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Blast from the Past: The 1190 Mysteries

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gr8oldies

Since we've had a thread about years ago unidentified stations i thought I'd run a couple of mine up the flagpole. In 1996 I lived in Lafayette, IN, and after WOWO switched patterns (either Feb or March) for about an hour I would hear a loud station tracking jazz and/or big band tracks with few or no announcements and long gaps between songs. They would dissapear about 45 minutes to an hour later.

In the mid 80s in the same area I would pick up a beautiful music station on 1190. Ideas, anyone?
 
An old National Radio Club Nighttime Pattern Book, I think from the mid-Seventies, listed two stations west of you which were omni day and directional night. They were, at the time, KJLA Kansas City and CFSL Weyburn Saskatchewan, the latter very near the US border.

Both of their switches to directional at night pulled it in to protect Fort Wayne.

Keep in mind, though, that this was a *nighttime* pattern book. If there were any daytime-only stations in a zone west of you they'd've signed off completely, which would also fit your observations.

And is there any chance that the two formats you heard might've been from the same station, gr8 ?
 
Possible as they were several years apart. If anyone in Kansas City knows if KJLA was Beautiful in the mid-80s (I'm thinking they were) and jazz in the mid 90s, that would be the answer. What would make me not think of the latter being Kansas City is the tracking of an album with no announcements.
 
I'm thinking WGKA Atlanta, which was nominally a classical station but, at least toward the end of its long run, sometimes played other types of music, largely at the whim of its owner. You might want to inquire on the Atlanta board - they may be able to nail this down better.
 
Quite possible but I'd think Atlanta sunset would be at or before Ft. Wayne's, unless they were on day power (weren't they a daytimer) past sunset (which is possible). I know I had heard WGKA from there after sunrise. This is before WOWO's downgrade but but they had very little signal in Lafayette.
 
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