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1380 help needed

J

johnbasalla

From the west side of Cleveland, Ohio ... western Cuyahoga County.

On Friday 4/20 after the sun had come up during Morning Drive (7:30 am EDT) I still couldn't pick up the two usual rimshot stations I listen to. One of those is WDLW 1380 AM. I was wondering if they were off-the-air or running nighttime power. I heard snippets of up to 3 different stations. One of them was running ESPN's "Mike and Mike In The Morning". Any idea of what station that is? I heard the (possibly partial) call letters of another that sounded like WSB (but I know that WSB in nowhere near 1380AM). So, I misheard it through the noise, but it sounded like a three letter call. There is no WFB in existance that I could find.
 
Just a thought, John, but it might be our regional WMLP here in Pennsylvania.

Talk station WMLP Milton is non-directional, 1000 watts day, 18 useless watts night. At the hour you were tuned in, the station schedule has Bill Bennett doing the shift. The station is one of five owned by the Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation.

But I remember hearing them near JFK Airport in Queens NYC both at sunrise and at SSS. Our loud market local WBNX and semi-local WAWZ used to share 1380, and their oft-imprecise switchovers of facilities (particularly at SRS or at 6 AM) used to result in lots of unlikely stuff coming in. Omni WMLP was one such station.

Aren't those phoenetically similar calls on graveyarders and regionals both a blessing and a curse, hi?
 
johnbasalla said:
From the west side of Cleveland, Ohio ... western Cuyahoga County.

On Friday 4/20 after the sun had come up during Morning Drive (7:30 am EDT) I still couldn't pick up the two usual rimshot stations I listen to. One of those is WDLW 1380 AM. I was wondering if they were off-the-air or running nighttime power. I heard snippets of up to 3 different stations. One of them was running ESPN's "Mike and Mike In The Morning". Any idea of what station that is? I heard the (possibly partial) call letters of another that sounded like WSB (but I know that WSB in nowhere near 1380AM). So, I misheard it through the noise, but it sounded like a three letter call. There is no WFB in existance that I could find.
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MY guess would be "WKJG" in Fort Wayne. They run ESPN programming and are 5 KW DA-2. Their patterns don't favor your direction, and that would be why the signal was weak.
 
Since this was after local sunrise time, the stations were likely to your west. The ESPN affiliate may have been WTJK/South Beloit, IL (near Chicago and especially if they were on day pattern by then). WKJG in Fort Wayne is another possibility. The ID you heard could be WSYB/Rutland, VT which is a news/talker running 5 kW days.
 
I'll guess the ESPN station was WTJK....IF they were on day power. They're very directional (to the north) at night, but they have a pretty good omnidirectional signal daytime.
 
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