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fm stations that still sign off exclude non commercial stations
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It might be that Scobey station I'm thinking of that does not even sign on Sundays. There are no minimum operating hours required on Sundays. If I recall they run 6am to 10pm Monday through Saturday but they are live and local.
In the past, the FM in Sonora, Texas signed off at 7pm, operating 6am to 7pm. Sonora was about 2,500 at the time, in the middle of nowhere and likely barely scraped by at 13 hours a day.
In the 1980s, I noted the Navasota, Texas AM would sign off at, I think, 5:30 even when sunset was past 5:30 and was on, I think 7am to 1pm on Sunday.
In the past, the FM in Sonora, Texas signed off at 7pm, operating 6am to 7pm. Sonora was about 2,500 at the time, in the middle of nowhere and likely barely scraped by at 13 hours a day.
In the 1980s, I noted the Navasota, Texas AM would sign off at, I think, 5:30 even when sunset was past 5:30 and was on, I think 7am to 1pm on Sunday.
There are quite a few in Mexico. In Campeche one group shuts off its three small-town stations, which are almost identical, at 8pm on weekdays and 6pm on weekends.
There are also some stations, particularly national formats, that link up to air one playlist through the night.
There are also some stations, particularly national formats, that link up to air one playlist through the night.
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I was wondering about WKRX...when I last stayed in that neck of the woods about 3 years ago they still were. Makes me wonder why they haven't broken down and bought a cheap automation system. It would pay for itself just in reduced transmitter expenses!
Another station that I'm putting down as "honorable mention" as it was sold a few years ago and is now 24/7: WTTX-FM Appomattox, VA. Used to be owned by a local baptist church and was "old-school" fire/brimstone preaching mixed with Southern Gospel. Old mono transmitter and probably the only station I knew that still used reel to reel tape in the 2000's. Would sign off after WSET-TV's news simulcast on their station...back on at 6am. This kept going until around 2010 or so when it was bought out by a large non-com Christian radio operator. Still gospel music, just in stereo and on 24/7
Oddly enough, it was a commercial entity (though they'd gladly take your donations!)
WTTX and WKRX were the only two commercial FM stations I heard that still signed off after about 1993 or so...
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Another station that I'm putting down as "honorable mention" as it was sold a few years ago and is now 24/7: WTTX-FM Appomattox, VA. Used to be owned by a local baptist church and was "old-school" fire/brimstone preaching mixed with Southern Gospel. Old mono transmitter and probably the only station I knew that still used reel to reel tape in the 2000's. Would sign off after WSET-TV's news simulcast on their station...back on at 6am. This kept going until around 2010 or so when it was bought out by a large non-com Christian radio operator. Still gospel music, just in stereo and on 24/7
Oddly enough, it was a commercial entity (though they'd gladly take your donations!)
WTTX and WKRX were the only two commercial FM stations I heard that still signed off after about 1993 or so...
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KKOK-FM is western Minnesota (Morris) sings off at midnight, as does the co-owned AM outlet, KMRS (AM).
WQXR-AM-FM in New York, when still a simulcast commercial Classical station owned by the NY Times, would sign off overnight till the 1980s I believe. Off the air at 1 a.m., back on at 5:30 a.m. It was the last FM in NYC, other than maybe a small college station or two, to sign off overnight.
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