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WPLJ To Add Simulcast On Eastern L.I.

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

WPLJ will be getting a simulcast on the East End:
http://www.radio-info.com/news/wplj-new-york-to-get-a-long-island-simulcast

In an unprecedented move, Citadel is actually moving a news/talk format off FM, and eventually will be replacing it with the simulcast of WPLJ. The talk programming on WXLM 104.7 will move to AM 980 in October.

Good for WPLJ in that the branding will now reach across Long Island with the simulcast on 104.7. I think they'll beat their closest competitor in the hot AC format (WMJC) handily.

What does this mean for WABC ever moving to FM in New York? ???
 
This is great! LI has been missing a Hot a c for a while now, ever since BSQ failed which I thought was a great station. Any idea when this will all take place?
 
At some point in October, after a period of simulcasting the talk programming. No official date at this time.
 
There will still be a big hole in the 'PLJ signal on LI. 104.7 has trouble making it past Center Moriches on the south shore, and barely makes it to Calverton on the North due to WSPK-104.7 knocking it off the dial along the north shore. Basically, they won't cover from Port Jefferson to Riverhead on the north shore and a good chunk of area in the middhe from Coram to Riverhead. When the weather is bad, especially in the Spring, 104.7 has hardly any coverage west of South Hampton due to multiple signals dropping down over it, especially 104.7 from Maryland and 104.7 from Poughkeepsie NY. I worked at "Beach 104.7" P/T in the early 90's and remember plenty of times that we would be broadcasting in mono to try and ease up on the noise from all of the interference on bad weather days... It's one of the worst, if not the worst, signals on LI... 96.7 is pretty bad too...
 
That's weird, because during tropo in the Jersey Shore, I would usually pick up 104.7 XLM more than K104.7, and the occasional "FIRE, FIRE FIRE, FIRE, FIRE 104.7!" out of Brooklyn.
 
Tropo helps distant stations and hurts local stations. What you think is "bad" weather is "good" weather for us DXers.

But it does no good to have a station be heard 200 miles away and not heard 20 miles away in its own market.
 
I wonder if any frequency on or around 104 FM is susceptible to such tropo interference no matter where the transmitter is located. I ask because yesterday, a station down South had three or four different stations fading in and out over them in the course of a half-hour.
 
It all depends if there are distant stations on the same frequency

104.1 - Beach 104, Mix 104.1
104.3 - Q104, Z104.3
104.5 - Radio 104.5, WXLO
104.7 - Q105, K104
104.9 - SoJo 104.9

So in eastern Long Island, all the 104s would have tropo interference
 
WLIX 104.5 covers a good bit of east end for a so called low power east end and has 94.9fm mid Long island... www.wlixradio.com
I think 1045 is in Ridge LI.
 
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