[BC] Dead air or no air...

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:30 AM 3/12/2009, Scott Fybush wrote: -------

>What happened, as I understand it, is that a number of other 1190s 
>all jumped on the opportunity to improve their night signals after 
>WOWO was downgraded, and the whole mess ended up in court and has 
>yet to be resolved. As a result, the only additional signal on 1190 
>at night in the 13+ years since WOWO was "downgraded" is WLIB, and 
>it has a deep null in WOWO's direction, throwing essentially zero 
>signal toward Fort Wayne.

I'll put money on the fact that WLIB doesn't miss putting a signal in 
the direction of Ft. Wayne. New York City is where the money is. If 
they ever get their act together they might get a chunk of it.

>So in reality, WOWO's NIF is still that of a class A station, and 
>the slight decline in coverage from 50 kW to 9.8 kW is fairly 
>insignificant against that low, low NIF. When and if the other 1190s 
>(Kansas City, St. Louis, Atlanta, whatever comes out of the 
>Annapolis/Leesburg shuffle) power up at night, that's when WOWO will 
>actually find out what it means to be a class B instead of a class A.

Probably true. However, our grandchildren will be visiting their 
parents in nursing homes before all this happens. In the meantime, 
WOWO is the #1 station 12+ in the market. Not too shabby.

>(But by then, they'll probably be simulcasting it on an FM, anyway.)

Probably. Hopefully it'll be an analog FM.

Rich