WCXI Cool1160

[Casey]

I have to be honest. If this will be the format of cars 1090, it's beyond disappointing. It's not oldies whatsoever.... In fact it's a heavier classic hits station. Almost a rock station. Hardly any "oldies" music is played. So my question is what's the difference between cool 1160 and this in terms of format? I thought it was a real oldies station like mentioned at the beginning of this thread. Has anyone else listened to the stream? It's definitely not what I think of when I think "oldies"

My understanding is the oldies will be on 1090, classic hits on 1160. If that's true it's a waste of time. Oldies should be on the better signal and why does Detroit need an AM classic hits station? Actually, 1090 should surrender it's license what a waste of electricity.

[hb2]

Actually, 1090 should surrender it's license what a waste of electricity.

There's a whole rabbit hole we can go into about AM stations made useless or irrelevant just due to interference issues or coverage limitations. WCAR is really not that bad, nor is it that great either.

Market-wide, I think WMKM is a big waste of energy due to the extremely directional signal, WDEO between day and night modes is a massive flip (the 105.5 translator, aside from within a few miles of the AM transmitters, is the only consistent signal area of WDEO), WRDT is basically a daytimer to Monroe county simply due to the day and night transmitters' geographical separation. I could go on and on, I know there's a caveat either big or small for almost every AM here and beyond.

WCAR is a cookie cutter AM limited in coverage due to the interference protections it has to follow, but I'm sure the people over at WMKM would be happy to have 1090 AM vs the hyper limited 1440 AM

[edj]

I guess they could rezone WCAR’s towers for housing if they ever do shut it down, unless Garden City needs more industrial land.

WMKM’s towers are across the road from the Amazon warehouse in Romulus. Considering all of the land near the airport they’re trying to build, not sure how much that spot would be worth. Their signal is indeed limited despite more power than WCAR.