I’m out in Midland Odessa for business and noticed half of one time licensed AM’s are no longer on the air (920, 1000, 1230, 1310, 1410). I’m curious if other markets (with more than a couple of AM’s at peak) have also experienced either this number or this high of a percentage of AM’s deleted/listened turned in (pick the terminology)?
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Markets with most deleted AM’s
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Here you go:
Silent AM Broadcast Stations List
This list consists of AM broadcast radio stations silent for two months or longer. For additional information related to silent AM and FM stations, please see Silent AM and FM Broadcast Stations. There is also a list available for silent FM broadcast radio stations Lists are generally updated...
You might find this list of deleted stations helpful. Pine Bluff, Arkansas has lost a number of AM stations, too. List of AM radio stations deleted from the FCC database
I'm not sure about that list. To my knowledge, 1060 AM in Tempe, AZ is still on the air and never went dark.
It's been KDUS for close to 25 years. It was KUKQ when I moved back to Phoenix in 1994. If it did go dark, it was only briefly.
St. Louis would be my nominee, primarily because of the four AMs whose licenses were revoked in 2020.
www.insideradio.com
FCC Extends Protections For Now-Dark St. Louis AMs For Future Owners.
Four St. Louis AMs may still be dark, but the FCC says it will continue to protect the signals from encroachment by other stations. The FCC last year revoked the
I was there from 1986 to 2013. If It had gone dark, I'd have not only known, but probably would have covered it somehow.
What's weird, though, is the FCC database shows "License Cancelled"
And it went on the air as a 500 watt station in the early 60's as KUPD, Cupid, a beautiful music station. I used to hear it on Monday mornings in Cleveland, Ohio when 1060 was clear all the way to AZ.
KYW must have been off the air for maintenance then. I don't remember hearing KUPD at all in Indiana. Must have been listening at the wrong time. West-of-Denver semi-semi-regulars for me 50-60 years ago were KFI, KCBS, KGO, KNX, and KSL. Nothing from Phoenix.
The two most fun DX stations from PHX then were 1060 and 1190, KRDS.
KOY, KOOL, 910, 1510 were others easily heard but much higher power.
1510? They were a daytimer. Even with 10 kW and some skip, I'm surprised you could hear them in Cleveland. Nothing from KTUF 1580? Same situation but 50 kW.
KTUF was easy, and they both tested often and frequently stayed on after the legal sign-off-
1510 tested rather frequently so it was easy after 3 AM EST.
It also had WDXI 1310 in Jackson TN listed. They were temporarily off for a short period but are back on now along with their translator on 103.5.
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JoeLouis
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The only AM I known that was deleted was WLNG 1600 on Long Island, they did that so WWRL in New York City could have a clearer field and not interfere with reception in Nassau and Suffolk counties, that's the only one I know.
Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville--and Eastern North Carolina in general-- is a place where many AMs have pulled the plug. Just off the top of my head, I can think of twelve in or immediately adjacent to the market that have fallen silent --1340 WOOW in Greenville, 1320 WTOW in Washington, 1380 WSFL in New Bern, 740 WMBL in Morehead City, 1400 WBTB in Beaufort, and 1470 WJPI in Plymouth, 1400 WLSE in Wallace, 1580 WTRQ in Warsaw, 810 WCEC in Rocky Mount, 1420 WVOT in Wilson, 590 WGTM in Wilson, and 1470 WVBS in Burgaw.
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JoeLouis
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That's quite a few, were they like 250 watt day timers? or super low power after sunset like 6 watts?
All save for WVBS were at least 1kW daytime. WVBS was 880 watts. WCEC was daytime only and turned their license in after selling their FM sister--now WRDU 100.7 in Wake Forest, (Raleigh-Durham) NC. WMBL was 14 watts at night, and was bought by iHeart --then Clear Channel--in 2000 just to be silenced to expand the power of AM 730 in Charleston, SC. WTRQ had 10,000 watts daytime, but I don't know about their nighttime facilities, if any. WGTM was 5kW full time, a beast of a signal at that low dial position.
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Maybe you can explain, why is a station at the low end of the dial e.g. 600khz get out way farther than a station let's say at 1450khz, I know of 2 in the same city with same wattage with antennas at the same location, same signal pattern, yet the 600khz could be heard in 3 states, and the 1450 maybe in like a 30 mile radius?
Yeah - that list is only considering the original call and dial position. Resurrections don't seem to be marked as such.
580 KIKX died in Tucson in the early 1980's. Five years later, KSAZ (then known as KJMM) went on the air from the same facility.
In 1990, it moved to a three-stick array out in the Marana, AZ farm fields. It's currently Radio Ebenezer, with Spanish-language music & preaching.
The longer wavelengths at the low end of the AM band provide better groundwave coverage. 600 kHz is almost triple the wavelength of 1450. Of course power and antenna patterns can make a huge difference as well.
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