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Talk 1070 turning up the power
From staff reports and a
press release
�2006 Bonesville.net
Beasley Broadcasting and Talk
1070 are ramping up their new high-powered daytime signal and working the
kinks out of their soon-to-be-enhanced nighttime signal just in time for
football season.
Beasley and its WNCT-AM
programming partner, Hinton Media Group, announced that they implemented the
long-planned upgrade of the Greenville station's transmitter to 50,000 watts
of daytime power as of Aug. 24.
The
stronger signal is expected to bring programming to listeners beyond
Greenville and Pitt County, covering most of Eastern North Carolina during
the daytime hours.
According
to the station, engineers are still working to tweak the nighttime pattern
to provide a 10,000-watt signal intended to reach nighttime listeners in
neighboring counties, such as Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Lenoir and Martin,
among others. Nighttime listeners in those areas will need to be patient for
another couple of weeks as engineering adjustments are fine-tuned, say
station executives, who assure that a "clear nighttime signal is coming."
In June,
Talk 1070 was named the AM Flagship Station for the ECU Pirates. Pirate
football, basketball and baseball can be heard on the station, as well as
coaches' call-in shows.
Talk 1070
launched its fall schedule of weeknight sports programming on Monday with
"The Brian Bailey Show," hosted by veteran television sports anchor Brian
Bailey.
WNCT-AM Talk 1070's Fall 2006 weekly sports programming lineup:
[All
programs start at 7:00 p.m. The station's morning
drive time show, Talk of the Town, starts at 6:30 a.m.]
- Monday: "The Brian
Bailey Show" with WNCT-TV 9 Sports Director Brian Bailey.
- Tuesday: "Tuesday
Tailgate" with former ECU basketball coach Mike Steele, the Pirates'
football program's all-time leading scorer, Kevin Miller, and former
standout ECU defensive back Tabari "Snoop" Wallace.
- Wednesday: Delayed
broadcast of ECU football coach Skip Holtz' weekly press conference.
- Thursday: "The
Pirate Insider Report" with Talk 1070 announcer Patrick Johnson, Daily
Reflector ECU football beat writer Nathan Summers, and Pirate ISP
Network sideline analyst and former ECU defensive back Kevin Monroe.
Shows will start
weeknights at 7 p.m. and be simulcast on Greenville's Cable 7.
The station's game day
coverage of Pirate football will begin each Saturday three hours before
kickoff with "The Pepsi Game Day Countdown." The two-hour show will be
hosted by Johnson and Bonesville's Denny O'Brien, who also is the editor of
"The Pirates Chest."
After the Pirate ISP
Network's coverage of each game, Talk 1070's veteran announcer, Henry
Hinton, will take calls on "The Bud Light Post-Game Call In Show." Hinton
will be joined by Wallace and Monroe on the post-game show throughout the
season.
Bailey, Monroe, O'Brien
and Hinton are regular Bonesville.net columnists. Bonesville.net and Hinton
Media Group also have cooperative arrangements in the areas of advertising
and Internet audio content.
Talk 1070's daytime
local programming features "Talk of the Town Morning Edition" from 6:30-8:00
a.m., followed from 8-9:00 a.m. by "Talk of the Town" with Hinton and
Johnson. The shows air on both Talk 1070 and Cable 7 and are repeated
weekday afternoons at 5 p.m.
Top national talk radio
personalities Laura Ingraham, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are heard on
the station throughout the day.
Another Beasley
station, WSFL 106.5 FM in New Bern, is the Pirate ISP Network's FM flagship.
�2006 All rights rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. A press release contributed to this report.
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