WLIE 540 AM

[robotique]

this station was booming in during my commute around 8:30 today and its still booming in now at 13:30 in Watertown!

wow

punjab pop!

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I picked up WLIB-AM 1190 in Noo Yawk right below WXKS-AM 1200 this morning. WADO-AM 1280 in the same ciudad was blitzing WPKS-AM 1280 as late as 11:00 am. The sun is very low in the sky right now (although the sunsets are getting noticeably later).

 

[Time Traveler]

I picked up WLIB-AM 1190 in Noo Yawk right below WXKS-AM 1200 this morning. WADO-AM 1280 in the same ciudad was blitzing WPKS-AM 1280 as late as 11:00 am. The sun is very low in the sky right now (although the sunsets are getting noticeably later).

I remember back around 1970 when I used to regularly listen to Top 40 formatted WEIM (WPKZ) that WADO was always at least faintly audible after sunset in the Leominster area under WEIM and would always blast in after WEIM would sign off at 1:00 AM...

 

[raccoonradio]

I've picked it up before, maybe not as well though. Sometimes with the early sunsets etc. you can pick up stations like that from a good distance. Other examples include the 1520 from Greenfield
(WIZZ) before Buffalo's WWKB starts to come in, and the 1100 from Long Island before WTAM
starts to come in

Same with WADO--you might be able to pick up what is now WPKZ but sooner or later
WADO (carry the Mets in Spanish I think) would come in, late afternoon

 

[DanStrassberg]

I've picked it up before, maybe not as well though. Sometimes with the early sunsets etc. you can pick up stations like that from a good distance. Other examples include the 1520 from Greenfield
(WIZZ) before Buffalo's WWKB starts to come in, and the 1100 from Long Island before WTAM
starts to come in

Same with WADO--you might be able to pick up what is now WPKZ but sooner or later
WADO (carry the Mets in Spanish I think) would come in, late afternoon

Best shot at WADO is just before New York sunset--after WPKZ drops power but before WADO does. WADO is 50 kW-D and IIRC, 7.2 kW-N. Both patterns favor the southeast (that is, Nassau County mainly).

WLIE holds a CP to increase its day power to 10 kW. It is licensed to 2.5 kW-D. The 2.5 kW and 10 kW patterns are similar, Both patterns are broad modified cardioids centered--more or less--to the north. So after the power increase, WLIE should be quite strong up here after sunrise and before sunset. I have no idea whether the 10 kW has been built out but presumably, Principle intends to build it; they paid $14 million for the station. A good chunk of that must have been in anticipation of the daytime signal improvement. Of course, most stations on 540 have killer daytime signals and WLIE is no exception. It was a killer even at 250W.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I've picked it up before, maybe not as well though. Sometimes with the early sunsets etc. you can pick up stations like that from a good distance. Other examples include the 1520 from Greenfield
(WIZZ) before Buffalo's WWKB starts to come in, and the 1100 from Long Island before WTAM
starts to come in

Same with WADO--you might be able to pick up what is now WPKZ but sooner or later
WADO (carry the Mets in Spanish I think) would come in, late afternoon

You can also hear WIZZ on the internets because WIZZ offers STREAMING audio; as far as I can tell, WHIZ-AM in Zanesville, OH doesn't offer STREAMING audio.

 

[JIBGUY]

WIZZ-1520 is a regular in the winter, during the DAYTIME (usually 9 AM to 2 PM when KB isn't there), every day, on the coast of Maine.

 

[DG02816]

Propagation must be terrific for WLIE to make it to MA. It helps that 550 in Pawtucket is silent. I can remember hearing the-then WLIX/WLUX decently on a car radio at night in RI with 220 watts at night, ND. I could listen at home with a 4' spiral loop, which brought the signal up to armchair levels, with CJSB and XEWA duking it out underneath. WIZZ was never heard in RI at all; I'd hear some skywave from WKBW. Evening critical hours would bring in KB, with its 50 kW being slammed around by the 2000 kW from the Saudi monster just 1 kHz higher. The 1 k heterodyne is so loud it makes Buffalo unreadable some nights.

 

[MarcB]

Same with WADO--you might be able to pick up what is now WPKZ but sooner or later
WADO (carry the Mets in Spanish I think) would come in, late afternoon

WADO had the Mets until this year. Then they took the Yankees from sister station La Que Buena WQBU 92.7 Garden City, Long Island. WQBU got the Mets. The reasoning is that WQBU's signal is better in areas where there are more Mets fans than Yankees fans.

Kind of interesting that baseball is on a Regional Mexican formatted station (WQBU). WADO is Spanish News/Talk. Then again I guess it's no stranger than when The Yankees Spanish language broadcasts were on WNSW 1430 which is Spanish Christian formatted radio station.

 

[robotique]

tell me if this sounds weird...

i emailed WLIE with a question about identifying a specific song. I had the exact time it played but they asked me to describe it to track it down. Arn't they required to have a log?

 

[Deleted User]

no

 

[robotique]

oooooooooh i thought music stations had to have a log to track royalties and charting?

 

[pqgeorge]

oooooooooh i thought music stations had to have a log to track royalties and charting?

That's only if they stream (metadata). Generally, you only have to do music logs once a year for a three day period (BMI). Most stations pay a blanket license (w/ASCAP, BMI and SESAC) based upon market size and station income. Non-comms have a similar rate structure. However, for the most part, with technology and automation being the way it is today, logging of songs can be done rather easily with a small app.

 

[beantownradio25]

Yes, most somewhat new automation programs do it for you. I know our automation does so.