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WCBS shows in the Cape Cod ratings!!

Musicradio 77 WABC was once the 13th ranked station...


...in Pittsburgh!

WCBS may be the strongest all-news station to be heard there day and night. It's all water to Cape Cod.
 
Nick said:
WCBS may be the strongest all-news station to be heard there day and night. It's all water to Cape Cod.
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Maybe, but signal-wise co-owned WINS must give WCBS a good run for its money. Yes, WINS is a few miles further from Cape Cod and a few of those extra miles are not over salt water, but WINS's directional patterns boost its signal significantly to the east. During daytime, at its signal maximum, WINS's equivalent power to the east is 3.5 times WCBS's (and thanks to its 207-degree tower and salt-water ground, WCBS's field strength is very high for a 50-kW ND station). Also, when WINS put in its current four-tower array a decade or more ago, it worked out an interference-reduction arrangement with CFRB that significantly reduced the Toronto station's nighttime interference to WINS in southern New England. In a northwestern suburb of Boston, CFRB now rarely interferes with WINS at night. On Cape Cod, there should be even less interference.
 
I believe WFAN has shown up in the Cape Cod book with a 0.3 or 0.4 in the past. I've also seen WFAN in the Philly book at times, also towards the bottom.
 
I haven't measured it or ran it in detail on software, but in addition to WFAN and WCBS, WOR came in pretty well on the west Cape last time I was there. As Dan mentioned, in addition to the salt water path the gain of directional antennas used by stations west of NYC provides a significant increase in signal on the Cape. One interesting part of salt water paths is at night when the sky wave and ground wave interfere with each other with more than typical ferocity. I heard this one night on WWL in Pensacola Florida.
 
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