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David Eduardo wrote:
"David Marston" wrote in message
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Don't forget Canada! Here in New Hampshire, I get oldies at night on a few
clear-channel AM stations, mainly from Canada. You might be able to get
740 (CKWO) where you are.

That station is not oldies, it is nostalgia/standards. Very different
formats.

I don't agree with "very different" but let's assume that he doesn't like
their format. Still, I think he should scan the dial for what he likes.
I get oldies on that new station on 720 (CHTN), but he'll probably get
WGN. Conversely, he may get stations from the Western Provinces that
don't reach here.
--
.................David Marston at MV

"David Marston" wrote in message
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In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:
"David Marston" wrote in message
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Don't forget Canada! Here in New Hampshire, I get oldies at night on a
few
clear-channel AM stations, mainly from Canada. You might be able to get
740 (CKWO) where you are.

That station is not oldies, it is nostalgia/standards. Very different
formats.

I don't agree with "very different" but let's assume that he doesn't like
their format. Still, I think he should scan the dial for what he likes.
I get oldies on that new station on 720 (CHTN),

New? CHTN has been on the air for decades, and protects WGN.

but he'll probably get
WGN. Conversely, he may get stations from the Western Provinces that
don't reach here.

CHTN, now that 1190 is off the air, is the DXers best shot at PEI. It has
been heard well into the Midwest.

Back to the old call! I remember WCKY when it played country music back in
the '50s.

So can I, as a kid listening in North Carolina to Nelson King and Don Davis
opening at 8 o'clock the WCKY 4-hour nightly jamboree.

Curiously, they preceeded it at 7 with an hour of Vienese "Waltz Time." Not
exactly a natural lead-in to 4 hours of country music.

Speaking of big signals and country (and preacher) programming, when I was
an Air Force jet basic flight instructor at Laredo AFB in the late 1950's,
my most trusted LF navigational aid for night flying the black West Texas
skies was the 150 or 200 KW's (or whatever) of XERF...just across the Rio
Grande from Del Rio. Even flying from Laredo, the LF ADF bearing was useful
to keep you from wandering too deeply into Mexico or to far north up the
river.

And my favorite night flying XERF program? "Sister Loretta Blankenship and
the Prisoner's Bible Hour".

Yes I can hear KB in Buffalo at night here in Canton, but usually not
too well. I don't check it that often because I'm usually on 1530 but
every once in awhile it'll be so strong I'll hear it bleeding over to
1530 when WSAI fades on me. Unfortunately we have a low power Canton
station on 1520 so there's no chance of hearing it during daylight
hours.

Thanks for the heads-up on the format change. My recorder will be
running every night until the end. A shame, we finally get a good
oldies station in NE Ohio and we lose it (the ones actually located
here are not too great).

Thanks for your reply.

Don

Zenith Trans-Oceanic 600

Bob Radil wrote:

Any others besides 1520 in Buffalo and 1530 in Cincinnati? I've been
enjoying the heck out of WSAI 1530, especially last night when the
DJ
"Little Walter" was playing some fairly obscure stuff (at least by
oldies radio standards of late). Just wondered if there were any
other
clear channel oldies stations that could be heard in Ohio after
dark.
Thanks.


Can you hear KB/1520 in Ohio? It's on the wrong side of their
pattern.
BTW - The word is that WSAI will be dropping their oldies for talk.
:(

Bob Radil
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Guess I should have been a little more specific. What I meant by
"oldies" was 1950s/1960s R&R, R&B, and DooWop. I do like some of the
old big band and especially jazz, and have heard some good stuff on 720
and 740 in Canada. Heard some EARLY Louis Armstrong (1923-1926) last
night on 740 in Toronto, excellent!

Don

Zenith Trans-Oceanic 600





David Marston wrote:
In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:
"David Marston" wrote in message
...
Don't forget Canada! Here in New Hampshire, I get oldies at night
on a few
clear-channel AM stations, mainly from Canada. You might be able
to get
740 (CKWO) where you are.

That station is not oldies, it is nostalgia/standards. Very
different
formats.

I don't agree with "very different" but let's assume that he doesn't
like
their format. Still, I think he should scan the dial for what he
likes.
I get oldies on that new station on 720 (CHTN), but he'll probably
get
WGN. Conversely, he may get stations from the Western Provinces that
don't reach here.
--
................David Marston at MV

In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:

That station [CHWO] is not oldies, it is nostalgia/standards. Very different
formats.

Not so different as you might think. CHWO has to play a lot of music
that's well outside the pop standards playlist, because very little
recorded standards music exists that meets CanCon. Like every other
Canadian station, CHWO must play at least 35% CanCon, and IIRC their
PD said that they actually committed in their conditions of license to
more than that. Yes, the formatics are very much AS in style, but the
playlist is significantly broader than that.

-GAWollman

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