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Atlantic City/Cape May "The Jersey Giant" WMID
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Thank you to everybody who supports local radio.
The Jersey Shore is a special place for many reasons, past and present, but it's really all about great people having a good time.
Hopefully WMID can be a radio station for you to make new memories while cherishing past ones, along with sisters WIBBAGE 94.3 and Hot country 101.
The Jersey Shore is a special place for many reasons, past and present, but it's really all about great people having a good time.
Hopefully WMID can be a radio station for you to make new memories while cherishing past ones, along with sisters WIBBAGE 94.3 and Hot country 101.
Should of never took Oldies off 1020, for a month I used to listen, the signal made it to Philly and most of Burlington County, where 1230 and 1340 don't exist.
Classicoldieswmid-DOT-COM
Will it be available on mobile devices soon?
it already is, just tried it
as an app i mean
type in the web address in a browser, click live stream.. badda bing badda boom....
I’ve listened to them since the early 1970s when I’m down there, along with WOND.
Anyway, on Long Beach Island- Beach Haven- the signal was strong. Or used to be. Today I was down there and could barely hear it. My portable, and car radio . So I gave up . What gives ? Sounds like they’re operating on 10 watts.
Anyway, on Long Beach Island- Beach Haven- the signal was strong. Or used to be. Today I was down there and could barely hear it. My portable, and car radio . So I gave up . What gives ? Sounds like they’re operating on 10 watts.
funny you should mention that, I was in Hammonton awile ago going to AC on the WHP, and they were non existent, even in Egg Harbor City they were very faint, in fact 1230 was much stronger so I had them on, coming into AC looking at their tower they were very weak, I thought it was my car radio. There was a time in the 60s when they made it to Geets diner loud and clear....
In the mid 2000s I could hear WMID fairly clear sitting in the Massapequa, NY railroad station parking lot. The signal traveled well along the ocean waters. There is not an AM station up or down the band that has even a fraction of the coverage it had 20 years ago. Ageing ground systems, lowered revenue, little if any maintenance, encroachments on tower sites and ground systems contribute to the decline at the source. Then the weakened signal arrives at the radio tuner to compete with all the electric noise of computers, lights, and all the other junk we use.
Can confirm that this weekend the 1340 signal is still terrible.
To the bolded... not anywhere in the USA or Canada?
In Canada they are smart enough to turn off many of their failing AM stations. In the US we, as a rich and self endolgent, people have so much electronic stuff in our offices and homes that you can't hear much at all on the AM band. Plus we've read countless reports of lowered maintenance and poor reception at the broadcast stations. With that I suggest YES. Not anywhere in the USA or Canada
Mitch Zatto
Banned
I live in Swarthmore PA and I can get WCMC (1230) in my Cavalier. There's a "sweet spot" on a service road between the Shop Rite market and the Wallmart in Eddystone PA. on Chester Pike, leading back to the PECO service center. The signal is decent there. Unfortunately I can no longer pick up WMID anywhere in Delaware County PA (today's date is June 24, 2024). WMID had a walloping signal here as far back as 1964. I would always hear it very loud behind WHAT radio (Phila.), always fighting to push thru. Now everything's changed. Ever since that iconic WMID Blaw-Knox tower was decommissioned about a month ago, there's not even a feeble beep of WMID around here anymore. It's completely gone. I don't know if that signal can ever be replicated because the way it threw that signal was probably a fluke. A lot of it has to do with the grounding system. That tower on Absecon Blvd. was built for WFPG (1450) way back in in 1948 and was also used as the mast for channel 46, a station that went dark in 1954. WFPG went on a newer tower across the blvd. in 1962, and WMID took over the tower in May of that year. The original WMID tower was further to the west on Absecon Blvd. The 'stump' of that tower is still there being used as a base for a large billboard. I wish new owner Rick Brancadora best wishes with his new combo and offer him and his staff a 'heads up' with re-establishing WMID's iconic signal!
A few off-topic WMID notes, if I may. Deals with reception.
Badly in need of anther logging on 1230 a few years back one late afternoon, I heard some standard-issue cue-scratched Oldies* there. IDing anything with the sun still out is generally a fool's errand, but I did get that dual WMID-WCMC ID. I never heard the 1340 WMID here so far.
Back in the 60's there was a DX-club tale abut WMID being heard one night in Washington. Like the STATE of that name. Again, the mention itself was a past reference. So I have no clue whether they were on the FCC-licensed 250 nighttime watts or the newer allotment of 1000 watts like the vast majority of those old 'Class IV' frequencies.
The AM dial overnights was a lot emptier then, in the early- and mid-60s. David Eduardo, like weaving a loop, can spin some great tales about the dial being even EMPTIER previous to when I started DXing.
When I listened back in Queens NYC, the Big Apple had two share-time stations on 1330 (different tower sites). WPOW's, the more distant one, was somewhere in southern Staten Island. I give you WMID's Radio-Locator map. I lived just above the 'r' in 'New York'.
That map isn't being gracious. WMID used to blast in over the water -- green grass and high tides irrespective -at times splashing onto the NYC local signal of WPOW. There abounded quite a few stories from the transistor radio days when people on Jones Beach would listen to WMID as one of the loudest stations on the dial.
That blue contour supposedly bisects Jones Beach -- the little barrier island south of Nassau County. Don't believe it. Move that blue contour several miles west.
* I'd swear I heard some of those Oldies played from CDs and mP3s that had cue burns on them.
Badly in need of anther logging on 1230 a few years back one late afternoon, I heard some standard-issue cue-scratched Oldies* there. IDing anything with the sun still out is generally a fool's errand, but I did get that dual WMID-WCMC ID. I never heard the 1340 WMID here so far.
Back in the 60's there was a DX-club tale abut WMID being heard one night in Washington. Like the STATE of that name. Again, the mention itself was a past reference. So I have no clue whether they were on the FCC-licensed 250 nighttime watts or the newer allotment of 1000 watts like the vast majority of those old 'Class IV' frequencies.
The AM dial overnights was a lot emptier then, in the early- and mid-60s. David Eduardo, like weaving a loop, can spin some great tales about the dial being even EMPTIER previous to when I started DXing.
When I listened back in Queens NYC, the Big Apple had two share-time stations on 1330 (different tower sites). WPOW's, the more distant one, was somewhere in southern Staten Island. I give you WMID's Radio-Locator map. I lived just above the 'r' in 'New York'.
That blue contour supposedly bisects Jones Beach -- the little barrier island south of Nassau County. Don't believe it. Move that blue contour several miles west.
* I'd swear I heard some of those Oldies played from CDs and mP3s that had cue burns on them.
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