WCOG 1320 Greensboro where's the signal?

[JimA]

The worst am signal toward Burlington is WCOG. Even WEAL & WKEW are clear. FCC records show 5 day/night. BUT no signal and this is 15 miles from Greensboro! You can barely hear it. Was this from Bernie Mann's era when they moved the towers from Tower Drive in Hamilton Lakes and never fixed or corrected? Sad. I grew up in Burlington and WCOG had a powerful day signal. Even WJSJ is louder also. Wonder if WCOG is not at 5? Anyone know? Surprised since Radio Disney has it.

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?stat...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCOG_(AM)

 

[SuperCFL]

I was not in NC when WCOG was on Tower Road, but understand that the station was 1,000 watts (DA-N) at that point. Now, WCOG's pattern is directed toward the west, southwest and south, daytime. Their signal is fairly competitive in Winston during the day... easily the best Guilford County signal. Disney has billboards there. Of course, it's a good thing to have similar coverage at night, as well. As WCOG's nighttime pattern is dirrected toward the southeast, they're gone by Colfax. At night, they even have some signal and phasing issues in Greensboro (obvious on on Murrow Blvd., for instance). Especially daytime, though, they're not sending anything toward Burlington.

I've heard from several people that the biggest issue with the new site was the loss of a High Point nighttime signal.

Of course, on that FCC site you linked, JimA, you can see both patterns by clicking Electric Field Strength Pattern Plot.

 

[cc917]

Disney still has billboards for 1320? Why???

I listen every once in a great while (such as right now!) just to see if they have any advertisers, seems like they never do.

Correct that: in the stop set I heard a promo for a remote over at Hanes Mall being sponsored by Lowes Foods, but those are the only situations I could see advertising with Disney in this market to be even remotely fruitful not because it will draw lots of kids over to Hanes Mall from all over the Triad to be part of that supra hip Disney scene but because it is good branding for the kids who will run into the remote in that it will make the scene look like a big deal. The station itself though just does not draw flies much less pre-teens. Then again pre-teens in this day and age just do not listen to the radio.


But we can rest assured that the EAS system works because at 3:10 a severe thunderstorm alert was issued for Allegeny, Wilkes and a couple of others, of course this signal does not even get remotely close to any of those areas so it is obvious there is a light on, but that no one is at home. Though I found it ironic, or moronic, that the DJ was talking about wanting to see some rain to get out of doing the lawn "maybe even a little thunder" then as if almost on cue the alert broke in.


Just a dumb idea for a format if you ask me, though it obviously must have some serious legs when done the right way. I think Disney for the most part keeps these stations for the monsterous tax write-off they represent because if this was a independently owned station the format wheel would have spun long ago.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I was not in NC when WCOG was on Tower Road, but understand that the station was 1,000 watts (DA-N) at that point. Now, WCOG's pattern is directed toward the west, southwest and south, daytime. Their signal is fairly competitive in Winston during the day... easily the best Guilford County signal. Disney has billboards there. Of course, it's a good thing to have similar coverage at night, as well. As WCOG's nighttime pattern is dirrected toward the southeast, they're gone by Colfax. At night, they even have some signal and phasing issues in Greensboro (obvious on on Murrow Blvd., for instance). Especially daytime, though, they're not sending anything toward Burlington.

I've heard from several people that the biggest issue with the new site was the loss of a High Point nighttime signal.

Of course, on that FCC site you linked, JimA, you can see both patterns by clicking Electric Field Strength Pattern Plot.

When I lived in High Point there was no nighttime signal. That was in the days when they were WGLD and beautiful music and later oldies.

When I would go to Winston-Salem in the days when they were WGLD and standards, I lost the signal and could only pick up WAIR.

 

[EncSpy]

that site being duplexed with WWBG....their "studios" are off wendover avenue in the shopping center next to carmax and across from buffalo lanes...come to think about it.....WKEW..WEAL and WPET share a tower off eugene street..in the middle of the projects....of course WKEW can't be heard out by the airport at night...

Most of the eastern US is plagued with poor ground conductivity, which makes it hard to listen to AM around this area..without a elaborate antenna and ground system at your home.....its a bad situation around here as far as the AM dial goes

just for fun...look up KLIF AM 560 on radio-locator..and compaire its daytime coverage map with 5kw to that of WPTF...with 50kw...

 

[XTalker]

I was not in NC when WCOG was on Tower Road, but understand that the station was 1,000 watts (DA-N) at that point. Now, WCOG's pattern is directed toward the west, southwest and south, daytime. Their signal is fairly competitive in Winston during the day... easily the best Guilford County signal. Disney has billboards there. Of course, it's a good thing to have similar coverage at night, as well. As WCOG's nighttime pattern is dirrected toward the southeast, they're gone by Colfax. At night, they even have some signal and phasing issues in Greensboro (obvious on on Murrow Blvd., for instance). Especially daytime, though, they're not sending anything toward Burlington.

I've heard from several people that the biggest issue with the new site was the loss of a High Point nighttime signal.

Of course, on that FCC site you linked, JimA, you can see both patterns by clicking Electric Field Strength Pattern Plot.

When I lived in High Point there was no nighttime signal. That was in the days when they were WGLD and beautiful music and later oldies.

When I would go to Winston-Salem in the days when they were WGLD and standards, I lost the signal and could only pick up WAIR.

In the days 1320 was WGLD-AM, the nighttime signal was so bad they used a phone line to be able to hear the station at the studios on highway 68 (Piedmont Center).