1590 -- Your Most Desired Unheard Station Then and Now

[Steve Green NEPA]

For me, 'then' would've been KYUU (?) Seattle, which for a week or so overnight was reported as widely heard, as far East as Ohio. I missed them entirely.
I guess that WAKR was off, hi.

For here, right now? I'd accept WPSN Honesdale PA. But the dial is so noisy. I'd have to use the car radio, I guess, and drive 9.9 air miles toward them and hope for the best to count them for the NE PA log.

Your elusive 1590 station ?

 

[radioman148]

In my case, near north Chicago suburbs there is a local WCGO which is on 1590. Way back many many years ago the calls were WNMP and they were a daytime only. WNMP was the first station I ever visited.
At night back then it was usually WAKR which had a good format. Never heard anything from the far west on 1590.

 

[2 Trailer Trucker]

In Indy, we have local WNTS-Beech Grove day and night.

 

[gr8oldies]

Now: From East Tennessee: I've heard WAKR (even with winter daytime skip), and WCGO, as well as several NC and SC stations. So I nominate WTVB, Coldwater MI.

Then: Western Ohio: WAKR goes everywhere so was never a problem; WNTS made it in daily. So.....let's go with KWBG, (or whatever it was) Boone, IA.

 

[cyberdad]

My "most wanted" on 1590 would probably be the one in Jackson, MS. In a former life it was WWUN ("one"). Top 40 and later oldies. Not a bad little station, but no match for local blowtorch WJDX on 620 with a better execution of a similar format

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

My "most wanted" on 1590 would probably be the one in Jackson, MS. In a former life it was WWUN ("one"). Top 40 and later oldies. Not a bad little station, but no match for local blowtorch WJDX on 620 with a better execution of a similar format

You'll be waiting a long time for that one... its been gone 7 years, deleted in July 2012

 

[cyberdad]

You'll be waiting a long time for that one... its been gone 7 years, deleted in July 2012

I was pretty sure that it was gone, but the fact remains that this would have still been my most wanted. Even though it's now an impossibility. The other 1590 of interest to me was WAKR and that one used to be a very easy catch at my location.

 

[gr8oldies]

Fun fact: WWUN was an early stop for one Gary Burbank, using the name Johnny Apollo.

I was pretty sure that it was gone, but the fact remains that this would have still been my most wanted. Even though it's now an impossibility. The other 1590 of interest to me was WAKR and that one used to be a very easy catch at my location.

 

[crainbebo]

KGFK Grand Forks ND, 'Rock 95.' Been looking for them since they were KCNN. Nothing. KVGB is now a 1243-mile pest, but this one is closer and never caught. Anything else would be nearly impossible from here, I'm afraid. I have KLFE, KTIL, KLIV (Silent), KVTA, and KVGB in the logs.

 

[cyberdad]

Fun fact: WWUN was an early stop for one Gary Burbank, using the name Johnny Apollo.

When was "Johnny Apollo" at WWUN. That handle rings a bell, so I might have heard him. Jackson was a regular stop for me 1991-2001. I enjoyed going there. I had a major customer in town who was great to work with and fun to go out to dinner with her and her husband. (The now-defunct Iron Horse in the downtown area was a favorite spot for that.)

 

[gr8oldies]

I'm aware of an aircheck of "Johnny" from 1968, before moving back to Memphis and taking on the Gary Burbank name. Eventually WAKY, WNOE. CKLW, WHAS and his long career at WLW

When was "Johnny Apollo" at WWUN. That handle rings a bell, so I might have heard him. Jackson was a regular stop for me 1991-2001. I enjoyed going there. I had a major customer in town who was great to work with and fun to go out to dinner with her and her husband. (The now-defunct Iron Horse in the downtown area was a favorite spot for that.)

 

[cyberdad]

I'm aware of an aircheck of "Johnny" from 1968, before moving back to Memphis and taking on the Gary Burbank name. Eventually WAKY, WNOE. CKLW, WHAS and his long career at WLW

Thanks. So I probably missed him. That said, Jackson, MS had more than a few people who went on to bigger and bigger things. One of them that comes to mind was Catherine "Cat" Johns. I worked with her briefly when she came from the Jackson 1300 (WRBC, IIRC) before she went on to become a figure at WLS.

Then ther was WJDX (620), which in the 1970s was an excellent listen and a breeding ground for talent.

 

[Pat3]

I've heard 1590 out of Jackson, MS in the smoky mountains and down around New Orleans while on vacation at night. For a while 1590 (as WZRX) ran and short lived AOR format in the late 80's and for a while carried the heavy metal/ hair band format called "Z-Rock. After WWUN in the 70s left it ran a revolving door of formats. Country, Oldies/classic hits, Adult Standards, Blues/southern soul, black gospel, AOR, Heavy metal, Black Gospel, Classic rock (simulcast of WSTZ FM. and finally sports and talk before clear channel refused to sell it and they turned in the license. It's a shame. It started out as WOKJ before they moved to 1550 in the late 60s and WWUN came to 1590. Both stations are now gone.