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The Shark 94.3 Has Been Sinking

Perhaps there would be room for another Hispanic radio station. Long Island’s population is around 25% Hispanic. There is LaFiesta on WBZO 98.5FM, owned by JVC Broadcasting. But the station is located in the far eastern part of Long Island. I believe its signal does not reach much of Nassau County and western Suffolk County, where the majority of the population resides. JVC also operates a Hispanic talk station on a translator, which of course reaches a rather small area.
WWSK 94.3 The Shark does not have a great signal, but does cover more of central and western L.I.
 
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Barry said:
Perhaps there would be room for another Hispanic radio station. Long Island’s population is around 25% Hispanic. There is LaFiesta on WBZO 98.5FM, owned by JVC Broadcasting. But the station is located in the far eastern part of Long Island. I believe its signal does not reach much of Nassau County and western Suffolk County, where the majority of the population resides. JVC also operates a Hispanic talk station on a translator, which of course reaches a rather small area.
WWSK 94.3 The Shark does not have a great signal, but does cover more of central and western L.I.
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Probably Spanish AC or tropical would work best if they go that route.
 
Barry said:
Perhaps there would be room for another Hispanic radio station. Long Island’s population is around 25% Hispanic. There is LaFiesta on WBZO 98.5FM, owned by JVC Broadcasting. But the station is located in the far eastern part of Long Island. I believe its signal does not reach much of Nassau County and western Suffolk County, where the majority of the population resides. JVC also operates a Hispanic talk station on a translator, which of course reaches a rather small area.
WWSK 94.3 The Shark does not have a great signal, but does cover more of central and western L.I.
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WBZO is at 98.5. It’s signal would get crushed by 98.3 WKJY even into Western Suffolk
 
CentralFL said:
Good point. WALK has a great signal, but how far west is their HD2 signal reliable?
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The HD2 signal on WALK is reasonably solid as far west as a line going from Wantagh to Westbury (right along the Wantagh Parkway). If you go north of the Expressway, it’s a no go as WALK’s analog signal … even WBAB’s Analog signal degrades rapidly along the LIE at the Glen Cove Road (Exit 39). Since the analog signal becomes poor, the HD signal on WBAB is out more than it’s in. My HD indicator is more of a tease by that point on WALK and/or WBAB.
 
Barry said:
Perhaps there would be room for another Hispanic radio station. Long Island’s population is around 25% Hispanic. There is LaFiesta on WBZO 98.5FM, owned by JVC Broadcasting. But the station is located in the far eastern part of Long Island. I believe its signal does not reach much of Nassau County and western Suffolk County, where the majority of the population resides. JVC also operates a Hispanic talk station on a translator, which of course reaches a rather small area.
WWSK 94.3 The Shark does not have a great signal, but does cover more of central and western L.I.
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WWSK can send its signal East, but it must be careful not to go North and cross the Sound, as there is a 94.3 in New Haven, CT.
 
djl said:
94.3 WWSK Smithtown is hemmed in by a 94.3 in New Haven, CT and also 94.3 in Asbury Park, NJ. They are limited to the signal they can put out to the West (their antenna is located at Exit 53 of the LIE and the Sagtikos Parkway). This is the same reason WXBK 94.7 Newark cannot transmit from the ESB (it would be short spaced) to WWSK.

I think that requirement of the minimum spacing be reduced as most tuners and portable radios made today have enough Alternate Channel Selectivity. Perhaps if they were to use the antenna of sister station WXXF 103.1 (they’d be slightly further East and more to the South.
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Might Audacy be wise to offer Connoisseur $3-5 million for 94.3 and run it as a full time simulcast of 94.7? It's not quite as good, but it then turns The Block (or whatever format eventually replaces it) a fuller-market coverage? Right now, 94.3 is not a viable Long Island station -- and neither is 94.7. Put them together and you cover the tri-state more effectively (although PortChester 96.7 would do just as well as a "partner' for the signal challenged Newark FM.
 
djl said:
WBZO is at 98.5. It’s signal would get crushed by 98.3 WKJY even into Western Suffolk
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And it covers areas of Long Island that WSKQ and WXNY don't cover. You have to factor in that the New York City Spanish-language stations cover a substantial part of Long Island, so they're also competition even if they're not on paper.

Granted, I have no idea of the particular Hispanic make up of LI. New York Stations are almost exclusively aimed at the Dominicans that dominate the City and New Jersey.
 
djl said:
94.3 WWSK Smithtown is hemmed in by a 94.3 in New Haven, CT and also 94.3 in Asbury Park, NJ. They are limited to the signal they can put out to the West (their antenna is located at Exit 53 of the LIE and the Sagtikos Parkway). This is the same reason WXBK 94.7 Newark cannot transmit from the ESB (it would be short spaced) to WWSK.
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If WWSK is short spaced to the ESB .. then wouldn't WJLK be as well .. ? both 94.3s are exactly 37 miles from the ESB ... If thats the case, isn't WXBK also short spaced to WJLK in its current location anyway (never mind 1st adj 94.5 overlap in Central NJ) ..

I would think 103.9 in the Bronx is a much closer short space to KTU & Q, and they were allowed to move further south from Westchester (when it was WFAS) .. yet 106.3 Family Radio is stuck in that area, now complemented by 92.7 in Nassau , also squeezed in close enough to Manhattan

WBLI is a bigger signal than WWSK, and its closer to WLTW WHCN WKMK and WQXR ... Maybe a DA null on the ESB .. or maybe not a big deal, I heard they applied to have on-channel signal boosters added for WXBK and WCBS.
 
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This has been explained over and over again.

Spacing rules have changed over the years, with one of the biggest changes coming in 1964, when the current system of classes and spacings was established.

Many stations that already existed in 1964 didn't meet the new spacing rules and were grandfathered in. One quirk of the new rules is that second-adjacent spacings that were already short in 1964 could be further reduced down to zero later on. That's why 93.5, for instance, was eventually able to move into the Bronx right up against WPAT-FM and WNYC-FM.

WJLK-FM and what's now WXBK have always been short-spaced and are grandfathered in. What's now WWSK, however, was actually fully spaced to 94.7 in NJ and as a result there's no ability to reduce that one particular spacing by using the grandfathered short-spacing rules.

The Empire master FM antenna is non-directional. You can look that up for yourself by looking at the license records for any of the stations that use it, including WQXR and WLTW.

You can also look up WBLI on FCCinfo and you'll see very quickly that it's quite directional with reduced power to the west to protect all the other stations you mentioned.
 
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You can also look up WBLI on FCCinfo and you'll see very quickly that it's quite directional with reduced power to the west to protect all the other stations you mentioned.
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Yea. I remember down in mid-Ocean County NJ, WBLI was a daily regular with a good signal, slight tropo would come in even over the Philly 106.1 station. Same for WHLI-AM, and WALK-FM would sometimes come in over PST back when that was on 97.5
 
@kyle Smith 1988

Pal of mine -- a lifelong DXer like me -- had a Fisher FM receiver and a rotating roof antenna at a home in Rocky Point. Fabulous setup. Both of us spun dial and antenna one non-tropo afternoon and were hearing, L & C, things like Oldies on 103.3 in Boston, WHOM Mt Washington on 94.9, some Providence FMs, etc. Standard-issue reception, I was told.

I spent some time raising the signals of those three 94.3 stations. The New Haven one had the biggest of the three signals. At-the-time-WCTO was *second* on the cat's eye meter. On a radio just a few 7-11's away and in the same county as WWSK this is, well, unacceptable.
 
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@kyle Smith 1988

I spent some time raising the signals of those three 94.3 stations. The New Haven one had the biggest of the three signals. At-the-time-WCTO was *second* on the cat's eye meter. On a radio just a few 7-11's away and in the same county as WWSK this is, well, unacceptable.
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Another Common distant catch from Manchester Twp (Toms River) was WESR 103.3 The Shore in Virginia, even over WPRB. Also WJLK in Monmouth County was a bit too strong for Wibbage to be audiable north of Oyster Creek.
 


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