BIG doings in D.C., for you DXers

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@psu.edu>
>To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>Subject: BIG doings in D.C., for you DXers
>Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:59:51 -0500 (EST)

> 
> As of March, WTOP vacates 1500 for good and moves to 103.5 permanently.
> "Washington Post Radio" reportedly takes over the 1500/107.7 frequencies.
> 
> Classical is killed off 103.5 and moves to 103.9/104.1 -- the former Z-104
> simulcast, which is finally put out of its misery.
> 
> No word on what happens to 820 Frederick MD, which had been //WTOP.
> 
> http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=664626

Don't get any idea that the 1500 dial spot will open up
so DXers will be able to pick stations in other cities on 
the same frequency.  Something called "Washington Post Radio"
will air on WTOP's long-standing AM frequency.  If there's
any hiatus before the change, then maybe the 1500 in St. Paul,
MN will be be receivable, but as it it happens, they agreed to
a slight pattern tweak with WTOP last year I believe.
In other news, a Washington Post columnist named Marc Fisher
posted on a washingtonpost.com blog that he drove around the 
City trying to receive WGMS on its new channel and the interference
and noise were unbearable.  The Post also noted
that WGMS's recent revenue figure was $9.3 million...one
million more than WCRB, but still below the revenues a
"mainstream" pop or rock or hip-hop station could garner
(but would it be more PROFITABLE?) in a market like DC.
I don't generally make predictions, especially about the 
future, but I'd say it's a lock that the WGMS ratings AND
revenue will slide dramatically, and Bonneville may use that
as an excuse to flip the 104.1/103.9 frequencies!



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