1580 AM

[MarcB]

Just curious has 1580AM tweaked their format at all since the arrival of 98.5 FM?

 

[wgliradio]

Yes, there is now 3 seconds of dead air between cuts instead of 2

 

[davideduardo]

Yes, there is now 3 seconds of dead air between cuts instead of 2

What is the format on this station?

 

[wgliradio]

Yes, there is now 3 seconds of dead air between cuts instead of 2

What is the format on this station?

http://www.radio-formula.us/New York.htm

Radio Formula. Atlantic City is a stretch even with the semi-decent signal over water down there. The coverage map is also a pipe dream, since the sticks are virtually sitting in glass and there is a 1kw'er approx 20 miles east on 1570.

http://www.radio-formula.us/Coverage

 

[davideduardo]

Yes, there is now 3 seconds of dead air between cuts instead of 2

What is the format on this station?

http://www.radio-formula.us/New York.htm

Radio Formula. Atlantic City is a stretch even with the semi-decent signal over water down there. The coverage map is also a pipe dream, since the sticks are virtually sitting in glass and there is a 1kw'er approx 20 miles east on 1570.

http://www.radio-formula.us/Coverage

You mean they are running the programming of XERFR Mexico City 24/7? That's truly bizarre.

 

[wgliradio]

I would think it's their own programming using the name running on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Patchogue station (much like it was when Polnet was feeding Polish based programming along with Chicago area EAS tests to the region).

All three of these stations are non starters.

 

[FrankF]

>> Radio Formula. Atlantic City is a stretch even with the semi-decent signal over water down there. The coverage map is also a pipe dream, since the sticks are virtually sitting in glass and there is a 1kw'er approx 20 miles east on 1570. <<


Their webpage says that their Nassau/Suffolk's first Spanish-language full service radio station. Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm pretty sure I'm not) but wasn't WNYG the first one back in 1994? And speaking of signal, radio-locators coverage map is a little bit more accurate. I wonder why WLIM doesn't show their nighttime coverage At least they indicate that they go down to 500 watts.
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WLIM&service=AM&status=L&hours=N

 

[davideduardo]

I would think it's their own programming using the name running on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Patchogue station

The Radio Fórmula name in the US legally belongs to the Mexican organization of that same name, and the 1580 program grid shows 100% shows from XERFR (970 AM) and the FM talker they own in Mexico City. The logo 1580 is using is the one from the Mexican organization, also.

 

[GreatCalloftheNE]

WPAC (1580) was my very first radio job. I worked there in the summer of '65 while on vacation from college. I worked the all-night on the FM. The only reason they kept the FM on all night was because they were broadcasting "elevator" music on the FM sub-carrier and had contracts to supply the music 24-hours per day to various businesses.

My primary job was to make sure they always had a tape loaded and ready to run when another ran out. The FM would just simulcast the sub-carrier. I got to do ID's once an hour.

Since it was summer, the AM (which was only a day-timer then) came on early so I would have to fire up the xmtr and put it on the air simulcasting the FM until the morning man showed up at 6am.

Some type of relay was broken, so the only way to turn on the transmitter was to go to the back and reach in and manually spin a cooling fan. Then I would run around to the front and press the "on" button. Sometimes you have to do this a number of times to get the thing going.

But I didn't care. It was real radio and I was a part of it!!!!

 

[wgliradio]

I would think it's their own programming using the name running on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Patchogue station

The Radio Fórmula name in the US legally belongs to the Mexican organization of that same name, and the 1580 program grid shows 100% shows from XERFR (970 AM) and the FM talker they own in Mexico City. The logo 1580 is using is the one from the Mexican organization, also.

So it is written, so it must be

 

[davideduardo]

The Radio Fórmula name in the US legally belongs to the Mexican organization of that same name, and the 1580 program grid shows 100% shows from XERFR (970 AM) and the FM talker they own in Mexico City. The logo 1580 is using is the one from the Mexican organization, also.

So it is written, so it must be

http://www.radioformula.com/ is the Meican net site, while http://www.radioformulanetwork.com/ is the US station relations site, which seems not to have been modified for two or three years.

Radio Fórmula, owned by Rorerio Azcárraga Madero (cousin to don Emilio, the founder of XEW and Televisa) and grandson to Francisco I Madero (president of Mexico), has about 100 stations in Mexico, including 970, 1470 and 1500 and two FMs in Mexico City. They have tried to get into the US many times over the last 10 years, including renting some of Art Liu's stations.

 

[DG02816]

I can remember listening to 1580 when it did a jazz/blues format when it first became WLIM. I'd listen when driving back home to RI for Christmas. Very good sounding. I almost took a job at WYFA as engineer at one time but thought the better of it. If memory serves, weren't 1570 and 1580 once owned by the same company, as WAPC and WPAC respectively? Of course, old hands know 1580 is a Canadian clear; I can remember CBJ owning it after dark. Despite the poor ground conductivity on LI, I can remember hearing WLIM in RI during critical hours, albeit hacked pretty badly by splAtter from WARV on 1590.

 

[bilco]

WPAC (1580) was my very first radio job. I worked there in the summer of '65 while on vacation from college. I worked >>>>>snip<<<<<

That pair of stations, WPAC 1580 /WAPC 1570 was my second Job out of college. Worked mostly at WAPC from fall of 64 until I went in the AF in May 1965.
BIll Croghan,
Cheif Engineer
Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV.