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1380 AM near Cleveland, Ohio

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johnbasalla

In Lorain Ohio, there is "Cool Cat Oldies" 1380 AM, a great oldies station that doesn't just focus on the tired old hits, although they do play them too. It's 500 watts day, under 60 watts night (I believe). I'm East of them, driving towards Berea, Ohio (West of Cleveland) off of I-71 and passed Hopkins airport. At 5:58 pm, I'm hearing a mix of WDLW 1380's oldies and a couple of other stations. One of those others comes in pretty clear for a short time. The announcer says "And that concludes todays obituaries". I thought, wow! I've heard about small town radio stations and obituaries back in the day, but that peaked my interest in in 2011. Any idea what station I may have been hearing?
 
johnbasalla said:
In Lorain Ohio, there is "Cool Cat Oldies" 1380 AM, a great oldies station that doesn't just focus on the tired old hits, although they do play them too. It's 500 watts day, under 60 watts night (I believe). I'm East of them, driving towards Berea, Ohio (West of Cleveland) off of I-71 and passed Hopkins airport. At 5:58 pm, I'm hearing a mix of WDLW 1380's oldies and a couple of other stations. One of those others comes in pretty clear for a short time. The announcer says "And that concludes todays obituaries". I thought, wow! I've heard about small town radio stations and obituaries back in the day, but that peaked my interest in in 2011. Any idea what station I may have been hearing?
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You may have been close enough to AM 1300 WJMO's (Gospel) tower for them to bleed over onto 1380. Their tower is at Ridge Rd. and Albion Rd. I know if I am very close to WDLW 1380's tower and I am listening to 1450 WLEC, WDLW's signal will be heard underneath WLEC's.
 
I'm quite sure that it wasn't 1300 because I wasn't anywhere near Ridge and Albion and they play Black Gospel music, and this didn't sound like them at all. Of course, the test will be to tune into 1300 next week at about 5:55pm and see if I hear obits.
 
Any chance it could have been an Ontario station? I can't think of any others in that part of Ohio, but it's a long time since I've spent much time around there.
 
I think I found your suspect, WTYM in Kittanning PA:

http://www.wtymradio.com/pgmsch.pdf

OK, so they apparently run Laura Ingraham 3-6 PM, and they'd have to be on day power for you to hear them mixed in with WDLW...28 watts is probably not making it to Ohio.

But look at that schedule...sure enough, they run obituaries at noon, so it's quite possible they're running them in the local breaks in Ingraham's show.
 
Johnbasalla, being that you were listing to 1380 at the time of day you were, I was thinking that there's a good chance you could possibly hear WWMI from St. Pete before they switch to their nighttime directional mode.

When I once heard them in New Jersey at dusk back when they were WRBQ, I was amazed because it was a good signal too while it lasted and their then AM stereo signal came through good as well. I heard it on my little AM Stereo Walkman at the time.

Not bad for a 5 kw station.
 
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