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Reset your 880 AM preset?
- Thread starter YoYoGo
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
On either band.
Numbers 4 and 5 would be 710 and 770, I would presume? A companion question would be what replaced 98.7, unless it is just hanging on the presets to try to catch whatever the permanent program will be.
Here in Houston I have 1710 programmed on three of my car’s six AM presets, as it has no station.
The three other presets are sportstalkers, two of which I rarely listen to.
If Audacy’s KILT SportsRadio 610 ever migrated to FM I’d be completely done with AM radio here.
Numbers 4 and 5 are 710 WOR and 1130 WBBR on AM. 98.7 was replaced by 96.9 WLIW (W245BA) on FM.
My car radio has 12 AM presets, in two groups of 6. It was a struggle to program the first group, and I barely ever use them. For the second group, I included 640 KFI and 1070 KNX, both Los Angeles Class A (50Kw clear) stations, even though I'm in the San Francisco Bay area. And I think I've got all-news KCBS occupying a preset in each AM group, plus one in the FM presets. The pickings are slim indeed. (I doubt I could fill up even the first group if I had to drive the car back to NYC. WINS, WBBR and ... uhh ... maybe I'd include 660 and 880 just to listen to the Yankees and Mets PBP, but then what happens after October?)
Although, to be fair, we are far removed from the days when "presets" meant six AMs and six FMs on two separate rows or tiers or bands or whatever you call them. My car, a 2013 Chevy, has six such preset tiers, each of which can handle six AM or FM or SiriusXM stations/channels. I have eight local FMs programmed (three hit country, one classic country, one oldies, one sports, one noncommercial news/talk, one noncommercial classical), no local AMs. The rest are Sirius XM channels, a mix of music , news and sports -- although 2 1/2 full bands/tiers/ranges are full of dedicated play-by-play channels (all MLB in season, all NHL in season), some of which hardly ever get listened to. Still, I don't have an empty preset on my radio, and I could easily find a half dozen more SXM music channels and a similar number of news and sports channels to punch in if I had the capacity. I can't imagine anyone in New York or LA having 36 presets that they could fill with terrestrial radio stations. Twelve, sure. In smaller markets, it would be a challenge, but realistically, how many people had all 12 presets filled even in the "good old days"?
I don't live in New York anymore, but if I did, I wouldn't change 880 at all -- because I'm a Mets fan! If I was back in New York (specifically Long Island where I grew up), my AM presets would be: WFAN-660, WABC-770, WNYC-820, WHSQ-880, WINS-1010, and WHLI-1100.
When I was growing up, that would have been (assuming 6 presets): WMCA-570, WNBC-660, WABC-770, WCBS-880, WJRZ>WWDJ-970, and WGBB-1240.
When I was growing up, that would have been (assuming 6 presets): WMCA-570, WNBC-660, WABC-770, WCBS-880, WJRZ>WWDJ-970, and WGBB-1240.
The only time I used the AM presets in my car in recent years was when the the FM HD2 signals carrying WINS and WCBS were out of range. Now that WINS is on regular FM, and WCBS is gone, it doesn't matter what's on the AM radio presets in my car because I would have no reason to check the AM band at all.
I'm old school, and while my car lets me mix and match AMs with FMs and Sirius XM, my first 5 are AMs, mainly because that's how the prior owner had it, and I was used to AM and FMs being separate. I also live in a part of NJ where NYC FMs are sketchy (moreso than the AMs). So Id never listen to 101.9 for WFAN for example. Right now it's 660, 770 (haven't listened since Imus), 880 (will keep as long as the Mets are there), 1010, 1050 (probably should be replaced with some FM at this point).
Ex-Queens/Long Island moke here, now in NE PA.
The car buttons in the now-garaged Topaz were the last ones I used, a few years back. The car buttons have followed the frequency position from as long as I can remember; it's just the DXer in me.
Even out here in NEPA, WFAN was preset 1, WCBS was 2, KYW 1060 third, local WPPA 1360 4th, and downstate C&W WWSM 1510 was 5th.
Latest jalopy, many format changes and defunct stations later, is a Chrysler. I haven't bothered to set any of the buttons, on AM or FM.. I drive mostly short trips, plus in recent times both dials sound like going out of business whorehouse sales. I'm out of their sales demos anyway, and they can't be bothered by my type anymore, so why should I bother with them?
For longer trips I'll find some jazz station. That's about 'it' for music, though.
The car buttons in the now-garaged Topaz were the last ones I used, a few years back. The car buttons have followed the frequency position from as long as I can remember; it's just the DXer in me.
Even out here in NEPA, WFAN was preset 1, WCBS was 2, KYW 1060 third, local WPPA 1360 4th, and downstate C&W WWSM 1510 was 5th.
Latest jalopy, many format changes and defunct stations later, is a Chrysler. I haven't bothered to set any of the buttons, on AM or FM.. I drive mostly short trips, plus in recent times both dials sound like going out of business whorehouse sales. I'm out of their sales demos anyway, and they can't be bothered by my type anymore, so why should I bother with them?
For longer trips I'll find some jazz station. That's about 'it' for music, though.
I'm not in the New York market but about about 30 seconds after they switched to ESPN Spurts, I programmed in 1060 KYW [in the daytime there's a local daytimer on it] and another local AM station that was sold and switched from oldies to religious is now on 780 WBBM and I put 1010 on another preset even though that's the worst of the three to attempt to pick up here in NE Ohio.
I'm up in the Albany area and WCBS and WBZ Boston were my two main AM presets. 880 has been deleted. I do have WBBR on my presets though...
Back in the day in college in Albany (20ish years ago) I had a great car radio and could pull in all kinds of AMs. Even during the day, WFAN and WCBS were darn clear. And at night, it would be great, that Montreal AM would come in better than Albanys WOFX.
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