[raccoonradio]

I had mentioned this about a week ago and now it has happened, so there's the story. Clear Channel was getting weak ratings from 104.7 Pittsburgh and decided to go to country, a hot format right now esp. with younger people. As for Quinn and Rose I don't know if they'll wind up on WJAS but right now I think they're running the same Bloomdaddy guy from WV that WPGB was running--hopefully they'll consider Q and R. As expected many on the new Big 104.7 Country facebook are condemning this as a bad move. Well radio is a business and they're doing it for business reasons.

People are saying WJAS 1320 is tough to pick up...Same thing has happened elsewhere like in LA where CC put local talk on KFI 640 and moved Rush, etc. to 1150 (and to other nearby stations). I live in Boston area but visit Pitt. twice a year including in about a week so I'll see for myself as I drive around.

Approx signal range of 1320 (usually more optimistic than realistic); the antenna may be just E of highland park/zoo etc

[raccoonradio]

Actually I think the News Talk 104.7 facebook is still up and that's where the negative comments are going.

[fatnotlazy]

Clear Channel is run by idiots. Discarding Quinn & Rose and imposing this Bloomdaddy twerp on us.

I stopped listening to any radio since Quinn & Rose were dumped and won't be listening until Q&R are back.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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.

[PghBaldy]

... I can get WJAS OK in the City of Pgh, it gets bad where a relative lives -about 13 mile outside of City... I liked WJAS for music, though it was getting too recent for my tastes...

[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, I live west of Pittsburgh near the airport and in the daytime WJAS is OK to pick up but at night, it is tough, sometimes it is so far down in the mud, you can just forget it. At night they go from 7000 to 3000 watts and the antenna pattern changes to where you have 3 lobes, one north, one west and one southeast. I'm just at the end of the “local” coverage of the western lobe but I often wonder if I'm in a “skip zone” where the signal passes above me on the way to the ionosphere. I'm also a Coast to Coast junky, so instead of 1320 kc, I listen to it on 1170 out of Wheeling, 570 out of Youngstown or 1140 out of Richmond, VA. I'm sure my aunt is going ape, she liked the music on that station plus Chilly Billy and Jack Bogut. Well, soon it will not matter as much for me, I'm moving closer to Wheeling (my mother passed away and I can't keep the house) so I'll just hop over to WWVA on 1170 kc and listen to 1320 when I'm closer to Pittsburgh were I still work. Anyhoo, it is kind of ironic that Quinn and Rose's show “died” on the same day Mom passed away. B-( BTW, radio receiver used is a Grundig G6 Aviator model, “Buzz Aldrin edition.” It covers 150 to 29999 kc from longwave to shortwave, 76 to 108 Mc FM and 118 to 137 Mc VHF aviation band. I'll try my other receivers such as gramp’s 1953 5 tube Philco, my 1965 8 transistor Magnavox and my Heinz Ketchup Bottle radio.