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WGNZ AM 1110 - now 24/7.

If 1100/Cleveland runs IBOC, they won't make it out of the parking lot at night.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
If 1100/Cleveland runs IBOC, they won't make it out of the parking lot at night.
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I had a competitor in Fort Wayne that was authorized for one watt at night.

It was a miracle watt. He covered the complete metro with it.

That kind of grant is an invitation to cheat.
 
I'm on high ground about 6-7 miles away and can see the lights on their 3 tower array. I will have to try and see if I can pick their night signal out of the slop.
 
Only a brilliant organization like the F.C.C. could give American radio a station with more towers (3) than watts (2 at night)! I'm wondering if that will actually be enough power so that the station can be heard at the studios, which I believe are in Fairborn. The tower site is on Moon Drive in Xenia, which is most famous for the old Blue Moon Ballroom, home of big band dancing and a couple of great WING sock-hops back in the day. Gone but not forgotten. Now Moon Drive is the home of 2-watts of raw, savage, flame-throwin' power!!!
 
Oops! My bad, WGNZ studios are on North Main Street in Dayton fairly close to I-70. City of License is Fairborn. Brother Norm Livingston, founder of the station in it's current Southern Gospel format, passed away on April 15th, 2011.
 
Tim would be smart to try and get one of the KLove translators in around the dayton area after they (EMF) take over WCDR.. KLove won't need those translators anymore.. That would actually give his station with Southern Gospel music a better voice.
 
TANKSBACK said:
Oops! My bad, WGNZ studios are on North Main Street in Dayton fairly close to I-70. City of License is Fairborn. Brother Norm Livingston, founder of the station in it's current Southern Gospel format, passed away on April 15th, 2011.
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Actually WGNZ began in the 1960s as WELX in Xenia founded by WERM (now WFGF) founders Harry and Ernestine Miller when its transmitter site and original two towers were located adjacent to U.S. Route 35 West in an open field off of June Drive.

It left the air in the late 70s after the transmitter shack caught fire. It returned to the air in 1980 under the ownership of L&D Broadcasters (Larue and Darnelle Turner)
Norm Livingston took interest in the station when it started airing southern gospel in the afternoons. Up to that point it was airing soul gospel music but
was struggling as crosstown competitor WGIC was also airing southern gospel.

By the spring of 1981 it became fulltime southern gospel. Norm Livingston's church is also located on North Main near Englewood...that's the connection. When WGIC assumed the call letters of its FM (WBZI) and became classic country that's when it became WMMX and later WGNZ.
 
Limp73 said:
By the spring of 1981 it became fulltime southern gospel. Norm Livingston's church is also located on North Main near Englewood...that's the connection. When WGIC assumed the call letters of its FM (WBZI) and became classic country that's when it became WMMX and later WGNZ.
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Yep and studios (automation for the solid gospel format they mostly run off the bird) are located at the Church I believe.
 
Which leads to the question...has anyone heard the 2 watts at night yet?
 
If the feds were to hand me an authorization for 2 watts at night I'd just laugh. They could be number one in the parking lot at the Ledbetter Rd. complex in Xenia I suppose. A night signal doesn't have to even reach the COL?
 
2 watts likely wouldn't reach 5 miles from their transmitting tower. Might as well webcast and shut off the transmitter at sunset.
 
microbob said:
2 watts likely wouldn't reach 5 miles from their transmitting tower. Might as well webcast and shut off the transmitter at sunset.
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They already do web-cast 24/7... Solid Gospel from Salem has been filling the night/overnight hours for years (basically they just leave the automation/satellite running after the Transmitter was shutting off) and streamed that to the web.
 
As of Monday night, they were still doing the old "the F.C.C. says we have to stop broadcasting now" routine at 8:30 p.m., and then they disappeared. I'm wondering if they went for the approval of 2 watts for now with the idea of trying to juggle their pattern around or in some way try for more wattage at some point in the future. After all that's how they got up to 5,000 watts in the first place although their signal isn't really very restrictive according to Radio-Locator.com charts. Perhaps some engineering types can weigh in on this topic if they've encountered a similar situation elsewhere.
 
borderblaster said:
If the feds were to hand me an authorization for 2 watts at night I'd just laugh. They could be number one in the parking lot at the Ledbetter Rd. complex in Xenia I suppose. A night signal doesn't have to even reach the COL?
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You're right, a Class D AM station (authorization of < 250 watts at night) doesn't have to cover the COL at nighttime.
 
microbob said:
2 watts likely wouldn't reach 5 miles from their transmitting tower. Might as well webcast and shut off the transmitter at sunset.
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Two watts with skywave coming in?

Maybe a mile.

I've seen 500 watt stations that you could see the tower lights but not hear a signal.
 
A piece of the puzzle that allowed their power increase was when 1110 in Noblesville,IN went off the air maybe 20 years ago.
 
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