I was just wondering, how does (1400am) signal comes in, in the day, and at night? Do they even have any Hosts, or is it just music, and Station ID's ?? How do they sound?
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- Thread starter MR. JAROME_CALVIN
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Laurojam, I recognize you from the Boston board which I also frequent (live in MA now but originally from WNY).
Can't give you any recent info but back in the 1980's they were doing top 40 as 14 Rock and I listened daily in northern Niagara County (near Lake Ontario) as I had AM only in a couple different cars. Even though that was in the "distant" part of their signal, it normally came in well as I recall. Of course, that is country up there so less electrical intereference than in some places. At night I recall the signal being better than 1340 WLVL from Lockport which was closer and running similar power but suffered a lot of skywave interference. WLVL may have run lower power at night, though.
Later on they did hard rock as WXBX which was a bit different on the AM band.
Looks like they stream online so maybe that is the best way to get an idea of the current music and personality. Last I knew it was fully automated off some sat. service.
Can't give you any recent info but back in the 1980's they were doing top 40 as 14 Rock and I listened daily in northern Niagara County (near Lake Ontario) as I had AM only in a couple different cars. Even though that was in the "distant" part of their signal, it normally came in well as I recall. Of course, that is country up there so less electrical intereference than in some places. At night I recall the signal being better than 1340 WLVL from Lockport which was closer and running similar power but suffered a lot of skywave interference. WLVL may have run lower power at night, though.
Later on they did hard rock as WXBX which was a bit different on the AM band.
Looks like they stream online so maybe that is the best way to get an idea of the current music and personality. Last I knew it was fully automated off some sat. service.
Known as AM 1400 Solid Gold Soul. Dusties. The WWWS call letters are rarely used, save for TOH. The format is Old Skool. 60s Motown to 80s R&B. AM 1400 plays some tasty R&B hits that don't get airplay elsewhere. As an example, The Intruders' "Cowboys to Girls" was playing at around 8:15 p.m. when I checked in.
The signal isn't bad in the car, but at night it's restricted to the city and at best, the first ring suburbs where it fights the good fight to cut through the hash and other atmospheric flotsam and jetsam. The station is a "jock in a box" set-up, sounds well produced and flows relatively smoothly.
The stick sits on a deep slab of shale just off the Kensington and Scajaquada (Skah-JACK-wah-duh) Expressway. Although it's an Entercom station, the tower is owned and controlled by Cumulus: the bays atop the 350' stick radiate WEDG-FM 103.3. A cell phone cluster is mounted about halfway up the tower. I can only imagine what that does to the AM antenna 'Z' if it gets testy. Most engineers that I know hate cell arrays on AM towers. It's always somethin'.
The AM signal, about 780 watts, reaches and penetrates the inner city where a majority of the target audience resides. A nice match.
The signal isn't bad in the car, but at night it's restricted to the city and at best, the first ring suburbs where it fights the good fight to cut through the hash and other atmospheric flotsam and jetsam. The station is a "jock in a box" set-up, sounds well produced and flows relatively smoothly.
The stick sits on a deep slab of shale just off the Kensington and Scajaquada (Skah-JACK-wah-duh) Expressway. Although it's an Entercom station, the tower is owned and controlled by Cumulus: the bays atop the 350' stick radiate WEDG-FM 103.3. A cell phone cluster is mounted about halfway up the tower. I can only imagine what that does to the AM antenna 'Z' if it gets testy. Most engineers that I know hate cell arrays on AM towers. It's always somethin'.
The AM signal, about 780 watts, reaches and penetrates the inner city where a majority of the target audience resides. A nice match.
WWWS transmits from a folded unipole with skirts about halfway up the tower. That Fillmore installation has a bit of history with the backup transmitter - the Gates BC-1T was orignally at the Larkin Building back in the WYSL days. The "Jock in the Box" is via BE's AudioVault and, as JPB says, does have some tasty R&B hits... its all done locally, no syndication or music service here...
thank you all for your replys.
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