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Channel 8 in Columbus is kind of a trick question ... that would have been W08BV in the old days, and now religious WGCT. The station is so weak that it can barely be picked up outside downtown (why it exists, who knows). I grew up about 10 miles east of downtown Columbus and conditions had to be absolutely right to get W08BV on my old seven-inch TV (talking early 90s). At best, it was static and you could barely hear or see anything.
You'd have to have an awesome antenna to pick up WJW or WISH. Our cable company had some antennas placed high up to bring in network programming from other cities when it was pre-empted on the local affiliates, and I think they used WJW once for CBS. Almost always, it was WHIO from Dayton.
You'd have to have an awesome antenna to pick up WJW or WISH. Our cable company had some antennas placed high up to bring in network programming from other cities when it was pre-empted on the local affiliates, and I think they used WJW once for CBS. Almost always, it was WHIO from Dayton.
I checked this on Friday. WAVC had been silent for a few weeks, but signed back on last week. WAVC dominates in the city itself and to the east, but I also got WNBY Newberry (on Grand Traverse Bay; would likely dominate on the Old Mission Peninsula) and WDOR Sturgeon Bay, WI (south and west on top of hills; Traverse City is in a bowl).crainbebo said:
Next one: 98.7 MHz in Charlevoix, MI
crainbebo said:
I don't think so. I never got to watch the channel (other than the experience I described above), but I remember seeing a bunch of 50s and 60s sitcoms listed in the Dispatch's TV listings. Basically what MeTV shows today. At the time, I'd never heard of most of those shows.
Looks like they aired public-domain movies and very old public-domain cartoons. Probably public-domain sitcoms from the 1950s ("I Married Joan", "Life with Elizabeth", etc) as well.
Then it says they switched to UATV (Urban American TV) in the early 2000s and now is religious. LPTV at it's *finest*!
-crainbebo
Then it says they switched to UATV (Urban American TV) in the early 2000s and now is religious. LPTV at it's *finest*!
-crainbebo
When I was living in Columbus, my first year at OSU in the fall of 1998, I remember channel 8 being WINJ and showed old black and white movies. I lived on the 12th floor of a highrise on Lane Ave and I could get the station but it was rather snowy on a TV with rabbit ears. I have also gotten WJW a few times during tropo from the north and I think I had Indianapolis once but it was too snowy to tell.
98.7 MHz in Charlevoix, MI:
On cheaper radios, it would just be splatter from WKLZ 98.9. On DSP radios, 98.7 might just be the occasional CBCB/Owen Sound, ON at over 200 miles away. WGLI/Hancock, MI and WDZH/Detroit could also fade in here and there. All of the other 98.7s appear to be too weak and too far away to show up there unless there's a good tropo opening.
If WKLZ is using I-BLOCK then forget about it lol.
On cheaper radios, it would just be splatter from WKLZ 98.9. On DSP radios, 98.7 might just be the occasional CBCB/Owen Sound, ON at over 200 miles away. WGLI/Hancock, MI and WDZH/Detroit could also fade in here and there. All of the other 98.7s appear to be too weak and too far away to show up there unless there's a good tropo opening.
If WKLZ is using I-BLOCK then forget about it lol.
WKLZ doesn't run I-BLOC. The only station in that part of the state that runs I-BLOC is 103.9 WCMW. I do know in TC on Friday I pulled in a very weak WLDN. There may have been some tropo, however. I did get CBCB once in Manistee. Before WLDN signed on, 98.7 used to be one of the most open frequencies there (WMDC Mayville WI showed up occasionally).Buckeyes2001 said:
Next one: 97.7 MHz in Milwaukee, WI
97.7 MHz in Milwaukee, WI:
Probably mostly a fuzzy WFDL/Lomira, WI. Get too close to WRNW 97.3 and 97.7 could get drowned out by their I-BLOCK. WGLR may occasionally show up in WFDL's null. Temperature inversions over Lake Michigan probably would bring in WMLQ/Manistee, MI.
Probably mostly a fuzzy WFDL/Lomira, WI. Get too close to WRNW 97.3 and 97.7 could get drowned out by their I-BLOCK. WGLR may occasionally show up in WFDL's null. Temperature inversions over Lake Michigan probably would bring in WMLQ/Manistee, MI.
I've never been to Milwaukee, but I think WFDL and WMLQ would fight it out, with WFDL being better in the western suburbs and WMLQ being better on the coast. WGLR MAY come in in the far western suburbs.
On a side note: I did get WFDL (and then-WSRG) in Manistee when WMLQ was off for a few days a few years ago.
New frequencies: 93.9, 95.5, 96.3, 98.7, 100.3, 101.1, 101.9, 103.5, 105.1, 105.9, 106.7, and 107.5 in Port Austin, MI (basically any frequency with stations in Detroit and in Northern Michigan)
On a side note: I did get WFDL (and then-WSRG) in Manistee when WMLQ was off for a few days a few years ago.
New frequencies: 93.9, 95.5, 96.3, 98.7, 100.3, 101.1, 101.9, 103.5, 105.1, 105.9, 106.7, and 107.5 in Port Austin, MI (basically any frequency with stations in Detroit and in Northern Michigan)
96.3 MHz in Port Austin, MI:
WLXT/Petoskey, MI probably most common with WDVD/Detroit. CFMX-1/Toronto also could make occasional appearances. I caught them here in Vermilion, OH actually very briefly playing classical music one time.
WLXT/Petoskey, MI probably most common with WDVD/Detroit. CFMX-1/Toronto also could make occasional appearances. I caught them here in Vermilion, OH actually very briefly playing classical music one time.
ftballfan said:
Probably nothing in the middle of the day except maybe in winter where WTOR/Youngstown, NY or KUOM/Minneapolis or even WABC might show up. Critical hours probably WVNN/Athens, AL, WTOR, and WABC with all WABC at night with varying amounts of I-BLOCK hash from WBBM.
103.5 MHz in Medford, WI:
Probably very weak signals alternating from:
KNEI/Waukon, IA
KYSM/Mankato, MN
WTCM/Traverse City, MI
Probably very weak signals alternating from:
KNEI/Waukon, IA
KYSM/Mankato, MN
WTCM/Traverse City, MI
Next one:
760 kHz in Key West, FL
760 kHz in Key West, FL
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