Let's compile a list---ready?

[johng]

I love 740 AM! It plays songs I had forgotten about, but have added to my IPhone.

 

[taylorjsdad]

A couple in Vermont:

WCFR 1480 Springfield: gold-based AC/classic hits
WIKE 1490 Newport: Country

OMG I live right next to Springfield and forgot their main signal is 1480 AM (they also feed a translator at 106.5 FM). WCFR has a sister station WCNL - 1010 Newport, NH airing a gold based Country format (and feeding a translator at 94.7 FM)

Oh and they have a sister station 1320 WCVR - Randolph, Vermont airing a classic country format.

 

[blackgold]

1450 and 740 are the best music stations still on AM. Neither has a good signal, but at least 1450 streams. In a better world, both could survive on FM. Might as well putting Buddhist monks chanting on most AM signals today, nothing besides the very biggest and most established of frequencies are ever going to have an audience. Really, it's amazing AM has lasted as long as it has, considering how long FM has been around, and the better sound quality it offers.

Yeah, I wish 740 would stream, but Bob Bittner won't do that.

 

[CTListener]

1450 and 740 are the best music stations still on AM. Neither has a good signal, but at least 1450 streams. In a better world, both could survive on FM. Might as well putting Buddhist monks chanting on most AM signals today, nothing besides the very biggest and most established of frequencies are ever going to have an audience. Really, it's amazing AM has lasted as long as it has, considering how long FM has been around, and the better sound quality it offers.

Yeah, I wish 740 would stream, but Bob Bittner won't do that.

Why add extra out-of-pocket expense to a hobby station that doesn't accept advertising?

 

[JIBGUY]

WJIB is in a unique situation.... With having about 200,000 listeners, many of those listeners are on the fringe of the 740 signal, or in downtown Boston office buildings where 740's 250 watts often do not penetrate well. That creates a pent-up demand for streaming 740's format. Add to that, would-be on-line listeners from different states, notably Florida, where many Bostonians spend the winter would listen. Word would spread... even to New York City about this unique format. Conceivably, WJIB could have a million listeners a week nationwide, worldwide. Now let's apply the royalites rates to that.... 1/5th of a penny per song per listener 24/7. Could easily get a bill for $500,000.00 to $900,000.00 annually. Maybe fundraising on-line could support that, but its too much of a gamble. Now I know that streaming could be capped at 300 listeners, 500 listeners, 1000 listeners, etc, to reign in the royalties. But why bother?? Addling 1,000 listeners to an already 200,000 listeners..... Standards music is a dangerours format to do online. Little money in it, but a lot of listeners; all resulting in outrageous royalty fees. When and if the royalties come down to earth, then perhaps I'll think differently. So I say "Screw the Digital Millenium Copyright Act; I won't let it screw me".

 

[Schuyler]

jlehman mentioned 1110 Pittsfield (WUPE, IIRC) -- it's simulcasting its FM, and not well. I was in town last week and it sounded like it was transmitting off-frequency. Really good format (and air talent Cheryl Adams), but the audio was nauseating.

And I think it was VoiceofWayne who mentioned 1520 WIZZ Greenfield, suggesting it is in need of a translator. That would give it deserved night time hours, but in terms of coverage 10kW ought to be pretty good; it sounds like they are using lower power, though.

(These may not be the actual tech problems -- they're just what it sounds like to me.

I wish we could add 1280 WEIM Fitchburg to this list, but unfortunately since they became WPKZ talk and sports replaced the music and music programs (ie Billy Bush) and Ben Parker hightailed it to WBZ.