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WYGY?

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Puff the Dragon

The Enquirer printed the Summer ratings this morning and shows them ranked 19th, 12 plus? Is this right? Ranked below The Buzz and WCIN? I cant say more because Puff is a nice dragon.
 
I find it even funnier that they're now the #4 country station in the market behind WUBE, K99 out of Dayton, and WPFB-FM in Middletown. How long will Bonneville continue with the "it's a flanker for WUBE" line? Granted the small signal means they'll never be a top 5 station but maybe it's time to move on from the country format.
 
microbob said:
They should just return The Sound to 97.3. Rock seams to to better on 97.3
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I agree. When Rewind went on the air and The Wolf stuck around I was confused, The Wolf has never done anything in this market but The Sound did. I think once Bonneville dumped The Sound they lost a lot of listeners to Cumulus' 96 Rock.
 
Since they moved their city of license to Fort Thomas, they should be a Campbell County station and not a Cincinnati station. Campbell County is sorely underserved by all forms of media except for The Last Word.
 
Yes, Bandit. You're so right, because people in Campbell County would give up all of the other local media and breathe a collective sigh of relief that they FINALLY have their own station. Gosh, it would be a HUGE success, considering WYGY's CURRENT cume is more than the population of Campbell County. Could you be more clueless? I think since Channel 19 is licensed to Newport, they should be Newport-only station. What do you think?
 
Elephant said:
Yes, Bandit. You're so right, because people in Campbell County would give up all of the other local media and breathe a collective sigh of relief that they FINALLY have their own station. Gosh, it would be a HUGE success, considering WYGY's CURRENT cume is more than the population of Campbell County. Could you be more clueless?
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I'd hate to disappoint you, but Campbell County is bigger than some rated markets.

Right now, 97.3 is going to waste.
 
Yep, those Campell Countians would be swapping and shopping and they'd never listen to WLW, WEBN or any other media outlet again. In your dreams.
 
Bandit, I'd hate to disappoint you, but Campbell County has about 88,000 residents. hat's only bigger than the bottom 11 markets out of 300. Yeah, WYGY should just forget about the other 1.5 million people its signal covers and focus on Campbell County, with a super-service of the 16,000 residents of Fort Thomas. Great strategy, and we should staff it 24/7 with live DJs and news people, because that's waht the listeners want! Let me see your P/L statement on that!

I totally agree that 97.3 is wasted. Since they're already doing the Sound on 94.9 HD-2, just put the damn thing back on the 97.3 signal and let it run. Weasel is there, and so are some other old Sounders.
 
WYGY was moved to FT. Thomas to go from 6k to 25k watts, that was a wise move that was done by Viacom CBS.

They could focus on all of northern KY more, then Cincinnati and it may help there ratings but I would never forget about the rest of the market area, just put it last.
 
signalid, the 25k signal has not been built. They're only 5k on the STAR Tower. That signal isn't very good on the outskirts of town. Probably why it does well as a Rock station and terrible at Country.
 
I understand that CP for Taylor Mill KY has been dropped. Bonneville has no plans to move there as it would not help them get more signal into the Cincinnati metro area than the 5kw they have now from the Star 64 tower.
 
So the CP has been droped to upgrade to C3? I think I know what your saying, WYGY can't be a C3 in Ohio. Other wise they could possible put a direction antenna on the star tower with 25k facing SE.

I will have to look at this, FCC data base still shows a CP on WYGY.

Maybe they should do Q 102's format on 97.3, make Q 102 alternative rock with a over lap into Q 102's current format.
 
Actually, it's worse than I originally wrote. They're only 2.5kw! The Taylor Mill CP doesn't do much to increase the Ohio signal, so why bother? They may be looking at other options. They'd better hurry, because Cumulus will go Country in 2010.
 
By the way, the idea of serving Northern Kentucky "first", then Cincinnati "last" is not just ridiculous, it's stupid. There are a total of about 400,000 people in the NKY counties of Boone, Kenton, Campbell, Grant, Pendleton, Owen, and Bracken. WYGY barely covers the northern 3. it gets a good signal into Fort Thomas because it has to, but they could have just as easily been licensed to Norwood or Forest Park, That signal covers Hamilton County pretty well, and there are over 850,000 people in Hamilton County. So, to say you're going to serve NKY "first" is kind of an unwise move, despite the fact that the city of license is there. Nobody does that, and I can't even think of any station that covers the city doing that for 30 years. WMOH, WNKR, and WSCH are examples of good local stations, but they have to be. They don't get out into the Metro.
 
Elephant said:
By the way, the idea of serving Northern Kentucky "first", then Cincinnati "last" is not just ridiculous, it's stupid. There are a total of about 400,000 people in the NKY counties of Boone, Kenton, Campbell, Grant, Pendleton, Owen, and Bracken. WYGY barely covers the northern 3. it gets a good signal into Fort Thomas because it has to, but they could have just as easily been licensed to Norwood or Forest Park, That signal covers Hamilton County pretty well, and there are over 850,000 people in Hamilton County. So, to say you're going to serve NKY "first" is kind of an unwise move, despite the fact that the city of license is there. Nobody does that, and I can't even think of any station that covers the city doing that for 30 years. WMOH, WNKR, and WSCH are examples of good local stations, but they have to be. They don't get out into the Metro.
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It has a CP to go to a C3 around Newport, so then it would cover that area well but if there not going to move there then no it would not be a good idea.

Looks like if they want to cover Cincinnati better, they need to become a B1, then go on the same tower Q 102 is on. Only way they could become a B1 is buy WOXY and move it, then move it back then WYGY applies a 215 to WOXY.
 
I have a feeling that if B'ville dropped the twang from 97.3...Crummy would flip 94.1 to Country the next day.
Then again, that would be a pretty wise decision to do at the moment anyway.
 
I was told WYGY would have better coverage around Newport KY with a C3.

I was told with there current antenna and located on Star it has poor coverage.
There better off to upgrade to that C3 according to the signal prediction software. They would put a better signal into Ohio.


Any comments Elephant....
 
signalid, the site for the 25k is not in Newport. It's in Taylor Mill on one of those cell towers next to I-275. I can only trust the national Bonneville engineers to know what's best. They've done the studies and looked at the results. It does seem to improve coverage to Clermont and Dearborn counties, but what's the overall payoff in terms of facilities costs vs. being co-located with 94.9? Is the cost of the upgrade really worth it?
 
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