What AM Stations Are Left On LI?

[wgliradio]

I would go out to Riverhead myself, but gas still ins't a bargain right now. I'll bring this up with the GM and CE when I see them next. At least the web feed is on (http://www.wfturadio.com).

When Five Town's College first acquired WFTU (the WRHD) I spent a few months out there getting things squared away. I left the project in June of 2002. I know there was vandalism, issues with power and the STL. They were trying this system from Energy Onix which was an early "streaming" system to get the audio out there as broadband connectivity wasn't possible.

Since then, the site around the towers has been plowed under and a new road with a bank has been built. If there is a bank there, broadband connectivity is possible and a proper STL shouldn't be an issue.

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

WFTU/1570, licensed to Five Towns College, is not off the air (even if they have transmitter issues at times). I know because I attend school there and I host a program on WFTU (Fridays from 2 to 4 PM, btw, if you're interested).

As of my last trip to Riverhead, AM 1570 remains dark. What you do is host a program on the web-stream.

 

[Neal]

Hope all had a good july 4th..
I spent the day with a great crew digging a trench and Placing into the ground the new cables to Build the new WNYG…
The New ATU Boxes should arrive today, and I will spend monday repairing the Ground System at the site.
I am hoping that in the Next week or 2 WNYG will return to the air from its new location In Medford, NY wish I could Post Post Photos of the Build here.
will build studios later this week.

 

[WA0URJ]

WNYG

Anyone have a contact name or phone number for new owners ?

 

[WPHA]

Medford, NY wish I could Post Post Photos of the Build here.
will build studios later this week.

Get on Facebook, and post to your heart's content! (Or use Flickr)

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Hey, RadioGuy39NJ-- I've just joined Radio-Info... Yes, I remember WGBB 1240 during it's heyday in the 60s! My friend Joe represented our high school, Plainedge, on their Friday evening High School report.

Interestingly, WGBB billed itself back then as "THE ALL NEW WGBB!", but the station was anything but new--it had been around since the early 50's. The only thing new was it's flip to TOP 40. But the "ALL NEW..." promo was explosively successful, pulling in new baby-boomer listeners from NYC stations, truly believing WGBB was a new LI radio station. But their night power sucked-- could barely hear them in Babylon or Hempstead after dark.

I myself left LI after graduating in '69, and broke into radio & TV in New Mexico and West Texas. On a visit home back in '70, I heard WGBB's Dave Johnson ask on the air, "Wonder what those names in parenthesis mean on these 45-RPM records?" I stopped what I was doing and called in, explaining to Dave off the air how the 1st name was of the song's lyricist, the 2nd name was the music writer. Dave returned live after the commercial break, repeating everything I said, word for word, even mentioning my name! I was thrilled!

 

[kc1ih]

Hell, I was in East Rockaway and I had trouble hearing WGBB at night, and that was on a communications receiver with a 40’ wire antenna.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Lol, Keith ..... Yet, WGBB used to blast into Canarsie, each and every night on sheer water-path. Inland, they'd start to get chewed up at (I show my age) the Valley Stream toll booth, but from Canarsie Pier The Vieser used to get requests.

@ Dave Williams : In one form or another, six Long Island AM radio signals have made it here to NE PA since I moved in. With no special equipment : WLIM, WHLI, WTHE, and WNYH were sunset catches ; WLIE and WNYG were nighttime. I doubt I'll ever ID WGBB, and WRIV plus WFTU are too far. *Maybe* WALK 1370 will arrive one sunrise when they power up.

But all those loggings were spawned by DX instincts, not average-listener tune in.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Well I'll eat my hat and S*** a bandana! I forgot all about Dave Vieser! Thanks for ringing the bell on that precious time in the '60s.

Wonder what those WGBB guys are doing now. I fondly remember those summer nights, cruising Sunrise Highway, Hempstead Tpk, and the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway in between (more-or-less), listening to the perfectly balanced reverb sound of WGBB, pounding away on my AM Radio speakers. On Friday nights, groupies would gather in the WGBB studios parking lot, across from the Long Island Railroad Bellmore station, although the station was billed as being located in Freeport, possibly the sight of their antenna.

WGBB shared a simulcast with the much weaker sounding, EZ listening station WGSM 740-AM, in Huntington's Walt Whitman mall. They each carried Long Island Network Newscasts, top & bottom of the hour, followed by the weather report delivered by real meteorologists. Barbara Allen was one of them. I think nationally acclaimed Meteorologist Joe Bastardi did some time there too. The weather report logo was a haunting musical bite taken from the movie, "The Ipcriss Papers".

Thanks again for the memories!

PS: If anyone reading this thread worked @ WGSM back in the 60's & 70's, you might remember an engineer named Larry Baum. Larry was a classmate of mine at Plainedge High School, graduating in 1969. Larry passed away in Arizon a couple years ago.