8 towers day and night:
Patterns similar, strong lobe to the south, lesser signal to the east-southeast.
Other Information:
Dowdy and Dowdy
History:
Call letters WROA (Riviera
of America) date back to at least 1960 when it was a 1 kW daytimer playing
MoR music. Around 1970, the owners erected an 8 tower array to go 5 kW
fulltime. Station then went top 40 and moved the elevator music to WROA
FM 107.1. Once FM competition forced a change, the AM went back to instrumental-based
easy listening. Incredibly, the station airs that format as of right now
-- practically the only one in the country left in the format. It is difficult
to imagine the revenue from this format covering the maintenance costs
of an 8-tower DA system (these towers are more than 1/4 wave high too!)
