stations have done quite well ever since...
 
Re: Condemned in Space

How could a station stay functional in a condemned building? Usually condemned buildings don't have electricity. Wouldn't that be dangerous?
 
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