Hey does anyone know what happened to Jammin Jay. His Daypart is now being voice tracked by the PD from the Columbus Hip Hop Outlet 98.3 the Beat. The Night Show is also Voicetracked from the station.
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WJIZ Albany
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Albany Urban radio sucks. Cumulus should've kept BLAZIN 102 around. They were the better Hip-Hop station IMO. Can't forget about HOT 106, they were solid competition for 96.3 WJIZ. WJIZ sounds horrible nowadays, however Lil D is da man in C-Town.
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kyscott
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ShawtyBlack_ATL said:
Should have been around 20 years ago! Way back before the evil green monster Clear Channel got their hands on everything. We listened to WJIZ on a regular basis in Vienna.
kyscott said:
If im not mistaken, wasn't WJIZ called "Z-POWER 96.3" back in the day?
fwillis said:
Actually, it was WOFF or "WOOF 105" back when urban programming aired at night during the 1980's.
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fwillis said:
WJIZ was huge way back in the 1970s. They went 100KW in the mid 70s about the time WJAZ and WJIZ were split and the Rivers family kept WJIZ and Roy Dowdy bought WJAZ(AM). It's ratings were unreal. No one came close but it was sold cheap back then. I remember one time I found out the station had like 5 network affiliations. The networks would pay you a low rate to clear their ads even if you didn't air their news product. There was no way WJIZ could have run all those network ads but they said they did!
Since WJIZ was urban, listeners throughout the area had a reason to buy a FM radio and to listen and back then the FM dial had a lot fewer stations and WJIZ's 100KW, even at just 400 some feet covered a long distance. Some time in there they called themselves the Giant something. Doc Suttles, long time PD, did a gospel music show at night and he had people listening everywhere out 100 miles from Albany.
The FM coverage award for its facility may have gone to WMTM in Moultrie. It's FM was 100,000 watts but the center of radiation was just 150 feet. Yep. It was mounted on the AM tower. I think with 10 bays! However, even though the 60 dBu contour barely went out 20 miles, I could sit in my car on St Simons Island and hear the station....not well but it was there. Donnie Turner could take a SCA Background service radio (pick up only 93.9) to any Colquitt County High School out of town football game. I saw him be able to monitor WMTM-FM way over in Eufaula, Alabama. I competed with Donnie on our 250 watt three tower directional AM signal on 1130 and watching him be able monitor his station that far away...just about made me sick!
Now at 600 feet, WMTM gets half the coverage it did then in the 1980s since so many other stations have moved in on and near the channel. The Turners should have filed many years earlier to get on the Channel 10 tower at Doerun but by the time they decided to make the move, it was too late. WGPC on 104.5 is the IF for 93.9 and it had already filed to move to its taller tower near the Marine Base. WMTM was downgraded from a full C to a C1. At one point, it would have worked on the Channel 6 2000 ft TV tower. The first big FM tower in South Georgia was Ralph Edwards' WCUP on 100.3 in Tifton. It got built in the mid 1970s and Ralph put up a 600 ft tower with a full 100KW. WJAD in Bainbridge came in with a 600 ft stick in the late 1970s. Back then a 600 ft FM tower was considered a tall FM tower. Then it went up to 1000 feet and now 2000 ft isn't that uncommon.
FM coverage finds itself the same place AM did in the 1950s. In the 1930s and 1940s, a 250 watt AM on a Class IV channel would easily cover 50 to 75 miles in Georgia...out to the shock wave. By the 1950s, they were down to 20 to 25 miles in the daytime. Even though another station may be 200 miles from your town...it's radiating a signal toward your frequency and knocking down the signal. if there is nothing on it...it goes and goes....just like WMTM's 100,000 watts did at 150 feet....
i used to work at Blazin 102.1 as a part timer. we was the better station but we just didnt have a good signal.
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