No idea what that was. WKQI in Detroit just had a similar jump in the ratings
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Interesting hint in the picture provided by Mr. Venta. Could we see an FM simulcast for the Score? That would be huge.
It was the best generic Chicago picture I could find. Not necessarily related to the story.
How does Chicago of all places not have sports already on FM? L.A. and/or Miami I could understand. Either way the two FMs in question make a decent amount of money and/or have good enough ratings. Is the right time to make this move?
And not the Sears tower? Not the navy pier?
Chicago had Sports on FM. 87.7 WGWG. It didn't last more than a year. Here's an infamous video:
As for the AMs, they are really good signals. Especially 670. We're talking a major 50kw AM signal, probably the best of the major AMs in Chicago. People don't have any problems listening there. WSCR worked it's way up to that frequency. It started on the 820 frequency, which was a daytimer. Then it went to the 1160 frequency (Which before Salem upgraded it, had a terrible nighttime signal) and it replaced WMAQ in 2000. In general, it has not had trouble getting ratings without the FM.
Some AMs have trouble getting ratings without the FM for one reason or the other. WSCR was not usually one of them.
All I am going to say is this, I hate to say it but I saw this coming a mile away.
I've been reading that Audacy would like to sell the tower property for 670. I don't know how much it's worth. But the comments I've ready is that moving the tower would affect the signal.
Audacy is running out of money. It wouldn’t surprise me if the ax comes for even their most successful stations just to try to generate a few more dollars in savings.
If you’re inclined, go subscribe to RadioInsight. But without giving it away, it is frankly a no-brainer at this point and I had called these moves months ago and was laughed off. I don’t want to gloat but it was obvious then as it is now, regardless of Audacy’s financial situation.
P.S. this does not involve XRT. I don’t know why some people have it in their heads that Audacy would just dump it for no reason.
I didn’t mean to suggest that XRT is a goner. Just that it wouldn’t surprise me that the cuts/changes will eventually happen even at the high performing stations. That’s different from outright predicting a specific station’s demise.
Apologies, that was not directed at you, I’ve seen a lot of people speculate that. I see this move as Audacy doing something to stay competitive in Chicago, and to try and improve their offerings.
I was noticing something with one of the stations last week. I mentioned it on another board last week as I was noticing it. This seems to explain what I was noticing.
Curious to hear this, if you don’t want to post it here, I’d appreciate if you’d private message me.
I doubt they'll take them silent, but as we've seen with Cumulus, any changing of transmitter sites usually leads to a decrease in signal. Since WSCR and WBBM share a transmitter site, and WBBM already has an FM simulcast, they might want to do something for WSCR before making any changes.
The Cubs season opener is Thursday. A Tuesday or Wednesday launch? Then how soon will espn Radio simulcast on 100.3?
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