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"David Eduardo" wrote:

SNIP

Its changes in recent decades are still lamented by older
listeners, and I would appreciate knowing if any other clear
channels were held in the high regard, as an institution, that was
WCCO.

Nearly all are or were... WSB, WBZ, KDKA, WTAM, KMOX, KOA, KFI, WBAP,
WOAI, WGN, etc., were enormously influential in the era when for many
miles around there were scant few stations. Today, AM is irrelevant
for younger listeners and there has been such an increase in stations
that the need to listen to distant AMs is fairly limited.

I still do it. I listen to distant stations to hear programs that do
not air on local stations. I listen to KOGO almost every day or night.
Night time I listen to Bay area stations and KOH in Nevada on a regular
basis. For a while KABC was broadcasting that IBOC crap at night making
KOH unlistenable. Thankfully that stopped but I still can't listen to
them around sunset until that IBOC crap gets turned off for the night by
KABC.

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Telamon
Ventura, California