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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19-20: 106.7

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gr8oldies

One more notch up the dial with the pre-Docket 80-90 Class B/C frequencies.
What do you/did you/have you heard on 106.7?

East Tennessee: WFGW, Norris TN, which was at one time an oldies, then a Jack simlcast, now is owned by the Billy Graham organization and mostly simulcasts the behemoth WMIT.

Retro/other: I once worked for a 106.7 in the form of WGLM, West Lafayette, IN (currently WLQQ). The station didn't have good coverage all over the market, and in fact with a really strong tropo opening (so strong that while I was working at WLFI-TV, we couldn't monitor ourselves off-air), Des Plaines (religious WYLL at the time) cam blasting through on the South Side of Lafayette. It wasn't far to the south where WGLM was replaced by the Indianapolis area 106.7....about Lebanon. I once attended a concert at the old Deer Creek and had WGLM underneath what was then WGGR when parked just right.

Dayton, OH: Before Jacor/Clear Channel/iHeart started the processs of tower dancing a couple of stations into the Columbus market, we heard WSRW, Hillsboro, OH. WSRW moved into Chillicothe to replace 93.3 which had moved into Ashville (Columbus); the present-day WODC. Meanwhile, WMRN-FM was also danced into the Columbus market and bumped from 106.9 to 106.7, and that made it into Dayton. I picked up Beaver Falls PA once near Springfield.

Speaking of Des Plaine, IL, this station was once known as WYEN, and you can pick up your copy of Outside The Loop. This is from Bob Hawkins's site. http://46124.info/FM/Illinois/IL Des Plaines 106.7 1977 WYEN.mp3
 
Ellensburg WA
KKWN Cashmere WA (Conservative Talk), not very strong.
KLTH Portland OR (Classic Hits) has also been heard here. They have been received a few times in Yakima as well, and are nearly always there at the Selah Creek rest area (where Mt. Adams knife-edge to Portland is expected), but it's been weaker than 103.3/105.1/100.3 lately.

Not much Eskip here either but I rarely get openings up into the 106 mhz area. KNKI Pinetop AZ and KPPV Prescott Valley AZ are my only two Es logs, both in the mega 6/30/17 opening.
 
Manistee, MI:

Mostly WSRT Gaylord, MI with ESPN Radio. Occasionally, the aforementioned WPPN will come in as well as WHTO from Iron Mountain, MI
 
Crystal Lake, IL....WPPN with a good signal.

When 106.7 was WYEN, I worked there for about a year (1978-79). Mostly sales, but I did some production work. Ed Walters, who had helped build Chicago's "FM 100", was the owner and GM. Interesting place to learn, and we had a 50kw signal from a stick in suburban Buffalo Grove that kicked butt throughout the north, northwest, and west suburbs as well as most of the city.

Now about that WYEN signal.... I had a private pilot friend tell me once that he liked to lock in on 106.7 because (at least "back in the day") at high altitude, it went out unfettered for hundreds of miles in most directions. Not much else on the channel to block it.
 
cyberdad said:
Crystal Lake, IL....WPPN with a good signal.

When 106.7 was WYEN, I worked there for about a year (1978-79). Mostly sales, but I did some production work. Ed Walters, who had helped build Chicago's "FM 100", was the owner and GM. Interesting place to learn, and we had a 50kw signal from a stick in suburban Buffalo Grove that kicked butt throughout the north, northwest, and west suburbs as well as most of the city.

Now about that WYEN signal.... I had a private pilot friend tell me once that he liked to lock in on 106.7 because (at least "back in the day") at high altitude, it went out unfettered for hundreds of miles in most directions. Not much else on the channel to block it.
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WYEN had a great signal. I remember my senior year at NIU when "YEN" went on the air. The signal in De Kalb was strong like a local and better than any other Chicago area FM at the time.
 
Mason City, IA:
Occasionally listenable signal from KRTI/Grinnell

Central KS:
Nothing. Don’t seem to remember picking up anything through DX or Eskip.
 
cyberdad said:
Crystal Lake, IL....WPPN with a good signal.

When 106.7 was WYEN, I worked there for about a year (1978-79). Mostly sales, but I did some production work. Ed Walters, who had helped build Chicago's "FM 100", was the owner and GM. Interesting place to learn, and we had a 50kw signal from a stick in suburban Buffalo Grove that kicked butt throughout the north, northwest, and west suburbs as well as most of the city.

Now about that WYEN signal.... I had a private pilot friend tell me once that he liked to lock in on 106.7 because (at least "back in the day") at high altitude, it went out unfettered for hundreds of miles in most directions. Not much else on the channel to block it.
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I take it not much else on 106.7 in the 70s in the Great Lakes area except Des Plaines, Detroit, and Gaylord.

Also in Manistee, WKRU from the Green Bay area comes in on occasion (I forgot about them in my first post). They're probably a distant second behind WSRT
 
ftballfan said:
I take it not much else on 106.7 in the 70s in the Great Lakes area except Des Plaines, Detroit, and Gaylord.
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I think that's a safe assumption. On a good car radio, in the late '70s. WYEN was listenable on U.S, 12 almost all the way to Madison.
 
106.7 has had a colorful history in the Atlanta market. Presently it's WAKL, a religious donation station,owned by EMF carrying the K--Love format since Feb 2019.
But, prior to that from 2014, it was WYAY All News 106.7 owned by Cumulus. It was the first FM talker in the market. It did not have a sister AM station. It had several local talkers in addition to satellite talkers in its lineup.
Before that from 2008, it was True Oldies 106.7 owned by Citadel carrying Scott Shannon's syndicated service.
And before that from 1984, it was Eagle 106.7 a country station owned by ABC. They had one of the most popular morning hosts in the country named Rhubarb Jones.
 
Here in Rochester NY, it's iHeart's WKGS 106.7 Irondequoit, an A that's on Pinnacle Hill less than a mile from my house. It came on as an 80-90 drop-in in the 1990s from a different location north of downtown, then was able to upgrade as part of a shuffle where then-Clear Channel downgraded 106.9B Auburn NY to a B1 in Syracuse (it's now WSYR-FM). That in turn opened the way for a B1 upgrade on the 106.7 in the Binghamton market, which had been another A drop-in.

Before 80-90, 106.7 was a wide-open DX channel around here. The nearest class B stations were Detroit, Beaver Falls/Pittsburgh, Hershey PA, NYC and Boston.
 
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