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NE Ohio Off-Air Alert: WARF/1350 Akron Off

OhioMediaWatch

OhioMediaWatch

I don't know if it's a transmitter problem or maintenance, but Clear Channel sports WARF/1350 Akron "Fox Sports 1350" is definitely off the air right now.

I got what looks to be a decent catch - the 500 watt nighttime signal of Cox's WNLK/1350 Norwalk CT, the simulcaster of the news/talk format of WSTC/1400 Stamford CT.

It is not a great or even listenable signal, but strong enough to identify programming and eventually, a station liner.

Have fun, Cleveland/Akron folks!
 
Might wanna try for WINY, at the other end of the small state of CT at such times, OMW. I got them here in PA one night when they -- oops -- might've forgotten to power down.

I guess I remember 1350 Akron best from its C&W days as WSLR, in the Sixties. Can't remember if the overnight gal DJ was syndicated (probably not) but she might've been the first female jock I ever heard. Before that, they were WADC. One overnight, there was a brief pause of MoR dead air, and 'WEZY' from Florida happened to ID right then.

Good memories ... good frequency.
 
WINY would only make it here if indeed they were at 5 kW. They're only 79 watts at night, and no way is that making it this far west in WARF's absence.

There was something else under WNLK last night, but not enough to punch through. I doubt it was WINY, unless they were on HSBB authorization (heh).

1350 is indeed historically known here as WSLR, which served even Cleveland country audiences in its days as "Whistler" with late local broadcasting icon Jaybird Drennan. Cleveland had no country station until WGAR/1220 flipped to country in 1984, eventually simulcasting and then migrating to today's WGAR/99.5.

(1220 became sports WKNR, which itself moved to today's 850 in the local Big Frequency Swap in 2001. 1220 is now Salem Christian talk WHKW "The Word".)

Freedom Avenue tells me that indeed, they were working on the transmitter.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
WINY would only make it here if indeed they were at 5 kW. They're only 79 watts at night, and no way is that making it this far west in WARF's absence.

There was something else under WNLK last night, but not enough to punch through. I doubt it was WINY, unless they were on HSBB authorization (heh).

1350 is indeed historically known here as WSLR, which served even Cleveland country audiences in its days as "Whistler" with late local broadcasting icon Jaybird Drennan. Cleveland had no country station until WGAR/1220 flipped to country in 1984, eventually simulcasting and then migrating to today's WGAR/99.5.

(1220 became sports WKNR, which itself moved to today's 850 in the local Big Frequency Swap in 2001. 1220 is now Salem Christian talk WHKW "The Word".)

Freedom Avenue tells me that indeed, they were working on the transmitter.
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I remember WSLR well growing up in NE Ohio. "Whistler" was indeed the only country station in NE Ohio for much of it's run in the 60-70's. The only competition they ever had was when WELW 107.9FM played country music for a while in the early 70's. After that WHK 1420 switched to country in the mid 70's and held that format until something in the early 80's I believe. I know they were still country when I moved from there in 1979. WGAR came along as you said in the 80's.

The big issue with WSLR was that for those of us that lived in Lake County was spill over from WELW 1330AM during the daytime when they were on the air. It was at times difficult to listen to WSLR if you were any where within a few miles of WELW's transmitter in Willoughby. Of course back in those days WELW was DT only so that problem went away at sunset. I am sure to this day it is difficult to pick up 1350 from anywhere in western Lake County.
 
I totally forgot about WHK's country days, probably because I immediately think of Gary Dee when I think about that era of the station.

1350's northern lobe aims basically right at downtown Cleveland. It gets some of the inner ring suburbs to the immediate west and east, but probably gets flaky west of Bay Village and east of Euclid or Mentor. There are also nulls that lose it some of eastern Cuyahoga County and Geauga County (probably in part because of WELW) and part of Medina County.

It could be worse for Akron stations in Cleveland...WCUE/1150's 6 towers drive a very narrow signal towards Cleveland and a handful of suburbs. WHLO/640 is heard mostly in Cleveland and near southern suburbs, but its signal booms to the south. You can't hear WHLO in North Olmsted, but it's a near local in Cambridge!
 
In the 80's, I worked at a station in Ashland, Ky on 1340. When we signed off at night, Wslr would boom in so much, the modulator meters would peg.
 
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