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AM music stations

In Puget Sound:

650 CISL Vancouver, BC (Oldies)
660 KAPS Mount Vernon, WA (Syndicated Country)
680 KBRD Lacey, WA (Nostalgia)
880 KIXI Seattle, WA (Standards)
1070 CFAX Victoria, BC (News/Talk with some AC on weekends)
1110 KRPA Oak Harbor, WA (South Asian)
1200 CJRJ Vancouver, BC (South Asian)
1210 KMIA Auburn, WA (Latin Rhythmic CHR)
1230 KWYZ Everett, WA (K-Pop)
1250 KKDZ Seattle, WA (Disney)
1330 KGRG Enumclaw, WA (Alternative)
1340 KWLE Anacortes, WA (Variety Hits)
1360 KKMO Tacoma, WA (Ranchera)
1420 KRIZ Renton, WA (R&B)
1430 KBRC Mount Vernon, WA (Syndicated Classic Hits)
1520 KKXA Snohomish, WA (Classic Country)
1560 KZIZ Pacific, WA (Smooth Jazz)
1620 KYIZ Renton, WA (Hip-Hop)
 
In Puget Sound:

I'm wondering how many of those make a profit.

I'm guessing that KKMO (which is Regional Mexican, not "ranchera") and CJRJ would be the only ones... maybe KRPA, too.
 
Columbus OH area:

AM 920 WMNI - Was news talk recently after being Standards for many years - recently flipped back to adult standards

AM 1580 WVKO - Gospel music

AM 1550 WDLR - Spanish Music format.

Distant wise that can be picked up sometimes within the market.

AM 1270 WQTT - True Oldies Channel

AM 1110 WGNZ - Southern Gospel "Solid Gospel"
 
San Antonio, Texas:
KKYX (680kc/50kW/10kW/Classic Country)
KONO (860kc/5kW/.9kW/Classic Hits)
Both owned by Cox

WRUS (610kc/1.8kW/59W) Russellville, KY runs a variety format with country to about 2pm and classic hits with live humans hosting those programs. Around 8pm, it's all 80s with no one until night service is run over by a Alabama Gospel station. On Sundays, it's church services and Gospel with a live host after 2pm. I don't know what automation system they are using, but it has some issues with buffer bursts at the beginning of each track. Great local radio!
 
Here in Columbus, WMNI (920 AM) plays standards now. WMNI resumed that format recently after several months in an all-news simulcast with its FM partner.
WQTT (1270 AM) from Marysville, 30 miles northwest, is a TOC affiliate with a 500-watt signal quite directed at Columbus and which gets out pretty well. The only non-oldies programming are some local high school sports and a two-hour afternoon talk show weekdays.
 
An AM music station you can kiss goodbye is KOY-1230 in Phoenix; they are now a finance-talk station, a KFNN-wanna-be.
 
WLBE 790 Leesburg/Eustis, Florida. 50's and 60's and some 70's - swap shop, church on Sunday, HS football on Friday night. www.my790am.com

I am GM there.
 


I'm wondering how many of those make a profit.

I'm guessing that KKMO (which is Regional Mexican, not "ranchera") and CJRJ would be the only ones... maybe KRPA, too.

Actually they break even for the most part. Even KWLE has listeners.

KRPA is a 500 watt daytimer which is too weak to make it into Vancouver (they also get KILLED by CKWX 20 kilocycles up the dial) Victoria doesn't have much of a South Asian audience and Seattle can't hear it because it's too weak there (and 1090 kills it too.) And there are very few South Asian communities in Northwest Washington.

KRPI 1550 and KVRI 1600 are beamed full blast into the Lower Mainland of BC. You can't even hear them south of Bellingham.
 
Portland OR
880 KWIP - Rimshot with regional Mexican.
910 KKSN - Plays music from local Oregon and NW bands, simulcast of KNRK-HD2.
940 KWBY - Another Regional Mexican
1450 KBPS - Mix of stuff, owned by Portland Public Schools. CHR/teeny music in the day, oldies and classic rock late in the evening.
1480 KBMS - Urban AC "The Touch"
1520 KGDD - Regional Mexican
1550 KKOV - Adult standards, went to talk in April 2011 but went back to Adult Standards late in 2012.
1640 KDZR - Disney

Boise ID
950 KMHR - Regional Mexican
1240 KMHI - Rimshot from Mountain Home, with classic country.
1260 KTRP - Classic Country
1380 KSRV - Oldies, formerly today's country
1450 KWEI - Regional Mexican

Rapid City SD
810 KBHB - Country
920 KKLS - Adult Hits
980 KDSJ - Full service, mainly oldies
1150 KIMM - Classic Country
1490 KFCR - Adult Contemporary from Custer, rimshot

-crainbebo
 
In Puget Sound:

650 CISL Vancouver, BC (Oldies)
660 KAPS Mount Vernon, WA (Syndicated Country)
680 KBRD Lacey, WA (Nostalgia)
880 KIXI Seattle, WA (Standards)
1070 CFAX Victoria, BC (News/Talk with some AC on weekends)
1110 KRPA Oak Harbor, WA (South Asian)
1200 CJRJ Vancouver, BC (South Asian)
1210 KMIA Auburn, WA (Latin Rhythmic CHR)
1230 KWYZ Everett, WA (K-Pop)
1250 KKDZ Seattle, WA (Disney)
1330 KGRG Enumclaw, WA (Alternative)
1340 KWLE Anacortes, WA (Variety Hits)
1360 KKMO Tacoma, WA (Ranchera)
1420 KRIZ Renton, WA (R&B)
1430 KBRC Mount Vernon, WA (Syndicated Classic Hits)
1520 KKXA Snohomish, WA (Classic Country)
1560 KZIZ Pacific, WA (Smooth Jazz)
1620 KYIZ Renton, WA (Hip-Hop)

You could also add 1540 KXPA, which plays standards at night. And CJVB 1470 (usually Asian language programming) also plays jazz/pop and other music at night. I've heard a lot of interesting music on that station lately -- the other night they had a show on playing reggae.
 
In NE and Central Pa: WARM 590 True Oldies, 730..simulcast of FM oldies in Wilkes Barre, WHLM 930 Bloomsburg..Gold based AC during the week, an hour of oldies at Noon and oldies(50's through 70's)on the weekend, WHYL 960 Carlisle, standards,AC. WLSH Lansford 1410,oldies and WWSM 1510 Classic Country.

It's nice hearing music on AM because usually it's stuff you can't get on FM anymore..soft AC, standards, traditional oldies,classic country.
 
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