AM Frequency of the Week: 710

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@ Ryan: Back when all of the stations in the ratings got listed, WOR was pretty much a regular in the Philly book because of their signal.
They'd get their 0.4 or 0.5, but they did have some traditional listenership down the NJ Turnpike.
Word has it that they'll be broadcasting Devils hockey soon. *Perfect* signal for the state and the Devils' fan base.

It was back in 1963, when I was a kid, when WOR was audible on a GE clock radio all day.
In Norfolk Virginia.
They've changed their tower site since then; since 53 years ago. I wonder if they still go sailing down Chesapeake Bay the way they once did.

On one of my drives back to Florida from Jersey in 1999, I took an alternate route to avoid all the DC and Baltimore traffic.

I was able to hear WFAN, WOR, WABC, and WCBS when I was on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

Not strong at all but still there none the less and they were gone when I got into Norfolk.

If you're driving down from the northeast on I-95, the NYC stations are gone once you are in or around Washington but actually reappear again for a time once you get to be around 40 to 50 miles south on I-95 in Virginia because the signal path then goes over some of the Chesapeake Bay where it narrows and the wider part of the Patomac which likely has some salinity in that area.

Then the stations vanish again for good.