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AM Frequency of the week: 990 KHZ

In the suburbs of NYC, 990 is too close to 970 Hackensack and 1010 WINS NYC to hear anything in the daytime. If they went silent, we could hear Philadelphia on 990.

But at night, Rochester NY's 990 WDCX sometimes breaks through. At one time, it was an AM country station. Now it's religion. At night it's only 2,500 watts. But because it needs to protect Winnipeg, it is pointed directly east, and that means the NYC area. I've also heard WDCX at night fairly frequently in New England.

Even though I often read how strong in the Central and Mountain Time Zones that CBW is, I've never heard it in the East.
 
ThePowerCow said:
WNML out of Knoxville is reliable in Alabama at night. Not booming in but consistent.
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Same thing on the Gulf Coast near the FL-AL state line. Not exactly a monster signal, but strong enough to typically be on top and reliable.
 
Gregg. said:
In the suburbs of NYC, 990 is too close to 970 Hackensack and 1010 WINS NYC to hear anything in the daytime. If they went silent, we could hear Philadelphia on 990.

But at night, Rochester NY's 990 WDCX sometimes breaks through. At one time, it was an AM country station. Now it's religion. At night it's only 2,500 watts. But because it needs to protect Winnipeg, it is pointed directly east, and that means the NYC area. I've also heard WDCX at night fairly frequently in New England.

Even though I often read how strong in the Central and Mountain Time Zones that CBW is, I've never heard it in the East.
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I'm in Ohio and have never heard CBW. It might just be overshadowed by the much stronger WMVP next door, but I don't remember ever hearing it.
 
990 daytime in Charleston is usually WDYZ Orlando (Spanish now, used to be Radio Disney). Sometimes the Miami signal comes in under Orlando by the beach.

At night 990 is usually WNML.
 
Lately WDCX from Rochester, NY is coming in surprisingly well here in NJ at night. It's an odd format -- the rest of the day they have Christian programming, but from midnight to 5 AM they play Oldies / Classic Hits music (the schedule on their web site just lists it as "MUSIC"). At least during the times I've listened, during this overnight period they have liners calling it something like "Classics 990 AM" and they make no mention of the religious programming that occurs during daytime and evening hours.
 
Scratch that... I'm actually hearing "Kool Radio" 990 WNTY from Southington, CT. ("Cool", "Classics"... I knew it was something like that.) They're only licensed for 80 watts at night, so they must be "accidentally" using their 2500-watt daytime pattern at night.

And coincidentally, 990 kHz is also home to similarly named WNTI in Somerset, PA (a simulcast of 1490 WNTJ) -- call letters previously used here in NJ on 91.9 FM in Hackettstown.

WDCX (ex-WLGZ) did used to have an Oldies/MOR format as "Legends 990", but that got moved to WLGZ-FM in 2008.
 
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