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Wobl/Wdlw High School Football Schedule
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nice! i'm still hepfull that one day you will want to do spanish 24/7
I seem to recall that 1380 AM in Lorain was all-Spanish for a while several years ago.
With Spanish no longer being on FM this would be a great start. Not the same competition it had in 2000
The problem is that Lorain's population (much of it third and fourth-generation Puerto Rican immigrants) wasn't nearly enough to support the tropical format when Gary's predecessor Doug Wilber bought the station. Nor was there much of any real support for it outside of Lorain. It hasn't really improved since 2002.
WNWV 107.3-HD2 and WJMO 1300 both added Spanish formats for the Cleveland market last year. With the current state of immigration in this country, I wonder if the growth of Spanish formats will slow down.
I created the Spanish station on 107.3 hd2 last year but the culture in Cleveland and the demo we wanted was for sure not consuming HD radio. It needs to be on FM .I launched La Mega on 87.7 back in like 2014 with a great signal but a huge part of the audience could not find us on 87.7 but even with that issue it lasted a few years and had great TSL and a decent Cume. Now that my company is in Columbus I would love to get back on FM in Cleveland .
The audience 1300 is going after is Puerto Rican so immigration and raids are not a major issue for that Demo .
The audience we had on 87.7 from Lorain was very impressive.
That's comparing a suburban AM to a FrankenFM. 87.7 needed the west side and Painesville a lot more in order to be viable.
And in any event, a theoretical Spanish format on 1380 cannot be supported just by Lorain listeners while forsaking the rest of the county. Especially in an environment where Gary's main competition just gave up and sold out to a Catholic operator. Maybe on an LPFM it could work but the FM band is too built up.
Exactly - Gary says he has a good thing going with WDLW/WOBL. Unless that changes, I don’t know why he would change or sell anything. For sales purposes, he likely needs both stations - WDLW with its oldies format and WOBL with its country and sports programming - to be attractive to advertisers in Lorain County.
87.7 FM started disappearing off of radios after the digital TV transition, as that frequency was used and reserved for the audio carrier of VHF 6 at 87.75 MHz. Essentially, any radio would be able to tune into the audio carrier of any analog TV broadcast operating on VHF 6, which can't be done nowadays in the digital era of TV broadcasting. Anyone with radios made after 2009 would have issues tuning in if the frequency range started at 87.9 FM instead of 87.7 FM.
WLFM-LP, was one of many "FrankenFM" stations that primarily operated as a radio station opposed to its intended use as a TV broadcast. Even when they signed on in 2012, the writing was already on the wall, as low power stations were not require to convert to digital until 2015. Converting to digital would render the FrankenFM concept useless, as any kind of radio (even HD Radio) would no longer be able to tune in. WLFM-LP was able to operate past the 2015 transition date, but the repack would displace them when WOUC was assigned to RF 6, which then caused WLFM-LP to operate at a whopping 3 watts and a greatly reduced coverage area! La Mega was dropped in 2020 when WLFM-LP transitioned to a digital TV broadcast on UHF 20. A year later, the station was sold to Gray, who now uses it as a Telemundo outlet under the calls WTCL-LD.
Is Munch calling games for WDLW alongside Don or for WOBL? Saw that he joined the Sports Krew along with doing Crunch games for y'all.
Won't say where but a local community's cable TV system now broadcasts the football games live. In the past it was on a delayed basis. In my opinion, the schools may be shooting themselves in the foot. Why would anybody slog themselves down to a stadium, fight for a parking spot, put up with snot-nosed kids running around causing problems because parents think it's a free baby sitting service for a couple of hours, and take a chance on a rainstorm or snowstorm coming out of nowhere? In most school districts the football program, by far, brings in the most amount of money for the athletic department than all other sports combined as well as for band parents/volunteers [or other entities] running the concession stands. Seems to me the lost money is going to have to be made up somewhere/somehow whether through season ticket holders/ticket price increases, concession stand price increases or reduction of service somewhere down the line.
With radio [or streaming] I don't think it's that big of a factor because people could drag a small radio or phone with them to watch and also listen to the game as it's played, people with crappy eyesight [yeah, including myself] that may have missed something could catch up with what happened by listening to the announcers describing what's going on.
With radio [or streaming] I don't think it's that big of a factor because people could drag a small radio or phone with them to watch and also listen to the game as it's played, people with crappy eyesight [yeah, including myself] that may have missed something could catch up with what happened by listening to the announcers describing what's going on.
Munch will be on 2 or 3 games for us this year due to his prior commitments...week 2 and 3 he will be doing color with Dave Rivera on Lorain County Sports Network You Tube Channel..and I believe 1 radio game with Don on wdlw