WSB-AM Debuts On FM Today at Noon

[Hotseat]

I hope that the tower move to Atlanta happens. I normally listened to WSRV HD2 and the signal was very flaky for me near East Point. And WBTS isn't all that great in signal for me but I will have to see when I visit soon...

Would there be short-spacing issues with 94.9 and 96.1?

 

[qbot101]

Not sure... but I can get 104.1 and 104.7, but not 105.3 so I'm not sure about the short spacing. I thought I saw something saying that WBTS downgraded their signal to get a Doraville city of license. Maybe I am mistaken.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

I hope that the tower move to Atlanta happens. I normally listened to WSRV HD2 and the signal was very flaky for me near East Point. And WBTS isn't all that great in signal for me but I will have to see when I visit soon...

Would there be short-spacing issues with 94.9 and 96.1?

There normally would be, but the station was grandfathered in because it was around (although in Athens) before the short-spacing rules were established.

 

[Wildstyle K]

So why would a non-radio geek care to seek out the Beat on HD2 (again, with no local content to speak of?)

It makes less sense than the available options online. I seriously doubt many people follow these versions of formerly favorite mainstream stations online or to HD.

I know! If anything, I'd rather listen to this http://www.hot1079online.com/HotMusic.aspx ! ;D

 

[jabba17]

Was listening to WSB @95.5...processing is MUCH improved. Bumper music sounded just as good as a music FM (minus the stereo), and Herman Cain sounded much better. All of the noise is now gone.

 

[BarryATL]

I agree, the processing is better. The signal is still weak in Buckhead, Midtown, and Downtown. Lots of static. Reminds me of WABE's signal when they were out on Stone Mountain. The carrier was never quiet in the city.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

I agree, the processing is better. The signal is still weak in Buckhead, Midtown, and Downtown. Lots of static. Reminds me of WABE's signal when they were out on Stone Mountain. The carrier was never quiet in the city.

Also around Druid Hills area in Decatur....static!

 

[RoddyFreeman]

I agree, the processing is better. The signal is still weak in Buckhead, Midtown, and Downtown. Lots of static. Reminds me of WABE's signal when they were out on Stone Mountain. The carrier was never quiet in the city.

Also around Druid Hills area in Decatur....static!

The signal has problems in the areas near the Richland site, where 94.9 and 96.1 transmit from.

 

[Hepcat]

Something else to consider. I have problems picking up WSB AM at night from just 50 miles away. Something about too much iron ore in the ground (as has been mentioned here). But I can pick it up pretty well in north Alabama & Misissippi. I dunno. And forget about 640 at night even close by.

I do have some of the best tuners and radios and antenna available and I love the idea of WSB on 95.5. I'm a talk show junkie of sorts and just about abandoned AM, FM for XM.

And, yes, as far as teenagers and AM, most of them can't even spell AM.

 

[jabba17]

Something else to consider. I have problems picking up WSB AM at night from just 50 miles away.

Isn't there a phenomenon where an AM station's groundwave and skywave signals interfere with each other, in a donut-shaped area around the transmitter, where the groundwave isn't strong enough to listen to well but it's still strong enough to interfere with the skywave signal?

I've noticed that problem with WSB, but not just 50 miles out. More like 100 miles out. Around Greenville WSB is almost unlistenable, but picks up again in Spartanburg, as one drives up I-85.

 

[secondchoice]

Something else to consider. I have problems picking up WSB AM at night from just 50 miles away.

Isn't there a phenomenon where an AM station's groundwave and skywave signals interfere with each other, in a donut-shaped area around the transmitter, where the groundwave isn't strong enough to listen to well but it's still strong enough to interfere with the skywave signal?

I've noticed that problem with WSB, but not just 50 miles out. More like 100 miles out. Around Greenville WSB is almost unlistenable, but picks up again in Spartanburg, as one drives up I-85.

Yes the “skywave” can be affected by the temperature too. During daytime the ozone is usually higher in the atmosphere. When the air is cooler and more compact the ozone is closer to the surface and reflects better too. The angle which the radio wave and its wavelenth when it meets meets the ozone has a lot to do with where or if the skywave comes back to earth. WSB and all Atlanta AMs have trouble with the poor ground signal (bad soil conductivity for AM) not being able to carry enough signal to overcome what is reflected during the day in the fringe areas. Thus the donut effect. This only gets worst at night. North of Canton you often will hear music in the back round of Herman and Savage at night on 750AM. Sometimes the music is better than the talk, but that is another subject. There is a section for DXing on this site that has a lot of talk on this topic.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

My apologies if this got answered deep in the thread, but I just saw it:

Personally, I'm waiting for the WSB-AM app (or, even better, a Cox version of CC's iheartradio) for Android.

You can listen to WSB on the Android via a free app called TuneIn...check the Android Market for it. It basically gets you all stations that aren't in CC's IHR.

 

[qbot101]

And now, WBTS' integration into WSB has been complete: I heard their top of the hour station sataion ID online: WSBB FM - Doraville. It sounded mumbled, so I went onto the FCC website and lo and behold: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=11710&Callsign=WBTS

I wonder which Cox station gets the WBTS calls now...

 

[JR1967]

Something else to consider. I have problems picking up WSB AM at night from just 50 miles away.

Isn't there a phenomenon where an AM station's groundwave and skywave signals interfere with each other, in a donut-shaped area around the transmitter, where the groundwave isn't strong enough to listen to well but it's still strong enough to interfere with the skywave signal?

I've noticed that problem with WSB, but not just 50 miles out. More like 100 miles out. Around Greenville WSB is almost unlistenable, but picks up again in Spartanburg, as one drives up I-85.

Yes the “skywave” can be affected by the temperature too. During daytime the ozone is usually higher in the atmosphere. When the air is cooler and more compact the ozone is closer to the surface and reflects better too. The angle which the radio wave and its wavelenth when it meets meets the ozone has a lot to do with where or if the skywave comes back to earth. WSB and all Atlanta AMs have trouble with the poor ground signal (bad soil conductivity for AM) not being able to carry enough signal to overcome what is reflected during the day in the fringe areas. Thus the donut effect. This only gets worst at night. North of Canton you often will hear music in the back round of Herman and Savage at night on 750AM. Sometimes the music is better than the talk, but that is another subject. There is a section for DXing on this site that has a lot of talk on this topic.

Down here in Newnan the nighttime signal of WSB is the same way-you can also hear music in the background like you can North of Canton. I am guessing that it is the 100K signal from Venezuela that David Eduardo has mentioned often.

 

[jabba17]

And now, WBTS' integration into WSB has been complete: I heard their top of the hour station sataion ID online: WSBB FM - Doraville. It sounded mumbled, so I went onto the FCC website and lo and behold: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=11710&Callsign=WBTS

I wonder which Cox station gets the WBTS calls now...

Yeah, I heard that this morning--essentially the same TOH splash but with "WSBB-FM" replacing "WBTS" in the really quiet FM ID right before the big splash. It sounded a little bit louder than before but not by much.

If the AM simul flops, they could always go back to music as "BB95.5".

#1 With A BB for Listening Other Than At Work.