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To answer what was asked earlier... I miss Harry and Richie. Especially as a team. Having said that, I don't think the broadcast product has suffered. Those two were irreplaceable, but...
Scott Franzke, and LA are really good as inheritors of really big shoes to fill. I like listening to them. They make an excellent team.
We still have to suffer through Wheels feeling as if he needs to fill the air with every word he's able to utter (but it's a love to hate him thing with me, maybe like many local listeners), along with Sarge. Jim Jackson does a good job after the game.
Good listen. Good product.
Scott Franzke, and LA are really good as inheritors of really big shoes to fill. I like listening to them. They make an excellent team.
We still have to suffer through Wheels feeling as if he needs to fill the air with every word he's able to utter (but it's a love to hate him thing with me, maybe like many local listeners), along with Sarge. Jim Jackson does a good job after the game.
Good listen. Good product.
J
Jul
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I hope last night's phillies game was not the last on WPHT, for a while. I hope they renew the contract to carry the phillies games for 2012 and beyond.
WEPN IS a big 50,000 watt signal. It's not listenable here because of KYW, but I remember listening to 1050 as WHN years back throughout New England at night & even on Cape Cod in daytime. In much of the Philadelphia area you can hear 1050 simulcast during the day on 1040 from Flemington. 1560 is blocked in the northern Philadelphia suburbs by WISP from Doylestown.phils07 said:
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jhguthlac
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I can still hear 1050 in Delaware, despite KYW. They still have a good signal.
phils07 said:
WEPN is what's called a "DA-1." There is no change in the signal it transmits from day to night.
For about 80% of the population within the New York Arbitron metro, WEPN's signal is entirely competitive with any of the other 50,000-watt AMs located in the New Jersey Meadowlands (710, 770, 1010, 1130). For at least a portion of the market (most notably the west side of Manhattan, especially north of 59th Street), WEPN is actually a much better signal than WCBS, which suffers significant signal degradation because of the non-conductive schist rock that makes up northern Manhattan and much of the Bronx.
This site, however, seems to be heavily weighted with listeners who make up the other 20%, the directional null across much of north and central Jersey that protects KYW (and vice versa). If you only talk to people in New Jersey, then, yes, WEPN's signal is lousy. If you talk to people within the city and in Westchester and Nassau, you won't hear much in the way of complaints about 1050. (As for Suffolk County, all of the NYC AMs are lousy out there, except for 660 and 880 on the North Shore, where there's a saltwater path right along the Sound from the High Island transmitter site.)
One of the louder non-area stations to here in NE PA is the ESPN 1040 from New Jersey. Are they a 100% simulcast of WEPN?
Of course, the 1040 is gone at night, too. WEPN 1050's coin-flip coverage into some regions of New Jersey continues for those night games.
But WPHT is the loudest radio signal here in Schuylkill County from Philadelphia. (I'd rather hear the Phiilies announcers call the Phils-Mets games than the WFAN guys, too, but that's by-the-by.)
I don't think that putting those Phiilies games on an FMer would do much except perhaps get younger listeners, perhaps even a dropoff in the overall total because of signal. 1210 is 50,000 watts omni, with hardly any co- or adjacent channel interference ever, while the FMers are packed in like anchovies nowadays. 106.1 is the loudest/most faithful of all the Philly FMers to here via car radio, but I haven't seen their name even close to being associated with this. Much depends on where those Phillies broadcasts go now vis-a-vis where planners are expecting/hoping the bulk of the crowd will go. WIP 610 puts in a good enough signal here in the day, but even their traditional 'same-pattern' nighttime signal gets chewed up too much. 1210 is by far the better bet on AM.
Question : Have the Phillies games on WPHT helped that station's numbers the way they've been noted as improving matters for WCBS 880 through the Yankees broadcasts?
Of course, the 1040 is gone at night, too. WEPN 1050's coin-flip coverage into some regions of New Jersey continues for those night games.
But WPHT is the loudest radio signal here in Schuylkill County from Philadelphia. (I'd rather hear the Phiilies announcers call the Phils-Mets games than the WFAN guys, too, but that's by-the-by.)
I don't think that putting those Phiilies games on an FMer would do much except perhaps get younger listeners, perhaps even a dropoff in the overall total because of signal. 1210 is 50,000 watts omni, with hardly any co- or adjacent channel interference ever, while the FMers are packed in like anchovies nowadays. 106.1 is the loudest/most faithful of all the Philly FMers to here via car radio, but I haven't seen their name even close to being associated with this. Much depends on where those Phillies broadcasts go now vis-a-vis where planners are expecting/hoping the bulk of the crowd will go. WIP 610 puts in a good enough signal here in the day, but even their traditional 'same-pattern' nighttime signal gets chewed up too much. 1210 is by far the better bet on AM.
Question : Have the Phillies games on WPHT helped that station's numbers the way they've been noted as improving matters for WCBS 880 through the Yankees broadcasts?
I hear the Phils got knocked out of the post season (I don't follow sports.... the only thing I know about the Phillies is that they pre-empt Rush several times a season). So what does WPHT HD4 do for the rest of the year? Its 3 listeners probably want to know.
I'm not sure where you're listening from (is it NEPA? NW NJ?) where 106.1 is the best Philly signal, but it can't be that close to Philadelphia and probably not in the DMA.
Most baseball teams these days have multiple station networks, do they not? The Yankees reach Connecticut and Florida (and even Worcester MA!) with theirs. If 1050 became the Yanks' station, then another station in in N or NW New Jersey could be added to the network.
Likewise if the Phillies are no longer on 1210, or maybe even if they still are. Of course for those of us who are Phillies fans, the radio broadcast has become the least of our concerns.
The problem arises when the teams don't recognize the shortcomings of the flagship station's signal, or don't care.
Most baseball teams these days have multiple station networks, do they not? The Yankees reach Connecticut and Florida (and even Worcester MA!) with theirs. If 1050 became the Yanks' station, then another station in in N or NW New Jersey could be added to the network.
Likewise if the Phillies are no longer on 1210, or maybe even if they still are. Of course for those of us who are Phillies fans, the radio broadcast has become the least of our concerns.
The problem arises when the teams don't recognize the shortcomings of the flagship station's signal, or don't care.
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