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WSJS Sold????

According to you engineers are not important. Nothing as high and mighty as programers. Shouldn't you know.
 
Now, now, children! We're all important parts of the whole!

ZTK has some serious multipath issues along Silas Creek Parkway - and there is another station that sometimes takes over. It ain't my radio - I have a high quality, Alpine FM tuner but it drives me crazy leaving the area around Wake Forest and heading back to the Hanes Mall area. Meanwhile, I took it almost all the way to Charlotte a couple of weeks ago.

A move closer to WS would possibly help, but I will leave that to the engineers to figure out! :~)
 
engineer suck @$$ and should stick to their bongs.

even bush wouldn't have flown back from texas in the middle of the night to re-insert a feeding tube into an engineer

(i just called u more useless than terry schiavo, brainless)
 
Wondering...

Would it be possible, if Curtis buys WSJS, to turn WZTK into the FM/eastern-half-of-the-Triad simulcaster for WSJS...in effect, replacing WSML?

I'm thinking of what Cox did in Dayton recently, flipping an FM in the northern part of the market from 80's to an FM simulcaster of news/talk WHIO/1290.

The signal situations are almost identical between 1290/95.7 and 600/101.1, only west/east instead of north/south. And 101.1 already has some built-in talk audience in its current incarnation.

News/Talk for the Triad...600/101.1 WSJS.

It gets the station onto FM, which is growing as a news/talk destination, and would appear to solve the station's Greensboro Problem more than 1200 does.

Am I totally off base?

(Note: This is just speculation on my part...)
 
WZTK can't move any further west. Both WPZS in Charlotte and WIFM in Elkin are first adjacent channel at 100.9. What might work for them would be a move to 101.3, a reduction in power and a move west, assuming they can directionalize to avoid interfering with WRAL at 101.5. Doing that would, however, put them in the same boat with WTHZ in that their coverage over parts of Alamance County would be weakened. Looks like you can't have both cities under one signal any more.

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
It gets the station onto FM, which is growing as a news/talk destination, and would appear to solve the station's Greensboro Problem more than 1200 does.
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It would solve the signal coverage problem, but not the locality issue. WSJS has had some serious problems in covering all of the Triad in terms of local news and issues, as they've mostly just stuck to Winston-Salem on both factors. I'd think that a boost in coverage in the eastern parts of the Triad might prompt them to fix that problem, but they'd have to be willing to take the time and put forth the effort. So far, I just haven't heard that from them.
 
I need to pull out my trusty allocation program and blow the dust off it. If I'm not mistaken, 101.1 is currently a full C. They might be able to downgrade to C1 and move west- even 10 miles would make a dramatic difference.
 
I was in Washington the other day and stoped in on some of my FCC friends the see where and if Curtis had asked for a tower upgrade. I was aslo checking on several projects and I swear Curtis had applied to upgreade the tower to improve the WS signal. Just can't remember......
Anyone else know????

Z Man

PS how is the weather up in NC today.....

;D
 
Well, the upgrade was what I was hinting at when BDR decided to make his stupid engineer comment. Hey, tool-fiddler, looks like some of us might be just as bright as you switch-monkeys.
 
I just think you reply was insensitive...that is all. Suppose to be about radio. You have a rgiht to all of your opinions and I am sure you do know a lot about somethings.
 
The smart move would be to upgrade WSML. You'd have to make a deal with CC, but, SML could go 50KW day and 10KW night. Both would be directional, and it might now be worth it - but I suspect it could greatly improve the signal over Greensboro.

Question is, if you simulcast ZTK and SJS, what the hell do you do with WSML?
 
XTalker said:
The smart move would be to upgrade WSML. You'd have to make a deal with CC, but, SML could go 50KW day and 10KW night. Both would be directional, and it might now be worth it - but I suspect it could greatly improve the signal over Greensboro.

Question is, if you simulcast ZTK and SJS, what the hell do you do with WSML?
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Thats easy...brokered religion.
 
It just makes a lot of sense thinking about it.

Curtis, if it bought WSJS, could turn the combination of it and FM WZTK into a regional news/talk powerhouse...it gets them onto FM, with a better eastern Triad signal than WSML, and it almost perfectly complements WSJS's W-S based signal.

If you've got 600 on your west flank, do you really care if there are problems with 101.1 out that way? Or maybe it just buys them time to eventually nudge 101.1 west, as suggested by some here, and make it the full-market WSJS-FM.

I'm guessing Curtis would also do more to serve the eastern half of the market, with a better signal than 1200.

What do you do with 1200? Didn't someone here hint at oldies as a new format coming in somewhere?

Hmm. :D

Honest, I know nothing about this from anyone. It's just a suggestion that seemed to make sense from me...but as I said, it would seem to make sense based on the evidence above (and reasonably educated speculation).
 
Josh C. said:
WSJS has had some serious problems in covering all of the Triad in terms of local news and issues, as they've mostly just stuck to Winston-Salem on both factors.
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I disagree with the news part of that comment. If you listen over a good period of time (all day, week), you'd hear their coverage is on a competitive level with the TV stations in this market. Their coverage is fairly balanced with the core Triad cities, and surrounding counties. However, since the majority of their audience is in Forsyth County, you couldn't fault them if they focused there. (WZTK would be a good example of trying to cover too much, Triad and Triangle, and not doing either well). Besides, there's no comparison in the news coverage there. WSJS is doing real radio news, covering stories, enterprising, interviewing local contacts, getting tape, etc. ZTK is reading wire copy, or stories they've copped elsewhere.
 
I don't know that interviewing folks from the WS/FC Chamber of Commerce three times a week counts as talking to newsmakers.
 
Don't know that they ever have, that I've heard. Care to step up and cite times/dates/examples, as opposed to a shoot from the lip opinion? Again, I'm speaking about news, not programming. And even if that were the case, at least they ARE interviewing people, unlike the competition!
 
Which carries about the same weight as your opinion, since you can't back it up with examples. Please....
 
btw -- it always amazes me on this board, when you call someone on an opinion, and ask for some facts to back it up, they get personal or juvenile.
 
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