Rochester radio "the buzz" heard in Buffalo (Syracuse: live, suburbs)

[FedupWNY]

Strange but true. My son has a cheap radio where channels here in Buffalo are all static, or poor receiption if he's not holding on to the antenna. But every night (around 9pm) he gets a station from Rochester "the buzz" clear as a bell. He asked me how it is possible that our hometown stations don't come in, yet he can listen to another station so far away. Maybe someone can share the answer.

[Rochester-WNY]

Originally Posted by FedupWNY

Strange but true. My son has a cheap radio where channels here in Buffalo are all static, or poor receiption if he's not holding on to the antenna. But every night (around 9pm) he gets a station from Rochester "the buzz" clear as a bell. He asked me how it is possible that our hometown stations don't come in, yet he can listen to another station so far away. Maybe someone can share the answer.

It is true. I live downtown Buffalo at the moment and I can hear it on certain occasions. I miss Rochester but loving the Western part of WNY.

[FedupWNY]

Originally Posted by Rochester-WNY

It is true. I live downtown Buffalo at the moment and I can hear it on certain occasions. I miss Rochester but loving the Western part of WNY.

Never having lived in Rochester, but knowing many who do and from visiting the area about once a year, they have some of the best radio stations.

[I'minformed2]

ninety-eight P X Y...Ro-ches-tERRRRRRRR!

[Rochester-WNY]

Originally Posted by i'minformed2

ninety-eight p x y...ro-ches-terrrrrrrr!

its rahhhhchester!!!

[I'minformed2]

yeah, that's how the rest of us pronounce it...but when 98 pxy has that little "chorus" before they go back on air, it's always broken up like that....ro-ches-terrrrrrrr!

[Lancet71]

Originally Posted by FedupWNY

Strange but true. My son has a cheap radio where channels here in Buffalo are all static, or poor receiption if he's not holding on to the antenna. But every night (around 9pm) he gets a station from Rochester "the buzz" clear as a bell. He asked me how it is possible that our hometown stations don't come in, yet he can listen to another station so far away. Maybe someone can share the answer.

It all depends on signal strength.Usually the large stations broadcast with alot more power behind them and the smaller ones on a smaller scale thats why some stations you can hear from other states. Occasionally though if amplified by the station even on a smaller scale you can get lucky and pick it up. Also if no other channels being used around it.

[cheese9988]

Signal strength, weather conditions and your radio and the radios antenna all influence how far you can receive a station. Once in awhile I can pick up 106.5 from Buffalo RD on the west side of Rochester.

[bellafinzi]

About 5 years ago, when I worked near Elbridge, I could pick up a good mix radio station out of Rochester in my car (forgot the name). As soon you hit Camillus the sound starts fading in and out. By the time you hit the Town of Clay...it's gone...nothing at all. So, Elbridge westard is where you can start picking up Rochester radio over here on the eastern front.

The strange thing was, if you head into Cicero, on the same exact channel we got out of Rochester, you can start picking up a decent radio station out of Utica.

[ckhthankgod]

It's WPXY 98.7 out of Rochester and the Utica station is Kiss FM also on 98.7. It's also on 105.5 out of Little Falls. Actually, the stations kind of "fight" each other around the Liverpool/Clay/Salina area, because when I lived there, you could get both, depending on where you were in that area. Sometimes you can get the Border 106.7 out of Watertown/Ogdensburg in the Northern Suburbs and other parts of Syracuse too.