WKAM from Goshen, IN is also Spanish on 1460. Their 2.5kw day signal makes it at least to some of the Indiana suburbs southeast of Chicago. They could be one of the two you're hearing.
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In Southeast Michigan, in the Daytime skywave, you usually got WBNS, WBRN, and WKAM, while WPON was off. WPON is finally back on after going on and off for years after losing their previous site.
I noticed that and the WKAM stream didn't match either. And this was at sunset in Chicago so I'd think they were on (or supposed to be on) their night pattern. But it could well have been all three mixing it up. My Spanish is bad enough with one station; more than one is chaos.
Retro: Back in the late 60s and early 70s there was a Top 40 station in the St. Louis market on this frequency with the call letters KIRL. This station was an ill-fated attempt to compete with then AM Top 40 powerhouse KXOK. The one thing I remember about KIRL was this station had the most "compressed" audio I had ever heard on an AM station. Their signal barely covered the St Louis metro area at the time.
Bob
Bob
There's currently a KIRL-FM in Osage Beach, Mo. I assume the KIRL-AM you're talking about was much closer to St Louis. Wish I had been able to hear it in the Chicago area. I could catch KXOK, WIL, and KWK.
KIRL-AM was licensed for St. Charles, Missouri. The current station on that frequency and still in St. Charles is KHOJ with a Religious format.
Bob
I used to hear KSO 1460 when local WKMF 1470 signed off on Sunday and Monday Mornings.
Thanks!
I remember the compressed audio, also. I was in St Louis in the 70's for a meeting and I had my usual little cassette recorder/radio and the tiny recording meter on it just did not move! It just wobbled.
From NW San Antonio:
Day: A moderately strong signal from classic country KCWM in Hondo, 34 miles to my SW. On my best radios and away from RFI, I can sometimes hear a very weak KBRZ in Missouri City, TX, which has Hindi programming.
Sunset: KBRZ is stronger and mixes with KCWM. KCLE in Burleson, TX, starts to come up from the NE with Vietnamese programming.
Night: To the east, KBRZ is heard the most with WXOK (Port Allen, LA) and to a lesser extent KCWM and KTKC (Springhill, LA) underneath. To the NE, KXNO in Des Moines occasionally pops up weakly. KBZO in Lubbock is often heard to the NW, and KZNT in Colorado Springs will occastionally pop up in that direction.
Sunrise: Daytimer KZUE in Reno City, OK, can sometimes be heard briefly after it signs on. To the NW, XEYC in Ciudad Juárez is a regular visitor. Also, KCLE comes up strong when it goes to day power.
Day: A moderately strong signal from classic country KCWM in Hondo, 34 miles to my SW. On my best radios and away from RFI, I can sometimes hear a very weak KBRZ in Missouri City, TX, which has Hindi programming.
Sunset: KBRZ is stronger and mixes with KCWM. KCLE in Burleson, TX, starts to come up from the NE with Vietnamese programming.
Night: To the east, KBRZ is heard the most with WXOK (Port Allen, LA) and to a lesser extent KCWM and KTKC (Springhill, LA) underneath. To the NE, KXNO in Des Moines occasionally pops up weakly. KBZO in Lubbock is often heard to the NW, and KZNT in Colorado Springs will occastionally pop up in that direction.
Sunrise: Daytimer KZUE in Reno City, OK, can sometimes be heard briefly after it signs on. To the NW, XEYC in Ciudad Juárez is a regular visitor. Also, KCLE comes up strong when it goes to day power.
Have any of you guys ever snagged CJOY on 1460 from Guelph, Ontario? 10kw fulltime aimed north, located about 50 miles west of Toronto. Very good oldies station for many years. Now classic rock. I had customers in the area, and the hotel where I stayed was about a mile fom their antenna site. I've tried numerous times for CJOY here at my home location, but haven't heard it yet. I think I may have caught it on the Arctic SDR a couple of times, but couldn't positively ID it.
I've never heard it here in the Chicago area.
The rare timely fade-up with ID at 11 p.m. CT this evening brings in KXPN Kearney, Neb., an ESPN affiliate with "the Tri-Cities" moniker. It's been in and out all evening, mixing with KXNO Des Moines, which was carrying the Minnesota Vikings broadcast. I'd guess KXPN isn't on its listed 56 nighttime watts but still on the 5 kw daytime authorization.
A friend worked for a short time at the ABC-TV affiliate in Kearney. He said there were more cattle watching than people. I'm sure he wasn't trying to steer me wrong.
A friend worked for a short time at the ABC-TV affiliate in Kearney. He said there were more cattle watching than people. I'm sure he wasn't trying to steer me wrong.
Do you know if there was any connection other than top-40 format (i.e., ownership) between KIRL and the similar calls but more famous WIRL Peoria, IL (1290)?
I don't think so. I believe WIRL, back in its "Glory Days" was owned by LaVern Flambeau. A well known and respected group operator in the central and upper midwest. Among his oteher properties was WQUA in Moline, IL. Another excellent station that proved you could create a cash cow with a station on a graveyard channel (1230) in a multi-signal market.
His name does not appear anywhere on the WIRL "history card." Of course, with ownership changes over the years, ownership was often listed via company name(s).
I was always under the impression that WIRL was locally owned during height of the Top 40 run of the 60s and 70s.
Bob
I always thought a Peoria station was part of LaVern Flambeau's portfolio, but you'd know better than me. Maybe he owned another station in the area. Or maybe I'm thinking of something else entirely. In any event, his days of station ownership are 40 years back in the rear view mirror.
In the 1970s or so, WIRL was owned by Mid America Media, which also owned KIOA, WKAN, and WTRX, and some associated FMs. The principal was a man by the name of Burrell Small.
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