AM Frequency of the week: 1100

[radioman148]

I do remember WKYC as a top 40 station, but I liked KAAY "next door" better. Wasn't WKYC the alma mater of Ken Draper, Jim Runyan, Jerry G Bishop, and Jim Stagg of the original days of WCFL as a top-40 challenger to WLS?

Indeed they were all there as was Fred Winston in the late 60s before his Chicago years.

 

[ente]

South Mississippi:

Day- nothing
Night- WTAM Cleveland
Local station WGCM 1240/100.9 Gulfport, MS also had the WTAM callsign from 1980-1987.

 

[davideduardo]

WKYC had ratings problems when they were Top 40 because they were saddled with NBC News. Their competition, mainly WIXY at that time didn't have any of that.

A few years before WIXY appeared, in 1961, I noted an extreme auroral condition and first logged a Venezuelan on 1370 with 1 kw. Then, playing around with the 30" loop, managed to put a null on WKYC and got the cultural station in Caracas which had 10 kw at the time. It was nearly 100% readable and stable.

I was 18 miles from the WKYC transmitter site.

The evening turned out to be following national elections and I got at least a dozen new Venezuelans, mostly on local channels.

 

[jim-satx]

From NW San Antonio:

Day: It's local KDRY.

Sunset: I've heard KNZZ in Grand Junction once underneath KDRY.

Night: When KDRY drops to 1 kW directional, I can get a fairly good N-NE/S-SW null. XETGO "Radio Cañón" in Tlaltenango is common there. When propagation is really good, I sometimes hear WTAM.

Sunrise: Aiming NW I can often hear a weak KFNX in Cave Creek, AZ, underneath KDRY. I've heard KNZZ a few times as well.

DX/Retro: I've logged KKLL in Webb City, MO, and KWWN in Las Vegas once each when KDRY was off the air to due storms.

 

[radioman148]

A few years before WIXY appeared, in 1961, I noted an extreme auroral condition and first logged a Venezuelan on 1370 with 1 kw. Then, playing around with the 30" loop, managed to put a null on WKYC and got the cultural station in Caracas which had 10 kw at the time. It was nearly 100% readable and stable.

I was 18 miles from the WKYC transmitter site.

The evening turned out to be following national elections and I got at least a dozen new Venezuelans, mostly on local channels.

I think in 1961 WKYC was still KYW. I believe it was around 1965 that KYW moved to back to Philly.

 

[wildthangjim]

In west Houston, KDRY is sometimes heard but mostly disappears at sunset. Sunset/nighttime I've heard XETGO Radio Canon and WTAM. There's another talk station in there, probably KNZZ but have never caught an ID.