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WKSU history stumper - on 730 AM in 1967?

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dannykewl

Maybe some of the NE Ohio radio history buffs can chime in on this one. This one completely stumps me:

http://las-solanas.com/arsa/surveys_item.php?svid=15662

The above link goes to a site with old Top 40 music surveys, and I grew up with listening to 60's radio and tunes in Cleveland as well as doing a lot of DX'ing from about age 8 or so! (About 1962 on).

The linked page gives a WKSU 730 AM Top 40 survey from October of 1967. I do not remember any station from Kent on 730. I do remember CHYR from Leamington, ON, on that freq, at that time, in fact CHYR was on 710 during of the day, and 730 at night (with increased power). I may have the day and night frq's switched, a long time ago. I remember they were Top 40.

Could WKSU 730 have been carrier current or very low power? Then again, living in Garfield Hts. at the time, maybe I just couldn't receive it. I went to WKSU's site, their history page, as well as WKSU on Wikipedia, as well as a Google search, no mention of WKSU on 730.
 
Firebird said:
I went to Kent State in the 80's and there was a current carrier station on 730. It was known as WKSR and it was a student run station. The station could only be heard on campus.
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Thanks Firebird, guess that wasn't too hard to get an answer to. If it was c.c. in the 80's on 730, then I'm sure it was so in the 60's. Just strange it isn't mentioned anywhere in WKSU's historical documentation that I could find. One of the articles did mention a c.c. broadcast about 1950, but they were talking, that I gathered about FM, and they never stated anything about AM explicitly. I'm sure music surveys from 730 at that time are pretty rare as one was pictured on the ARSA website that I linked.
 
Danny...Thanks for reminding me of CHYR in Leamington. You're correct that it was on 710 (as CHIR) during the day, then switched to 730 (as CHYR) from sunset until sunrise. However, the daytime power was 10,000 watts, and nights was only 250 or 500 watts, but highly directional, with a lobe directly over Cleveland.
 
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