I can remember a few years back one local station where music was playing and then ads started playing on top of the music. This went on for hours. Annoying as hell, you would have thought it would have been fixed after at least one hour.
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WERE is almost nothing but Al Sharpton repeats (when not airing a brokered show) on weekends and even evenings.
There are hundreds of legendary AM stations around the country that boomers grew up with, such as KHJ in Los Angeles or KFRC in San Francisco, that are now either religious or ethnic stations. In the minds of the boomers, those stations are dead. The ONLY reason a handful of AMs are still on the air at all is because they're owned by one of the big companies, and they can amortize the losses with the other more successful stations they own in the same market. Or they have national services such as Black Information Network or a sports gambling channel that they can make money without local sponsors. That's it. That's the future. WTAM is on the edge. They still have some local news programming, but it'll likely be gone in five years. So will the audiences for that programming. It's not the fault of the station, or even the ownership. The owners did everything they could to extend the life of the station. Otherwise it would have been dead 25 years ago. People simply don't listen to AM unless they have no choice. And these days, they have lots of other choices.
The ratings don't matter when there are no advertisers. The only reason ratings exist is for advertisers. They don't are about weekends. The great thing about gardening shows is they usually come with a sponsor. Otherwise you'd hear another infomercial for reverse mortgages or the latest herbal cure.
The ratings don't matter when there are no advertisers. The only reason ratings exist is for advertisers. They don't are about weekends. The great thing about gardening shows is they usually come with a sponsor. Otherwise you'd hear another infomercial for reverse mortgages or the latest herbal cure.
I've had that happen at a satellite music fed station.. when the local element was fired, if it wasnt done before the next network element played, it owuldnt mute the network.
IE: I worked for an americas best music affiliate... we caught this early on... if we went from the music to the toh ID and the ID wasnt qutie finished before the next element played, the network music feed didnt mute.... and its misply because a file was 2/10th of a second too long
Gardening with Angelo is another infomercial. He pays WTAM for that hour.
The reality is that 60% of WTAM's listeners are retired. Retired people like to garden.
Things potentially bolstered by Angelo Petitti's radio show:
WTAM's piggy bank - yes (as it's an infomercial for his garden centers)
Various tomatoes and begonias - perhaps
Ratings - probably not
Then again, the gardening show would teach you how to plant your own herbal cure, so it's like killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
All depends on the gardener.Interesting analogy. A gardening show that kills birds. Must be the chemicals.
Gardening with Angelo used to run on WDOK for years before moving to WTAM. I can easily see a show like that airing on Majic.
WTAM has always been a second rate 50K clear. All you have to do is dial over to 760 WJR for comparison.
The difference in coverage is due, in part, to the difference in frequency.
As Frank said, for the same power, a lower frequency gives greater coverage. The comparison is between the top and the bottom of the dial: 1 kw on 550 covers the same as 50 kw on 1500 if the tower's electrical height is the same (not physical height) and the comparison is for the same transmitter location or one that is in an area with identical ground conductivity. The Detroit and Cleveland areas have very similar conductivity.
WJR is 340 kHz lower on the dial so it will cover much better than 1100 in Cleveland.
I took his comment as the quality of the overall programing.
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Like gardening for "Magic medicinal" purposes.
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