Your Worst NSP Local 'Back Then' ?

[Steve Green NEPA]

Sorry for the slang for those who perhaps aren't familiar with it. 'NSP' was DX-ese for No silent Period. That programming strategy has gotta be a rarity in modern times.
There were many, many full-time stations who used to sign off late Sunday night, and some used to be off in the wee hours following a Saturday night.

But there were some 24/7 stations who refused to go off and give their tubes a rest, 'nuff said, unless they were forced to shut down for reasons other than civility toward DXers. They wouldn't turn it off once a month.

In the DXing days near JFK Airport in Queens, the most accommodating DX-friendly stations were -- in reverse dial order -- WWRL, WQXR, WHOM 1480, WNJR 1430, WBNX 1380, WEVD/WPOW 1330, WADO 1280, WHN 1050, WJRZ 970, even WCBS 880* (before they went all-news), WABC, WOR 710, WNBC 660 and WVNJ 620. One could DX in the five actual boroughs and find one of those local frequencies vacant.

The most stubborn and worst, however, were WMCA 570, WNEW 1130, and WPAT 930.
They stayed on. Forever. WPAT was sort of okay; they were so easily nulled that we could dim the lights in their studios in the DAYTIME. But during the few, rare instances whenever WMCA and WNEW were off, the DX grapevine hotline went into action.

Of course, in recent times, every peanut-whistle licensed has to have a lip flapping 24/7/365 or else they figure all revenue is lost.

But what were your local NSP's? Your never-stops-pushing's ?

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When WCBS 880 was off one weekend overnight, I got to log the BBC on 881 and the English-language/Beautiful Music WHOA from Puerto Rico on 870.

 

[charlestondxman]

Our locals very rarely sign off now. WOKE 1340 in Charleston used to sign off at 12-1am as late as the early 1990s, and sign on at 4:55am. I was too young to remember anything about the station, except that they had a storefront studio in the West Ashley part of Charleston. Now it is a insurance office.

 

[radioman148]

I grew up in the Chicago area. From what I remember most of the 50W stations signed off on Monday mornings just after midnight Sunday. The exception was WGN which signed off the next day, (Tuesday morning).
I remember waiting for 670, then WMAQ to sign off so I could catch KNBR. From what I remember 560 WIND didn't sign off regularly, but the few times I caught them off the air I heard Denver underneath. There might have been a few others that didn't signoff regularly that I can't remember.

 

[cyberdad]

My memory of "NSP" in the Chicago area was WGN. I wasn't into Monday morning DX during my high school days when I first got into DX. By the time I got into the Monday morning thing, at college in Iowa, I was basically out of range of WIND, but WGN was the only Chicago "blowtorch" that stayed on. At that point, KOMA was my regular Sunday night listen. They signed off at 2AM on Monday mornings, and sometimes WKBW would be in....faint, but audible, all by itself.

WGN-TV was also the closest thing to NSP for Chicago TV stations. It wasn't quite 24 hours, but generally was on until after 3am, then came back on a couple of hours later.

 

[gr8oldies]

I grew up in a small town about 50 miles SE of Fort Wayne, and our local daytimer of course, signed off. WOWO was the strongest station on my dial, and it faithfully signed off at 1:05am (2:05 in Ohio and Michigan...some times of the year) through at least the mid 70s if not later. I'm not sure WLW had a regular silent period