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WEXC Greenville/Youngstown questions

C

collegeDJ86

Couple questions on Glunt's Youngstown-rimshot positive rocker...

(1) The station is currently a Class A that gets 60 dbu coverage over much of Mercer County, but not much more. But, it seems that 107.1 isn't a very crowded dial position in the area. In fact, in a car stereo it can stay listenable well past the I-76/I-80 interchange, though I did have problems getting it in parts of eastern Mercer County where more hills are. Is there any chance that WEXC could be bumped to say a Class B license and get better coverage of the Youngstown metro (and also better coverage at my college in Grove City)?

(2) When listening to Freq 107, the audio seems to sometimes jump to a softer volume level. I've read something about stereo to mono mixdowns where car stereos will take away the stereo separation to reduce static somehow, but even inside city grade contour this volume dropping seems to happen, especially when, say, a rock song goes from soft background and vocals to all-out slam chords. Is there something goofy about the processing at the studio that causes this, or is that merely a receiver issue?
 
Glunt Bureau To The Batphone

The OMW Glunt Bureau, checking in!

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> Is there any chance that WEXC could
> be bumped to say a Class B license and get better coverage
> of the Youngstown metro (and also better coverage at my
> college in Grove City)?

I am not an expert, but it would appear they're pretty much hemmed in. Among their problems:

* Powerful first adjacent stations to the west, including WRQK/106.9 Canton and WNWV/107.3 Elyria. Both of them are in the direction WEXC/107.1 would have to move to get better coverage in the Youngstown market proper.

* As far as going further south, there's on-channel WJJJ/107.1 Greensburg PA, which aims at Pittsburgh.

I don't see a lot of wiggle room there.

Your best hope would be if Mr. Glunt were to be interested in purchasing WRBP/101.9 Hubbard, which is one of the Stop 26 Riverbend stations that is likely up for sale. (Stop 26 is in bankruptcy proceedings, and was recently ordered by a court to either sell properties or raise money.)

OMW reported fairly recently that Glunt may well be looking at any or all of the Stop 26 properties in the Youngstown market, and one would presume that if he comes up with the cash for 101.9, that'd be the new home for the Freq 107 format.

Note, though, that it's not a done deal yet, and I'm not even sure the moneyed steel supply magnate would be able to raise enough for an in-market FM in Youngstown. His recent purchases have mostly been small AMs for a few hundred thousand a piece.

As far as your other question, I don't know, but I'd suspect the processing.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
Is there any chance that WEXC could
> be bumped to say a Class B license and get better coverage
> of the Youngstown metro (and also better coverage at my
> college in Grove City)?

As OA explains further down the thread, Rock 107/WRQK in Canton is just one major obstacle to better coverage in Y-town. However, I *have* seen an old engineering study that proposed moving WEXC's transmitter site south to Fredonia (near Mercer) with an upgrade of up to 19,000 watts. I'm not an engineer, so I don't know how this would be accomplished without interfering with stations further south. Any thoughts, OA?
 
> As OA explains further down the thread, Rock 107/WRQK in
> Canton is just one major obstacle to better coverage in
> Y-town. However, I *have* seen an old engineering study that
> proposed moving WEXC's transmitter site south to Fredonia
> (near Mercer) with an upgrade of up to 19,000 watts. I'm not
> an engineer, so I don't know how this would be accomplished
> without interfering with stations further south. Any
> thoughts, OA?

And there's that one BIG obstacle further south...WJJJ/107.1 Greensburg PA. I just don't see how moving 107.1 to near Mercer would be possible with WJJJ on-channel, unless they sent all the signal in a tight north/northwest direction away from Greensburg, Canton and Elyria. Of course, since Mercer is southeast of Youngstown, if this was possible, they'd accomplish what they want...but it would appear to be a tight squeeze to me.

Like you, I'm no engineer, so I'll leave it to those who know this stuff better.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
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