• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

WIGL now WSCZ

Great choice! 94.7 in Sumter is a fantastic rock station. I just wonder how well the signal does in the metro area where it matters? Can JimBob pick it up with his shaky AM/FM boombox in his Forest Hills garage...or in his '91 Toyota with the power antenna that stays down?

These are important things to think of on these rimshots. Who's gonna listen? I hope this works out. It's going to be a tight rock market up there now!

Radio-X
 
Those are good questions but take from an LPFM that knows, the netro area is going to have trouble some days some not so much, Jimbob's shaky boombox needs to be hit with a hammer but most garage's won't have too many problems getting a signal (experence talking), as for the 91 Toyota with the broke antenna if it dont come when the radio is on then chances are he not listening to any radio stations just CD's or tapes since even the strong stations would fade in and out most of the time. Of course what your saying is will a rimshot station cover the Columbia market strong enough to take care of everyone that it needs to, answer probability not everyone but of they cover nine tenths of them then they would be doing extremely well. Oh and Ken I know your going to read this post so spelled probly out instead of short hand so you can quit kidding me about never spelling it right.
 
Based on recent monitors of WARQ, Z93-9 should have plenty of room to position themselves between WARQ and yet another sleepy JB&B Fox. WARQ seems to be a bit preoccupied with late teens and early 20's listeners and probably the University audience. They play lots of SSPU, Dirty Heads, Phoenix, etc., in additon to current Mainstream Rock, like 3DG, etc. I did some checking and Sneed did put the station together for Miller Communications. For those who don't know who he is, he was the PD for the old WKDF in Nashville when it was Rock, was PD twice at 96 Rock in Atlanta, and did a Hard Rocker for ABC in Houston back in the 80's. He's consulted a ton of Rock stations in the South (WXNR, WSFL, WAVF, WYBB, WRXK, WJBX, WQBZ, WRZK, etc.)--even though he was the corporate programmer for Radio One doing Urban and R&B for several years. I think he even worked for Inner City consulting WBLS in New York at one time.
 
David:

Good observations. IMHO WSCZ starts sucking the air out of the room for Fox and WARQ. It may not happen quickly, but neither does CO2 poisoning...

The old KDF was a legendary rock station, which unfortunately had management that decided in the mid-1990's Young Country fad to kill it off and head to the turd-kicker crowd.
 
Honestly, I don't know how Z-93 will be a contender. Last night after the BEACH MUSIC (wtf) show, they had dead air for 12 hours! Between the dead air, beach music on sundays, and the signal, I dunno how they will make it. It would make sense for Miller to get a translator in the areas south of downtown to enchance the signal. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the playlist on the station. It's great. But WDRR in Augusta seems to always stick their ugly head in. During a DX last week, I was driving through Gaston and 93.9 in Conway was coming in clear!
 
I noticed the dead air, as well. I cannot confirm this, but I suspect they they were transitioning to a Columbia area studio. IIRC Miller cannot operate WSCZ from the Sumter studios.

I got to drive into the Southeast this evening. The signal is fine in that area. It won't stop a scan, but its certainly listenable. Don't know how well it will fend off the summer e-skip, but almost everyone has that to deal with.
 
You might as well forget about the e skip till it leaves nothing can be done about it. If you like DXing then good (I do) but for listening local or simi local it sucks, beleive me I know.
 
I really think it was a STUPID move to change the format on these two Mix stations and never even stream it. I asked this one jerk for airchecks of it and he won't trade with me. Doesn't anyone else have airchecks of Mix 93.9 and Mix 94.7 in SC? Why they never streamed those Mix stations I don't know but I will find out.
 
icycool7227 said:
I really think it was a STUPID move to change the format on these two Mix stations and never even stream it. I asked this one jerk for airchecks of it and he won't trade with me. Doesn't anyone else have airchecks of Mix 93.9 and Mix 94.7 in SC? Why they never streamed those Mix stations I don't know but I will find out.
Click to expand...

Miller recently began streaming their stations not too long ago. You can listen to all their Sumter/Florence stations. Back in the Mix days, I don't believe Miller was streaming. As for Z93.9, give em time and they will eventually stream. Their streaming stations are listed below with the website link.

Bad Dog 94.7- http://www.baddog947.com/
Star 93.7-http://www.star937.net/
Power 99.3-http://www.power993.com/
 
Those call letters sounded familiar to me. I'll need Art Sutton's help to remember this, but didn't Bill change from WCRS to WSCZ in Greenwood in the mid 80's? I can't remember if Art changed them before he sold it or not. I think I remember an old station van that the very colorful Jim Warren drove around had those call letters on it. I remember I was doing mornings on 94.1 and we simulcasted on 96.7 on the East Durst antenna for about a month before Art moved it and Steve Blair had re-recorded the legals but I can't remember the calls.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom