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New York's WABC-AM (770 kHz) will sound different next Monday, Memorial Day,
between 6am and 6pm local time (1000-2200 UTC). The station will present its
annual "Rewound" special, 12 complete hours of original programming from the
60's and 70's when WABC was America's, and the world's, number one Top 40
station.

It was awesome! Wish I could have heard it over the air but since
I'm in Houston I have to settle for Internet reception. What I heard
was great....It's the type of format that got me interested in radio to
begin with.
I remember listening to Harry Harrison on the rare occasion my
family traveled to New York. I couldn't name the other jocks, but I
could occasionally pull in WABC on my transistor radio...It was usually
overpowered by 760 WJR.
Thanks to Johnny Donovan and crew for putting it together and thanks
to WABC for putting it on the air.

I wish WLS and CKLW would do something similar.
These were the two big-time signals I listened to growing up in
Dayton Ohio (along with local favorites WONE (before it switched to MOR
then Country now MYOL-type clone), WING (before switch to sports) and
WTUE (in its top 40-days before AOR).
As I recall WTUE was automated during the day and simulcast with the
WONE-am top-40 at night. Dave Michaels then did nights before it
switched to live top 40 and WONE-am switched to MOR for a very short
period of time..then Country.

WONE Jocks I remember: Tom Campbell (nights) (My all-time
favorite), and Dave Dayton (mid-days?) Johnny Midnight (you guess the
time slot).

WING Jock: Steve Kirk (am drive) (couldn't stand him but he was
around forever)

WTUE Jocks: Gregg Mason (am-drive with Phil Easily doing news)
(Mason is my second-favorite "local" jock -- now doing country in
Dallas), Dave Michaels (nights). Corny promo---"50-thousand watts of
stereo music power-power-power" -- with power alternating between right
and left channels)

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Paul Van House wrote in message ...
Thanks to Johnny Donovan and crew for putting it together and thanks
to WABC for putting it on the air.

I wish WLS and CKLW would do something similar.

WLS tried their own Rewound a couple of years ago--if chi.media was
any gauge (and I hope to God it's not), the current audience didn't
appreciate it, so they haven't done it since.

(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
Rose___ wrote:

I don't suppose this means you can get this show over the web...I'm
going to have trouble pulling this in from 120 miles away, as I'll be
away....

Why? WABC is clear channel. Comes in very well here in Virginia, also
comes in well up in Boston. Occasionally subject to interference from
one of the Cuban stations but generally an easy catch on your car radio
on most of the east coast at night.
--scott

You're right, I was able to get it in on a tiny sangean portable,
though not with the quality I would have had at home...I'm not
complaining though, just wishing there were a Tivo for radio....

Rosemary

I once wrote the WLS PD about the idea that the station broadcast their 70s
music on Saturday evenings. I never got a reply.

I still think it would be a good idea though.

(Mark Jeffries) wrote in
:

Paul Van House wrote in message
...
Thanks to Johnny Donovan and crew for putting it together and
thanks
to WABC for putting it on the air.

I wish WLS and CKLW would do something similar.

WLS tried their own Rewound a couple of years ago--if chi.media was
any gauge (and I hope to God it's not), the current audience didn't
appreciate it, so they haven't done it since.


Over on alt.binaries.sounds.78rpm-era there are a few WLS Barn Dance mp3
files for downloading. Really fun to listen to.

Larry

(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
Rose___ wrote:

I don't suppose this means you can get this show over the web...I'm
going to have trouble pulling this in from 120 miles away, as I'll be
away....

Why? WABC is clear channel. Comes in very well here in Virginia, also
comes in well up in Boston. Occasionally subject to interference from
one of the Cuban stations but generally an easy catch on your car radio
on most of the east coast at night.
--scott

Clear channel stations have a 'gap' in coverage at night. I was in
Atlantic City, NJ a few weeks ago and noticed NYC stations come in
lousy at night. The same stations come in much better in, say,
Baltimore, which is further away.

Here's why: An AM station at night has a 'ground wave' signal. This
is the strong local signal you get near the antenna source. There is
also the distant-reception 'skywave' signal. This is from the signal
bouncing off the upper atmosphere and coming back down to the ground.

There is a doughnut-shaped gap in between these 2. The skywave signal
has to go into the upper atmosphere and bounce down. Even at the most
severe angle possible, the skywave signal doesn't come into play until
you are a certain distance from the antenna source (not enough of an
expert to know what this distance is, but you get the idea).

So, from where the ground-wave local signal fades out, to where the
skywave signal first shows up, is the gap, with poor reception of the
station's signal. Clearly Atlantic City, NJ, is in the gap for NYC
clear channels.

I live in Columbia, SC, and can barely get WBT (Charlotte, 70 miles
away) at night. Go around 100 miles or so further south and it comes
in pretty well (when I lived in south Florida I used to get it
regularly). Same principle in action.

Of course other posters have pointed out that this show was broadcast
during the day, so this is irrelevant (but interesting info, IMHO).

"Bobby" wrote in message
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So, from where the ground-wave local signal fades out, to where the
skywave signal first shows up, is the gap, with poor reception of the
station's signal. Clearly Atlantic City, NJ, is in the gap for NYC
clear channels.

Not exactly true. The "gap" is actually the cancellation zone where the
skywave and the groundwave come in, but at enough of a time difference to
cause effects commonly thought of as fading, fluttering, etc.

In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:

"Bobby" wrote in message
...

So, from where the ground-wave local signal fades out, to where the
skywave signal first shows up, is the gap, with poor reception of the
station's signal. Clearly Atlantic City, NJ, is in the gap for NYC
clear channels.

Not exactly true. The "gap" is actually the cancellation zone where the
skywave and the groundwave come in, but at enough of a time difference to
cause effects commonly thought of as fading, fluttering, etc.

And, of course, the gap shifts in position and shape during the night
as the D and F layers rise and fall.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On 7 Jun 2004 23:24:53 GMT, (Bobby) wrote:

Clear channel stations have a 'gap' in coverage at night. I was in
Atlantic City, NJ a few weeks ago and noticed NYC stations come in
lousy at night. The same stations come in much better in, say,
Baltimore, which is further away.

There are no clear channel stations, anymore. However, your
explanation of skywaves vs. ground is a good one.

Rich