640am Could this be Cuba?

[robmadden1]

I heard spanish and I clearly heard them say Cuba here in Cincinnati, OH. Went off the air at midnight.

 

[gar hi]

It's Cuba alright.

I can hear that station on 640 even during the day here in Tampa.

At night, it comes in loud and I often hear it well even when I attempt to null it out so I can listen for KFI.

 

[robmadden1]

This was my first time ever getting it. I was in Tampa last week but did not have am radio with me to hear it lol.

 

[David67]

I heard spanish and I clearly heard them say Cuba here in Cincinnati, OH. Went off the air at midnight.

I think there is a Spanish language Christian station out of Miami,Florida on 640 am.

 

[stormy01]

I heard spanish and I clearly heard them say Cuba here in Cincinnati, OH. Went off the air at midnight.

That's pretty good considering all the stations that are now 24/7 on 640 including Akron, OH and Memphis, TN nearest to you. Up here in the Chicago area I can't say I've heard 640 from Cuba for years (600 I have heard recently from Cuba) They may have a really good groundwave, but their skywave is not making it up here like it used to.

I think there is a Spanish language Christian station out of Miami,Florida on 640 am.

Aside from WVLG, from The Villages (Wildwood), FL, the only other FL station on 640 is WMEN Royal Palm Beach, FL and it's ESPN http://www.mantalk640.com/

 

[gar hi]

I heard spanish and I clearly heard them say Cuba here in Cincinnati, OH. Went off the air at midnight.

I think there is a Spanish language Christian station out of Miami,Florida on 640 am.

Nope. The station from south Florida on 640 is sports and it almost impossible to get at night from here in Tampa.

The other station on 640 from Florida is WVLG from the Villages in north central Florida. They sometimes come in here and they play old adult standards.

The station on 640 heard in Spanish is from Cuba.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Am pretty certain that WVLG no longer plays much of the older standards, Gar. Several weeks ago I was visiting the Folks in the Villages, and WVLG was playing an awful lot of the Croce, Diamond, Anne Murray stuff as a substitute, the way actual contemporary standards stations used to 'cut' their product as far back as the mid-70's. WVLG plays a lot of the strict Oldies as well. I forget which night it was, Friday or Saturday (days of the week have no identity in a retirement community, hi ) but the show was strict du-wopp style Oldies.

Farther north, the even-older leaning WRZN 720 has gone the way of satellite and its subsequent safe and clueless LCD homogenization. It's a real shame to find nothing on the Florida dials which plays music for the people who made the state into the community it is. Anne Murray over Billie Holiday. In Florida. No wonder why radio is on a respirator.

In any event, anyone catching Dion & The Belmonts or Ricky Nelson on 640 some night might be hearing WVLG.

 

[Icangelp]

I too live in Cincinnati, and hear Cuba on 640 when conditions favor it...which is almost every night, sometimes strong and sometimes weak.

At night, WHLO is the most frequently heard station on 640, and if you have a directional antenna and a decent radio, you can occasionally hear WHLO during the day.

The following are fairly easy to catch during sunrise skip or sunset skip:
WGST Atlanta
WCRV Collierville, TN
WFNC Fayetteville, NC
WXSM Blountville, TN
CFMJ Richmond Hill, ON

More than you wanted to know.

 

[ddsparxx]

In northern VA, I can also hear the Cuban 640, right now at 9:45 PM mixed in with few other 640's including Philly's weaker Radio Disney.

 

[drt]

Am pretty certain that WVLG no longer plays much of the older standards, Gar. Several weeks ago I was visiting the Folks in the Villages, and WVLG was playing an awful lot of the Croce, Diamond, Anne Murray stuff as a substitute, the way actual contemporary standards stations used to 'cut' their product as far back as the mid-70's. WVLG plays a lot of the strict Oldies as well. I forget which night it was, Friday or Saturday (days of the week have no identity in a retirement community, hi ) but the show was strict du-wopp style Oldies.

Farther north, the even-older leaning WRZN 720 has gone the way of satellite and its subsequent safe and clueless LCD homogenization. It's a real shame to find nothing on the Florida dials which plays music for the people who made the state into the community it is. Anne Murray over Billie Holiday. In Florida. No wonder why radio is on a respirator.

In any event, anyone catching Dion & The Belmonts or Ricky Nelson on 640 some night might be hearing WVLG.

640 WVLG has definately modified their format in the last six months, but it's been a gradual evolution. Although they are still playing songs from the late 1950's; they have added songs from the 1980's and I have even heard some (very few) songs from the early 1990's on the "More at 4 Program" (which has replaced their 1pm "Focus on the Villages Program".)

Overnight, from 11pm until 6am the follow morning, they are easy listening with what they call "Music through the Night", which includes many instrumentals and soft vocals.

btw- Although WRZN markets itself as an Ocala station, their towers are actually south-west of the Villages, in Citrus county in the Hernando/Floral city area; they do not serve Ocala or even the Villages at night with their 250 watt directional signal.

DRT

 

[drt]

A little more on WVLG 640 (The Villages, FL); just heard within the last hour an interview with Bobby Goldsboro (Watching Scotty Grow, Summer, the First Time and Honey); he had a concert at the Savannah Center in The Villages last night and today from 1 - 4 pm, he will be displaying his artwork at the Savannah Center, I hadn't realized that he painted.

WVLG certailnly is a community oriented station promoting The Villages to the hilt and their live and loca 24/7 with 23 hours of music a day and one hour of talk Monday through Friday (More at 4 - from 4 - 5 pm)...........WVLG now playing the Beatles, "She Loves You".

From my home in St. Petersburg, I hear the 640 out of Cuba 24/7 with a good signal day and night, but up here in north central Florida, WVLG rules even though they are only 930 watts. 860 watt night)

drt

 

[anotherguyTN]

In the early 80's 640 in Memphis was WMSO, and had a CCM format. After they turned their signal down for the night it was a regular thing to pick up the Cuban station. Someone I talked to once said that she liked the CCM format in the daytime but didn't know why they had to switch to being in Spanish at night, thinking it was the same station. 

Now the Cuban station still comes in at night at times, but a lot of times it's a jumble of the stations Icangelp listed.