Re: [IRCA] Local Radio Is Getting Tuned Out.

[GEORGE SANTULLI <gsantull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was amazed at the ground conductivity in the midwest....last year as I was driving in Iowa and SoDak, I was hearing 5kw stations hundreds of miles away, with clarity and strength not seen in the east. As I drove from southern Georgia towards Nashville, I thought WSM would boom in, but did not really until the south Atlanta suburbs. But in the midwest, yowza, WNAX-570 SoDak I listened to from Missouri almost to the Montana border. KFYR and some Manitobans too...it was unreal. I know the freqs are less crowded too, but it was a hoot...
 
George in Virginia

 

> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:18:49 -0400
> From: pietruk@xxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Local Radio Is Getting Tuned Out.
> 
> Steve 
> 
> It is interesting to compare the ground conductivity in your E tn area to 
> say that of NW Ia discussed earlier in this thread.
> My wife and I spent a week back in Aug looking around Blount (for 
> outsiders, it is pronounced Blunt) and Knox Counties, and it is hard to 
> imagine why anyone would put much effort into AM broadcasting where the 
> signal could reach unless perhaps you had the daytime 50kw of 850 or a 
> nice low freq of 620 such as wrjz has.
> It is hard to imagine why anyone would invest in Blount's local 3 AMERS 
> (1120, 1400 and 1470) and perhaps it is amazing that they are even on the 
> air at all.
> I don't know enough about suburban Knoxville radio, but I can only guess 
> that any efforts to localize these 3 freqs in the last 2 decades amounted 
> in disaster. I scratch my head wondering why the company owning 1380 
> licensed to Clinton on the other side of the metro, bought am1400 and 
> essentially airs a country classics format with content targeted to a 
> local Clinton community (for Clinton listeners, they are actually doing a 
> nice job; but for Alcoa/Maryville, I doubt that it draws flies).
> 
> Yes, what is happening at Clear Channel and Cumulus is hardly good for 
> radio; but, on the other hand, it is response to how the economics of the 
> business are changing as well as the economy and what people out there 
> want and use for their info and entertainment needs. l
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> through his Word, has done so.
> -- Derek Tidball, author of "The Message of Holiness: Restoring God's
> Masterpiece"
> 
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