I have been reading a lot of negative stuff regarding WTMY lately and frankly I am confused. First, as posted earlier, I think their signal was quite good not "peanut like" as described by a poster. Second - I hear this show in the afternoons with Sherman Baldwin and for me WTMY sounds like the real thing with real good talk. So what's the beef? Am I missing something?
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WTMY - A pleasant surprise
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Yes, you're missing much .... I decent program from a guy who claims to be on the pulse of Sarasota but just moved here..
Polnet's latest marketing scheme was based around Rochelle Herman who has just quit. I guess she finally came to realize that working for next to nothing isn't going to pay the bills ... They have no marketing plan .... revenues that keep them in the red ... and no interest in quality which is why someone with little talent (or audience) can host a show M-F 7-9am as long as he PAYS!!
Polnet's latest marketing scheme was based around Rochelle Herman who has just quit. I guess she finally came to realize that working for next to nothing isn't going to pay the bills ... They have no marketing plan .... revenues that keep them in the red ... and no interest in quality which is why someone with little talent (or audience) can host a show M-F 7-9am as long as he PAYS!!
Sounds like you have an axe to grind with WTMY. Hey, all I know is that I really like the 3p-6p slot. You don't have to like it but I do. I thought Rochelle was an amateur and sounded that way.
Not much you canm expect with only 340 watts at nite
Again, I don't understand. I am not a techno. I just listen to the signal and I got it over the weekend from South St. Pete to Venice. 100 watts, 340 watts, or 500 watts - it is all greek to me. I turn on my radio and it is there with a clear signal.
"Again, I don't understand. I am not a techno. I just listen to the signal and I got it over the weekend from South St. Pete to Venice. 100 watts, 340 watts, or 500 watts - it is all greek to me. I turn on my radio and it is there with a clear signal."
Are you listening on a GE Super radio with a long wire antenna? ;D
Are you listening on a GE Super radio with a long wire antenna? ;D
I am not making this $%#@ up. Try it yourself. You'll see. A nice clear signal from south St. Pete to Venice.
The WTMY signal does fizzle out a bit over land..but over water it does well...I too have heard it as I've driven over the Skyway bridge into St. Pete Beach. But I'm sure that it would be difficult to pick it up inside a house at that distance.
The station covers Sarasota pretty well and that is all that's expected of it in it's current co-location with WSDV. It's a low power station that was intended to cover the local Sarasota market...it's not a 50 Kilowatt regional station...so as they say... "It is what it is".
The station covers Sarasota pretty well and that is all that's expected of it in it's current co-location with WSDV. It's a low power station that was intended to cover the local Sarasota market...it's not a 50 Kilowatt regional station...so as they say... "It is what it is".
1280 does so well anywhere along a salt water path. See, with an AM station, the tower is only half the antenna. The other half is the earth or ground plane. Since salt water is so conductive, the signal really does well from the City Island location which is located right on the bayfront. This stations ground is either in the salt water or right next to it. Try an experiment. Next time you drive out to the beach, tune in 1600 on your AM radio. You will easily receive Key West with a very listenable signal. Also 870 in New Orleans comes in at the beach too. These are prime examples of a salt water path. If you are too close to St. Pete, you will get too much slop from WRXB 1590 which is in South St Pete, or slop from 860. The best salt water path is 530 AM. Tune in anytime day or nite and you will hear the Turks and Caicos Islands. So, hopefully that explains why such a small signal can go a long way when over salt water. It was a good move for WTMY to diplex with 1450. The effective signal is about as good as before. Out east, its not as good
Very interesting. I think I understood most of what you said. 
Thanks.
Thanks.Wow - what an interesting station. I listened to the Sherman Baldwin guy and for once I agreed with a show host 100%. It sounds like a national show but it is local and from this little station. I just moved back here from Miami and I wished we had had a show like this.
I agree!!! I find it very afternoons on WTMY entertaining and informative. All of you should check it out before you write it off.
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