As I was leaving Cleveland, Ohio, driving South down Interstate 71, I came across music played on 1030AM. The signal was fairly noisy, but I heard two songs, neither of which I recognized. One sounded like it could have been a Christian CHR or AC piece. Usually if I hear anything on 1030AM, it's news/talk.
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- Thread starter johnbasalla
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WEBS Calhoun, GA is to far from you, So I don't know
My guess is WUFL Sterling Heights, MI. They changed patterns a few years ago, and a minor lobe goes toward Cleveland, going mainly over Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, and a pretty good area of conductivity in Canada.
WUFL would have been a likely suspect. But also, depending on how late in the day it was, perhaps it could have also been WNVR, which has it's 27kw day pattern stick a little over a mile from my house about 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. Cleveland would be pretty much right in the path of the day and critical hours major lobe (8kw). Programming includes a lot of Polish-language, pop/AC, which has a sound that's somewhat similar to English-language music of the same genre.
The way you describe WNVR kind of mimics the way the WEAW/WKTA 1330 signal behaves to the East near sunset.
Keep in mind that a lot of the News/Talk formats that are Christian or even Urban are playing a lot more music these days if they have an FM translator, which WUFL does on 94.3. Sports Talkers and First and Second Tier Political Talkers still do not run music dayparts even if they have a translator or full power "rimshot" or even a central city full power simulcast.
Keep in mind that a lot of the News/Talk formats that are Christian or even Urban are playing a lot more music these days if they have an FM translator, which WUFL does on 94.3. Sports Talkers and First and Second Tier Political Talkers still do not run music dayparts even if they have a translator or full power "rimshot" or even a central city full power simulcast.
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I heard it around 6pm E.S.T. The lyrics were in English, but a bit hard to understand due to the noiisy signal.
Good point. WKTA's daytime coverage pattern looks like a fish....and it throws most of it's 5kw signal AT fish (in Lake Michigan)! They certainly don't send it in my (opposite) direction, where it bumps into WNTA's signal, and the two fight it out all day long to be on top of 1330. "Battle of the "TAs." Something that's been going on since their respective WEAW and WRRR days!
But as to John's OP, "The plot thickens"!
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