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Heard while the station switched

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johnbasalla

This morning, 02/14/2025, I heard AM1420, WHK in Cleveland, Ohio, switch from night to day pattern/power. The switchover lasted several seconds longer than usual. During the downtime, I heard, through a lot of weak signal noise, what sounded like the song "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison, a #1 hit from 1959.
What station could that have been?
 
Maybe WIMS from Michigan City, Indiana? That's just from a cursory search of other stations on 1420. Given that it's west of you and 5,000 watts with a classic hits formt, maybe they still had enough power to reach Cleveland, albeit weakly.
Reminds me of one time about 20 years ago when I was outside a bar waiting on some friends around midnight on a Saturday. I was flipping through the dial and then-WOSU on 820 went silent during the TOH ID break. WBAP blasted through and the timing for their ID was perfect. I live in front of now-WVSG's night pattern, so catching WBAP where I am is pretty rare and usually takes something like that.
 
johnbasalla said:
This morning, 02/14/2025, I heard AM1420, WHK in Cleveland, Ohio, switch from night to day pattern/power. The switchover lasted several seconds longer than usual. During the downtime, I heard, through a lot of weak signal noise, what sounded like the song "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison, a #1 hit from 1959.
What station could that have been?
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@johnbasalla

I missed where you're located.
Back East, both in Queens NYC long ago (at 5000 watts) and out here halfway between Scranton and Harrisburg PA (now at 22,000 watts) WKCW Warrenton VA is/has been a SRS regular. They're listed on SomeRadioGuy's link as a form of Oldies. Maybe?

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Back on Long Island, a buddy of mine jocked at super-directional rocker WGLI 1290. In one of their 5000-watt daytime nulls they had trouble reaching the Sunrise Mall and the entire southern part of populous Massapequa Park 6 miles away (they could be heard middays in Bermuda, though).
Rodj, A fine DXer, cranked them down to their nighttime 1000 watts one sunset and let it be silent for about 15 seconds so he could get an ID from WNBF Binghampton NY. They were 5000 watts omni daytime then.

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johnbasalla said:
This morning, 02/14/2025, I heard AM1420, WHK in Cleveland, Ohio, switch from night to day pattern/power. The switchover lasted several seconds longer than usual. During the downtime, I heard, through a lot of weak signal noise, what sounded like the song "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison, a #1 hit from 1959.
What station could that have been?
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A Location would help
 
It's not likely, but could it have been KITI?

It's out of WA, and it has an oldies format that would play stuff like "Kansas City".

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