Hockey on AM Band

[FreddyE1977]

Are there any hockey games still being carried by large stations on the AM band?

Growing up in Pennsylvania, I could pick up hockey games at night on many stations:

Penguins - KDKA
Blues - KMOX
Red Wings - WJR
Whalers - WTIC
Rangers/Devils - WABC/WNBC/WFAN
Bruins - WBZ
Blackhawks - AM 1000, Chicago

I also used to really enjoy minor-league games on two blowtorch signals...
the old IHL Cincinnati Cyclones on 1530, and Fort Wayne Komets on WOWO.
The Komets games in particular used to boom in like a local station before that
station was neutered in the late 90's.

Today most of the hockey seems to have moved to the FM band or low-powered
AM's. I can get Minnesota Wild games on 830, NJ Devils games on 770/1560, and Toronto Maple Leafs games on 900 out of Hamilton, Ontario (though that signal is very spotty). WHAM in Rochester, NY seems to carry an occasional AHL game as well. Any other hockey affiliates out there still parking on a big signal?

 

[chuckydoll]

Check out the New York-area clubs

Rangers: 1050 ESPN Radio is the flagship with the MSG Radio Network in the suburbs. Some games are farmed out to 77 WABC depending on overlap with Knicks basketball.

Islanders: Bloomberg Radio AM 11-3-0. Its night pattern is ideal for the target audience but not for those listening far away.

Devils: SportsRadio 66/WFAN has most of the games. If there's an overlap with other sports, hockey usually gets bumped to 92.3 Free FM.

 

[JoeBlow]

The Tampa Bay Lightning is on 620 WDAE "The Sports Animal" out of Tampa.

They have a flame thrower

 

[bigtalkradiofan]

College hockey (since you included AHL and minor league teams in your question):

(I believe) Returning national champion University of Wisconsin Badgers Mens hockey games are aired on WIBA 1310 AM (or WTSO 1070 AM, if there is a UW Mens Basketball game at the same time).

 

[salemjedi54]

The Dallas Stars are on WBAP 820AM. The have been on 820 for about 14 years.

 

[bumandwimp]

Are there any hockey games still being carried by large stations on the AM band?

Growing up in Pennsylvania, I could pick up hockey games at night on many stations:

Penguins - KDKA
Blues - KMOX
Red Wings - WJR
Whalers - WTIC
Rangers/Devils - WABC/WNBC/WFAN
Bruins - WBZ
Blackhawks - AM 1000, Chicago

I also used to really enjoy minor-league games on two blowtorch signals...
the old IHL Cincinnati Cyclones on 1530, and Fort Wayne Komets on WOWO.
The Komets games in particular used to boom in like a local station before that
station was neutered in the late 90's.

Today most of the hockey seems to have moved to the FM band or low-powered
AM's. I can get Minnesota Wild games on 830, NJ Devils games on 770/1560, and Toronto Maple Leafs games on 900 out of Hamilton, Ontario (though that signal is very spotty). WHAM in Rochester, NY seems to carry an occasional AHL game as well. Any other hockey affiliates out there still parking on a big signal?

The Blues are back on KMOX. Hey, get XM or listen online!! (I'm sure you know this already). I remember as a kid mostly listening to Dan Kelly on KMOX. I also enjoyed the Bruins announcer on WBZ, he had a very low voice (during the 70s). What was his name?

 

[barthgimble]

Fred Cusack WBZ.

 

[Scoobyfan1]

Not sure about large stations, but up here in the Seattle-Tacoma area (Lakewood in Pierce County specifically), during the evening hours I can pick up a few hockey games on good AM signals on my Sony Walkman that I got a few months ago, among them:

Vancouver Canucks games on 1040 The Team
Calgary Flames games on 960 The Fan
Spokane Chiefs games on KGA 1510

Can't think of any others at the moment

 

[larnov]

Are there any hockey games still being carried by large stations on the AM band?

Growing up in Pennsylvania, I could pick up hockey games at night on many stations:

Penguins - KDKA
Blues - KMOX
Red Wings - WJR
Whalers - WTIC
Rangers/Devils - WABC/WNBC/WFAN
Bruins - WBZ
Blackhawks - AM 1000, Chicago

I also used to really enjoy minor-league games on two blowtorch signals...
the old IHL Cincinnati Cyclones on 1530, and Fort Wayne Komets on WOWO.
The Komets games in particular used to boom in like a local station before that
station was neutered in the late 90's.

Today most of the hockey seems to have moved to the FM band or low-powered
AM's. I can get Minnesota Wild games on 830, NJ Devils games on 770/1560, and Toronto Maple Leafs games on 900 out of Hamilton, Ontario (though that signal is very spotty). WHAM in Rochester, NY seems to carry an occasional AHL game as well. Any other hockey affiliates out there still parking on a big signal?

The Blues are back on KMOX. Hey, get XM or listen online!! (I'm sure you know this already). I remember as a kid mostly listening to Dan Kelly on KMOX. I also enjoyed the Bruins announcer on WBZ, he had a very low voice (during the 70s). What was his name?

I seem to remember a Guy named Bob Wilson doing Bruin games, he would start out very low key when Orr would have the puck behind the net and then would pick up his voice as the puck moved up the ice..
Also I remember Red Wing games on CKLW also.
I think WKBW had Sabres games in Buffolo

 

[kirjtc2]

Capitals moved back to 1500 (ex-WTOP, now WWWT) last season.

 

[The King Bee]

Listening to Dan Kelly (Blues) on KMOX, Lloyd Pettit (Blackhawks) on WMAQ, Fred Cusick and Cal Gardiner (Bruins) on WBZ, and Marv Albert (Rangers) on WNBC got me interested in the sport as a kid DXer in Louisville during the late 1960's.

I clearly remember discussions on WMAQ about whether or not to leave eventual Hall of Fame goaltenders Terry Sawchuk and Glenn Hall unprotected in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft. (They were not protected and played for new teams in Los Angeles and St. Louis respectively, for those too young to remember!)

Occasionally, I could pick up the Canadiens' French broadcast on 860 Khz (CBM?) from Montreal, and even more rarely, Toronto Maple Leafs' games on 740 KHz (now CHWO, one of my regular DX destinations today.)

 

[EnbyCee]

Blackhawks are moving to WGN (720) next year. As poorly as that franchise was run prior to the death of Bill Wirtz, at least they've always been on one of Chicago's big blowtorch AMs since 1983. (WBBM, WMVP, WMAQ/WSCR and now 'GN).

I also miss the days of listening to Wings, Blues, Pens, Devils, Rangers and Bruins games on their old stations late in the 80's and early in the 90's, and was glad the Blues went back to KMOX (IIRC, they left KMOX for KTRS in the first place because they were sick of having their playoff games preempted for Cardinals baseball......then a few years later the Cards went and bought KTRS, which started the problem all over again). Unlike with other leagues, at least the NHL lets you listen to anyone's feed online for free.

 

[masshlx]

Are there any hockey games still being carried by large stations on the AM band?

Growing up in Pennsylvania, I could pick up hockey games at night on many stations:

Penguins - KDKA
Blues - KMOX
Red Wings - WJR
Whalers - WTIC
Rangers/Devils - WABC/WNBC/WFAN
Bruins - WBZ
Blackhawks - AM 1000, Chicago

I also used to really enjoy minor-league games on two blowtorch signals...
the old IHL Cincinnati Cyclones on 1530, and Fort Wayne Komets on WOWO.
The Komets games in particular used to boom in like a local station before that
station was neutered in the late 90's.

Today most of the hockey seems to have moved to the FM band or low-powered
AM's. I can get Minnesota Wild games on 830, NJ Devils games on 770/1560, and Toronto Maple Leafs games on 900 out of Hamilton, Ontario (though that signal is very spotty). WHAM in Rochester, NY seems to carry an occasional AHL game as well. Any other hockey affiliates out there still parking on a big signal?

The Blues are back on KMOX. Hey, get XM or listen online!! (I'm sure you know this already). I remember as a kid mostly listening to Dan Kelly on KMOX. I also enjoyed the Bruins announcer on WBZ, he had a very low voice (during the 70s). What was his name?

I seem to remember a Guy named Bob Wilson doing Bruin games, he would start out very low key when Orr would have the puck behind the net and then would pick up his voice as the puck moved up the ice..
Also I remember Red Wing games on CKLW also.
I think WKBW had Sabres games in Buffolo

Yea, it was Bob Wilson doing radio on WBZ.
Fred Cusack was on the television side, with Johnny Pierson (WSBK 38).
It's Dave Goucher and Bob Beers doing radio play by play now, still on WBZ.

 

[landtuna]

Nobody mentioned the Flyers who used to live on WCAU. Can't hear Philly from Phoenix though.

 

[larnov]

Are there any hockey games still being carried by large stations on the AM band?

Growing up in Pennsylvania, I could pick up hockey games at night on many stations:

Penguins - KDKA
Blues - KMOX
Red Wings - WJR
Whalers - WTIC
Rangers/Devils - WABC/WNBC/WFAN
Bruins - WBZ
Blackhawks - AM 1000, Chicago

I also used to really enjoy minor-league games on two blowtorch signals...
the old IHL Cincinnati Cyclones on 1530, and Fort Wayne Komets on WOWO.
The Komets games in particular used to boom in like a local station before that
station was neutered in the late 90's.

Today most of the hockey seems to have moved to the FM band or low-powered
AM's. I can get Minnesota Wild games on 830, NJ Devils games on 770/1560, and Toronto Maple Leafs games on 900 out of Hamilton, Ontario (though that signal is very spotty). WHAM in Rochester, NY seems to carry an occasional AHL game as well. Any other hockey affiliates out there still parking on a big signal?

The Blues are back on KMOX. Hey, get XM or listen online!! (I'm sure you know this already). I remember as a kid mostly listening to Dan Kelly on KMOX. I also enjoyed the Bruins announcer on WBZ, he had a very low voice (during the 70s). What was his name?

Dan Kelly was the best voice doing Network games, I never got to listen to him in St Louis, I think I saw he did Cardinal games with Jack Buck back in the day.

 

[The King Bee]

There were many excellent hockey broadcasters back in the '60s and '70s, but for my money, Dan Kelly of KMOX, St. Louis (Blues) was THE MAN. My runner-up was Lloyd Pettit of WMAQ, Chicago ("a shot...and A GOAL!)

I remember Kelly filling in for St. Louis football and baseball Cardinals games-he was that versatile. I believe that hockey play-by-play announcers have the toughest job in sportscasting, given factors such as the speed of the game, personnel changes on the fly, and having to locate a 3" x 1" piece of rubber between the jumble of bodies and sticks from a radio/tv booth three levels above the ice!

I am very glad to hear that the Blackhawks are going to WGN-AM 720. I get them here in Louisville better than WMVP-AM 670, which gets interference from WSM (650 KHz), WFAN (660 KHz) and, of all things, the local Radio Disney outlet on 680 KHz. Teams in all sports should really think harder before they abandon an AM Class I or II for FM. Are you listening, Braves? Red Wings? Tigers? Cardinals?

 

[MW_FM_DT_DXer]

I am very glad to hear that the Blackhawks are going to WGN-AM 720. I get them here in Louisville better than WMVP-AM 670

670 in Chicago is WSCR. (WMVP is 1000.)

 

[lenhockey]

Most of you guys are midwesterns or easterners, so from the West coast during the 60's we were able to listen to the following Western Hockey League teams:
SF Seals --KFRC and KCBS --the great Roy" shot on goal" Storey
Vancouver Canucks--CKWX--Jim Robson
San Diego Gulls--KOGO --Ron Oakes..
Seattle Totems --KVI (if the skip was in) --Bill Schonley (who did the NBATrailblazers)
Salt Lake City Golden Eagles-- KSL -Chuck Schell
Portland Buckaroos--KOIN Jim "He shoots, He shoots" Anderson
Phoenix Roadrunners--Al McCoy
When the Seals joined the NHL 1967, we would tune in the following:
Vancouver still had Jim Robson
LA Kings got the superduper Jiggs MacDonald
Seals had Tim Ryan, Roy Storey and Joe "What a Bonanza" Starkey
Again, if the skip was in we would catch Dan Kelly on KMOX.
So we never really got to hear the Chicago, Boston, Maple Loafs, and Canadiens announcers...sad! But we had a great group of hockeycasters to listen to and learn about hockey.