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When will Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/WPB join in with the other major cities....

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....and have a news/talker on FM, that isn't a translator?

Certainly WIOD doesn't intend to keep plugging 100.3 with its paltry signal.....

Almost all other cities now have seen the writing on the wall, and realized that music can now be downloaded or whatever.....

Orlando will join the 21st century on Friday.....

(Oh & BTW I am not referring to "hot talk".)

cd
 
I am not in the camp that it will happen soon. Conservative talk - the only non-"hot talk" or non-sports format on the AM dial - has not exactly done all that great in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach. This market trends toward local personalities, whether liberal or conservative. From Neil Rogers to Joyce Kaufman, they run the ideological table yet the successful ones have been local.
 
ScottBurns said:
I am not in the camp that it will happen soon.
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If any station on FM gets "nuked" it is likely to be WMIB. It's last in a 3-way Spanish language AC battle, which would make it vulnerable and a candidate for some form of news / talk / spoken word format.
 
Just remember, news and talk are expensive to program locally. If you go with all syndicated stuff, it's not much different than music (other than the fact that you can not add commercials anytime you want to increase revenue. Thre are only so many local "holes" for local spots in the satellite feed.)

So it's VERY simple to just add a simulcast to a profitable and well performing AM news and/or talk station. But WIOD is NOT getting ratings. (I don't know what their revenues are like.) WIOD is not like other stations in other markets that have now appeared on FM (WSB, WBBM, WDBO, etc.) It's not a very successful station. So a translator is an excellent choice. Especially if they can beef up that translator coverage.

How about put 940 on FM? This town seems to love sports, but all the AM stations can't seem to crack a 1 !
 
FLjack2 said:
Just remember, news and talk are expensive to program locally. If you go with all syndicated stuff, it's not much different than music (other than the fact that you can not add commercials anytime you want to increase revenue. Thre are only so many local "holes" for local spots in the satellite feed.)
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That doesn't seem to stop WIOD. I've heard many a "stopset run amock" where the local content (which is usually promos to spots at a 3 to 1 ratio) run into - or obliterate - the next segment of the syndicated show.
 
DE, thought you'd suggest an FM'er going against Mambi or QBA?
What do you think?
 
ai4i said:
DE, thought you'd suggest an FM'er going against Mambi or QBA?
What do you think?
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Not a chance. The average age of that kind of listener is about 70, and putting that content on FM is not going to help.

The sort of programming that is on 1260 might work, with adaptation... focused on Miami, not Cuba, and targeted at the huge Colombian community with secondary appeal to Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, etc. That group is much younger, and in many instances were used to listening to talk in their country of birth.

Since in the under-55 group, the majority is not Cuban (and US-born Cuban Americans are more likely to be consumers of English media), that is the only place that there is audience. It's a tough format, as all content would have to be done locally; that means expensive, too.
 
CD, quick question. I have not been south of Key Biscayne in about a year. Is the 100.3 translator interfering with WCTH? I remember being able to pick up WCTH as far north as South Beach. And I also remember that WCTH has a pretty big signal, although it mostly points south...
 
ScottBurns said:
CD, quick question. I have not been south of Key Biscayne in about a year. Is the 100.3 translator interfering with WCTH? I remember being able to pick up WCTH as far north as South Beach. And I also remember that WCTH has a pretty big signal, although it mostly points south...
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I doubt it. We went to the Keys today, and flipping the dial, I don't recall hide or hair of the xltr.

At my workplace near NW 25th St @ the Palmetto, the xltr dominates, but WCTH has little sprays every now and then.

cd
 
Thanks, CD. Even with the relatively low power of the translator, I am surprised that FCC allowed it, given how powerful WCTH is. All of these translators are making DXing much more difficult!
 
Thermal, or tropospheric, band openings extend the reaches of stations based on their power levels with no respect for antenna heights.
WDNA is pretty clear throughout Broward County in the daytime, but come nightfall, WQCS is on them like the proverbial odure on manure.
'CTH often obliterates W262AN, but it is unlikely the reverse would or could ever happen.
 
Looks like, from another thread, WIOD has also purchased W228BY from Reach Ministries and they have a CP to move it to a 450' roof in downtown Miami with a deep null toward W228BV, still a Reach property on a TV tower. Between the two translators, they should cover most of the two counties. We don't know why they are keeping 105.92, unless it is to eventually feed more translators outside of 610's 2mv/m contour.
 
Correction, BY was from Way, not Reach, I confuse them all!
 
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