WBZ in Canyon Lake, Texas

[dlf1]

I was running an errand in my truck and pulled in WBZ from Boston. I have received them in Galveston, but not out here in Canyon Lake until now.

 

[crainbebo]

Nicely done! WBZ has been heard in WA in recent years but I have never heard them.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

I heard them a few times in SE Wyoming, just 115 or so miles form KTWO... i was right about or close to their night time null and add to the fact i was at the right place under the right conditions for groundwave and skywave to cancel themselves out

 

[Mediafrog+]

I remember hearing Boston Bruins hockey on WBZ when I was living in Austin in the early 1970s. Had to null out the co-channel in Mexico City to get a clean signal…this was years before the other U.S. nighttime 1030s went on the air. Oddly it was easier to hear WBZ than any of the somewhat closer NYC clear channels.

 

[Gregg.]

WBZ is one of the two Class I-A clear channel stations with a directional antenna, the other being 870 WWL New Orleans. They weren't required to have a DA but they did it to put a better signal over their population centers. In WBZ's case, it goes west from Hull, Massachusetts.

So that might be why WBZ gets picked up in places like Texas easier than the other Northeast non-directional clear channel stations (660, 770, 810, 880, 1180 and 1210).

In 1968, as the FCC reduced protections for clear channel stations, KTWO Casper was given permission to move to 1030 at 50,000 watts, directional at night to null away from Boston. Before then, in the 50 states and Canada, there was nobody on 1030 at night. Only a daytimer in Corpus Christi. Puerto Rico has a 10,000 watt station on 1030 and Mexico City has a station running 5,000 watts at night.

 

[wildthangjim]

Great catch. I’ve heard WBZ a couple of times in Houston, but it’s tough, fighting Mexico City, KFAY, sometimes KTWO, and various others.

Back in 2018 WBZ was the strongest US station around sunset at our beach resort in Costa Rica.