I read once it was to push the ring of cancellation beyond cities such as Columbus and Indianapolis, as to provide better groundwave in those areas. If that's the case, it worked in Columbus. The ring of cancellation is definitely beyond our area, but not far. Can't speak to Indianapolis and Louisville, however.
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Daytime: signal from KGYM on 1600. I've never heard WLW during the daytime in my area, but have heard it about 75 miles east of here in northwestern Illinois.
Nighttime: All WLW.
Nighttime: All WLW.
When I lived in various places in Indiana, particularly Lafayette, there was a lot of groundwave/skywave cancellation. Driving toward Chicago it got even worse.
Daytime here is nothing but that low-end-of-the-dial noise.
SSS's have delivered WWTL from Maryland and, 5 years ago, the delightfully-named WTUB from Massachusetts.
The owner(s) must have some sense of humor. Here is their pattern and their current calls.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFAT&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
Nighttimes it's WLW.
SSS's have delivered WWTL from Maryland and, 5 years ago, the delightfully-named WTUB from Massachusetts.
The owner(s) must have some sense of humor. Here is their pattern and their current calls.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WFAT&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
Nighttimes it's WLW.
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About a month ago I drove right past WLW's tower on the way to/from Kings Island. It's on the main road between Kings Island and I-75
Update: Just got WLW. Quite a pleasent suprise
KSEV 700AM Tomball-Houston for me.
"The Voice of Texas."
Great daytime coverage area, wish the LSU Sports Network would tab KSEV as an affiliate, if only for the daytime coverage area.
At night, that same coverage are cheerfully covered by WWL or KWKH, so nighttime duties are not needed from KSEV.
Houston is home to more LSU Alumni than any other city, including New Orleans. Despite this, the LSU Sports Radio Network does not have an affiliate in Houston.
"The Voice of Texas."
Great daytime coverage area, wish the LSU Sports Network would tab KSEV as an affiliate, if only for the daytime coverage area.
At night, that same coverage are cheerfully covered by WWL or KWKH, so nighttime duties are not needed from KSEV.
Houston is home to more LSU Alumni than any other city, including New Orleans. Despite this, the LSU Sports Radio Network does not have an affiliate in Houston.
Daytime: A weak WFAT Orange-Athol, MA, playing its automated bizarre mix of largely pre-British Invasion oldies and dusty country gold.
Nighttime: What else? WLW.
Nighttime: What else? WLW.
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rbrucecarter5
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Given its present format, it is of no interest to me. It is an interesting study in how to have a large coverage footprint. I hope in the long run, AM can resolve its issues with interference, format, income, and perception so stations with large coverage can serve the rest of the population not in urban areas. But I doubt it.
WLW has the same format it's had since the 80s, but some of the on-air voices are different. Large coverage footprints are mostly irrelevant because of the way advertising is bought and sold, and the easy ability for those who want to hear distant stations to do so online. I still listen to WLW in the morning but it's not on-air.
Large coverage areas might be irrelevant in some respect, but I would much rather be able to listen to WLW driving around Columbus from my car radio than having to use my phone battery and data to hear a semi-local station from 90 miles away (or any other station that should come in at my location). I know there are longtime posters who have adamant stances when it comes to out-of-market listening, and to each their own. At the end of the day, I don't think there's anything wrong with having these powerful stations and a wide area in which people can listen to them day or night.
Good point. But to station owners, the advantage of higher power today is in the ability to overcome nearly all sources of man-made interference in the primary metro area which is the target of essentially 100% of advertising buys.
In the cases of many small and even medium market stations,
significant considerations include how to minimize their power consumption
and real estate requirements (shared sites with the least number of towers).
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rbrucecarter5
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There are exceptions, though. I distinctly remember hearing commercials for farm implement stores in Jacksboro on WBAP. There were some other advertisers from way out of town as well but I forget who they are. It MAY have been during the 96.7 simulcast, but I think it was later and that Jacksboro account was long term, regular commercials over several years. I also remember that KMKI when it was Radio Disney did two remotes from Abilene, because they had listeners there.
Jacksboro is only about a dozen miles outside the Dallas Ft Worth Metro Survey Area, so it's likely that any peripheral area sponsor locations would be included in tags.
I lost track of times sponsors asked for remotes from places the station I was with did not even cover. It comes, often, from time buyers or even sellers who don't understand coverage or offer things that are of no value to the client.
Who remembers which channel number WLW was carried on SiriusXM
(or maybe it was just XM back then)?
Yes, for a few months, WLW returned to being a SuperStation
with better coverage than ANY terrestrial transmitter could provide.
The first time I ever heard of XM was on an all-night trucker-oriented talk show
near the end of 2001.
I forget the channel, but it was just XM, before the Sirius takeover. WLW was part of the big chunk of XM bandwidth controlled by Clear Channel back then. As you say, it didn't last long.
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