WNCI in Toledo

[steve82655]

I live in south Toledo and I was come back home from dropping my friend off turning on 97.9 to hear FM 98 wjlb free ride at 5 and do to the atmospheric conditions 97.9 wnci almost the whole way was causing interference from FM 98 all the way up here in Toledo!

 

[Buckeyes2001]

I remember being in Columbus one time back around 2000 and hearing both '101.5 the River's' (Toledo and Gallipolis) Wonder if anyone in Columbus was hearing Toledo stations like WIOT and WRVF today? Were you getting any other Columbus stations near Toledo like QFM 96?

 

[chrocket87]

No frickin' way! Hopefully I can still get it tomorrow, as I live in the west Toledo area.

 

[Thomas Blixa]

I remember living in Cincinnati way back in the 70's and on stormy, cloudy nights I was always usually able to pick up WNCI and WLVQ many times. These stations would fade in and out similar to listening to far away AM radio stations! But it was a treat none the less. On the flipside, When we moved to Columbus, I was sometimes able to pick up 1360 WSAI (back when they played top 40) and 55 WKRC!

 

[del_griffith]

I remember living in Cincinnati way back in the 70's and on stormy, cloudy nights I was always usually able to pick up WNCI and WLVQ many times. These stations would fade in and out similar to listening to far away AM radio stations! But it was a treat none the less. On the flipside, When we moved to Columbus, I was sometimes able to pick up 1360 WSAI (back when they played top 40) and 55 WKRC!

AM radios are so crappy now, it's impossible to listen to krc or sai. But even on nightime, on a good night you could still listen to krc.

 

[Nu_Roo_2]

I remember living in Cincinnati way back in the 70's and on stormy, cloudy nights I was always usually able to pick up WNCI and WLVQ many times. These stations would fade in and out similar to listening to far away AM radio stations! But it was a treat none the less. On the flipside, When we moved to Columbus, I was sometimes able to pick up 1360 WSAI (back when they played top 40) and 55 WKRC!

Same here in reverse. I was surprised at how clearly some Cincy FMs would come in here in Columbus at times, especially 94.1. I noticed that during rainy periods, but even more so (a) early morning, and (b) in the sunny periods following summer rain.

 

[steve82655]

I remember being in Columbus one time back around 2000 and hearing both '101.5 the River's' (Toledo and Gallipolis) Wonder if anyone in Columbus was hearing Toledo stations like WIOT and WRVF today? Were you getting any other Columbus stations near Toledo like QFM 96?

Wow the river and wiot in Columbus! No Q 96 FM but next time I will check when I can get WNCI! The only other 96.3 I've been able to receive in Toledo beside WDVD/Detroit is Wild 96.3 from Ft. Wayne.

 

[steve82655]

No frickin' way! Hopefully I can still get it tomorrow, as I live in the west Toledo area.

Almost every morning if I was to turn on 97.9 coming up the Anthony Wayne trail my car receiver will go back and forth from WJLB to WNCI as I was coming into downtown!

 

[schmave]

No frickin' way! Hopefully I can still get it tomorrow, as I live in the west Toledo area.

Almost every morning if I was to turn on 97.9 coming up the Anthony Wayne trail my car receiver will go back and forth from WJLB to WNCI as I was coming into downtown!

WNCI was the only Columbus FM I ever heard in Toledo when I was in college up there (1996-2000). I will add, however, that most of the FM stations I listened to - 94.5, 104.7, 101.1 mostly - did not share frequencies with Columbus, and the Detroit stations that did share, I rarely listened to.
The time I did hear WNCI was around 9:30 on a weekday morning as I headed to class at UT. I was driving through the nice neighborhood just north of campus and scanning the dial when I heard the Morning Zoo instead of WJLB. It was a neat surprise and made me just a bit homesick, even though I was never really a WNCI listener other than maybe a year or two in high school.

 

[chad43358]

Thursday and Friday I was pulling in 99.5 WGAR out of Cleveland, 104.1 WNKE out of Portsmouth (it was even interfering with 104.3, and I was 10 miles from 104.3's tower site) and 93.7 WDGG out of Huntington, West Virginia (wasn't as strong as 104.1.) 102.3 WFXN out of Galion was also getting interference from another station, not sure where from. Almost sounded like a "River" format, but wasn't sure.

 

[OhHiThere]

Keep in mind that back in the mid-80's this was nothing astonishing since WNCI at 175 Watts would ROLL across Ohio from high atop one nationwide blvd...I heard the station in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Michigan...before the dial was so crowded and there were so many different media signals to cloud frequencies...gosh I miss radio!

 

[Goldilocks94941]

Of course, you mean 175 KILO watts for WNCI. The strange thing with Toledo is it's + or - 50 miles away from a 50kw WJLB tarnsmitter on the same freq in Detroit, which usually comes in with a steady signal south past Bowling Green, like nearly all of the Detroit and Windsor FM stations do, or did, when the dial was more "orderly."

 

[Nu_Roo_2]

Of course, you mean 175 KILO watts for WNCI.

I remember when WNCI's top-of-the-hour sweeper was something like, "rolling across Ohio with 175 thousand watts of power.." I believe that was in the early 90s??

 

[schmave]

I remember that as well. I think it was in the early 90s.
I, too, remember when Detroit and Windsor FMs were an easy catch as far south as Bowling Green, namely 89X and 93.9. Nowadays, Lima's 93.9 has a say up in that area.

 

[Goldilocks94941]

Those 100kw Windsor FM transmitters are some 15 miles or so closer to Toledo (a bit southeast of Windsor in MacGregor - a rural crossroads across the river from Wyandotte, a bit inland from the CKLW-AM array). So they should be heard on a car radio at least to Findlay. Most of the sticks for the Detroit 50+ kw'ers are up in Southfield, closer to a straight northerly shot from Toledo.
But I believe WLJB on 97.9 was on a downtown Detroit skyscraper, since it really blasted across the dial along the riverfront. Is it still there? 93.9 used to be across from Detroit on Riverside Drive, when CKLW-TV had a riverfront tower long ago. It's now out in MacGregor, along with 89.9 and 88.7, too, unless that's changed recently.
It was nice to see how far those FMs, and 91.7 WUOM from a bit north of Ann Arbor (115 kw??), would travel on the flatlands of Northwest Ohio. The music choices and hosting on the local stations in Fremont and Findlay and Tiffin and Archbold and Sandusky could not match the caliber of these bigger ones from Windsor and metro Detroit. But it gave them something to aspire to.

 

[steve82655]

I remember that as well. I think it was in the early 90s.
I, too, remember when Detroit and Windsor FMs were an easy catch as far south as Bowling Green, namely 89X and 93.9. Nowadays, Lima's 93.9 has a say up in that area.

I'm glad you brought Lima's 93.9 up what's up with there signal I use to be able to pull Lima's 93.9 into just about Maumee,Oh. Now when I'm on state Route 24 I'm not able to pick Lima's 93.9 up past Grand Rapids,Oh. Did WBKS turn down there power? Also when did WBKS 93.9 come on the air?

 

[schmave]

I remember that as well. I think it was in the early 90s.
I, too, remember when Detroit and Windsor FMs were an easy catch as far south as Bowling Green, namely 89X and 93.9. Nowadays, Lima's 93.9 has a say up in that area.

I'm glad you brought Lima's 93.9 up what's up with there signal I use to be able to pull Lima's 93.9 into just about Maumee,Oh. Now when I'm on state Route 24 I'm not able to pick Lima's 93.9 up past Grand Rapids,Oh. Did WBKS turn down there power? Also when did WBKS 93.9 come on the air?

I couldn't help you there. The only 93.9 I've ever heard in Toledo proper is from Windsor. I haven't heard Lima's 93.9 until I get 20 miles south anyway.

 

[chrocket87]

93.9 Lima starts to cut into The River's signal once I get into Maumee, near the turnpike. Once I hit Perrysburg, it's just a bunch of fuzzy Hot AC on 93.9.