DOES ANYONE STILL LISTEN TO WTIC SKYWAVE OUTSIDE OF CT?

[WTIC]

Question for all:

If the SOX 'dissapeared' on 1080 OR its skywave service area up and down the eastern seaboard would anyone outside of CT miss that service?

Does anyone out there even listen to the RED SOX OUTSIDE of CT on the WTIC night signal service areas?
or is the 1080 nighttime service area from Canada to the southern atlantic states a relic nobody bothers with anymore>?

Like to know if programming on the WTIC night signal is relied on or listened to -to any degree or even utilized at all nowadays [in 2006] besides AM hobbists in those areas thinking they are "DX'ing" it. Do any listeners ever catch a game or tune in for a score (SOX or UCONN etc) when on vacations, travel or to avoid satellite radio fees?

Interested to know any feedback on nighttime listening habits or other observations routine or occaisional
(or unusual interference problems on 1080-besides the ever annoying instate fading issues around the shoreline and adjacent channel splatter from 1090WBAL - thats all been going on since the '40s)

-W T I C

 

[mimo]

When I was in Pennsylvania, there were alot of people who would tune into WTIC to hear red sox games. The signal was just ok there, but up here in Ottawa, the signal is very strong, same in Toronto. Occasionally I listen to it to hear coast to coast.

 

[pqgeorge]

You'd be pleasantly surprised on how many people outside of the local (Hartford/Springfield) area depend on WTIC/1080's skywave for Red Sox Baseball and more. For example, in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire (near Wolfeboro, the Wakefields, Conway, Ossipee and so on), WTIC/1080 is a "local" every night. The signal in that area is very strong as it is just beyond the normal groundwave (which would naturally cause some cancellation with an equal skywave signal). Sure, there is some splatter from WBAL/1090, but that's to be expected. Most Red Sox affiliates are on lower powered local AM stations, and a few FM's as well. But in that area of Central and Northern New Hampshire, reception on both AM and FM stations tends to be a little spotty. But at night, WTIC/1080 is a favorite. Believe me, I know. You can always depend on that strong signal from Connecticut. WTIC/1080's signal is no "relic", hardly. It is one of the things that really shines at night on an otherwise dismal AM dial. When my parents were still alive and living on the Cape, they always listened to the overnight show from 'TIC. My Mom especially (God love her) loved listening to WTIC, and she was NO DX'er!

So, (as "Altitude Lou" McNally would say......) "And that's the way it looks from here....."

73,
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts

 

[BRNout]

Now that I live in PA, WTIC is the ONLY place where I can hear the Red Sox. So, yes, I'd miss them very much if they moved!

 

[Tom Wells]

I used to listen incidentally, as I listened to WNWI when it was in Indiana. As a daytimer, WTIC would boom in nicely, after WNWI signoff, and I listened often.
Now that WNWI moved to Oak Lawn and runs 24, I cannot.
This has been 5 or so years....
WNWI was the radio station at Valparaiso Technical Institute.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Obliterated by KRLD ---

 

[amfmsw]

Yes, in Southern Coastal New Jersey.

 

[vibe]

Yes, when travelling in PA,MD, VA, and NC. Got them as far is GA. I've listened to Red Sox games at night, particularly against the West Coast teams oTexas or Tampa Bay.