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WTVN tower crumples in storm
- Thread starter schmave
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One might think that would be a signal (no pun intended) to WTVN to keep this current pattern, although that probably isn't as easy as it sounds.
All told, though, good service to the entire metro probably would be better over the long run than the usual pattern that makes them sound like crap in Grove City and Pickerington at night but peels paint in Findlay and Sandusky. I went and finally bought an HD Radio the other day, so once they go back to that licensed night pattern, I'll still be able to hear them loud and clear on 93.3 HD 2 (not to mention finally getting Indians games on the radio again).
All told, though, good service to the entire metro probably would be better over the long run than the usual pattern that makes them sound like crap in Grove City and Pickerington at night but peels paint in Findlay and Sandusky. I went and finally bought an HD Radio the other day, so once they go back to that licensed night pattern, I'll still be able to hear them loud and clear on 93.3 HD 2 (not to mention finally getting Indians games on the radio again).
Can't find where they've applied for a building permit, unless the zoning permit was inclusive. No apparent activity at the site.
Just a question. How does having a new HD radio help you get the Indians' broadcasts? Does 93.3 HD 2 carry the Indians' games (since I heard WTVN had been cutting back on their sports coverage in recent years). Can't you pick up WTAM/1000 out of Cleveland to hear them - at least at night?
93.3 HD2 is the Columbus affiliate for the Indians. It carries WTVN most of the time, but for Indians games, it carries a straight feed of WTAM, complete with commercials and liners. I'm a Cubs fan so by no means is that the reason I got the radio, but it is nice.
WTAM's signal is poor down here daytime and we're in their cancellation zone at night, so some nights it comes in very well and others, it doesn't. Plus, the only other Indians affiliate with a chance of being heard in Columbus, Delaware's WDLR, is blocked on 92.9 by the WVKO translator and has the poor groundwave you'd expect at 1550 on the AM side.
WTAM's signal is poor down here daytime and we're in their cancellation zone at night, so some nights it comes in very well and others, it doesn't. Plus, the only other Indians affiliate with a chance of being heard in Columbus, Delaware's WDLR, is blocked on 92.9 by the WVKO translator and has the poor groundwave you'd expect at 1550 on the AM side.
Still can't find evidence of a building permit being filed.
Update. The building permit for the tower was filed under iHeart, not Citicasters, as the zoning request was. iHeart filed for a building permit on 4/22. I haven't been by the site for a couple of weeks, so nothing to report on progress.
Still no construction activity.
Drove by the site today. They are making great progress toward getting nothing built.
Gotta wonder with the slow progress if that's what they want to achieve. Saves the cost of a tower, the proof of performance, the tucked in coverage. And apparently, no one has complained about them loosening their belt a directionally.
Near end of September and no construction activity.
I guess we will have to wait until they file the next request for an extension or if they go for an all out modification.
I wonder what happened to that tower that was supposed to deliver the middle part of last October. Must be lost in transit.
Granted another extension till May 28, 2020.
Granted another extension till 5/29/20. Application says construction has been started.
Construction underway. New tower was laying in sections next to the dog house this past weekend. Concreter morings for old tower look like they've been removed.
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