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1220

almaniac27 said:
Is the southeast null for WPHT/Philadelphia? WHKW's night signal in Kent usually gets blown out by WPHT's hash.
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The nighttime protection of first adjacents from skywave is a relatively recent requirement. I think NARBA actually proposed originally that 1220 be used in the "Detroit, Michigan" area. Consider also all the first adacent skywaves from WSCR and WFAN, WJR and WABC, WABC and WBBM, WCBS and WLS, CKLW and WGY, WMVP and WINS, WINS and KDKA, KDKA and WBZ, WEPN and KYW, WTIC and WBAL, WBBR and WRVA, WWVA and WHAM, which affect millions of people, and now especially with digital sidebands on many of these. Some of these are more or less problematic, and I'm trying to predict which ones are from memory. I'm sure others can think of other examples, and perhaps some are not as big a problem as I might think. I know WJR and WABC were on the forefront of turning off digital sidebands at night, having had a heads up even during critical daytime hours before digital was allowed at night.

I think Carl Smith designed the WGAR 1220 array.
 
If memory serves, the WGAR call is from the initials of the station's owner then, George A. Richards. This has been a very interesting discussion, thanks.
 
I worked at WKNR right after it went on the air on the 1220 frequency and did plenty of digging around the "Broadcast Park" facility, since I grew up on "Music Radio 1220 WGAR". I dug up a few "souveniers", one of which is a copy of the short 15 min program that was aired when WGAR 1220 signed off for the last time, another is experimental license for a FM station, plans for a TV tower and station that was never built, and 3 Sony ECM 377 mics used in the 1220 and 99.5 WNCR studios. I use one of the 377s for my Sunday night show on an internet station, All Hits 7890Radio.com. I was part of a studio remodel project at WKNR and have a custom built laminated wood equipment rack from the old WGAR Master Control and am currently using it as entertainment center in my living room. I know..... I'm a radio geek!
 
Someone mentioned the 1220 in Niagara Falls...it's St. Catharines, actually (same area). But more importantly, it is now off the air.

CHSC is the station that was trying to act like a Toronto station as "Radio Uno", programming for that city's Italian community. The problem, of course, is that the station was supposed to be an English language voice for St. Catherines, and the CRTC pulled its license a few months ago.
 
Lopaka said:
If memory serves, the WGAR call is from the initials of the station's owner then, George A. Richards. This has been a very interesting discussion, thanks.
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Indeed. Richards also owned WJR in Detroit, and moved a small NFL team in Portsmouth, Ohio up to Detroit, renaming them the Lions.

Nationwide Communications took over operations of WGAR in 1953 upon Richards' death, when it was still known as "People's Broadcasting."
 
DJBigDave said:
plans for a TV tower and station that was never built,
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I know that at one time in the 1950's there were plans for WERE-TV on Channel 65 and WHK-TV on Channel 19..Didnt know there was a station planned for WGAR..
 
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