Rare Rocker on AM logged

[LibertyNT]

Well this was an unexpected treat.
when I cruised down on 960 AM trying to hear KROF i got something else.
something odd down in the noise... New Rock music.
I did a quick google search for rock on 960 and one station popped up,
960 WVVB The Vulcan in Birmingham, AL. 5kw Directional, though I'm not sure of the direction its aimed at.
Verified via the stations stream.

Now if this isn't an unusual catch for an unusual station, I don't know what is!

Logged in Mckinney Texas with Grundig Sattelit 750

 

[jd]

Interesting catch; I'll have to try for that one too. WVVB is the former WERC (calls switched just a couple of months ago), which was a really good Top-40 station many years ago and a "sometimes" catch in the Dallas area. Their nighttime pattern is here: www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/305732-3908.pdf

 

[rtc]

Clear Channel/Birmingham decided to run their WERC-AM as a
rocker so they could put on a translator across town.

The idea was that WERC-FM would continue as a talker over the
same area...but it doesn't;they have lost (literally) some
listeners.

More here:

http://almediapage.blogspot.com/2011/01/vulcan-reappears-on-birmingham-radio.html

and here:

http://almediapage.blogspot.com/

The new lower power means they will lose some translator users.
(Maybe they will discover AM for the first time?)

 

[rtc]

WVVB tech info/history:

http://www.almediapage.info/profiles/wvvb.html