WBWD Long Island 540 Found Missing

[Steve Green NEPA]

Monday the 19th here mid-morning, and eMails from some East Coast DXers suggest that WBWD 540 from Islip is off the air and that Tine In says the station stream is 'unavailable'.
This station, formerly WLIX, is an East Coast 'thing', even at night, so its sudden absence might be of minimal interest for many. But ya never know.

 

[Weiserguy]

This station has never been anything worth discussing, programming-wise, for as long as I can remember. The only point of interest is that ultra-low spot on the dial -- if it were any further south, they'd be ship-to-shore. But that got their signal out a ways, even in the era (the 60's and 70's?) when they barely had flea power. Given it's Juneteenth, could be the owners decided to emancipate the electrons.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@Weiserguy
As Beautiful Music WLIX, they were my first-time / full-time radio gig as a kid.
Big news department for a daytimer ..... Kenn Bell, Warren Greene, Bob Gleason, and sometimes, well, me.
And as you mention, at theor 250 watts, what a signal. On my first-ever paid vacation (from them) en route to Florida to see some Long Island friends, I caught WLIX via the car radio on the 'up' span of the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
But the staunch FM Stations such as WTFM, WRFM and -- the final straw, local WCTO (WGSM-FM) -- finally popped the balloon. Long Island merchants and businesses were starting to construct higher elevator buildings so demos could listen longer.