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WMC 790 apparently going back to Sports

With 1380 no longer doing dollar-a-holler (it's now Estereo Luz 1380) the temptation to sell time by the hour on 730 is probably pretty high. I guess we will see how long full time sports on 730 lasts without any content beyond Chis Vernon.

Won't be long before colon blow 730 hits the air.
 
Typing in sportsam790.com now gets you this:

>Website Coming Soon...
You are seeing this page because the DNS for this site was recently changed inorder to make the site live.
DNS changes generally take 24 to 48 hours to fully propagate through the internet.

Though I don't know if that was from another station (Houston?) or not. Tried WHOIS search and got nothing
 
So here's your AM line up in Memphis...

560 WHBQ Sports (Yahoo Sports Network)
600 WREC Conservative Talk (Rush, Hannity, Beck, Savage, Coast to Coast)
640 WCRV Religion
680 WMFS Sports (ESPN)
730 KQPN Sports (Losing Fox Sports affiliation)
790 WMC Sports (New Fox Sports affiliate)
990 KWAM Conservative Talk
1030 WGSF Regional Mexican
1070 WDIA R&B
1180 WPLX Blues
1210 WMPS Conservative Talk
1240 WAVN Gospel
1340 WLOK Gospel
1380 WLRM Spanish Religion
1430 WOWW Radio Disney
1480 WBBP Gospel
1600 WMQM Religion

At one point 730 KQPN was liberal talk but I guess that didn't work. Also gone are Classic Country and Adult Standards formats. Four Sports stations, three Conservative Talk stations, three Black Gospel stations. Lots of duplication on the AM dial but not much variety.


Gregg
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That lineup of AM stations breaks my heart.
 
And no AM station makes the Top 10 in the ratings. Meanwhile in Chicago and San Francisco, AM stations are #1 and another AM station is in the top 10. In LA, KFI is #2. NYC has two All-News stations in their top 10 while Memphis has NO All-News station.
 
Gregg said:
And no AM station makes the Top 10 in the ratings. Meanwhile in Chicago and San Francisco, AM stations are #1 and another AM station is in the top 10. In LA, KFI is #2. NYC has two All-News stations in their top 10 while Memphis has NO All-News station.
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Is there enough news in Memphis for it to be worth doing 24 hours? I don't think so. All news is a major market format, it seems. NPR and the canned news from WREC seem to be adequate. Oh and the WMC audio on the WYPL. ;)
 
As bad as the Memphis AM dial is, it could be worse...much worse. Look at Little Rock AR circa
October 2011 (per recent bandscan).

690 KEWI Standards (rimshot in Benton AR)
760 KMTL brokered religion (including 1 hr of Tony Alamo wkdays)
880 KLRG brokered talk programming (including Alex Jones), daytime station essentially.
920 KARN-AM sports talk FOX Sports, Jim Rome, Traveler Baseball PBP
1050 KJBN brokered religion
1090 KAAY brokered religion, still on STA/reduced power. Unlistenable at nightime in South AR due to IBOC QRM
1250 KPZK simulcast of hip-hop KIPR 92.3 "Power 92 Jams"
1380 KDXE Hispanic
1440 KTUV Hispanic

Old timers can remember stations on 1010 (KLRA), 1150 (KXLR). Those frequencies have been deleted in the past 16 years.
 
WDIA was a top 10 performing radio station until their tower problems and they operated at reduced power for almost a year...then there was that PPM thing.
 
rgseark2009 said:
1090 KAAY brokered religion, still on STA/reduced power. Unlistenable at nightime in South AR due to IBOC QRM
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Strange, I used to have no problems getting them in Grenada Mississippi after dark, or anywhere else in the MS Delta for that matter. And just this morning I got a good solid lock on some preaching from Pensacola, FL and figured it was them. What kind of low power are they running?

I think Mobile could give Little Rock & Memphis a run for worst AM dial:

540 - WASG - religious
660 - WXQW - religious* // 900 WGOK
710 - WNTM - news/talk // WRKH-HD2
840 - WBHY - religious // W278AP
900 - WGOK - religious // 660 WXQW
960 - WLPR - gospel
1110 - WTOF - religious*
1220 - WABF - standards*
1270 - WIJD - religious talk
1360 - WMOB - religious
1410 - WNGL - Catholic religious
1480 - WABB - 3rd string talk

Nothing like 9 religious-formatted stations competing against each other, not to mention the other 5 religious signals on FM in town. ::)

Stations with an asterisk are from Baldwin County and are rimshots with decent signals. Unlike Memphis, our ground conductivity stinks so even though I've got 44 AM signals on my website's Mobile-Pcola-Biloxi listings only a few make it into Mobile and only 660 and 840 are anything approaching full coverage of Mobile County.
 
That website shows 2007-2009 at the bottom. For a long time both it and the site for 1600 used to come even up with a notice that they had not paid for the hosting.
 
Zach said:
Is there enough news in Memphis for it to be worth doing 24 hours? I don't think so. All news is a major market format, it seems. NPR and the canned news from WREC seem to be adequate. Oh and the WMC audio on the WYPL. ;)
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There may be enough news, but there's not enough money. All news has the highest power ratio in the industry, but it also has the highest operating cost. Beyond that, you can count on losing money, truckloads of it, for your first two years. You'd have to have really deep pockets to run that format, and I don't think anyone in Memphis is willing to spend the kind of money it would take to make the format successful.
 
If 1380 is doing Spanish religion, that may actually be filling a need in the Memphis area. WVIM used to do Spanish Christian programming at night when it was a CCM format in the daytime, and when they sold and changed formats that was actually a bigger loss since CCM was being done by K-LOVE. So this could actually be something FW Robbert is doing that is actually good, even if it's just because someone flashed enough money in their faces and LMA'd the station. But what are the chances we could still end up with crackpots and conspiracy freaks, only in Spanish? ::)
 
I'm guessing that calling one's self "Sports (frequency)" is too generic to be considered a common law trademark, and thus, doesn't infringe on "Sports 56."

And, I guess with PPM, it doesn't matter?

DE
 
Reminds me of the last days of shortwave broadcasting..... shame




Zach said:
rgseark2009 said:
1090 KAAY brokered religion, still on STA/reduced power. Unlistenable at nightime in South AR due to IBOC QRM
Click to expand...

Strange, I used to have no problems getting them in Grenada Mississippi after dark, or anywhere else in the MS Delta for that matter. And just this morning I got a good solid lock on some preaching from Pensacola, FL and figured it was them. What kind of low power are they running?

I think Mobile could give Little Rock & Memphis a run for worst AM dial:

540 - WASG - religious
660 - WXQW - religious* // 900 WGOK
710 - WNTM - news/talk // WRKH-HD2
840 - WBHY - religious // W278AP
900 - WGOK - religious // 660 WXQW
960 - WLPR - gospel
1110 - WTOF - religious*
1220 - WABF - standards*
1270 - WIJD - religious talk
1360 - WMOB - religious
1410 - WNGL - Catholic religious
1480 - WABB - 3rd string talk

Nothing like 9 religious-formatted stations competing against each other, not to mention the other 5 religious signals on FM in town. ::)

Stations with an asterisk are from Baldwin County and are rimshots with decent signals. Unlike Memphis, our ground conductivity stinks so even though I've got 44 AM signals on my website's Mobile-Pcola-Biloxi listings only a few make it into Mobile and only 660 and 840 are anything approaching full coverage of Mobile County.
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