When WKOX-AM Goes To 50 KW...

[Dan Strassberg]

WKOX's 50 kW signal will be underwhelming--not even the equal of WWZN's.
Wait and see. WWZN is on a higher frequency BUT has half-wave towers. WKOX's
200' towers will not even be quite 1/4 wavelength (close, though). The
result is that WWZN will be operating at an effective power almost double
WKOX's. The efficiency difference pretty well cancels out the frequency
difference. WWZN's (non-CH) day pattern is more favorable to the west than
WKOX's, meaning that WWZN, which is a few miles further from Framingham than
WKOX will be, will deliver a roughly equal daytime signal to WKOX's former
CoL. At night, WWZN has (on paper) a much quieter channel. That's true if
you don't count first adjacents. WKOX's 50% NIF is, IIRC, 13.55 mV/m. WWZN's
is well under 5.0. BUT WWZN has both WTWP and WWKB to contend with--both
directional toward Boston; WKOX has WPHT (ND). So the first-adjacent
advantage goes to WKOX.

So will CCU move its network fare to a a signal that is clearly inferior to
WRKO's. Possible I guess. Smart move? Probably not.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: When WKOX-AM Goes To 50 KW...


> One thing that's been overlooked in all the brew-ha ha (what you get if
you mix
> hops, malt, yeast, water and laughing gas) over the Howie Carr-to-WTKK
effect on
> WRKO's fortunes is the fact that construction is moving apace at the new
> Sawmill Brook Parkway site for WKOX-AM 1200.  One thing that's guaranteed
> (I'd stake my reputation on it; I have nothing to lose) is that CCU will
> flip the frequency to something other than Radio Rumba, possibly the kind
of
> talk on other stations the Company owns: Rush, Glenn Beck, maybe even
Michael
> Weiner.  That would leave even other holes in the 'RKO lineup.  Would they
> counter with cherry-picked lib talk?  Stephanie Miller?  Thom HartmannThom
Hartmann?
> Ed Schultz?  It will be a v-e-r-y  i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g fall season!
>
>
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