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WEBE New Imaging

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While band-scanning in the car on the commute home I found my way to WEBE. They have new jingles and new imagining and, to me, it's a turn off. It sounds like every other A/C I've heard in other markets but it does seem to compliment the "moaning female vocals" they seem to play.

Looks like I'll have another preset to fill ... if I can actually find something worth listening to locally!
 
Check the ratings, check the billings.

More to life than running an internet station out of your basement or getting a show on 990. But what does Cumulus know compared to the folks who post here.
 
Cumulus has done a few things right.

1. I-95 WRKI continues to be a great radio station.

2. They launched KICKS 105.5 in Danbury a few years ago.

3. They launched 94.7 NASH-FM in NYC this year.

Other than that forget it.

WICC isn't as good as it was back in the day.

WEBE is awful with John Tesh and some of their music sped up. The older music sounds ridiculous sped up.
 
registered said:
Check the ratings, check the billings.
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Yes, and they're down from where they use to be! Many people are abandoning local radio for online entertainment or personal music players.

registered said:
More to life than running an internet station out of your basement or getting a show on 990. But what does Cumulus know compared to the folks who post here.
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Yes, and as one who is still active in the broadcast engineering field after almost four decades I've personally witnessed the decline of the radio industry. When I meet with my fellow engineering peers at conventions and other venues and they all reaffirm my observations I know I'm on the same page.

With a new owner for the Cox Southern Connecticut cluster perhaps they may do something to give WEBE a run for their money. Will they dominate Southern CT? Probably not, due to not having the same signal strength as WEBE, but I bet they could out program them in a heartbeat.
 
Bill You never know. But what I do know is our new antenna is performing nice on 99.9
I did notice that WEBE and WICC were off the air this past Thursday into Friday morning.
Nice carrier on both no audio.
 
Is the WEZN-FM transmitter in the same location? I'm still getting the same weak signal up here in New Britain like always.

As for WEBE-FM, it's tough to get them here, due to WFCS-FM 107.7 bleeding over. This is despite WFCS-FM itself having a crappy signal.
 
The transmitter is at the same location. the new antenna went on the air
this past January 12 at 4:25 pm.
 
@Ed B: I'm not surprised about the dead air. I guess nobody gets paged when that sort of thing happens.

Regarding the replacement of the 99.9 antenna, did you guys have to go off the air or is there an aux? The last time I was up there was back in the '80s when I worked with Motorola replacing a two-way up on that stick.
 
Bill we have a two bay full wave spaced ERI rototiller
that we run 20kw into makes a great backup.
 
Mr Bill... ;)

Now that the Bridgeport translator changed frequency, you could try tuning in to 104.9 and let me know how it's sounding. :)
 
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