WHAT AM wants translator on 92.1 ......will crunch WVLT Vineland signal

[clouseau]

I can pull in WVLT from Bensalem with a local signal. however, an outdoor antenna is required. ...

If it was a local you wouldn't need an outdoor antenna. That statement is kind of like This fruit is just like an orange except it's blue. By definition. therefore, it's NOT an orange.
Down the road from my house there is a condo building which can get KKBQ from Houston on a crappy clock radio on the 1Oth floor which is 160 miles away. They're not a local either. Of course straight shot over the water way up in the air doesn't hurt.

 

[Tylerbreeze]

If it was a local you wouldn't need an outdoor antenna. That statement is kind of like This fruit is just like an orange except it's blue. By definition. therefore, it's NOT an orange.
Down the road from my house there is a condo building which can get KKBQ from Houston on a crappy clock radio on the 1Oth floor which is 160 miles away. They're not a local either. Of course straight shot over the water way up in the air doesn't hurt.

Back in the late 60's and 70's, there was a station in this market on 92.5 WIFI, which was a blowtorch, 50kw @ 500', omni, although the antenna was out in the Northwestern suburbs and the frequency was in close proximity to 93.3, which used a tower in the heart of the city, which hurt them in some way. But the station was said to be in the city limits, BUT you needed a roof antenna to pick it up. It would not come in on a clock or cheaper FM radio, in the car it would cut in and out, I had a Pioneer SX1250 powerhouse receiver and could just about grab it in Northeast Philly, where I could receive all the Jersey Shore, Delaware and Lehigh Valley FM stations with no problem. They ID'd as a Philadelphia station with studios in Bala, a suburb next to the city, where most of the other receivable FM's were located. So this is just the opposite of what you are saying, this was a Philadelphia station that needed a roof antenna to bring in, and did not act like a local.

 

[davideduardo]

Back in the late 60's and 70's, there was a station in this market on 92.5 WIFI, which was a blowtorch, 50kw @ 500', omni, although the antenna was out in the Northwestern suburbs and the frequency was in close proximity to 93.3, which used a tower in the heart of the city, which hurt them in some way. But the station was said to be in the city limits, BUT you needed a roof antenna to pick it up.

In 1970, WIFI was actually 50 kw at 420 feet, which was an upgrade from the 20 kw it used in most of the 60's. It was several years later they increased to 500 feet.

Despite the bad coverage, in 1977 they were getting over a 4 share with a rock format, so the issue before 1973 when they generally did not get even a 2 share was more programming than coverage.

It was not until the moved the site and went to the current 915' and 15 kw somewhere around late 1987 that they got better market coverage. The ratings increased from low 3's to low 4's immediately, although the format did not change.

 

[Tylerbreeze]

to 50kw Summer of 1968, to 500 feet Fall of 1976, found a photo from my friends collections taken in 1976 from the site on Potshop Road, across Germantown Pike from the old four tower array of WTEL now WWDB/WKDN-N. WIFI had dismal ratings a long time and after the I-92 stint they were going to close the station down, until they filled the Country void which boosted their ratings, then they moved to the Antenna Farm with a directional antenna to have city grade status.

 

[davideduardo]

to 50kw Summer of 1968, to 500 feet Fall of 1976, found a photo from my friends collections taken in 1976 from the site on Potshop Road, across Germantown Pike from the old four tower array of WTEL now WWDB/WKDN-N. WIFI had dismal ratings a long time and after the I-92 stint they were going to close the station down, until they filled the Country void which boosted their ratings, then they moved to the Antenna Farm with a directional antenna to have city grade status.

Every station has "city grade status". "City Grade" is just the area in which a station has a specific level of signal strength. Even an LPFM or a translator has an area where it provides a city grade signal.

In the era after the late 60's, nobody "shut a station down" in a significant market... they just sold it. There was a big market for FMs by the mid 70's, so whether as a stick or a cash flowing property, there was great value.