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Don't forget, Hurricane Shane is already in the building at Cox. A rock format at 97.3 makes a lot of sense.
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X @ 100.5 going bye bye?
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LouP said:
Anybody else notice WRAX is broadcasting in mono (since the switch?). Guess they figure since it's all talk and no music, they might as well yank the stereo off and go to mono so the signal will go out a little further.
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no surprise to me.
what amazes me is that professionals whine about radio formats that simply do not make money.
non working teens and twenty-somethings don't buy much of anything so of course advertisers don't patronize those stations.
back when wzzk was top of the books i posed a question to bill lawson (doc was still on air at the time):
"why are you at wzzk?"
his reply:
"you gotta sell alot of pepsi to equal one caddy!"
that sums it up.
radio is not a socialist experiment. it is business. if the business isn't there the format will change. also, just like a hot band in a club, every 3-5 years you have to either fine tune the band or dump them and get another sound. crowds sour on the familiar.
what amazes me is that professionals whine about radio formats that simply do not make money.
non working teens and twenty-somethings don't buy much of anything so of course advertisers don't patronize those stations.
back when wzzk was top of the books i posed a question to bill lawson (doc was still on air at the time):
"why are you at wzzk?"
his reply:
"you gotta sell alot of pepsi to equal one caddy!"
that sums it up.
radio is not a socialist experiment. it is business. if the business isn't there the format will change. also, just like a hot band in a club, every 3-5 years you have to either fine tune the band or dump them and get another sound. crowds sour on the familiar.
biscuit said:
Eh, you lost a rocker with 'YSP, but gained Opie & Anthony.
I think I liked Z-100 better than The X so in all honesty I'm not sad to see the station go. Whether the end of the X was due to poor management, poor (new) music to play, poor signal, poor ratings or all of the above, it was waaaay past time to shut that thing down. Hopefully Citadel will do you guys a favor and bring a better rock station to town somewhere else on the dial.
Having said that--replacing the music with a sports simulcast is just stupid. IMHO 'JOX is one of the few stations in the area that has a killer signal that can overcome the "but it's on AM" curse. It's such a big signal I'd bet dollar to doughnuts there's not a place that the FM is overly superior signal-wise, except perhaps in the dormitories of the U of A in Tuscaloosa...
Either they need to do something else with the FM, or move the sports there and tap a new market on AM. A fifth Spanish music station, anyone?
So now that they're mono, is the RDS off too?
I don't get the logic behind this move at all. It's not like Jox does any better in the ratings than the X did. Once college football season ends, it drops like a rock. I'd bet this is just a stunt until January and they try something else afterwards (moving 95.3's country format over to 100.5 w/ Rick and Bubba in the mornings? Something en espanol? CCM, maybe?)
If they merge the remnants of the X with Rock 99.5 and do something like the new Project 96-1 in Atlanta, that would be a great station. But since we're talking about Citadel, they'd screw that up and it'd be all 70s lite rock chestnuts and mallrat emo.
If they merge the remnants of the X with Rock 99.5 and do something like the new Project 96-1 in Atlanta, that would be a great station. But since we're talking about Citadel, they'd screw that up and it'd be all 70s lite rock chestnuts and mallrat emo.
Having said that--replacing the music with a sports simulcast is just stupid. IMHO 'JOX is one of the few stations in the area that has a killer signal that can overcome the "but it's on AM" curse. It's such a big signal I'd bet dollar to doughnuts there's not a place that the FM is overly superior signal-wise, except perhaps in the dormitories of the U of A in Tuscaloosa...
Either they need to do something else with the FM, or move the sports there and tap a new market on AM. A fifth Spanish music station, anyone?
The only advantage I could see for running 'JOX on the FM would be to fill in coverage areas lost when the AM drops down to 500 watts at night. Here in south Shelby county, I don't receive 'JOX all that well at night. Still would be some overlapping coverage areas covered by the two stations, but it might help in some regards.
100.5's switch could just be temporary, until they get a new format in place. I do hope if they keep WRAX sports, though, Citadel does find something else to do with 690. Simulcasting stations is a big waste for the most part. That's interesting you mention some type of spanish programming to replace sports on 690 because I was thinking that Citadel might try that, too. I hope that's not the case, though, because we already have 3 Spanish stations (4 if you include WCOC in Dora). There can't be that large of a Hispanic audience here to support all those stations. The pie is already split now, and they're all just picking up crumbs as it is.
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passtheword said:Having said that--replacing the music with a sports simulcast is just stupid. IMHO 'JOX is one of the few stations in the area that has a killer signal that can overcome the "but it's on AM" curse. It's such a big signal I'd bet dollar to doughnuts there's not a place that the FM is overly superior signal-wise, except perhaps in the dormitories of the U of A in Tuscaloosa...
Either they need to do something else with the FM, or move the sports there and tap a new market on AM. A fifth Spanish music station, anyone?
The only advantage I could see for running 'JOX on the FM would be to fill in coverage areas lost when the AM drops down to 500 watts at night. Here in south Shelby county, I don't receive 'JOX all that well at night. Still would be some overlapping coverage areas covered by the two stations, but it might help in some regards.
100.5's switch could just be temporary, until they get a new format in place. I do hope if they keep WRAX sports, though, Citadel does find something else to do with 690. Simulcasting stations is a big waste for the most part. That's interesting you mention some type of spanish programming to replace sports on 690 because I was thinking that Citadel might try that, too. I hope that's not the case, though, because we already have 3 Spanish stations (4 if you include WCOC in Dora). There can't be that large of a Hispanic audience here to support all those stations. The pie is already split now, and they're all just picking up crumbs as it is.
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I'm beginning to wonder if it is just a stunt / filler. still no mention of 100.5 on wjox690.com, and wrax.com is still up.
as for 690 being a big signal, I've picked it up early in the morning (around 6) in the building at work, off of hwy 72 in NE Huntsville, where the local 100kW FM's even have trouble getting to
690 has the best daytime AM signal in the market and the second-best (after WAPI) night AM signal. This simulcast has little to no effect on in-market coverage. Not to mention that there's nothing aside from sports that they could do with it since all the solid talk options are elsewhere on the dial and moving WAPI's programming there wouldn't change anything, there isn't enough of an audience to use that huge signal for Mexican music, and people just don't listen to AM much in Alabama period.
Hands down, WJOX 690 AM, has the best signal of any AMer in B-Ham. I remember listening to them, back in the 70s, when they were WVOK. That station came in real clear, on our car and truck radios. It sounded so clear, I thought this was a Selma station. This station had and still has the best signal of any AMer, I have ever heard, apart from the old WBAM 740 in Montgomery.
Those were the good old days.
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Those were the good old days.
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BamaWOLF said:
Not if they (or someone else) were planning to keep it going as an online-only operation. I suspect we'll see that soon, but 100.5 will never be acknowledged on 690. No need to mention the simulcast if it isn't permanent, after all.
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I've read a rumor from Urbaninsite that Citadel's Tuscaloosa Urban AC, WTUG, might move to that signal. The move-in would allow Hot 107.7 combined with WTUG to compete with 98.7 KISS & 95.7 JAMZ.
205 said:
Isn't Tom Joyner still on WTUG? Wouldn't Cox sue the pants off them if they tried that?
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clichemoth said:
I think they would drop Tom Joyner and move Steve Harvey to WTUG, IF this move happens.
Thanks for the kind words. We are trying to work out the details about still doing Red Jumsuit at Zydeco this Tuesday and then Plain White T's on Wednesday. Check out the X's myspace page for all the details. Iwill try and post it on here as well.
BTW, I also program an internet radio station called Gotradio.com. One of the channels available is a Vintage Vault channel. It has over 800 songs in the library. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Geno
BTW, I also program an internet radio station called Gotradio.com. One of the channels available is a Vintage Vault channel. It has over 800 songs in the library. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Geno
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