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Weird thing on Mix ... or was it?

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elevator_opratr

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Driving to work today, I had on 106.7 while driving the West Shore Bypass around Reading ... a spot where Mix usually always comes in crystal clear. Today, however, there was a lot of trop going on, and I was having trouble with all sorts of local stations ... instead picking up distant stations.

As I drive, I flip back and forth amongst many stations. At about 9:40, I flipped to 106.7 and I hear this outright contemporary jazz piece (possibly David Sanborn) on 106.7. I thought to myself "hmm, must be trop. I must be picking up some smooth jazz station on the 106.7 frequency." It was hard to tell because this jazz piece was in the forefront, but there were other stations fighting in the background. I thought one of those background stations was Mix, and this contemporary jazz piece was trop of some smooth jazz station somewhere.

To my surprise, however, right after the song, I hear a liner for "Mix" and into the next song, a regular retro AC song that they normally play.

Was that "Mix" that I heard playing contemporary jazz for one song??? Or did another station's trop just so happen to perfectly time itself into my radio just before "Mix" came back with a "Mix" liner? Freaky!

If "Mix" is, excuse the pun, "mixing" in some contemporary jazz now, this would be unprecedented. They definetely would be breaking new ground (mixing in an occasional smooth jazz piece with AC) and it would be a definite shot at WSJW, who actually beat the 106.7 frequency two books ago with their tiny signal vs. 106.7's massive signal.

Has anyone else heard instrumentals on "Mix" or was it a weird case of trop timed perfectly?
 
> Has anyone else heard instrumentals on "Mix" or was it a
> weird case of trop timed perfectly?

Driving back from near Philly on a saturday evening about 4 years ago...I heard "you're listening to open house party on Bink 104." Wink and B's liner was almost exactly on.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > Has anyone else heard instrumentals on "Mix" or was it a
> > weird case of trop timed perfectly?
>
> Driving back from near Philly on a saturday evening about 4
> years ago...I heard "you're listening to open house party on
> Bink 104." Wink and B's liner was almost exactly on.

Very funny. LOL You know, that's not that far from the truth. Why did the FCC ever close space B-104 and Wink 104 only about 100 miles apart? Near Reading, it's a constant fight between those two, and Reading isn't that far from either Allentown OR Harrisburg.
 
> Very funny. LOL You know, that's not that far from the
> truth. Why did the FCC ever close space B-104 and Wink 104
> only about 100 miles apart? Near Reading, it's a constant
> fight between those two, and Reading isn't that far from
> either Allentown OR Harrisburg.

What does arbitron say about it? Does it list wink or b in the book?<P ID="signature">______________
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> Why did the FCC ever close space B-104 and Wink 104
> only about 100 miles apart?

According to www.indo.com/distance, it's 77 air miles (i.e. "as the crow flies) from Harrisburg to Allentown -- even shorter-spaced than your hypothetical above.

When I regularly drove on 322 through the Cornwall State Forest in eastern Lebanon County, I'd get B104 and WINK fighting it out on my car radio.
 
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