I love this. But, radio geeks being here is all the more reason to occasionally bring peoples' focus back to the reality of the audio (not "radio") landscape in 2023. Personally, I get a kick out of it when a thread has posts that keep alternating between "reality of how the business works today" and stuff like "I hate HD because it makes it so I can't hear far-away stations I'm not supposed to be getting anyway."
You just started the next space race: Will the USA, Russia, India, or China be the first to put a transmitter on the moon?
Their website design is straight out of 2004 as well. I mean really, a ten year old could design a better website for them in five minutes, in between glances at tiktok and MrBeast videos lol.
That would be fair. I mean, in a way, this is a friggin disaster.
I am 100% sure that vastly more people will be taking 99.5 off their presets. And I agree that a huge signal like this is a very odd home for such a niche format.
Not really that odd. Sadly, this will become more commonplace in this industry as music formats move to Spotify, Pandora, satellite, and internet stations and FM becomes the AM radio of the old days with formats like news, talk, religious, sports, etc. becoming more commonplace.
The industry has been depressing me for years. But that is really depressing. In a decade, the entire band may be propaganda, religion (are they different things?), sports, and news. And really, by then, will folks still be turning on a radio to get news?
This gave me the biggest laugh of my day so far.
I've got 10 country options here in eastern Vermont -- seven if you disregard the three translators that carry stations whose main signals are also audible -- but only three for religion. Wanna swap?
In the general Philly area we have 88.9 WBZC, 89.5 WYPA., 90.5 WVBV, 95.3/1540 W237EH/WNWR, 97.1 W246AQ, 100.7 W264BH, 103.5 W278AK, 106.9 WKVP, 107.5 WBYN, 560 WFIL, 640 WWJZ, 690 WPHE, 740 WJFP (far-right talk but heavily religious still) WTMR 800, 860 WWDB (airs religious programs) 950 WKDN, 1040 WCHR, 1570 WISP.
I think that such remarks would be out of character on an AC station. In any case, I am glad that the hosts are keeping it civil.
That other potential buyers for a powerful signal already running a popular mainstream format would have been unable or unwilling to outbid a Godcaster for that station would terrify me, too, were I in radio. I guess the advertising depression is only getting deeper, and buyers who don't have the advantages that religious operators have feel that acquiring more stations is too risky.
