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NBC on the radio?

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Last night I was hearing the audio of an NBC channel on 87.7 in my car. Couldn't get an ID of if it was WOAI-TV or some other NBC channel somewhere else.
 
yea every now again on the lowest dial I also pick up a TV signal I believe because thats where the TV signal frequencies are from the 87s downward.
 
Both KCEN TV 6 in Temple and KRIS TV in Corpus Christi are NBC affiliates.

Probably skip this time of year.
 
If you heard it on 87.7 FM, it was most likely audio from a distant Channel 6 coming in.

Most American VHF stations using Channel 6 run their audio carriers on 87.75 MHz, with some on 87.74 or 87.76.

Here in Philadelphia, our Channel 6 regularly promotes on-air its ability to be heard "in the car" at 87.7 FM.

A quick search shows NBC Channel 6s in Texarkana, Corpus Christi, Waco, and New Orleans. There may have been a DX opening.
 
I'm assuming it's KRIS TV in Corpus. I was getting quite a bit of Corpus stations, ie 89.5, 90.3, 92.7 (when they flipp to a "Jammin" format?), 93.9, 95.5, 99.1, 99.9, 102.3. I also make this assumption that I'm getting KRIS TV because I remember picking up the TV sound when I was in Corpus flipping through the tuner. But it would be cool if I was picking up a skip from New Orleans. I've recieved a few stations from "Nawlins" before.
 
You're probably right about it being KRIS-TV. Some channel 6 stations do promote their audio availability, as mentioned above, and KRIS was one of them. In the past, I noticed that the "Hurricane Guides" available at HEB stores around Corpus said something like "tune your car radio to 87.7" for evacuation information. Unless I overlooked it, though, it's not mentioned in this season's issue.
 
I caught the 87.7 from KCEN the entire way on a drive from Hillsboro to Austin on 35 a few months ago loud and clear. I could tell it was KCEN by the local commercials. I listened to "Shrek" the entire trip. It sounded a heck of a lot better and was more entertaining than ANY of the radio stations in Waco/Temple/Killeen!
 
I agree, the radio stations in the Waco/Temple/Killeen market are just terrible. Thanks Cumulus and CC.

When I worked at KCEN, one of the engineers told me in the early days of TV they ran the same power for aural and visual. KCEN ran 100,000 watts both on their original RCA transmitter. But the aural on 87.7 (TV channel 6) went much further than the video. They'd get calls from San Angelo saying "we can hear you but can't see you." After a few years, the FCC had stations power back the audio side so the audio went about as far as the video. So, KCEN runs 10,000 watts aural and 100,000 watts visual. That 10,000 watts on top of that big tower is just like a FM radio station and goes pretty far. We used it as an emergency back up for reporters doing live shots. If you lost IFB connection, you could tune in the audio on the live truck's FM radio. Some reporters kept a small FM radio handy to plug in their earpieces. At KCEN, you expected stuff to break and tried to do the best with what you had.
 
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