Herald: Where have you gone Air America

[Dan Strassberg]

WKOX IS IN the suburbs--more or less in the geographic center of Framingham
and has a dynamite 10 kW-ND daytime signal from very tall towers. (Don't go
by what you've been hearing--or not hearing--for the past few days; WKOX
must be painting its towers or doing some other work on them that
necessitates running at low power during the day.) Normally, the daytime
signal is listenable well within Route 128. The 1 kW directional nighttime
signal really doesn't penetrate within Route 128, however. WXKS has an OK
5-kW ND signal within Route 128 by day but a miserable 1-kW signal at night.
In addition to a very high NIF (nighttime interference-free) contour (~43
mV/m), WXKS is directionalized to the east at night from a site northeast of
most of the market, meaning that nighttime listening is confined to a few
North Shore communities--Everett and Lynn, for example. The 1200/1430 combo
covers the market adequately by day but has a gaping hole in its nighttime
coverage right in the middle of the market.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@gmail.com>
To: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: Herald: Where have you gone Air America


> Maybe Mindich could run some AAR shows on the Boston Phoenix's outlet at
101.7.
> "Boston's PROGRESSIVE FM Talk"...Steph Miller can be entertaining, and
> I did like Alan Colmes in the past ('RKO briefly ran his current
> show). Can't get into Stuart Smalley at all.
>
> Yes, have both sides covered, but realize also that a station running
> talk needs to make money. Unless they want to go the PBS/NPR
> route--pledge drives and tote bags,anyone?
>
> WKOX and WXKS may not push well into the suburbs, by the way, but
> shouldn't folks
> in Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge pick 'XKS's signal up half decently?