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WNNG Warner Robins/ Macon

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I see WNNG is about to give WMAC a run for their money. Any thoughts on how well they may take the big 940 out? Simulcasting WMAZ's 5 o'clock news is a good start. Something I suggested 15 years ago when I worked at WMAZ.
 
Are they keeping 103.9 news/talk? WNNG did quite well with both soft oldies and adult standards under Gordon Van Mol's management.
 
I don't think they'll take big 940 out since it's already well established.

Here in Tallahassee, former FM talker 106.1 tried to take on the more well-known Clear Channel
'WFLA' talker on 100.7. 106.1 was trounced.

Maybe WNNG will have better luck.
 
fwillis said:
Are they keeping 103.9 news/talk? WNNG did quite well with both soft oldies and adult standards under Gordon Van Mol's management.
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It's anybody's guess as to what will happen with "103-9 The Patriot". Although surely the format flip had to come as quite a surprise to some people in Warner Robins and surrounding areas. :eek: ???

Can anybody say "1350 The Patriot"? As for 103.9, maybe Fox Sports Radio could work on WRPG. Speaking of sports, adding a nightly sports talk program from 6-8 p.m. on 1350 is a good move for Georgia Eagle, especially in a city that loves its high school football so much in Warner Robins.

The biggest drawback for WNNG, though, is the poor nighttime signal. At 15,000 watts daytime, the former "Wing 1350" blasts all over the midstate, but after sundown, the signal barely covers Warner Robins and northern Houston County with just 500 watts. That station has come a long way from when it was WCOP, Toccoa Falls College Radio, with its Christian format and programming.
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I don't think it would take much to knock 940 down. I mean, I was through Macon last year on Memorial Day weekend. They bill themselves as a local "news" talk station. The two hours I listened, I heard NOTHING local about them. No local news casts. Nobody from any of the TV stations giving a local weather cast. It was on autopilot. If WNNG has someone local doing a newscast at the top of every hour, people will catch on.

I lived in Macon and worked for Channel 13 in the mid 90's (man, has it been that long?!) when they had Kenny B and Charles Richardson on in the morning. A white conservative and black liberal.......you'd think the morning show would be kinda interesting. A radio version of FNC's Hannity and Colmes perhaps. You'd be wrong. It was boring and bland and a total waste of time.

I'm always open to competition. If done right, it can make both parties better.
 
I thought Kenny B. and Jamie G. were interesting on WMAC but I can't stand the current morning crew, so I stopped listening. I can read The Telegraph myself and I'm not a fan of anyone who tries to sound like Ted Knight (of the MTM show) reading the news.
Maybe WNNG could do morning talk, but they'd still have to get a stronger signal and try covering Macon news as well as Houston Co. That could cost a couple of bucks.
The late Skip Holmes did some interesting talk when he was at WNNG. So, maybe they should just continue to be local for Warner Robins and try to do a jam up job at that.
 
Georgia Eagle has a new website for its Warner Robins radio cluster:

http://houstoncountyradio.com

From what was mentioned on that website, it appears that the line-up both WNNG and WRPG basically are a mirror image of each other, as both stations currently carry simulcasts of Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, and Bill O'Reilly, as well as Dennis Miller. Looks like a format change might be brewing for 103.9 in the coming months. Surprisingly, though, Fox Sports Radio will end up on WCEH-610 instead of WRPG-103.9 :eek:, while the format that was previously on WNNG will come to WDCO-1440 in Cochran, bumping the "Solid Gospel" format off the air.

Any questions? ???
 
Any questions?

Yeah, when are these people gonna quit kidding themselves? And, how much money do they have to lose before finally admiting that they don't have a clue?
 
Well I guess their first test would have been the storms last night. Did either station cover the weather?
 
I was visiting my parents in Unadilla over the weekend and listened some. They were simulcasting WMAZ-TV in Macon some and were promoted as a news/weather partner, or something. Listened to part of a one hour special driving home last night on the storms. Sounded good and professional for a small station.
 
garadiofan said:
I was visiting my parents in Unadilla over the weekend and listened some. They were simulcasting WMAZ-TV in Macon some and were promoted as a news/weather partner, or something. Listened to part of a one hour special driving home last night on the storms. Sounded good and professional for a small station.
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Unadilla huh? I'm from Vienna. Too bad WE don't have a radio station down there anymore to cover events like this. Did you get a chance to listen to 940?
 
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WMAC-AM covered the tornadoes full-throttle until 12:00 PM Sunday. Then they would intersperse coverage with normal programming. Cumulus may have gotten some criticism from me in the past but they came through this time. Clear Channel Macon was a joke. I heard little about the tornadoes once I turned to 102.5. CC Macon doesn't have ANY news programming. Only an Emergency Alert System would have let people know a tornado warning was in effect and they would likely tune to Cumulus.

I wonder if the AM or FM signal to WNNG will feature talk radio? That is the only way they can nibble away at WMAC-AM. Otherwise their AM's would have to be local yokel stations with syndicated programming.

I concur with Steve Malone; I miss Kenny and Charles. They had a wannabe quality but made up for it somehow. Maybe our town is too filled with uneducated and non-talented people to work in broadcasting.

KT
 
I tuned into 940 a couple of times, but don't remember hearing storm coverage, just usual programming. I have listened to their morning guys a time or too. Don't seem to be a good fit for middle Georgia. How have they been received as the replacements to Kenny and Jami?

I don't think WNNG can replace 940, but I have to say the 940 signal, depending on weather and time of day, is not that great in the southern part of Houston County. 50kw should give much more coverage. WNNG might give them some competition for ears in Houston County and perhaps some in Peach, Macon, and other counties south of Houston. I wish them well. At least they are trying something different with some local attention.

Wasn't the Vienna AM suppose to increase power? I heard it was for sale. Haven't tried listening in a while. Just don't know how anyone could make a living off an AM daytimer down there right now.
 
garadiofan said:
I don't think WNNG can replace 940, but I have to say the 940 signal, depending on weather and time of day, is not that great in the southern part of Houston County. 50kw should give much more coverage. WNNG might give them some competition for ears in Houston County and perhaps some in Peach, Macon, and other counties south of Houston. I wish them well. At least they are trying something different with some local attention.
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At night 940 is directional to the southeast with 10kW. The transmitter is out on Forsyth Road, and the nulls are pretty deep. I could see where reception in Houston county out toward Perry and all of Peach would be non-existant. However, it booms into Savannah!


Wasn't the Vienna AM suppose to increase power? I heard it was for sale. Haven't tried listening in a while. Just don't know how anyone could make a living off an AM daytimer down there right now.
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It did increase day power to 10kW. Night power is 25 watts! The problem is the new owners came in and installed a Hispanic format on it. The hispanic population of Dooly county is less than 1%. Sumter county is 2.5%. Crisp county is 1.8%. Pulaski county is 2.7% and Houston county is 1.5%. Just how do you expect to make a format like that work when you don't have the listeners?! Unless I had a population of 5% of any demographic, I would not consider programming to them.

It can be done, but not to a demographic making up less than 5% of the population. The station has been foreclosed on and is off the air from what I understand. I'm coming down Memorial Day weekend and I'm gonna stop by and look at it. I might make them an offer on it.
 
kturnerga said:
I wonder if the AM or FM signal to WNNG will feature talk radio? That is the only way they can nibble away at WMAC-AM. Otherwise their AM's would have to be local yokel stations with syndicated programming.
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Only if Georgia Eagle buys another FM station. Either that, or the Georgia Eagle management moves WNNG to 103.9 FM. While neither scenario is likely to happen anytime soon, you never know in an always changing business such as radio.
 
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