I know it covers basically all of Orange & Durham county, & part of Wake.I know I can easily hear its broadcast in the car in the Southpoint Mall parking lot. And I can usually catch it in the car when visiting family in Cary although it can get fuzzy sometimes. But that is still sort of west of most of Raleigh. I'm just curious where the cut off point is.If you turn on your radio to 1360 AM right now, do you hear static, or can you here this triangle area station? If you care to respond, let me know if you can hear it, or if you can't hear it, and roughly where you live (I'd also be interested in seeing how far it reaches out towards Burlington, but I doubt there will be enough tdubbers in that area to determine it)
8/14/2009 12:52:57 PM
Chapel Hill-Carrboro's News, Talk, and Tarheel StationWTF MAN?!WPTF 680 is where it's at. I stream that shit at work and listen in the car.[Edited on August 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM. Reason : -]
8/14/2009 1:02:41 PM
Working in Carrboro at a vet clinic, I do listen to the station. But they go into national broadcast stuff too a lot, and do CBS national news, so it isn't all Chapel Hill stuff. And they do breaking stories in the area, and live coverage sometimes too rather than entirely being stories written in advance. But I'm just trying to determine how far their broadcast signal goes.
8/14/2009 1:14:37 PM
WPTF has about an approx. 35 to 40 mile broadcast radius.*[Edited on August 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM. Reason : *I don't know what the antenna elevation is or their power output is.]
8/14/2009 1:27:41 PM
WCHL is a pretty cool station, despite having an allegiance to the most local sports team, they let anyone who lives in the area do commentaries. You just go in, say I want to do a commentary on a local issue, or a national or state wide issue viewed through a local lens, and you can say whatever you want and have it played on air for everyone to hear. It is a great way to get words out about events or try to have your input on a public discussion that is going to be voted on by the town council or county board of commissioners.They helped me greatly with getting the word out about this Pet Food Drive in Carrboro:http://www.thewolfweb.com/story.aspx?story=1186#commentsSo I can't condemn them for just being located close to UNC.I like that they broadcast Air America Radio, not that I listen to tons of it, but I am in love with Rachel Maddow.I've worked at a Vet Clinic in Carrboro for the past 3 years, & I recently stopped to go back to grad school at NCSU which I'm starting next week (although I still have the option of working the occasional Saturday). I was just wondering, if I move back to Raleigh, or at least a little closer, would I still be able to hear this station which is what brought this whole thread idea on. Not that I'll likely move soon just b/c of the expense of it all, but depending on what kind of employment I get in the future there is the possibility that I could call Raleigh home again.
8/14/2009 1:49:10 PM
Tried looking 'em up on Wikipedia.
8/14/2009 3:41:14 PM
From Wikipedia:
8/14/2009 4:24:50 PM
http://library.thinkquest.org/27887/gather/fundamentals/broadcasting.shtml
8/14/2009 7:54:41 PM
I guess my question is now moot, they just started doing live streaming online:http://www.wchl1360.com/live_streaming.html
8/28/2009 12:43:23 PM