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Re: WTAM 1100?

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From: Steve Sobol
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 00:00
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Mike Ward (mward@crl.com) wrote:

: Buzz!  Thanks for playing, no bonus round :)
: inclined, if they're out there, to nitpick and say there aren't really
: many clear channels anymore...

Mike?! You actually still read cle.*?
I thought you dropped off the face of the earth or something.

: Anyway, WKNR is directional, and tightly so.

Yes. I knew they are. I have to listen to 'QKT for Injuns games when
I'm mucking around Akron, and it annoys me because QKT is fuzzy in Akron.
So I can't get Injuns games on either AM or FM with any degree of clarity.
  >:-/

: WWWE-AM 1100.  For that matter, Cavs radio voice Joe Tait has been
: known to listen to 'QKT coming home from a game when the station would
: tape delay a Cavs game after a local high school game. ;)

Isn't Joe Tait the voice of 'QKT?

: Whew.  Basically, it's not a thing about Cablevision spending extra
: money.  The only way they could get a better signal out of WKNR (aside
: from incremental engineering improvements) would be to buy WTAM and
: move the station to AM 1100.

That makes sense. :P What is Cleveland, the number 13 market? I know
'KNR isn't clear-channel, but it only reaches a small fraction of the
people it could.

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From: sjsobol@nacs.net (Steve Sobol)
Subject: Re: WTAM 1100?
Date: 1996/10/05
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