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WCAU/WOGL/WGMP/WPTS/WPHT is 90 years old

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Amazing that station has survived 22 years after WCAU-AM died.
 
Amazing how so? Its has the strongest AM signal in the market. One of the strongest on the east coast. Even with the decline of the AM band, of course 1210 is one of the ones who will survive to the end.
 
Given the years where they totally lost their sense of direction, particularly under Tom Bigby, it is amazing as Julius says.
 
One to One Radio In Philadelphia

From the city, TEnnyson 9-6790
From the suburbs, MOhawk 7-0500
From New Jersey WOodlawn 3-5909

Can we hear from you on 'CAU
 
thirdendorsed said:
One to One Radio In Philadelphia

From the city, TEnnyson 9-6790
From the suburbs, MOhawk 7-0500
From New Jersey WOodlawn 3-5909

Can we hear from you on 'CAU
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Huh? explain? Thanks...
 
Unlike other 50-clears in large cities, 1210 AM has a legacy of never really being a leading station, never #1 or perhaps even top 5, even in AM Radio's big years. The station suffered from corporate intervention from New York, as an O&O it carried everything the network created. The internal labor situation made WCAU an impossible station to get operated into the black. In what should have been a major victory, WCAU, a superior facility to 1060, failed miserably in its attempt to defeat KYW in the all news battle of 1974. Think WLW, think KGO, KFI, WSB, WHAM, WBAL, KDKA, WCCO, KOA, KOMO, WGN, WGY, WBZ. 1210 has never been in that class, and has never been important to the city as these other stations have....even with the Phillies.
 
True 1210 has never been the market leader, but I think it goes without question that 1210 will probably be one of the last 5 AM stations in Philly to survive before going dark in the distant future. Bad programing, lack of programing, Tom Bigby, whatever, there is no amazement the station has survived in some form.

I find the survival of 1340, & 1480 to be more amazing.
 
Irishfl said:
True 1210 has never been the market leader, but I think it goes without question that 1210 will probably be one of the last 5 AM stations in Philly to survive before going dark in the distant future. Bad programing, lack of programing, Tom Bigby, whatever, there is no amazement the station has survived in some form.
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One would expect a 50 kW nondirectional signal to be one of the last signals standing if we look at AM radio in an Agatha Christie sense ("and then there was one..."), regardless of format.

If there was a "pecking order" for Philadelphia AM based solely on audibility in the region, I would think that order would be KYW, WPHT, WNTP, WPEN - without regard for which formats are most viable today; my assumption is that signal strength, ultimately, wins the day...I rank KYW higher even though it's a directional signal since that directionality favors the NW suburbs...whereas I discount the fact that WPHT can be reasonably well-heard in NYC because no NYC advertiser would pay for the privilege.

Richard in Allentown
 
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