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Cities that had more than one AM with that COL have lost them all

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secondchoice

Zombie AMs that only exist for the FM translators don't count. The COL is the city you name. Please give the population of the city.

My guess is Clarksburg WV. I believe they lost 1340 &1400 population 16k.
 
COL, or market area? Elizabeth, NJ is a city of 130,000+ population that lost their two licensed radio stations when 1660 WWRU switched their COL to Jersey City, NJ and 1530 WJDM moved to Long Island (technically it went dark and was replaced by another station which took over WJDM's frequency and call letters).
 
You might as well include the "zombie AM's" as soon as approval to convert the translators into LPFM or similar the AM facility will be gone and premises abandoned, unless the FM stick is on the AM tower.
The big AM's here in NYC have considerably more life left simple due to population density, but all the longterm viable formats are already on FM.

LCG
 
secondchoice said:
Zombie AMs that only exist for the FM translators don't count. The COL is the city you name. Please give the population of the city.

My guess is Clarksburg WV. I believe they lost 1340 &1400 population 16k.
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Actually, Clarksburg, WV, lost three AM stations--the city also had a daytimer on 750 kHz (WPDX) that is now on FM only (104.9 mHz).

That said, 1) there is at least one AM signal that can still be heard in the area (1190 kHz, if I remember correctly); and 2) I certainly know of no other market that has yet lost all of its AM stations, though (as some might say) it's still early in the game.
 
secondchoice said:
Zombie AMs that only exist for the FM translators don't count. The COL is the city you name. Please give the population of the city.

My guess is Clarksburg WV. I believe they lost 1340 &1400 population 16k.
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Actually, Clarksburg, WV, lost three AM stations--the city also had a daytimer on 750 kHz (WPDX) that is now on FM only (104.9 mHz).

That said, 1) there is at least one AM signal that can still be heard in the area (1190 kHz, if I remember correctly); and 2) I certainly know of no other market that has yet lost all of its AM stations, though (as some might say) it's still early in the game.
 
There are plenty of markets that have lost all AM, at least if you go north of the border to sizable places such as Halifax and Quebec City.

Clarksburg still gets decent reception on AM from WMMN 920 and WHAW 980 even though it's lost everything in the COL.

As for other US COLs that started with more than one AM and have lost all of them, I'm not coming up with many.
 
fybush said:
There are plenty of markets that have lost all AM, at least if you go north of the border to sizable places such as Halifax and Quebec City.

Clarksburg still gets decent reception on AM from WMMN 920 and WHAW 980 even though it's lost everything in the COL.

As for other US COLs that started with more than one AM and have lost all of them, I'm not coming up with many.
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Yes. I had assumed the OP was looking for inside the U.S. only. However, both north and south of the border, you will find many markets that have lost all of their multiple AM frequencies.
 
There is was an over radioed COL Soddy-Daisy TN. In Hamilton county (Chattanooga). At one time they had a 1550 and a 1230 or 1240. Before FM took over in the 1980's the class 4 actually had some listeners because all the Chattanooga AM stations directional patterns pretty much stopped at night in Hixson. Population 13k, but it is in the Chattanooga market. In the late 1970's Soddy Daisy got an FM allocation 102.3 too.
 
Ukiah, California (population 16,000) had two AM stations from 1960 to 1967. KUKI (1400 AM) signed on in 1950 and went dark last year. KSML (1250 AM) signed on in 1960 and went dark during bankruptcy in 1967.

The 1250 frequency was reassigned to Willits (30 miles north) in the late 70s/early 80s. 1400 is still assigned to Ukiah, but it appears there are no buyers interested, which is why Bicoastal took it dark.
 
michael hagerty said:
Ukiah, California (population 16,000) had two AM stations from 1960 to 1967. KUKI (1400 AM) signed on in 1950 and went dark last year. KSML (1250 AM) signed on in 1960 and went dark during bankruptcy in 1967.

The 1250 frequency was reassigned to Willits (30 miles north) in the late 70s/early 80s. 1400 is still assigned to Ukiah, but it appears there are no buyers interested, which is why Bicoastal took it dark.
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i know someone who wanted a bi coastal am or two and BI-C wanted way too much
 
No full-power AMs anymore on Prince Edward Island. Entire province - all FM stations. CFCY-630 was one of the last ones, and they went off in 2006. There was also CHTN-720 back in the day.
Glad I caught KUKI-1400 on skywave.
 
It's amazing to hit the scan button in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI. It may never stop or it may stop at 1030 for WBZ Boston. There are still a few AM stations in two of those three provinces but they didn't make my AM car radio scan stop.

In the fourth Maritime province, Newfoundland, there are still some healthy AM stations. Three of them were even given Class A status. And one of the strongest AM stations in Newfoundland has a call sign most of us never heard. I only heard it at night in Nova Scotia, not in the daytime. 590 VOCM. Begins with a V from when Newfoundland was given V call letters since it wasn't part of Canada in the early days of broadcasting.
 
Gregg. said:
In the fourth Maritime province, Newfoundland, there are still some healthy AM stations. Three of them were even given Class A status. And one of the strongest AM stations in Newfoundland has a call sign most of us never heard. I only heard it at night in Nova Scotia, not in the daytime. 590 VOCM. Begins with a V from when Newfoundland was given V call letters since it wasn't part of Canada in the early days of broadcasting.
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I actually have heard of VOCM because there was a "Wonder Years" type TV series which was on The CW in the U.S., based on the life of the son of one of its personalities. The son was one of the stars, playing a fictionalized version of his father.
 
Gregg. said:
590 VOCM. Begins with a V from when Newfoundland was given V call letters since it wasn't part of Canada in the early days of broadcasting.
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To nitpick, Newfoundland was assigned VO by the ITU beginning in 1913. It was reassigned to Canada (which already had VA-VG and VX-VY) when the former joined the latter in 1949. AFAIK, the VO prefix is no longer used for broadcasting other than those stations that existed before 1949.
 


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