As of Thursday WSCR is now simulcasting on WJMK-HD2.
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WSCR on HD2 is on
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cheffo200 said:
Don't know. I'm guessing they're gone.
stormy01 said:
Ahh but that costs money & broadcasters don't want to spend the $$$.
radioman148 said:
That's why less and less people listen to ¢heap ¢hannel, the ¢loud company, ¢heapadel, SeeBS, etc. and more are listening to the internet, through cellphones, mp3, CD's and satellite. Most FM is CHR (read: the junk of today, Rap), Country or Rock. Most AM is Talk, News, Ethnic Brokered or Infomercials.
stormy01 said:
That's why I'm usually hooked into my ipod. The personality & fun are no longer in radio.
=[ OK NOW THAT IS #4 THAT THE SCORE WASTED! ( WAIT)==(WJJD)==(WMAQ)==AND NOW (WJMK).LET'S LOOK AT IT THIS WAY!!WHEN THE SCORE TOOK OVER (WAIT) THE PEOPLE THAT WORK THERE ARE NOW OUT OF A JOB=ALL THE AIR STAFF AND THE PEOPLE THAT WORK THERE.=THE SAME AT(WJJD)==(WMAQ}AND NOW (WJMK}HOW MANY MORE STATION'S WILL THEY WASTE??? THAT IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT! ! THERE ARE SOME OF YOU OUT THERE THAT CALL ME GRANPA BECAUSE OF WHAT I SAID ABOUT THE OTHER STATION'S=O WELL. HEY HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND AND I HOPE YOU [ SCORE ] ;D
BOBBY.B said:
I don't think you should blame the Score. Try blaming CBS.
When WSCR (The Score) signed-on at AM 820, the staff you used to work at the old WAIT were ALREADY out of a job. The station was already 'silent' when Diamond Broadcasting bought the license from Century Broadcasting. Century had the towers in Elmhurst torn down and took the station off the air. Diamond used their existing tower (for WXRT and WSBC) on Belmont Avenue for WSCR, however they could not broadcast at night which was possible when the towers were in Elmhurst with the previous owner. Contrary to what some people have said, the signal DID go out a reasonable distance at night. I'm 20 miles north of Elmhurst, and the station came in fine in AM Stereo. I remember that The Score used to run ads in the Sports section of the Chicago Tribune that criticized the FCC and WBAP in Dallas that they could not broadcast at night. Actually that was Diamond's OWN fault. They were the ones that bought a license of a station without towers. They were the ones using a single tower on Belmont Avenue. Nobody was stopping Diamond from buying land to erect new towers to transmit at night.
Even when Century had last owned AM 820, it was only a simulcast of FM 100.3 (WXEZ-FM and later WPNT-FM), so I doubt there were many people working just for AM 820.
KeithE4 said:
They did have a good signal on 820 as I could hear them up to central Wisconsin. On 1160 they didn't make it.
The 820 signal is still quite good. Over in SW Michigan, they are very listenable (if you care to listen), and actually are fairly comparable to AM 1000 in most areas.
As a kid, I always pondered why I could hear 820 over at our lake house, but not 1110-- and they both ran 5 kW. There is quite a bit of difference between the ground conductivity at those two frequencies. The same is true when you go from, say, 1230 up to 1620. A class D running 1 kW on 1230 can go a lot farther than a 10 kW spandex band signal in many cases (depending on co-channel interference issues). In fact many of those mid-band Class D's are interference limited.
As a kid, I always pondered why I could hear 820 over at our lake house, but not 1110-- and they both ran 5 kW. There is quite a bit of difference between the ground conductivity at those two frequencies. The same is true when you go from, say, 1230 up to 1620. A class D running 1 kW on 1230 can go a lot farther than a 10 kW spandex band signal in many cases (depending on co-channel interference issues). In fact many of those mid-band Class D's are interference limited.
radioman148 said:
1160 would have made it into central WI if they were omnidirectional - 1160 has been and still is transmitting from the Ballard Rd. site just east of the I-294 Tri-State Tollway in Des Plaines and most of the signal is directed southeast towards the most heavily populated area of Chicagoland.
By the way, the new overnight Les Grobstein show is pretty good, though I liked David Stein from Sporting News Radio. But it makes good sense to be live and local in the overnights as at least WIND and WGN are doing that... The WSCR schedule is showing that SNR will still be on some nights: Fri.-Sun.
stormy01 said:
I didn't know Les Grobstein was back on the Score. There's no mention of him on their website.
radioman148 said:
Check here: http://www.670thescore.com/pages/3578667.php Unless this page on their site is out of date...
I found out about this here: http://www.chicagolandradioandmedia.com/ Scroll down to: The Grobber is back...
Thanks for the info.
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