What happened to WFPG?

[joei1892]

As of today, 97.3 ESPN is simulcasting on 96.9 WFPG. The website seems to be the same and the call letters are still for 1450 and 97.3. Anyone have any idea if there is going to be a station swap soon or something?

 

[nd2023]

That's weird, considering Lite Rock 96.9 is the top rated station in Atlantic City. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. AC now has no AC station (pun intended). There is no point simulcasting 96.9 and 97.3. But at least 96.9 won't have Delilah

I'm guessing the wrong STL feed is being sent to the 96.9 transmitter. We'll know by tomorrow.

If WFPG is permanently changing formats, Wild 102.7 most likely will immediately flip to AC.

 

[Pirate_Jim]

Might have something to do with all the thunderstorms we had in the area last night ..
WRAT was dead air for almost an hour when lightning hit their building ..

 

[joei1892]

Sounds like it's back now. I think the weather is to blame here.

 

[DToTheJ]

...Lite Rock 96.9 is the top rated station in Atlantic City... If WFPG is permanently changing formats, Wild 102.7 most likely will immediately flip to AC.

Why wait until then?

 

[deepstblu]

WFPG is probably the least-discussed NJ station on the board. Very little weirdness or drama going on. What was their last format change--going from beautiful music to AC in the '80s? (Was that their only serious format flip ever? I know they tweaked the mix from time to time, but the station was basically always some kind of conservative adult music.)

 

[nd2023]

WFPG seems to have the best tropo-enhanced signal in the state. I've heard it in Massachusetts and Virginia Beach!

 

[amfmsw]

On the way to Hatteras, I was listening to WCZT, WTKU, WIBG-FM and WZXL all in stereo on the Tidewater side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel there just last week. IBG was pretty dramatic, as we drove by the 1st adjacent 94.1 tower! And although another 150 miles further away, all of the AC AMs came in better in NC's Outer Banks than in VA...NO NOISE FLOOR. Of course the FMs were non existant on the return, except the amazing driving coverage of WFNE of the entire length of DE from New Castle to MD border, which they'll lose when they move to 106.3 (already on the air there).

 

[Slinky]

WFPG seems to have the best tropo-enhanced signal in the state. I've heard it in Massachusetts and Virginia Beach!

Agreed. I've heard WFPG as far down as Nags Head, NC.

Of course, which tropo-enhanced signal is best is going to be highly dependent on co-channel interference. 96.9 just doesn't have any on the coast to the south. The other big South Jersey signals do: 97.3-Virginia Beach, 104.9-Outer Banks, 95.1 and 100.7-Baltimore.

 

[Slinky]

On the way to Hatteras, I was listening to WCZT, WTKU, WIBG-FM and WZXL all in stereo on the Tidewater side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel there just last week. IBG was pretty dramatic, as we drove by the 1st adjacent 94.1 tower! And although another 150 miles further away, all of the AC AMs came in better in NC's Outer Banks than in VA...NO NOISE FLOOR. Of course the FMs were non existant on the return, except the amazing driving coverage of WFNE of the entire length of DE from New Castle to MD border, which they'll lose when they move to 106.3 (already on the air there).

I have a feeling WFNE will still do well if you're driving down 13 or 113 (better on 113) in DE. There's a 106.3 in Cambridge, MD but it's going over land to reach DE, while WFNE's path will still be mostly water.