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Music on AM?
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WOKY AM 920 ( the mighty 92), out of Milwaukee, is full time oldies. 5 KW day and 1 KW night, directional. So i don't know how well you can pick it up in Chi-town.
try the Latino stations....LOTS of music.
"back in the day"...the OLD folks complained
about the "race" music on AM. yes, that's what
they called Rock and Roll in the '50's.
now, we complain there's no "music" on
AM. well, there is...just not what we want.
"back in the day"...the OLD folks complained
about the "race" music on AM. yes, that's what
they called Rock and Roll in the '50's.
now, we complain there's no "music" on
AM. well, there is...just not what we want.
650, WSM, out of Nashville booms into northwest Indiana most early morning hours. The station sounds better than WLS most of the time.
turkeydance said:
Unless you refer to very small markets, most Hispanic targeted AMs do not play music since unless they are the only game in town, nobody listens to them.
classic_rocker said:
Since WOKY protects WBAA in Lafayette, IN, virtually no listenable daytime signal makes it into Cook county. At night, WOKY throws a small lobe to the southwest. When I was a teenager in the sixties, the nighttime signal was pretty decent in the far northwest suburbs where I grew up. And in those days, "the mighty 92" was truly a great listen. Unfortunately today, the nighttime signal gets lost in the slop by the time it crosses the Illinois state line.
Agree that more music on a.m. in Chicago might be nice, but I personally don't see it happening. The only "candidates" (such as they are) might be the two Salem frequencies....560 and 1160. Both were home to some classic top-40 at one point in their respective histories. IMHO, not a chance for a repeat of that...especially with Salem. As for music on the Hispanic stations, that pretty much died when Salem took WIND back to English on 560. There is (or was until recently), however, a wonderful salsa/tropical format on 1200 am....albeit with an inferior signal. And finally (speaking of inferior signals), don't forget gospel on 1390.
Sure, there will be music on AM again, when:
1. The FCC mandates IBOC digital hash on every AM frequency in the US.
2. When about 500 - 1000 stations voluntarily sign-off and turn in their licenses to "unclutter" the noisy (and getting noisier) AM band.
3. When the HD Alliance gets off their high horse and begins with earnest to mold both AM & FM bands into a parity, equal platform.
Until then. No. And in fact, no AM by 2020 ... the NAB "Year of Vision."
Amazing how we talk about lobes, and patterns and signal strength ... but we forget the reason why most people listen to radio. It's not about "distance." It's about content.
Yes ... music would be nice. But so would decent signals and quality in which to hear it on AM. Until then, DX for what it's worth ... because it not worth much now as it is.
1. The FCC mandates IBOC digital hash on every AM frequency in the US.
2. When about 500 - 1000 stations voluntarily sign-off and turn in their licenses to "unclutter" the noisy (and getting noisier) AM band.
3. When the HD Alliance gets off their high horse and begins with earnest to mold both AM & FM bands into a parity, equal platform.
Until then. No. And in fact, no AM by 2020 ... the NAB "Year of Vision."
Amazing how we talk about lobes, and patterns and signal strength ... but we forget the reason why most people listen to radio. It's not about "distance." It's about content.
Yes ... music would be nice. But so would decent signals and quality in which to hear it on AM. Until then, DX for what it's worth ... because it not worth much now as it is.
The Only way that you will hear music on AM radio, is to setup your own Part-15 radio station,
is by hooking up a CD player through your low power AM transmitter and there you have it!
Music On AM Radio!!!...
You can listen to it throughout your house or even go a few blocks and share your music,
with a few friends or even your neighbors....
is by hooking up a CD player through your low power AM transmitter and there you have it!
Music On AM Radio!!!...
You can listen to it throughout your house or even go a few blocks and share your music,
with a few friends or even your neighbors....
cyberdad said:
Music on WIND died when it went all talk around 1998, and then that format moved to 1200 years ago when Salem bought 560 and the talk format moved to 1200.
Also you may want to try WJJG AM-1530,
During the afternoons around 3pm or so, they play lots of old music from the 50s & 60s.
They also play lots of Frank Sinatra too. among with many others as well....
During the afternoons around 3pm or so, they play lots of old music from the 50s & 60s.
They also play lots of Frank Sinatra too. among with many others as well....
DavidEduardo said:
As I recall, WIND dropped oldies for talk around the time I got out of broadcasting near the end of the 70s. Then later came the Spanish "La Tremenda" music format. Variations of which survived until Salem came along and turned WIND back into an English-language politically conservative talker a few year's back.
As always, I stand to be corrected.
BobMSmith1959 said:
In many ways WJJG is the last real old school AM station left in Chicago. Privately owned, with a local focus, and
not afraid to play the music the owner likes. I very much enjoy WJJG, especially when they play Frank Sinatra, and I'm not
even a big fan of Frank Sinatra!
I think the studio used to be in an old hotel fer pete's sake. That's about as old-school as you can get.
cyberdad said:
IIRC, WIND in the mid '70s was a Top 40 competitor to WLS & WCFL during the day, and talk (Dave Baum was the host, I believe) at night. They changed to all-news in AM & PM drive and talk the rest of the day in late 1976 or early '77, then switched to Spanish when Westinghouse sold the station in 1985.
cyberdad said:
No, they did all-talk in Spanish from about 1999 until Salem bought the station. The talk format moved to 1200 when the sale closed in 2005, and the tropical format on 1200 left the market then.
The name remained La Tremenda, since it's pretty generic and was well known.
Didn't Bill Berg's afternoon show on WIND slowly turn into the city's (country's?) first all sports shows. If I remember correctly, his show was on from 4-7:30.
KeithE4 said:
...the time of the last music programs was late '77/early '78. The format was an AC/Top 40 hybrid (novelty hits like Johnny Wakelin's "Muhammad Ali" and "Junk Food Junkie" by Larry Groce were most likely to pop up only on Eddie Schwartz's overnight shift, if at all, but somewhere I have an aircheck of a WIND jock going from Styx to Led Zeppelin to Barry White to Donnit & Marie Osmond to J.Geils to The Beatles to The Shangri-Las one half-hour in January '75). I was a regular listener to Connie Szerszen's evening shift until they dropped the music for the talk. I always thought it was odd that WIND was the only semi-rocker at the time to not buy ads on the last weekend of WCFL as a Top 40 in March '76; they let WLS get away with saying in their ads that 890 would be the "only choice" for contemporary music on the AM dial in Chicago, which clearly wasn't true. (And Szerszen got her start in radio as an administrative assistant at WCFL on top of that.) I suspect this reflects the probability that Clark Weber and Westinghouse were planning on flipping WIND to talk as early as '76 but waited to see what effect the WCFL flip would have on the music ratings. Then it was December of 1985 when all of the English-language stuff was dumped...
I listened to MUSIC ON AM in Myrtle Beach, SC while visiting there yesterday. I toted my hand-built Meduci 10kHz wideband AM STEREO tuner, and plugged it into a Sony boombox. I tuned 910 WNMB [the oldies station in North Myrtle Beach] in C-QUAM AM stereo – sounded great! I wish there were more stations doing that!
hipporadio said:
OOPS! Make that 900 WNMB [I was thinking of the sports station in ChasTowne on the adjacent channel] :
There are few stations playing music on AM. I listen to 1180 in sycamore all the time for music. In regards to WJJG, a few years ago the audio got so bad, I stopped listening. I didn't listen to the rewind on the big 89 either because I don't care for the sound of Music on AM radio in the IBOC mode. I used to listen to radio disney in the car with my kids, I don't even bother now that they are IBOC. For one thing I can barely get them since they had to drop the modulation to 95% to run IBOC, then if I get them they sound crappy.
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