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sjsobol@nacs.net (Steve Sobol) wrote:

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

I still read cle.*, akr.*, and oh.*, for what it's worth...akr.misc
never gets more than spam posts, though. ;)  For the first few months
with this ISP, it didn't get a cle.* feed.

>: 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.
>  >:-/

WAKR/1590 doesn't do the Indians anymore?  I find it hard to believe
there's no Akron market affiliate...

>Isn't Joe Tait the voice of 'QKT?

Well, one of them ;)
'QKT program director Dave Forest had Joe do a lot of the sports
liners/opens/closes a couple of years back.  So he'll not only
introduce his own Cavs games, but also the Indians, etc... but at last
check, the legal IDs were done by Jon Belmont (ABC Information network
midday anchor) and the liners were done by Jeff Elliott (morning jock
co-host at Q106 in San Diego).  The connection?  Both started their
radio careers at what was then WWST-AM/FM, both are Wooster hometown
boys - and they're brothers.  ;)  As Paul Harvey might say... "now you
know...the REST of the story!"

>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.

No...that's what I'm trying to tell you.  To the best of my knowledge,
there's really nothing major they could do to increase their audience
to ANY degree, engineering-wise.  They're hamstrung by their
frequency, basically.  They *can't* put out any more signal towards
the southwest.  (I'm not sure which station they're protecting, but a
close adjacent might be 50KW'er WOAI/San Antonio.)  It's the very same
reason WLIB in New York was stuck with minimal night power - because
50KW powerhouse WOWO in puny Fort Wayne, IN had to be protected.

Anyone who followed WOWO to any degree and is on the Internet probably
knows that WLIB *will* get substantial night power soon (if it hasn't
already) because WOWO is voluntarily reducing its night power to
something on the order of 9800 watts.  Why?  Well, it might have to do
with WOWO's new owners, Inner City Broadcasting - which conveniently
also own WLIB. ;)

And short of Cablevision doing this with whatever station WKNR is
protecting on 1220...

Mike