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It's always nice when we can take a market on Toppy from "one lonely station" to "pretty much complete," and that's what we're able to do this week with Gallup, New Mexico, thanks to our stop there during the second installment of "Big Trip 2011."
Enjoy the audio here - and see the pictures over on Site of the Week!

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My condolences go out to the friends and family of the people in Oklahoma who lost their lives in yesterday's EF-5 tornado. The most horrifying thing I've ever heard was the "freight train" sound of an EF-4 tornado heading toward my brother's house in April 2009. It took a right turn at the last minute and we were spared. Not everyone was so lucky, though.
Today's new IDs are all from Ohio: Cleveland, Columbus, and Akron/Canton. They include HD2/translator modern rock combo 99X (Cleveland), 175,000 watt FM blowtorch WNCI (Columbus) and the Toppy debut of WSTB (Akron/Canton).

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Tonight's new audio comes from Northern New England, specifically New Hampshire and a couple from Vermont. Enjoy IDs from The Concord/Lakes Region area as well as Northern, NH/Northeast Kingdom, VT. Apparently a couple stations WAY up north there haven't completely figured out the art of a proper legal ID just yet... Though that was a year and a half ago now, they may have since figured it out.

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For most tourists, the area around Winslow and Holbrook, Arizona just doesn't register much. Sure, there's the Eagles song (and a statue to go with it), and Meteor Crater, and if you're a Route 66 junkie, there are some nice sections of the Mother Road to be seen. But even the average visitor heading down old 66 will probably push on to Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon in one direction, or up to the Navajo Nation in the other. Back in 2011, we stopped long enough to see the sights, and the stations, and to grab some IDs from what we (well, Bill, anyway) has dubbed the Holbrook-Show Low market.
(The Show Low part of the market is about 50 miles to the south at considerably higher altitude, in a part of east central Arizona that's even farther beyond the usual touristy path. We'll have to get back there one of these days.)

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We're in between "Big Trips" on Tower Site of the Week - and so we turn this week, here on Toppy, to some IDs from closer to home. From Buffalo, we catch up on the transition of AM 970 from WNED public radio (including its very last ID as WNED) to WDCZ, a simulcast of religious WDCX-FM 99.5. Down the road in Syracuse, it's the "ESPN Radio 97.7/100.1" translator relay of WTLA 1200 and WSGO 1440. From the Utica market, it's the first appearance of the new WUSP calls on AM 1550, as well as Mars Hill Network's new WMHY 88.7. And from Oneonta comes the sad story of SUNY Oneonta's little public radio voice, WUOW. We caught it in its LPFM incarnation back in 2007, and this week's update includes its newer version as a full-power signal on 88.5. Enjoy it while it lasts; on Thursday, it's signing off, apparently for good.

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Seems like I've been posting Florida IDs from 2011 for most of 2013, doesn't it? I guess that's because I have. But tonight's installment of Gainesville IDs completes our run of top-hours from that very fun trip.
Behold the last installment of tower and studio pictures here...and come back next week for something non-Florida, won't you?

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That would be Gainesville, Florida, don'tcha know? We stopped by for two installments of Tower Site of the Week back in 2011...and that means lots of Gainesville IDs this week and next here on Toppy, too!

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This time our intrepid TOH clip collector Greg Coniglio provides 11 clips from the Land of Lincoln and 1 from the Hoosier State. The markets include the Champaign-Urbana IL, Chicago Suburbs - NW Indiana, Danville IL, Effingham IL, and Springfield IL markets.



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This week's travels on Tower Site of the Week take us to the horsey town of Ocala, Florida...which, for Toppy's purposes (and Arbitron's, too), puts us in the larger Gainesville, Florida market.

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I'm looking out on the southern end of the famed Las Vegas strip as I write this, but Toppy's heart this week is some 2800 miles away on the west coast of Florida, where today's update brings us a nearly complete run of AM, FM and HD2 from Fort Myers, Florida, neatly tied in with this week's Tower Site of the Week.