It must have been a real hoot back in the day for people walking down Northampton St in Easton and seeing the DJ at the window spinning the hits, Then they mostly went satellite. People may have seen Terry Richline in the 90's and early 2000s, but eventually it all came to end. What did WEST turn into?
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It was in Queens NYC near Jfk Airport in 1963 (years before 'Oh What A Night' 
) when the overnight AM dial was clear and wide open. Some here will remember even more elbow room to listen for stations in between the stations.
Especially early Monday Mornings, the first day of the school week. It was customary -- even convenient -- to set the tinny clock radio for 3:30AM..... retire to the basement where the big console Zenith got stowed ..... see which, if any, of the 18 NYC locals were off ..... spin some dial looking for a few 'newies' ..... wait for the 5:00 dragonade of 'Star Spangled Banners' to unleash wake up ...... and then sneak back to the sack. One could always compensate for any missing sleep by snoozing in church, in assembly, on the bus.
One faint beacon of sorts was 'Radio 14'. Their overnight guy played mild, filler, nothing music like The Four Freshmen, Kirby Stone Four, Pete King Chorale, that unforgettable duo who didn't even sing in harmony, and the like. One of the DXing crew actually ID'ed this wee, ghost-like but steady 'Radio 14' as WEST. With little else on, it was probably groundwave all the way east 70 miles to us. Most likely had more listeners in Queens than in Easton (and a higher TSL, too, what with the hours spent waiting for the guy to say anything besides 'Radio 14').
In subsequent years came the tsunami of graveyard all-nighters -- WWIN Baltimore, WKDA and WROV on 1240, WCOL 1230, WPOR 1490, WENZ and WOL 1450 -- and WEST was never heard again.
Oddly, Easton's crosstown 'graveyard' rival WEEX 1230 could be heard halfway across NJ in the DAY.
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) when the overnight AM dial was clear and wide open. Some here will remember even more elbow room to listen for stations in between the stations.Especially early Monday Mornings, the first day of the school week. It was customary -- even convenient -- to set the tinny clock radio for 3:30AM..... retire to the basement where the big console Zenith got stowed ..... see which, if any, of the 18 NYC locals were off ..... spin some dial looking for a few 'newies' ..... wait for the 5:00 dragonade of 'Star Spangled Banners' to unleash wake up ...... and then sneak back to the sack. One could always compensate for any missing sleep by snoozing in church, in assembly, on the bus.
One faint beacon of sorts was 'Radio 14'. Their overnight guy played mild, filler, nothing music like The Four Freshmen, Kirby Stone Four, Pete King Chorale, that unforgettable duo who didn't even sing in harmony, and the like. One of the DXing crew actually ID'ed this wee, ghost-like but steady 'Radio 14' as WEST. With little else on, it was probably groundwave all the way east 70 miles to us. Most likely had more listeners in Queens than in Easton (and a higher TSL, too, what with the hours spent waiting for the guy to say anything besides 'Radio 14').
In subsequent years came the tsunami of graveyard all-nighters -- WWIN Baltimore, WKDA and WROV on 1240, WCOL 1230, WPOR 1490, WENZ and WOL 1450 -- and WEST was never heard again.
Oddly, Easton's crosstown 'graveyard' rival WEEX 1230 could be heard halfway across NJ in the DAY.
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Citadel only owned WEST from 1995 to 1997. It came along with then-sister-station 100.7 WLEV, which is what they really wanted to buy.
Since 2010 it has had an FM translator (99.5 W258BM), and is now hip-hop station "Loud Radio", simulcast in Allentown on 1600 WHOL and its FM translator 106.9 W295CR, and in Reading on 1240 WRLD and 98.5 W253CK. Of course the AM frequencies are not promoted on-air.
Since 2010 it has had an FM translator (99.5 W258BM), and is now hip-hop station "Loud Radio", simulcast in Allentown on 1600 WHOL and its FM translator 106.9 W295CR, and in Reading on 1240 WRLD and 98.5 W253CK. Of course the AM frequencies are not promoted on-air.
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