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WTOP vs. 100.3

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OCradiodude

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Looking around the WTOP website at their coverage maps and I just came up with a theory. WTOP is simulcasting on two FM frequencies in Washington D.C.--WTOP and WTOZ. WTOP has a much better signal than WTOZ. However WTOZ's signal goes all the way up to Hagerstown, MD. What if 100.3 ends up with a news/talk format but Bonneville wants a little bit more coverage in some of the outer areas. If Bonneville bought out the 93.5s, they could then simulcast the station to the IE and kill the ratings that KFI has there. Thoughts?
 
OCradiodude said:
Looking around the WTOP website at their coverage maps and I just came up with a theory. WTOP is simulcasting on two FM frequencies in Washington D.C.--WTOP and WTOZ. WTOP has a much better signal than WTOZ. However WTOZ's signal goes all the way up to Hagerstown, MD. What if 100.3 ends up with a news/talk format but Bonneville wants a little bit more coverage in some of the outer areas. If Bonneville bought out the 93.5s, they could then simulcast the station to the IE and kill the ratings that KFI has there. Thoughts?
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The Ontario signal adds little that 100.3 does not already have... plus that 93.5 is in the middle of the "no man's land" of fontana / Ontario and surrounding towns that is in neither the IE nor the LA ratings. The IE is bought separately, anyway.

The WTOP "repeater" is a throwback to when the very inadequate AM coverage required additional signals to fill out the missing pieces of the DC metro; KRBV covers the LA Metro except for the Antilope Valley (nobody on FM from LA does that) and southern OC.
 
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