AM Frequency of the Week 1010

[cyberdad]

Far northwest Chicago suburbs.....

Days: Splatter from loca; WMVP (1000)

Nights: 1010 ia battle of weak signals. CFRB (Toronto) and WINS (New York) most likely to lamdon top in no particular order. This morning before daw it was CFRB. wpcn (Stevens Point, WI) om rare occasions makes it in if they "forget" to power down from 1kw to 10 watts. The St. Louis area 1010 (KXEN?) sometimes is present around sunset.

 

[Mark Roberts]

Denver, CO -

Daytime - KSIR Brush, CO (effectively Fort Morgan). Farm 'n' sports for northeastern Colorado. (No, this does not mean all tractor pulls, all the time.) Gives me some nostalgia for the big AM ag stations that I grew up hearing in Iowa and Missouri. 25 kw with a DA that has a mild lobe toward Denver, an easy get.

Nighttime - It's the wild west. During critical hours, KIHU Salt Lake City (Relevant Radio) is most likely. As I posted a few days in the DX thread, I've gotten KBBW Waco, TX. A couple of hours after sunset, CBR Calgary comes in and out but doesn't entirely dominate the channel. Hearing it last week was a refreshing reminder that the CBC continues to produce high-quality news programming, both nationally and locally. Very little in the United States comes close, and definitely nothing of that quality in Denver.

Retro/Nostalgia - From the 80s in central Missouri (some of these calls may be obsolete):

• CFRB Toronto - a tough haul but fairly frequent
• KLRA Little Rock, AR, April 27, 1980 - also picked this up sometime around 1973 and 1974 (my notes from that time are minimal)
• WMOX Meridian, MS near midnight, January 13, 1982
• WINS New York City - heard the call letters at 6:35 pm, November 3, 1984, and again on December 3 of that year
• XEFM Veracruz - 9:15 pm, September 29, 1984

Retro/Nostalgia - From the 1970s in southern Iowa - this was a critical hours "get" - 1010 KCHI Chillicothe, MO, a 250-watt daytimer, was about 100 miles away from me. Just before sunset, it would run a progressive rock show called "Jackson Street", kind of a small-town imitation of KAAY's famous late-night "Beaker Street". In the summer, I couldn't get KCHI but in the winter I could. It was a very noisy signal, but I put up with it. KCHI added an FM station in 1976 and today simulcasts on AM and FM, still locally owned.

 

[tvnut]

From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Just these three, all 50 kW sticks: WINS New York, CFRB Toronto and CBR Calgary, the latter the most rare, heard twice at most ages ago. I'd tune in 1010 Sunday nights after WCFL signed off and CFRB usually won the fight with "1010 WINS," with an all-night show sponsored by Knob Hill Farms, a now-defunct supermarket chain. Funny how I remember that but not many sponsors today.

 

[MichaelTheZ]

Chicago by the Lakeshore:

Daytime: Empty

Critical Hours: Once I got WHIN in Gallatin, TN before they powered down for the night.

Nighttime: CFRB Toronto is often best right on the lake, but a little further inland WINS is more likely to "win". I also heard WKJW in Black Mountain, NC, a few years ago when they occasionally left themselves on daytime power well after sunset.

 

[CTListener]

Hartland, VT:

Classic (with a splash of "crossover" pop and current) country WCNL Newport, NH, days. WINS New York nights with a weak WCNL underneath. Note: "Crossover" on this station means songs like "The Weight," "Sister Golden Hair," "Who'll Stop the Rain" and "Teach Your Children," which, AFAIK, never got any country airplay when current. Station is now all-Christmas until Dec. 26.

Meriden, CT:

WINS New York day and night.

 

[K8PLW]

Detroit, MI suburbs:

Days: The last breath of CFRB on some days, buried way down in the noise.

Nights: Strong CFRB, or equally strong WINS, depending on which way I orient my loop. Nothing else logged on 1010 KHz here.

 

[wildthangjim]

Here in west Houston TX, this is a pretty boring frequency - local KLAT 24/7 with TUDN sports in Spanish, very strong here, about 8 miles from the night towers. I've never heard anything else on this frequency. Driving northwest from here at night they start to fade before I get to College Station and KBBW in Waco starts to come up.

Interestingly, the Galveston SDR often has WJXL from Jacksonville FL on top of KLAT.

 

[radioman148]

Near north Chicago suburbs days:WMVP splatter, nights mostly CFRB although WINS is sometimes on top. I’ve heard KXEN a few times around sunset in fall and winter.

 

[Deleted member 108832]

Tyler, TX:

Daytime can be a weak to fair signal from KBBW Waco. Nights yield a lot of nothing, interestingly enough. KBBW sends its night lobe down towards B/CS. I've tried for KLAT many times up here, but to no avail. Nothing else is close enough to me for an identifiable reception.

 

[jim-satx]

Here in west Houston TX, this is a pretty boring frequency - local KLAT 24/7 with TUDN sports in Spanish, very strong here, about 8 miles from the night towers. I've never heard anything else on this frequency. Driving northwest from here at night they start to fade before I get to College Station and KBBW in Waco starts to come up.

Interestingly, the Galveston SDR often has WJXL from Jacksonville FL on top of KLAT.

@wildthangjim, does KLAT sometimes air non-sports programming during early morning hours?

The last few days after 7 a.m. CT when aiming the radio E/W, I’ve heard Spanish-language Christian talk and/or music. It doesn’t match any of the U.S. or Mexico station streams that I can find.

Unfortunately the signal hasn’t lasted past about 7:15.

 

[TXPH97]

DFW, Texas

Daytime: KBBW Waco, TX with a fair to good signal broadcasting religious programming.

Nights: N/S is KBBW, although weaker than during the day. E/W is WJXL Jacksonville, FL in most nights with a fair/steady signal with sports talk programming. One-time catch is KLAT Houston, early morning hours with sports in Spanish.

 

[Deleted member 108832]

@wildthangjim, does KLAT sometimes air non-sports programming during early morning hours?

The last few days after 7 a.m. CT when aiming the radio E/W, I’ve heard Spanish-language Christian talk and/or music. It doesn’t match any of the U.S. or Mexico station streams that I can find.

Unfortunately the signal hasn’t lasted past about 7:15.

Excuse me for butting in, Jim, but unless KLAT is splitting from the simulcast with KQBU-FM in Beaumont, the answer is no. I pick up the 93.3 simulcast partner up pretty here often, and I've never heard it airing Spanish religious programs. I assume it's pretty much a straight feed of TUDN Deportes. That's all I've ever heard on the FM side, since it was paired with KLAT.

 

[gr8oldies]

East Tennessee: Days-a weak WKJW, Black Mountain NC. They have been known to stay on their day power frequently (as does sister WKJV-1380) and is much stronger at night when that happens. WKJW has been heard on several SDRs. Sometimes Atlanta's WXKS makes it in.

Nights-If WKJW is absent, usually WINS. I have yet to hear CFRB.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio: A very weak WIOI, New Boston, OH
Celina/St. Marys: A weak WCSI, Columbus IN
CFRB can make it in early afternoons during the winter

 

[schmave]

Here in central Ohio, 1010 is the weak spot between monsters WMVP and WBZ, then a KDKA signal that sometimes comes in very well and other times is awful. I've heard WINS far more around here than CFRB, but have caught both.
As the Texas posters mentioned, both Houston's KLAT and Waco's KBBW reside on that frequency. The really short co-channel spacing, especially with the good to excellent ground conductivity, makes for some interesting reception/co-channel battles not all that far north and west of Houston.

 

[ente]

South Mississippi:

Day: weak signal from WCKW Garyville, LA - Covenant Network Catholic Radio
Night: strong signal on WJXL Jacksonville Beach, FL - 1010 XL Jax Sports Radio, and
WMOX Meridian, MS - Meridian's News Talk 1010 WMOX also can be heard with WJXL nulled

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Here in NE PA, with the logging totals in this outpost set back to 000 for another bash at any DXing 'exploits', there are three catches on file. All are from either of two table-model Zenith barbershop relics.
WINS and CFRB mixing at night.
A loud WCNL from New Hampshire was atop both of those stations one sunset, playing cowboy records.

If'n when time and quiet daytime cx align, the 1010 from Baltimore should be a reluctant add. That station is only 100 miles South from here. Once back in Queens, that distant 'WSID' IDed midday when WINS was silent for a spell one afternoon. And I caught then once off a cheesy CLOCK radio in Norfolk VA, with their R&B fare sailing straight down Chesapeake Bay.

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[anwar]

Wilmington Delaware

Days - A weak WINS from NYC and an even weaker WOLB Baltimore in the backround.

Nights - A much stronger WINS with CFRB sometimes audible if I swing the radio NW instead of NE. WINS is much stronger than fellow all news WCBS at night with the reverse being true during the day.

 

[cyberdad]

From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

CFRB usually won the fight with "1010 WINS," with an all-night show sponsored by Knob Hill Farms, a now-defunct supermarket chain. Funny how I remember that but not many sponsors today.

WINS usually takes over 1010 at night once you get about 100 or so miles east of Toronto.

Loblaws is now the big hitter among Toronto supermarkets. I used to sometimes stop in there to stock up on Balderson's cheeses. HP Sauce, and Viva Puffs cookies. .....For the wife and kids, of course.

 

[tvnut]

Of course!

There’s a Loblaws inside Maple Leaf Gardens on the original ground-floor rink level. And a rink five or so floors up, which is just weird.

 

[Mark Roberts]

I mentioned KLRA Little Rock as a catch in the 1980s and wondered what had happened to it. In 1995, Westinghouse bought it and shut it down in 1995 to enable better nighttime coverage for WINS. It was difficult to trace this, in part because KLRA went through several call letter changes from 1988 to 1995, and in part because Broadcasting or Radio and Records did not appear to cover this acquisition. At least I couldn't find it through the search engine at worldradiohistory.com. (I realize no search engine is perfect so this isn't a criticism of worldradiohistory.com.) I finally found a reference in an Arkansas business journal. The call letter sequence was KLRA -> KHLT -> KBIS -> KSYG, and the FCC history cards for the station can be accessed via "DKSYG".