WFLN 900

[wibgradio99]

Found this going through my photos WFLN AM 900, in 1960, when they used the three tower array at 1kw daytime with a strict directional pattern on the 61st street curve in SW philly, now the signal has been changed quite alot.

 

[kenneykop]

The one thing I remember about WFLN was that they were an NBC radio affiliate and would broadcast the World Series when NBC radio had the rights. An eclectic mix of classical music and baseball!!!

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Thanks, wibgradio99 and Ken. On commutes through there in the late 80's I wondered who had those three sticks just off I-95. I'd always thought they were 1540's.
From old logbooks and coverage maps, all of which had WFLN as 'D-3', I'm gathering that the due south null is in deference to omni WJWL in the south of Delaware. They signed on in the early 50's ; WFLN a few years later.
Near JFK Airport in Queens even before sunset, WJWL could come in louder than WFLN was -- daily, I submit, if and when we'd ever tune in.
Again -- much appreciate that tower tip!

(Peculiar & maybe O/T note: The WJWL owners put on super-Top 40 WAMS several years after WJWL. WAMS was nearly impossible to hear up in Queens because their signal all went south. I heard 'em exactly once in all those years, with a few seconds of a gurgly 5:00 sign-on, when a fiendish cackle and flip of a switch from local WBNX NYC's sign-on neuralized them.)

 

[wibgradio99]

WFLN as 'D-3', I'm gathering that the due south null is in deference to omni WJWL in the south of Delaware...you are 110% correct.
Top 40 WAMS several years after WJWL. WAMS was nearly impossible to hear up in Queens because their signal all went south. again 110% correct a waste of 5kw daytime down the bay, now using the WILM tower and much less power omni the 1380 signal makes it into Philly whereas in the old days they never made it north of Chester, Why didnt Farley ever do this back then smh