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I Can Hear 6 CBS 50,000 Watt AM Stations in One Place

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Gregg.

In the daytime, it might be hard to pick up so many 50 kw stations with one common owner. But there is one place I know where it can be done. I'll give you a minute to think...

There are sections of The Bronx and Queens, near Long Island Sound, where all six are audible. The six stations are...

660 WFAN New York
880 WCBS New York
1010 WINS New York
1030 WBZ Boston
1080 WTIC Hartford
1210 WPHT Philadelphia

The toughest of the six is 1030 WBZ. While WBZ comes in pretty well around New England all day, it really isn't easy to pick up in New York City, where 1050 WEPN blocks it. I suppose picking up these same six stations is possible in the Hudson Valley, although as you go north, 1210 WPHT becomes harder to tune in, while WTIC and WBZ are easier to hear.

And if 1060 KYW Philadelphia weren't so severely nulled to the northeast, it could be the seventh CBS-owned 50 kw station audible. But 1050 WEPN New York stops it. The funny thing is, at night, I sometimes hear it in New Hampshire. Isn't it odd that it's nulled to the northeast, yet it zooms over New York and hits New England sometimes.
 
Not a bad feat considering how poor the ground conductivity is in that part of the country.
Here in the Midwest, getting 50K signals from 100-200 miles away wouldn't be anything special. Out there, it is. How does WTIC sound for being about 100 miles away?
Of the 50Ks that are audible daytime in Columbus ...
* WLW, WHAS, WTAM, WWVA (daytime only, totally gone at night) and WCKY are owned by iHeartMedia
* WJR is Cumulus
* WKNR (50K daytime only, completely gone at night) is Good Karma
* KDKA is CBS
* WFNI (50K daytime only, barely audible if that at night) is Emmis
* WOWO (50K daytime only, barely audible if that at night) is owned by Pathfinder
I'm not counting the Chicago stations whose groundwaves do not always make it here, and if they do are extremely weak under the best conditions. That's all the 50Ks I can think of whose signals reach Columbus daytime.
 
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Well, I was just thinking about full time 50 kw stations under one ownership. But, schmave, you give me another idea for a separate thread. So let me start that new thread about where could you be in the North America where you could hear the most full time 50 kw AM stations?
 
I truly didn't mean to derail anything. :) I was thinking about common ownership for audible 50Ks around here, too, and ended up listing everything, then forgot to delete the non-iHeartMedia stations. Considering how much iHeart owns in this part of the country, I am not surprised they lead the list.
 
In Manistee, MI, whenever I check AM at night, I can sometimes get as many as 10 CBS Radio 50kW AM stations:
660 WFAN New York
670 WSCR Chicago (heard 24/7)
780 WBBM Chicago (heard 24/7)
830 WCCO Minneapolis (occasionally comes in during the day)
880 WCBS New York
1020 KDKA Pittsburgh
1030 WBZ Boston
1060 KYW Philadelphia
1120 KMOX St. Louis
1210 WPHT Philadelphia
 
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