Driving after 9:00 p.m. some nights ago, I was listening to WHK, AM1420. Interference included a station with sports programming (New York?) and waayyy off in the background I heard the song "Bang-A-Gong (Get It On)" by T. Rex (1972). What might be the stations?
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Nighttime on AM1420 in Southwest Cuyahoga County in the Cleveland, Ohio market.
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Listening tonight to "The Larry Elder Show" on WHK, (09/02/2025), I heard identifiable interference. I heard "The Pittsburgh Pirates Radio Network".
I’m sure you’ve read on here about fccdata.org and how you can use it to search for stations on whatever frequency worldwide.
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The information outside of the U.S. and Canada is generally quite inaccurate, out of date or just wrong.
About the best source of international radio listings is the World Radio TV handbook. World Radio TV Handbook
Only station that looks like it could fit is WCED from DuBois, Pennsylvania. If it was running its daytime power of 4,200 watts, making it to Cleveland wouldn't be all that difficult. That's only about 170 miles away, give or take.
WRTH isn't what it was. It used to be a UK based publication which had expert editors in each country who would contribute data, but it was taken over by a German outfit, and nowadays its data comes from a web database that can be edited by anyone.
Some of the errors that are in that database have made it to print in WRTH, and I'm also not sure of the ethics of selling a book for profit where the data has been contributed by volunteers to a different project over many years.
The way I see it, if everyone was paid to contribute, the database would be unaffordable. And for the effort, an expectation of being paid for the time is reasonable. I dabble in coins. We all volunteer our knowledge to have standardized publications that are the buy or sell 'bible' of the coin world. It takes a paid crew of 4 about 18 months or more to assemble and check information for just one segment of coin collecting. Once published, they're not cheap but if every contributor was compensated, nobody could afford the physical books or online subscription rate.
I think that if they said at the start that they were going to start selling the data, it'd be fine, people can choose whether or not to participate - but this is data collected over many years, way before they started using it to fill WRTH.
Their site is a lot more locked down than it used to be. It needs a login, and I haven't been able to obtain one, so I think it's pretty restricted as to who can view the FMLIST/FMSCAN websites nowadays, potentially because they want to sell books containing the exact same data.
In any case, the data is nowhere near as good under this outfit as it was under the old WRTH publisher.
Still, it is a good place to start. If one has a financial interest in the industry in another country, the commercial section of the U.S. Embassy will generally help.