In SW Florida 1480 is WVOI out of Marco Island. This station started out in the mid 70's as a daytimer WRGI 1510AM which simulcasted WRGI 93.5FM. After a couple of years the calls were changed to WMIB and it played a Standards/Big Bands format. Sometime in the 80's the owners wished to take the station full time and they were granted a move to 1480 to allow that. Only problem was the very close spacing to the 1480 in Arcadia and the 1490 in Immokalee which required this station to be very highly directional to the south. While it was able to stay on 24/7 the signal was not and is still not very listenable to much of Collier County.
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AM Frequency of the Week - 1480 kHz
- Thread starter Buckeyes2001
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There's a 1480 kHz very near Durham, North Carolina---Louisburg's 500-watt WYRN, but I've never heard WYRN here due to local 1490 WDUR, which, while a top-of-the-dial graveyarder with the maximum 1,000 watts, obliterates 1480 pretty consistently and completely. Oddly, I can still get 50,000-watt WTWP 1500 in Washington (275 miles north of here).
Last night at 1 AM EST in northern VA, I heard some 80s rock on a 1480 with a weak signal that included a song from a band called White Lion. I was thinking maybe WCFR in VT but with a night signal of only 23 W isn't likely to make it here. Anybody know what it could be? The local WPWC is often off the air and has switched to a talk format when it was on air.
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Probably wasn't WPWC as they are a mixed bag and Spanish programming for the most part. Plus in NOVA, I'd think you'd get them somewhat clearly even at night as they are located in Dumfries.
RL shows a few stations on 1480 as "Oldies" format, but nowadays I guess 80's music might show up on an oldies station as its now 30 years old! I think you might have heard WDAS out of Philly, maybe. Once in a while I hear them here in Central VA at nght advertising for the local Italian restaurants, and there is a show that plays some old standards like Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett stuff once a week or so.
Is it possible you were hearing 1490 WCVA out of Culpeper? They play a mixture of odd tunes late at night. They run on the "America's Best Music" format, but late nights they veer off into some different stuff.
RL shows a few stations on 1480 as "Oldies" format, but nowadays I guess 80's music might show up on an oldies station as its now 30 years old! I think you might have heard WDAS out of Philly, maybe. Once in a while I hear them here in Central VA at nght advertising for the local Italian restaurants, and there is a show that plays some old standards like Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett stuff once a week or so.
Is it possible you were hearing 1490 WCVA out of Culpeper? They play a mixture of odd tunes late at night. They run on the "America's Best Music" format, but late nights they veer off into some different stuff.
No, I had it on 1480. I doubt that it was WDAS because it is an R&B oldies station (looked at WDAS AM's website). I forgot to say that I wasn't able to ID the station. I think it may turned out to be WCFR after listening to it online today. And I noticed that Radio-Locater listed it as a daytimer. That appears to be incorrect.
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Wow! 20 watts nighttime from Vermont to Virginia! 
That'd be quite a catch indeed. Sounds though as if its the only thing that would fit the format. Maybe they forgot to switch to night power?
That'd be quite a catch indeed. Sounds though as if its the only thing that would fit the format. Maybe they forgot to switch to night power?
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Last night around midnight, I listened very carefully to 1480. Lots of hash and Ibuzz, but through it all I could hear several things. WCNS out of Greensburg, PA was fading in and out pretty regularly with ID's. At times clear enough to listen to pretty well. They are America's Best Music formatted.
There were two other stations also lurking between, but I couldn't get an ID on either of them. One sounded like sports, but was very weak and the other was music, but again, hard to be able to sort it out with all the noise. Sounded like maybe standards too.
There were two other stations also lurking between, but I couldn't get an ID on either of them. One sounded like sports, but was very weak and the other was music, but again, hard to be able to sort it out with all the noise. Sounded like maybe standards too.
If not ESPN maybe WHBC Canton, which I've heard on trips to Tennessee
At night I have logged WCNS/Latrobe, PA multiple times just above a hash of various other 1480s from here in Vermilion, OH
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