WCTZ 96.7 Being Sold; To Go Christian Contemporary

[bub]

MarcB: Just because a station doesn't register in the ratings doesn't mean it doesn't have listeners. If it's the station I think you're referring to, when I was there as a jock, if I got 2 calls in the studio for a whole month, that was a lot...even when we got ratings.

I know that, bub. But trying telling that to the people who read this board. They all say no one listened to that station. Remember I was an intern there so I knew what was going on. One day I had to transfer to create a computer database of all the people who had won prizes in the past 6 months. Not every prize went to the same listener. And yet even a station that small had a contest pig. One guy who must've won at least 15 prizes. Geez. It was after that when CP decided that a listener can only win a certain number of times per 2 month period (I believe it was).

Along those lines, MarcB, there's nothing unique about the station you're referring to. That goes on at a lot of stations to this day, and I speak from 22 years in the business.

A co-worker of mine and I were discussing it last night. She agrees with me that its potential is being wasted. She agreed with me that there should be a couple talk shows dealing with local issues mixed in with music and high school sports play by play. She even thought my choice of music was a good idea. - Country. And I'm not talking about as a competitor to WWYZ (FM). I'm talking a Country Format playing the greatest Country Hits off the 80s, 90s, and today, focusing primarily on the 80s and 90s.

Other than the newest format you're conjuring up, that, too, is nothing new. Preaching to the choir.

 

[KML0224]

Once their transmitter gets to the Trump Tower in New Rochelle (picture at link), what happens to the current Stamford tower and reception of WQHT-FM 97.1 in Westchester County?

http://www.snapgalaxy.com/3738/77d58f3b77c990f7add1d7692bdf4192_m.jpg

 

[Ozman]

Once their transmitter gets to the Trump Tower in New Rochelle (picture at link), what happens to the current Stamford tower

I hope a Giant Cellphone tower Both GSM (AT&T) and CDMA (Verizon) so I will not roam any longer in Old Greenwich off a cellphone tower in Oyster Bay NY. although, AT&T has a tower in the heart of the old Greenwich train station at the Innis Arden power substation, go a mile towards shore road at my house google maps shows its either a cell tower from Oyster bay, Port Chester NY area and or jumping off the tower in Old Greenwich including a few others like the Church steeple on top of greenwich Ave as well as the cell phone tower at Greenwich hospital 8 miles away. the other Bigger tower at the train station in Old Greenwich is T-Mobile. My brother has AT&T iphone and I have Verizon at the moment. they both have dropped calls still off of the shore road area. Currently WCTZ tower is only 2-3 miles from this big cell phone dead spot in Old Greenwich

 

[davect]

Once their transmitter gets to the Trump Tower in New Rochelle (picture at link), what happens to the current Stamford tower and reception of WQHT-FM 97.1 in Westchester County?

http://www.snapgalaxy.com/3738/77d58f3b77c990f7add1d7692bdf4192_m.jpg

That's also the WSTC tower/antenna, so I would guess it's going to stay right where it is.

 

[necrat123]

That's also the WSTC tower/antenna, so I would guess it's going to stay right where it is.

Also WEDW-FM 88.5 is on the tower as well.
Plus if you look at the tower in the photos I have, there are a lot of two-way radio antennas.
So they're making some lease money off of it too.

 

[DJKraze]

First let me state that I have a Jesus Fish on the back of my car, but I don't see the point of yet another robotic God-caster. Or any robotic form of broadcasting, sure a little automation can help at times when a station (like a colllege station) has a staffing situation like during school breaks and stuff, but no station should ever be completely unmanned.

(wait, I just noticed an old automation disc sitting on my shelf from when I used to program WKDH, I take it all back and ask if anyone has a Jebus-Fish to Darwin-Fish conversion kit)

 

[bub]

First let me state that I have a Jesus Fish on the back of my car, but I don't see the point of yet another robotic God-caster. Or any robotic form of broadcasting, sure a little automation can help at times when a station (like a colllege station) has a staffing situation like during school breaks and stuff, but no station should ever be completely unmanned.

(wait, I just noticed an old automation disc sitting on my shelf from when I used to program WKDH, I take it all back and ask if anyone has a Jebus-Fish to Darwin-Fish conversion kit)

Let me state that I've seen my share of cars with Jesus Fish on them get pulled over by state troopers on the highway. ;D

 

[CTListener]

First let me state that I have a Jesus Fish on the back of my car, but I don't see the point of yet another robotic God-caster. Or any robotic form of broadcasting, sure a little automation can help at times when a station (like a colllege station) has a staffing situation like during school breaks and stuff, but no station should ever be completely unmanned.

(wait, I just noticed an old automation disc sitting on my shelf from when I used to program WKDH, I take it all back and ask if anyone has a Jebus-Fish to Darwin-Fish conversion kit)

Let me state that I've seen my share of cars with Jesus Fish on them get pulled over by state troopers on the highway. ;D

Jesus Fish to Darwin Fish (legs) to, what, Earnhardt Fish (wheels)???

 

[Ozman]

one would think that out of any station out there a religious station would have staffers running the station. I am never donating to church again

 

[WPPCProductions]

MarcB: Just because a station doesn't register in the ratings doesn't mean it doesn't have listeners. If it's the station I think you're referring to, when I was there as a jock, if I got 2 calls in the studio for a whole month, that was a lot...even when we got ratings.

I know that, bub. But trying telling that to the people who read this board. They all say no one listened to that station. Remember I was an intern there so I knew what was going on. One day I had to transfer to create a computer database of all the people who had won prizes in the past 6 months. Not every prize went to the same listener. And yet even a station that small had a contest pig. One guy who must've won at least 15 prizes. Geez. It was after that when CP decided that a listener can only win a certain number of times per 2 month period (I believe it was).

A co-worker of mine and I were discussing it last night. She agrees with me that its potential is being wasted. She agreed with me that there should be a couple talk shows dealing with local issues mixed in with music and high school sports play by play. She even thought my choice of music was a good idea. - Country. And I'm not talking about as a competitor to WWYZ (FM). I'm talking a Country Format playing the greatest Country Hits off the 80s, 90s, and today, focusing primarily on the 80s and 90s.

I have to agree WWYZ needs a station to compete with, a similer Classic Country station with a hand full of the currents, or WDRC type classic country format will do.but it probably will die quick.because people dont know whats is good country music is.

 

[CTListener]

MarcB: Just because a station doesn't register in the ratings doesn't mean it doesn't have listeners. If it's the station I think you're referring to, when I was there as a jock, if I got 2 calls in the studio for a whole month, that was a lot...even when we got ratings.

I know that, bub. But trying telling that to the people who read this board. They all say no one listened to that station. Remember I was an intern there so I knew what was going on. One day I had to transfer to create a computer database of all the people who had won prizes in the past 6 months. Not every prize went to the same listener. And yet even a station that small had a contest pig. One guy who must've won at least 15 prizes. Geez. It was after that when CP decided that a listener can only win a certain number of times per 2 month period (I believe it was).

A co-worker of mine and I were discussing it last night. She agrees with me that its potential is being wasted. She agreed with me that there should be a couple talk shows dealing with local issues mixed in with music and high school sports play by play. She even thought my choice of music was a good idea. - Country. And I'm not talking about as a competitor to WWYZ (FM). I'm talking a Country Format playing the greatest Country Hits off the 80s, 90s, and today, focusing primarily on the 80s and 90s.

I have to agree WWYZ needs a station to compete with, a similer Classic Country station with a hand full of the currents, or WDRC type classic country format will do.but it probably will die quick.because people dont know whats is good country music is.

Country never made an impact in the ratings here till WWYZ flipped in 1988. I came to Connecticut in 1981 and had to get my country from WHN New York and little daytimer WMLB. Later, there was WSCR in Hamden, again not a ratings behemoth. True classic country would be lost on an audience whose introduction to the music was "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses."

 

[WPPCProductions]

MarcB: Just because a station doesn't register in the ratings doesn't mean it doesn't have listeners. If it's the station I think you're referring to, when I was there as a jock, if I got 2 calls in the studio for a whole month, that was a lot...even when we got ratings.

I know that, bub. But trying telling that to the people who read this board. They all say no one listened to that station. Remember I was an intern there so I knew what was going on. One day I had to transfer to create a computer database of all the people who had won prizes in the past 6 months. Not every prize went to the same listener. And yet even a station that small had a contest pig. One guy who must've won at least 15 prizes. Geez. It was after that when CP decided that a listener can only win a certain number of times per 2 month period (I believe it was).

A co-worker of mine and I were discussing it last night. She agrees with me that its potential is being wasted. She agreed with me that there should be a couple talk shows dealing with local issues mixed in with music and high school sports play by play. She even thought my choice of music was a good idea. - Country. And I'm not talking about as a competitor to WWYZ (FM). I'm talking a Country Format playing the greatest Country Hits off the 80s, 90s, and today, focusing primarily on the 80s and 90s.

I have to agree WWYZ needs a station to compete with, a similer Classic Country station with a hand full of the currents, or WDRC type classic country format will do.but it probably will die quick.because people dont know whats is good country music is.

Country never made an impact in the ratings here till WWYZ flipped in 1988. I came to Connecticut in 1981 and had to get my country from WHN New York and little daytimer WMLB. Later, there was WSCR in Hamden, again not a ratings behemoth. True classic country would be lost on an audience whose introduction to the music was "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses."

Yes I agree,with those station memtion were great including WIOF W104 waterbury from the 1970's It was great when WWYZ flipped in 1988 at that time country music was ok I think when country music hit a sour note in the late 1980's as the same time when pop rock went down the drain with the mix of rap hiphop crap hit the charts.

 

[danikayser84]

Side note: When EMF dumps the WCTZ calls for "WKLV-FM" (according to Scott Fybush's NERW), I'm expecting them to maybe land on WZMR (104.9 The Cat, Albany)... even though calls don't mean a thing these days (only for top-hour legal IDs, really)

 

[Ozman]

Do we any date on when this will happen? I know its any day now
There are going to Be a lot of Pissed off people in Old Greenwich/Riverside that is for sure.
many locals in this town, the town I grew up in and currently live in when not in Vt skiing for those that know, its about the only FM signal that comes in with strong city grade signal inside stores, store rooms and local merchants in Greenwich that have listened to it since (oh hell I cam remeber the late 1980's) since no other radio stations could come in heavy interference environments. correct me if I am wrong but this will leave no other local radio station in Old Greeniwich and Riverside ct except 88.5 and the spanish translator that is on 103.1 but not all the time.

 

[Barry]

I passed through New Rochelle today, where WCTZ will be broadcasting. I did not see any sign of a tower existing or being built on its roof.
So the switch from Stamford to southern Westchester County will probably still take awhile.

 

[GSP163]

The days now seemed numbered for WCTZ.....96.7 WTSX is already in the process of moving SW into Pennsylvania and WCTZ is informing listeners to tune into WFOX 95.9 The Fox....Seems like K-Love will be signing on any day now

 

[Barry]

The new antenna for K-Love was erected earlier this month atop the Trump Tower in New Rochelle NY. This is another indication that things are starting to come together for the station launch.
One has to look rather carefully at the roof of the building to see the antenna, as it does not protrude very far above it.

 

[nd2023]

The days now seemed numbered for WCTZ.....96.7 WTSX is already in the process of moving SW into Pennsylvania and WCTZ is informing listeners to tune into WFOX 95.9 The Fox....Seems like K-Love will be signing on any day now

You'd think they'd encourage the listeners to move to Star 99.9 (and star999.com online) which has a similar format.

 

[WPHA]

I hope that I will be able to listen to it here in West Haven. From the current site, the signal is quite weak. When it moves farther away, who knows? I have listened to their stations either online or while traveling. It will be nice to have one in this area. Repetition aside, they do a good job.

 

[Ozman]

I can see now an app for a 96.7 somewhere between New Haven Providence and Cape Cod away from WTIC 96.5 and WEHN 96.9. the closest 96.7 Frequency is a LP from Plymouth MA.