In the Sixties, WGLI on Long Island was a real treat to hear during the day. Their three sticks were maybe 30 air miles east of our home near JFK Airport in southern Queens NYC. But WGLI was so directional that it took the provernial Big Apple Effort to hear them. You had to null the huge, NYC-licensed WADO 1280, which was somewhat co-linear, and hope for the best. In fact, sometimes you'd hear WGLI relatively clear but hear WTUX Wilmington UNDER them with an ID from their (then) beautiful music format.
Middays were best for WGLI -- all groundwave. The devil knows how WGLI got their license (5000 watts during the day!), what with all the adjacents. Their signal had to protect seemingly everyone, and wound up blasting into Bermuda.
They were Top 40 and had a great jingle package -- 'The Sound Of Feeling Good' ; a white version of the 'Soul Radio' package from Pepper / Pepper-Tanner from Memphis.
Nighttime DX from Queens on 1290 was WNBF Binghampton NY, WFBG Altoona PA, WHIO Dayton, WTOC Savannah, WIRL Peoria, and CJBK London ON. Overnights it was usually WICE (Top 40) from Providence.
KOIL from Omaha was the only 'K' catch on 1290.
