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The Other Piece of the WJRD Puzzle

passtheword

passtheword

I found this online just a few minutes ago. I pulled up the website for Tuscaloosa's other oldies station, WDGM to see what was going on with the station since WJRD's recent switch to oldies. The WDGM site has an "under construction" page and it looks as though WDGM is going sports as "The Deuce" and will be rebroadcasting WJOX (at least to some degree) as "Tuscaloosa's Home for JOX".

Here's the link to WDGM's website:

WDGM website


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Hey, I just realized something. WTKE 98.1 Andalusia - Fort Walton - Pensacola used to call themselves the country's only 100kw sports station. When 94.5 became WJOX they also became a 100kw sports station. Are these the only two 100kw sports stations in the country?
 
poledo said:
Hey, I just realized something. WTKE 98.1 Andalusia - Fort Walton - Pensacola used to call themselves the country's only 100kw sports station. When 94.5 became WJOX they also became a 100kw sports station. Are these the only two 100kw sports stations in the country?
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Not by a long shot. Off the top of my head, I know that Houston, Denver, and Little Rock each have one, and Dallas just got its second 100kw sports FM last week. (I'm going to go ahead and assume that you don't necessarily mean a full 100kw, but any full-power FMs engineered close to 100kw output.)

A further search on Radio-Locator shows that Portland, Tulsa (via Muskogee, OK), Springfield, MO have 100kw sports talkers too. And WMVN 101.1 in St. Louis is scheduled to flip to ESPN on New Years Day.
 
passtheword said:
I found this online just a few minutes ago. I pulled up the website for Tuscaloosa's other oldies station, WDGM to see what was going on with the station since WJRD's recent switch to oldies. The WDGM site has an "under construction" page and it looks as though WDGM is going sports as "The Deuce" and will be rebroadcasting WJOX (at least to some degree) as "Tuscaloosa's Home for JOX".

Here's the link to WDGM's website:

WDGM website
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Unless they're doing some Tuscaloosa-exclusive shows or securing some of the local UA sports that air on AM, I'm not sure what this accomplishes. Most maps put a pretty good signal from 94.5, who IIRC is broadcasting in mono. WDGM doesn't even put a city-grade signal over Tuscaloosa. They really should have sold this signal to someone local, or kept it as oldies.
 
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