RKO's Digs At TKK

[Dan Strassberg]

Not unique to Chicago! 5-kW WEZE has a signal that 50-kW WWZN would die for
and that soon-to-be 50-kW WKOX would also die for. Barring a screwup in the
transmitter location or real bad interference at night, a medium-power
low-on-the-dial AM usually covers better than a high-on-the-dial 50-kW AM.
The one exception that comes to mind (not that there aren't many others) is
in Tampa Bay, which has no 50 kW AMs. There, 5-kW 570 (licensed to Pinellas
Park, north of Tampa) has such a tight directional pattern (to the
south-southwest to protect 580 in Orlando) that the station has no coverage
inland. Signal is OK in Tampa, St Pete, and Clearwater, but a lot of the
metro population lives east of those places. In fact, the owner of 570
(Salem) also bought 910 in Plant City, about 30 miles east of Tampa, to
cover the inland part of the market. Last I knew, 910 was // 570, but that
may have changed.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: RKO's Digs At TKK


> WIND at 560 had a signal many 50K's would love.
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> On 8/3/07, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > --- Working for a 5,000-watt radio station, no less.  Makes me wonder
what
> > WBZ's DJs used to get.
> > -Doug
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> >