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WJJJ 107.1 changes formats

the $64,000 question is

What's the difference between SAM and the other VH station (music, imaging, personalities, etc.)?

Thanks.

> Per the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, WJJJ 107.1 will change its
> format to Sam 107.1. Another JACK FM type of format with
> the call letters WGSM
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06028/645713.stm
>
 
Re: the $64,000 question is

> What's the difference between SAM and the other VH station
> (music, imaging, personalities, etc.)?
>
> Thanks.

The $5.50 plus a circle of muenster cheese question is: does Bob-FM cover all/most/some/little of Westmoreland County, such that Sam will make an impact in Bob's absence?

I'm not sure of 96.9's range east.
 
Re: the $64,000 question is

> > What's the difference between SAM and the other VH station
>
> > (music, imaging, personalities, etc.)?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> The $5.50 plus a circle of muenster cheese question is: does
> Bob-FM cover all/most/some/little of Westmoreland County,
> such that Sam will make an impact in Bob's absence?
>
> I'm not sure of 96.9's range east.
>

97s signal is not bad in Westmoreland, but this isn't about competition. Since the Renda subsidiary bought it and is going to market it as a local Greensburg station, it's a satellite format that they think they can sell. Nothing more, nothing less.<P ID="signature">______________
"With God as my witness, I could have sworn turkeys could fly."</P>
 
Re: SAM, Greensburg, Satellite-Fed Format and You

> > > Point well made, as long as their is mucho $$'s go fo
> it,
> > I
> > > wish them well, I just wish I could hear it in my neck
> of
> > > the woods!
> >
> > Most folks here apparently didn't read the entire article,
>
> > which states that the new WGSM "Sam 107.1" will move back
> to
> > Greensburg.

I believe that also was the callsign for a station in Huntingdon on Long Island just outside New York City, at AM 740. Just for what it's worth.

By the way, while Renda is slowing eating the lunch of John Longo, whose WLCY now is part of Renda's Indiana empire, he'll have to make sure WCNS' local orientation (news, sports, public service, et al), plugged in nicely around its syndicated oldies service (the same one, by the way, WJPA runs at night), doesn't give the St. Pier folks indigestion.


> >
> > And by its name, one assumes it'll be running Westwood
> One's
> > satellite-fed version of the format by that name.
> >
> > -OA
> >
>
> I just read the article, since for some reason I couldn't
> get the P-G website to open yesterday. (Lord knows why...)
>
> Anyway, two points here:
>
> (1) Renda is a very competent operation, and
> Pittsburgh-proud so to speak. Not that Sheridan wasn't, but
> I think they finally realized that the 107.1 signal was so
> out of the way (especially once the WAMO move was completed)
> that they didn't necessarily make anything with it in
> white-bread Westmoreland Co.
> (2) Sam will be fine. Satellite-fed stuff seems to be the
> name of the game in suburban stations anymore--Pickle in
> Fayette and Beaver-Lawrence; Jack at WOMP; now Sam at WGSM
> (wasn't that an Atlanta station years ago?). As long as it
> can be sold, it will survive. And Westmoreland Co. is a
> pretty open space as far as that's concerned.
>
> Finally, to echo something else here: What happens with
> Majic 860?
>
 
Re: SAM, Greensburg, Satellite-Fed Format and You

> Anyway, two points here:
>
> (1) Renda is a very competent operation, and
> Pittsburgh-proud so to speak. Not that Sheridan wasn't, but
> I think they finally realized that the 107.1 signal was so
> out of the way (especially once the WAMO move was completed)
> that they didn't necessarily make anything with it in
> white-bread Westmoreland Co.

Looking at the usual suspect signal "for entertainment only" maps... 107.1 is a pretty bad rimshot, it would appear. It's got a lot of problems, not the least of which is a certain Glunt Operated 107.1 in Greenville PA, in the way of it moving any further west or north towards Da Burgh. It only "worked" as an eastern Pittsburgh area simulcast component with an urban AC format that had to use AM in Pittsburgh itself.

Moving back to Greensburg really is the only choice, aside from pairing up with a western rimshot signal into Pittsburgh...

> (2) Sam will be fine. Satellite-fed stuff seems to be the
> name of the game in suburban stations anymore--Pickle in
> Fayette and Beaver-Lawrence; Jack at WOMP; now Sam at WGSM
> (wasn't that an Atlanta station years ago?). As long as it
> can be sold, it will survive. And Westmoreland Co. is a
> pretty open space as far as that's concerned.

I'd expect a heavy dose of local high school sports on 107.1 once it kicks back to Greensburg, and maybe a local morning show to plug back into the Westmoreland County community...with "SAM" the rest of the way. It's a pretty standard formula.

> Finally, to echo something else here: What happens with
> Majic 860?

As noted elsewhere here, it becomes an urban talker, taking Radio One/Reach Media's network starting sometime next month. Sheridan's own (AURN) Bev Smith stays 7-10 PM, and Reach's Tom Joyner stays in morning drive.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
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