WFAS 1230 go all digital

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

WFAS Sets Lineup For Its All-Digital Talk Flip - RadioInsight

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Here is the lineup for WFAS-AM

Positioning as “New Talk For New York”, WFAS will clear many syndicated talkers currently lacking clearances in the market. The station will carry “America In The Morning” hosted by John Trout from 6-7am and again from 8-9am. In between will be Michael Toscano’s “First Light” from 7-8am.

The bulk of the daytime lineup will feature programming from Cumulus’ Westwood One. The Chris Plante Show will air from 9am to 12pm. Don Bongino’s new 12-3pm show will debut with the station on Monday. Ben Shapiro, who currently airs in a split 5-6pm and 9-10pm slot on Salem’s “970 The Answer” WNYM Hackensack NJ, will gain a live 3-5pm clearance. The Michael Knowles Show will follow from 5 to 6pm.

 

[nd2023]

The big advantage of AM over FM is coverage. If a whole city is "silenced", nearby city FM's can't be heard but AMs from "over mountains" and across fairly big distances in the daytime can be heard. At night, AMs from hundreds of miles away can be easily heard.

I remember during Sandy the 1010 in Toronto acknowledged New York listeners and gave updates when 1010 WINS was off the air. That’s an advantage of AM radio

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

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Here is the start of WFAS new lineup.

 

[davideduardo]

I remember during Sandy the 1010 in Toronto acknowledged New York listeners and gave updates when 1010 WINS was off the air. That’s an advantage of AM radio

After Andrew, 690 in Jacksonville gave extensive coverage to South Florida.

in the past, they did the same, ot just for coastal FL but for GA and the Carolina coast.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

I was living in a NE Philly basement apartment in 1989, listening to what I'll always call 'The Big Ape' on 690 for coverage of Hurricane Hugo. They were just about as loud as the sandwich of WOR 710 and WFAN 660.
The radio was a great 'budget DX' rig -- a Lafayette HA 600 -- and there was not much water-path propagation involved (unless you count Chesapeake Bay, hi).
Hugo barged ashore in Charleston SC as a hurricane, and later surprised a second Charleston -- the improbable capitol of West Virginia -- as a tropical storm. Along that path, Hugo decided to knock off WBT 1110 Charlotte's audio, although the carrier was still there.
690 was, iIrc, WOKV at the time. And even though Hugo already had spared nail-biting Jacksonvillle, dutiful 690 continued keeping the states of GA and SC up to date with that big omni signal.

@ David : Since 'The Big Ape' ran 24 / 7 hours anyway, would they have been required to drop the commercials during those omni broadcast-emergency hours ? Even if they ran with their powered-down nighttime 25,000 watts ?