[BC] RE: Bonneville shakes up their Washington radio (gblau at jpc.com)

[R J Carpenter]

> From: <gblau at jpc.com>
> Subject: RE: [BC] Bonneville shakes up their Washington radio
>
> This makes sense, except maybe for Montgomery Co. classical 
> listeners
> who will have trouble hearing 104.1 at home.
> I'd assume they plan on HD2's on all four FM's.
> Still, kinda sad to see 103.5 change after so many years (decades).
> And no one will miss that A/C.

I can imagine that the Bonneville people were wearing their asbestos / 
Kevlar suits when they announced the changes.  They'll certainly hear 
a lot from the classical listeners. 104.1 is even worse in Silver 
Spring than in Bethesda because of the first-adjacent 104.3 signal 
from Baltimore. And also the first-adjacency of common-programmed 
103.9 Class A in Frederick.  One can expect that WGMS will never be #3 
or #4 in the Arbitrons again.

Lots of rumors that local professional sports play-by-play will show 
up on 1500 / 107.7 / 820 .

The 104.3 in Leesburg is just a translator for 107.7 at the moment.

Agree that Bonneville never really had its heart in the rock on 104.1 
/ 103.9 .

Interesting times.

bob c.