WJAS’ pre-sunrise signal is horrible. Barely comes in at my house, and I’m less than ten miles from the transmitter.
After the Rush Morning Update they ran an ad for a Mahindra Tractor dealer in Washington, PA. Likely bought when this ran on 104.7. I’m sure that dealer was thrilled to pay for an ad which did not have a snowball’s chance in Hell of actually being HEARD down in Washington, PA.
Yup..and in the LA area when Rush, etc. moved from 640 to 1150 there were a bunch of areas where 1150 couldn’t come in too well, so they just added Beck & Hannity at least to a 1440 out in Riverside/San Bernadino (Rush is on the am 590 out there). Here, Clear Channel didn’t want to take sports off 970 so they got WJAS to carry their shows.
The only way someone could hear the ad, I guess, is if they listened online...
The WJAS map on radio-locator shows that allegedly the distant signal gets down to Uniontown, etc.—daytime, at least. The maps tend to be optimistic.
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WJAS&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
Daytime
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WJAS&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
Nighttime
In these maps red area = extent of local signal,
purple area = extent of distant signal,
blue area = extent of fringe signal (night apparently only has 2 of these)
From experience visiting the area (and I’ll be back in about 9 days) it’s poss. some could get shows on WWVA 1170 Wheeling or WKBN 570 Youngstown or even WHLO 640 Akron
http://www.newsradio1170.com/main.html
I can’t get 1320 either...and I’m in Allegheny Co.
This stinks.
Yeah, their night range stinks, their signal is so far down in the mud. I think it is a bad move. The ones I really feel sorry for is Jack Bogut and Chilly Billy Cardille.