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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 95.7

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gr8oldies

Retro-rocking through the commercial FM band's Class B/C Frequencies

What do you/have you/did you recieve on 95.7?

In East Tennessee, it's always WDKW, Midwest's "95.7 Duke FM". Nothing else received from here.

Retro/other: I worked at a 95.7 (WCLR, Piqua, Ohio rimshotting Dayton in tandem with WZLR, Xenia). That didn't preclude sometimes hearing WQMF, Jeffersonville, IN on occasion, sometimes wiping WCLR out. WCLR is the present day WHIO-FM and former WPTW-FM. Fun fact: Our STL configuration had a receiver at Hara Arena picking up the air signal of 95.7, with an STL feeding it to the 95.3 transmitter south of Xenia. I had caught 95.7 off the air with 95.3 relaying a Toledo area station on 95.7 (the present day WIMX, but don't remember what it was in the mid 1990s.).

Lafayette, IN area: Before Attica went on the air, an occasional reception of WLHT, Grand Rapids.

DX Clip of the week: WZZM, Grand Rapids, MI from 1969: http://46124.info/FM/Michigan/MI Grand Rapids 95.7 1969 WZZM.mp3
 
95.7 is a very good frequency here. Most common is WRIT Milwaukee, WI (Classic Hits), but plenty of others have come in, such as:
KDAL Duluth, MN (Adult Contemporary)
KLEY Jourdanton, TX (Regional Mexican; E-skip)
KYBE Frederick, OK (Country; E-skip)
WBTP Clearwater, FL (Urban Contemporary; E-skip)
WCMB Oscoda, MI (Public Radio)
WHOG Ormond-by-the-Sea, FL (Classic Rock; E-skip)
WHWL Marquette, MI (Religious)
WKBU New Orleans, LA (Classic Rock; E-skip)
WLHT Grand Rapids, MI (Hot AC)
WQPW Valdosta, GA (Adult Contemporary; E-skip)
WRQT La Crosse, WI (Rock)
WXRC Hickory, NC (Classic Hits; E-skip)
 
Another solid channel here for DX. Normally, it's a weak KKSR Walla Walla (Christian Contemporary, 95.7 Shine FM). There are rare occasions where KJR-FM Seattle (The Jet, Classic Hits) and KLTW Prineville OR (Adult Hits) will briefly make appearances.
Like I said, lots of e-skip logged here.

KPUR Claude TX (Texas Country - was logged as KARX first as '95.7 the Kar' classic rock, then Nash Icon)
KPCL Farmington NM (Christian Contemporary)
KNDK Langdon ND (Rock)
KPKR Parker AZ (Jack FM)
KWKM St. Johns AZ (Hot AC)
KSSX Carlsbad CA (Urban Contemporary, first logged as Kiss FM, now Jam'n 95.7)
KKOK Morris MN (Country)
KYKK Hobbs NM (Classic Hits - now KLEA-FM)
KGMZ San Francisco (Sports)
KJFX Fresno CA (Classic Rock)
KPAT Orcutt CA (Rhythmic Top 40)
KPTT Denver (CHR - The Party)

This year, I'm hoping to confirm KROA Grand Island and CBWX Fisher Branch MB, as both have gotten away from me in recent years. And KCGM would be a wonderful way to log MT #1 on Eskip. Small town country station with high school sports and they sign off EVERY night! (In fact I don't think they are on whatsoever on Sundays.)
 
5 miles North of Newark, NJ

WBEN Philadelphia comes in faintly if WPLJ has their IBOC off.
WKSS from Hartford comes in sometimes during tropo
 
WRIT-HD2 is the broadcast home of iHeart's Real Oldies Channel.


ftballfan said:
95.7 is a very good frequency here. Most common is WRIT Milwaukee, WI (Classic Hits), but plenty of others have come in, such as:
KDAL Duluth, MN (Adult Contemporary)
KLEY Jourdanton, TX (Regional Mexican; E-skip)
KYBE Frederick, OK (Country; E-skip)
WBTP Clearwater, FL (Urban Contemporary; E-skip)
WCMB Oscoda, MI (Public Radio)
WHOG Ormond-by-the-Sea, FL (Classic Rock; E-skip)
WHWL Marquette, MI (Religious)
WKBU New Orleans, LA (Classic Rock; E-skip)
WLHT Grand Rapids, MI (Hot AC)
WQPW Valdosta, GA (Adult Contemporary; E-skip)
WRQT La Crosse, WI (Rock)
WXRC Hickory, NC (Classic Hits; E-skip)
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In the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Le Sueur, MN) it would be KMKO "95 Rock" Lake Crystal/Mankato....its not the strongest signal at 6,000 watts on a 300 foot tower 15 miles SW of Mankato but can be picked up on most good tuners....having semi-local KCHK on 95.5 does drown out some crappy tuners.

Another station that can show up in summer but you have to go up the hill (about 2-3 miles out of town) towards Minneapolis and you can faintly pick up K239CJ which is a AM-FM translator of KMNV 1400 Mpls/St Paul Mexican music "La Raza"
 
Far northwest suburban Chicago.... WRIT-FM from Milwaukee is do-able on a good radio. But in a car, for example, the signal is subject to "picket-fencing" and not really listenable.
 
Around Columbus, Ohio, 95.7 is pretty much always WHIO-FM to a greater or lesser degree. Its 50,000 watts mean it can be heard quite well in the western suburbs of Columbus, especially once you get west of the outerbelt, and with some static across most of the rest of the area. It's listenable enough even here on the east side that I have it as a preset, albeit with increasing static from our semi-local 95.5 next door.
gr8, was that story you relayed from the Cool 95 days or even the oldies format's predecessor of lite rock? I remember in its Cool 95 incarnation, 95.7 often was played over the loudspeakers at Mad River Mountain. It also was simulcast on my grandparents' cable's access channel in St. Marys quite a lot in the mid 90s (and, as an aside, one of only two FM stations I can hear both here and up there, with Springfield's 102.9 being the other).
And incidentally, in the late 90s the 95.7 in Toledo was WIMX as it is today.
 
Schmave, yes I was there in the Kool 95 days. The tower was and still is in southern Shelby County, thus one of the few obstensively "Dayton" stations to be easily received in Bellefontaine and Indian Lake. The station blasted into Celina and St. Marys. We owned the revenue North of I-70, which Cox walked away from when they took over. I remember that reception of WIMX, at the time "a 50-50 mix of today's hits and oldies".


schmave said:
Around Columbus, Ohio, 95.7 is pretty much always WHIO-FM to a greater or lesser degree. Its 50,000 watts mean it can be heard quite well in the western suburbs of Columbus, especially once you get west of the outerbelt, and with some static across most of the rest of the area. It's listenable enough even here on the east side that I have it as a preset, albeit with increasing static from our semi-local 95.5 next door.
gr8, was that story you relayed from the Cool 95 days or even the oldies format's predecessor of lite rock? I remember in its Cool 95 incarnation, 95.7 often was played over the loudspeakers at Mad River Mountain. It also was simulcast on my grandparents' cable's access channel in St. Marys quite a lot in the mid 90s (and, as an aside, one of only two FM stations I can hear both here and up there, with Springfield's 102.9 being the other).
And incidentally, in the late 90s the 95.7 in Toledo was WIMX as it is today.
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Central KS:
No immediate locals, but can pull in the KC rimshot KCHZ (Ottawa) from their tower near KCK about 150ish miles away on occasion. (Have also received KXLS/Enid, OK from time to time.)

Mason City, IA:
Picket fencing from KQWC-FM/Webster City. I’ve also pulled in KMKO/Lake Crystal, MN (Mankato area) and WRQT/La Crosse (both albeit subject to picket fencing) depending on day and antenna direction.
 
Picayune, MS:
WKBU New Orleans, LA (classic rock)
KKHH Houston, TX (adult hits) has also been received via tropo.
 
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