Lima's 940 WCIT Drops Sports

[Toledo Radio Died]

Smart Move!! There is definitely a hole in the Lima market for a Classic Country. There’s all these stations playing Top 40 Country but no one to play classic country. However I do strongly agree with all of you Lima does need a Urban formatted station. How about flipping 93.1, 104.9 or 106.3 even though it’s a rimshot. Sports talk is such a waste of a frequency (unless it’s a major market) also why does Lima need 2 crusty classic rock stations that play the same 200 songs over and over? WCIT does gets out pretty well I was listening to them from just north of Dayton all the way up into Toledo.

[Deleted User 14990]

104.9 is boring and repetitious. 106.3 from Findlay? I dunno about that but 104.9 would be perfect!

[JGP1954]

Adding to my post...I recall the owner was named Rice or Riggs, I don't recall. But, he had zero creativity. Both stations were bad. But, Lima only had four station back then. WCIT/WLSR? and WIMA-AM/FM. So, it wasn't hard to make money.

[Toledo Radio Died]

104.9 Would make more sense because it directly service Lima. I still like the idea of 93.1 because you can name it 93 JAMZ Lima all weekend HOLLA!!! lol

[WOHO]

That was my suggestion; ramp up the power on 940 to 1KW and accept a noisy night contour. We need to beat on the radio manufacturers, because before NRSC, AM radio could, and sometimes DID sound better than FM stations, just ask Dr. Leonard Kahn who said just that - he knew of a couple of AM stations testing out at 18KHz audio while FM was strapped at 15KHz. There's no reason that they can't make am AM radio with a half dozen noise blanker patterns (including neighboring HD IBOC Buzz) and run variable bandwidth where a strong local could still have 7.5KHz audio bandwidth, even up to the full 10.2Khz with CQUAM stereo.
When I was 12 I could still hear out past 16KHz, but KOSS headphones with 50W in them did a number on my eardrum hairs, so AM music works for me IF you have a nice AM radio, like the 1995 Caddy UX-1 dual bandwidth AM Sterero radio, or the 1999 Chrysler RAZ 3 band EQ stereo, etc.....

[innate-in-you]

250 watts and 6 watts at night, not much you can do with it. Seems like nothing has lasted. Urban, Oldies, News/talk, Sports, etc... . With CInw gone, could 940 increase there power now? They likely won't.

CINW leaving the air has nothing to with WCIT being able to upgrade.
Under a treaty negotiated decades ago, Canada can bottle the frequency up for eternity.

WWJ is still protecting CKBB in Barrie.
This is why WWJ has a poor signal in Marine City at night.

[innate-in-you]

250 watts and 6 watts at night, not much you can do with it. Seems like nothing has lasted. Urban, Oldies, News/talk, Sports, etc... . With CInw gone, could 940 increase there power now? They likely won't.

CINW leaving the air has nothing to with WCIT being able to upgrade.
Under a treaty negotiated decades ago, Canada can bottle the frequency up for eternity.

WWJ is still protecting CKBB in Barrie.
This is why WWJ has a poor signal in Marine City at night.

[WOHO]

They should apply for some more power pre-post sunrise with less stations to worry about. They actually had decent audio on 940 back in 1985, but that was a long time ago; stereo too to boot.

[Myron Falwell]

250 watts and 6 watts at night, not much you can do with it. Seems like nothing has lasted. Urban, Oldies, News/talk, Sports, etc... . With CInw gone, could 940 increase there power now? They likely won't.

CINW leaving the air has nothing to with WCIT being able to upgrade.
Under a treaty negotiated decades ago, Canada can bottle the frequency up for eternity.

WWJ is still protecting CKBB in Barrie.
This is why WWJ has a poor signal in Marine City at night.

There is a replacement station for CINW in place, CFNV (which had been beset by multiple delays leading up to launch) but AFAIK it's still in "testing" mode.

[WOHO]

1560 Toledo I believe has a 3 watt allotment post sunset so as not to interfere with the once excellent long-time-ago 1560 in NYC (pre-Radio Disney)and which has since been sold to the deceased doomsday man from Family Radio, which surprising bought a clear channel PEP AM station when all they were spending money on was dismal satellators on FM, like 90.3 in Toledo.