Looking for Florida station on 1560

[theradiokid]

Okay. I'm not from Florida, I'm just a curious person.

I'm looking for information about a radio station in Florida on AM 1560. That's all I know about them. Is there more than one station on 1560 in Florida? I'm not sure. All I know is this: I read in a radio magazine about ten years ago that there was a station in Florida at 1560 that did not power down at night, and therefore, interfered with WQEW (1560 New York's) skywave pattern. So, can someone please tell me if there is a station in Florida at 1560, and their calls and format and such?

Thank you.

--The Radio Kid
(AKA Oswego Jeremy, as nicknamed by George of the Radio Racket.)
My email: [email protected].

 

[radioboy]

I am in Florida, and I believe the stations on 1560 are:

WINT, a 5000 watt daytimer, in Melbourne, FL. This is a Cumulus-owned station.

WINV, also a 5000 watt daytimer (4100 watts critical hours) in Beverly Hills, FL. Owned by WGUL.

I don't know anything about their formats.


There also was a station on 1580 near here (WTCL) that runs 10kw daytime only that has been known to
stay on overnights with their full power. It's a 'fishy' station. A gentleman from here went to that station
considering placing some advertising and was told "Get out and stay away from here" when he knocked on the front door. Makes one wonder how legitimate an operation it is.

 

[Poledo]

I've driven by WTCL about 500 times in the last 25 years and I've never seen a car on the property.

 

[redneckriviera]

Okay. I'm not from Florida, I'm just a curious person.

I'm looking for information about a radio station in Florida on AM 1560. That's all I know about them. Is there more than one station on 1560 in Florida? I'm not sure. All I know is this: I read in a radio magazine about ten years ago that there was a station in Florida at 1560 that did not power down at night, and therefore, interfered with WQEW (1560 New York's) skywave pattern. So, can someone please tell me if there is a station in Florida at 1560, and their calls and format and such?

Thank you.

--The Radio Kid
(AKA Oswego Jeremy, as nicknamed by George of the Radio Racket.)
My email: [email protected].

I think you'll find that 1560 is what used to be known as a "Mexican Clear," reserved under old North American treaties for use by Mexican stations. There are about 15 stations in Mexico using 1560 on an unlimited basis, though no "border blasters" or mega-wattage stations (as were common South of the Border back in the thirties/forties/fifties). The WQEW (formerly WQXR-AM) directional system draws the radiation in from the south and west, shooting it east into the Atlantic--effectively protecting Mexico. The U.S. is now dotted with lower-power night sticks on 1560. But even in the old days when clear channel stations were few & far between--40 or 50 years ago--I recall that there was (and still is) a fulltime station on 1560 at Paducah, Kentucky. Not sure where the "Florida" story came from--most likely an Urban Legend.

 

[radiosanchez]

Okay. I'm not from Florida, I'm just a curious person.

I'm looking for information about a radio station in Florida on AM 1560. That's all I know about them. Is there more than one station on 1560 in Florida? I'm not sure. All I know is this: I read in a radio magazine about ten years ago that there was a station in Florida at 1560 that did not power down at night, and therefore, interfered with WQEW (1560 New York's) skywave pattern.

Ah, yes....THEM....

Well, see, they were never *licensed* to be on 1560...They just had a CP for 1560, which they let expire, and it was then that they went on 1560 (illegaly), with increased power both day and night.

You are thinking of WRHC/Coral Gables (a suburb of Miami), a station licensed to operate on 1550. Again, they took it upon themselves to boost power and change frequencies until they were caught, and went back to 1550.

 

[theradiokid]

Okay. I'm not from Florida, I'm just a curious person.

I'm looking for information about a radio station in Florida on AM 1560. That's all I know about them. Is there more than one station on 1560 in Florida? I'm not sure. All I know is this: I read in a radio magazine about ten years ago that there was a station in Florida at 1560 that did not power down at night, and therefore, interfered with WQEW (1560 New York's) skywave pattern.

Ah, yes....THEM....

Well, see, they were never *licensed* to be on 1560...They just had a CP for 1560, which they let expire, and it was then that they went on 1560 (illegaly), with increased power both day and night.

You are thinking of WRHC/Coral Gables (a suburb of Miami), a station licensed to operate on 1550. Again, they took it upon themselves to boost power and change frequencies until they were caught, and went back to 1550.

Yes! Yes! That's it! That's exactly who I was thinking of. Ah! I knew that if I heard those calls again, I'd know who it was and recognize it. If I remember right, this was like, ten years ago. This was just after WQEW flipped to "Radio Disney." Yes. It comes back to me now. I remember reading "Coral Gables" in the newsletter I was reading. Thank you ever so much,radiosanchez! I'm going to go and search for WRHC in wikipedia now. Later.

--The Radio Kid
(AKA Oswego Jeremy, as nicknamed by George of the Radio Racket.)
My email: [email protected].

 

[jmtillery]

I was going to say it was possibly WINV-AM 1560 Inverness, Florida, located about 20-miles South of me in Ocala. I do know for a fact that there were more than a couple instances where WINV (WYSE at the time) remained on the air at night with its full 5,000 watts of power although it is licensed as a daytimer only. That station used to get calls from people all the time about its signal "walking" all over the WQXR New York night signal.

Mark Tillery
Ocala, Florida

 

[radioguybroadcasting]

I'm looking for information about a radio station in Florida on AM 1560. That's all I know about them. Is there more than one station on 1560 in Florida? I'm not sure. All I know is this: I read in a radio magazine about ten years ago that there was a station in Florida at 1560 that did not power down at night, and therefore, interfered with WQEW (1560 New York's) skywave pattern.

Ah, yes....THEM....

Well, see, they were never *licensed* to be on 1560...They just had a CP for 1560, which they let expire, and it was then that they went on 1560 (illegaly), with increased power both day and night.

You are thinking of WRHC/Coral Gables (a suburb of Miami), a station licensed to operate on 1550. Again, they took it upon themselves to boost power and change frequencies until they were caught, and went back to 1550.

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It took me a mniute to think..... WRHC is exactly the station that he was thinking!

 

[cflamfm]

Here is the 'only' station in FL. suppose to be on 1560

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?stat...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9

Here is 1550 though 1570

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?stat...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9

I hope this helps as well.

 

[jmtillery]

Yep, it does. WINV-AM 1560 Beverly Hills was originally licened to Inverness in 1965 in Citrus County. The original call letters were WYSE and the station operated with 1,000 watts daytime. In 1978 WYSE increased power to 5,000 watts and went through a series of ownership and format changes. In the 80s WYSE became WKIQ, then WINV, going dark in the late 80s. Carl Marcocci of the Gull Group based in Palm Harber, bought the station license in the 90s for $5,000, constructed a new tower and returned WINV to the air. The city of license change to Beverly Hills took place circa 2004 when Marcocci wanted to changed the city of license of what was then WGUL-FM 106.3 (now WJQB Spring Hill) Beverly Hills to Spring Hill. Since WGUL-FM was the only station licensed, at the time, to Beverly Hills, WINV was re-licensed in order to gain FCC approval for the WGUL COL change. This still gave Beverly Hills its own locally licensed radio voice while the former COL Inverness still had WJUF-FM 90.1. If I am not mistaken, I believe WINV is currently off the air although the license may still show in the FCC data base as valid and active. As far as I know, WINV is still owned by the Gull Group which also owns WXCV-FM 95.3 Homosasa Spings, WXOF-FM 96.3 Yankeetown and WJQB-FM 106.3 Spring Hill, all serving Crystal River, Citrus County and the Gulf Coast just North of Tampa Bay. WJQB, however, does also reach parts of North Tampa Bay.

Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida