I was flipping through the radio dial on Friday night, when I came across the following: "Weather and traffic together on the eights". Now, no CT radio station has that type of tag line, so I listened some more and discovered that it was WCBS being rebroadcast on WPOP. Yes, WPOP is a Yankees affiliate and WCBS is the flagship, but since the game was rained out, WPOP didn't go back to default programming, ESPN, but continued to simulcast WCBS.
What baffles me is why a major station in the Hartford market would be on auto pilot on a Friday night? WPOP is owned by Clear Channel, the largest radio whores on the planet, in a cluster with three other stations and they don't have someone on duty to pull the plug on WCBS and air ESPN instead? It makes WPOP look and sound like a high school radio station in which some poor smuck freshman forgot his radio orientation lessons.
Secondly, I have noticed in the last few days that WKND's signal is louder and clearer at night than usual. It's not overwhelming by any means and does tend to get a little scratchy, but it is there and able to be heard. Granted, I live in Windsor Locks, which is less than ten miles from the three-headed transmitter array WKND uses, but at 14 watts nighttime, most nights, WKND doesn't even get this far north. Is WKND playing around with the signal? I noticed the same thing earlier this year with WRYM, when its nighttime signal of 125 watts was booming up this far north. Hasn't done so in weeks, so I can presume that someone was playing with their transmitters, which I understand the FCC takes a dim view of!!
What baffles me is why a major station in the Hartford market would be on auto pilot on a Friday night? WPOP is owned by Clear Channel, the largest radio whores on the planet, in a cluster with three other stations and they don't have someone on duty to pull the plug on WCBS and air ESPN instead? It makes WPOP look and sound like a high school radio station in which some poor smuck freshman forgot his radio orientation lessons.
Secondly, I have noticed in the last few days that WKND's signal is louder and clearer at night than usual. It's not overwhelming by any means and does tend to get a little scratchy, but it is there and able to be heard. Granted, I live in Windsor Locks, which is less than ten miles from the three-headed transmitter array WKND uses, but at 14 watts nighttime, most nights, WKND doesn't even get this far north. Is WKND playing around with the signal? I noticed the same thing earlier this year with WRYM, when its nighttime signal of 125 watts was booming up this far north. Hasn't done so in weeks, so I can presume that someone was playing with their transmitters, which I understand the FCC takes a dim view of!!
