In article ,
Ron Hardin wrote:

Diverd4777 wrote:
Here in NYC, occasionally we can pick up WWVA, out of Wheeling, west
Virginia;
- but only on certain nights..

You can't rely on WWVA when it rains. They automatically cut into anything
with
weather bureau rain warnings and you miss the punch lines. Clear Channel at
work.

I grew up in Wheeling in the 60s and 70s. In those days, you could
pretty much clip a pair of headphones to your bedsprings and listen to
WWVA! Kathryn Kuhlman on Sunday nights!

I could regularly get them in the 80s when I moved here (Florida), but I
haven't heard them here in years. Now I read that Clear Channel wants
to sell them off and/or lower the power.

Dan

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"N8KDV" wrote in message
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N8KDV wrote:

Stinger wrote:

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

"Corbin Ray" wrote in message
...
I don't care who owns WLIB. But I will never forgive them for
killing
one
of
the best radio stations in middle America. Remember what
happened to
WOWO,
50,000-watt blowtorch from Fort Wayne that covered 38 states and
half
of
Canada?

First, WOWO did not cover 38 states.

Sure they did... in one form or another!

WLS even states on the air at times how many states they cover, and
it's
similar
to the 38 state claim....

It's marketing.... and DX!



We used to love listening to John "Records" Lyendecker on WLS, and it
came
in just fine in Southern Mississippi. It was the best "large market"
radio
you could hear.

Those were the days!

Don't know whether you caught my earlier post but yesterday was the 80th
Anniversary of WLS...

According to them anyway.

It was 'Landecker' by the way, he was on a lot of other stations too.

He may still be on WGN 720...


Boogie check! Boogie Check! Hoo!....Ha!

Those really were the days.

-- Stinger

"Dan" wrote in message
...

I grew up in Wheeling in the 60s and 70s. In those days, you could
pretty much clip a pair of headphones to your bedsprings and listen to
WWVA! Kathryn Kuhlman on Sunday nights!

I could regularly get them in the 80s when I moved here (Florida), but I
haven't heard them here in years. Now I read that Clear Channel wants
to sell them off and/or lower the power.

They want to move the station to a town SW of Cleveland. Application filed,
along with over 1200 others, in the January window.

I don't care who owns WLIB. But I will never forgive them for killing one of
the best radio stations in middle America. Remember what happened to WOWO,
50,000-watt blowtorch from Fort Wayne that covered 38 states and half of
Canada?

I love the passion of the serious radio listener, they *don't* forget. That
would be the same as if that happened to 700WLW *The Nations Station*.....I
listen everyday at certain intervals.

I would feel the same. Good post Corbin.

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WOWO was a blowtorch in NC when I was growing up (1960s).

Speaking of 'blowtorches'......I could hear WLW as a child in Pisgah....say
1970 (down the road from the antenna setup) without aid of a radio.

That is NO lie. Now that's a 'blowtorch'....and my Grandpa and Grandma and my
Dad talked about how they could hear it in certain places of the house.

You hear stories like this from old-timers who lived in the Pisgah area or by
the VOA site ALL the time.

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Hammarlund HQ140X
Multiple GE P-780's(GREAT BCB Radios)
RCA Victor *Strato- World*
RCA Victor RJC77W-K(Walnut Grain)
1942 Zenith Wave Magnet 6G 601M
Cathedral/ Ross#2311/Rhapsody-MultiBand
DX100/394/398/399/402
OMGS Transistor Eight/Realistic 12-1451
Henry Kloss Model One/Bell+Howell
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
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600ft. 12AWG. (non-terminated)
120ft. 12 AWG Sloper
2 Radio Shack Loop Antennas
Radio Shack Amplified Antenna
30X30 DiamondLoop(six section 830pf Cap)
* Diamond Loop mounted to Lazy Susan TurnTable*

Quoth "T. Early" in
:

I guess the simple question, shorn of all the rhetoric, is whether Air
America replaced programming by the Coalition of Artists and
Activists or not.

No, the owners of the station replaced programming by CAA. With Air America.

By the way, CAA's programming still has a home on weekends.

--
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they
charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these
men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them
to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - W.S.

(LW) wrote in message ...
"Corbin Ray" wrote ...

Remember what happened to WOWO,

I remember listening not only to WOWO but to all the other stations in
the eastern US and Canada that have been mentioned. My radio of choice
was an RCA AA5 from the late fifties with Conelrad frequencies marked
on the dial. The one thing I remember more than anything else about
WOWO is, of course:

The Fort Wayne Komets
http://www.komets.com/index2.html

Without the website, I never would have known that "Komets" was
spelled with a "k".

"LW" wrote :
| WLS - Chicago

I actually get a little choked up when I think of
what WLS was. This was a station I grew up
with. Fred Winston, Larry Lujack ("Superjock"),
Steve Dahl and Garry Meiers.

Ulp. It's happening again.

Ditto on CKLW. I believe John "Records"
Landecker came to WLS from CKLW.

Boy, those *were* the days, no kidding.
I remember the days of "musicradio" (all
one word), and the top 40 format. I wanted
to be a part of the world of radio, and that
world no longer exists.

Oh, yeah, WLAC, too.

I remember the *good* days of radio.
Nothing sounds better than a fat, well - modulated
good - fidelity AM signal, fading, the phase of the
carrier shifting like a porch swing in the wind.

I thought that made music sound *better.*

73,

SL


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"T. Early" wrote in message
...

I also find this rather confusing. You refer to wide-ranging,
informative and entertaining programming. But I thought we were
talking about Air America?

LOL!

"Stinger" wrote:

We used to love listening to John "Records" Lyendecker on WLS, and it came
in just fine in Southern Mississippi. It was the best "large market" radio
you could hear.

-- Stinger

(See my thread, posted yesterday, on this topic.)

Those *really* were the days, and WLS was more
than a radio station. An outstanding, and highly
recommended, site would be www.wlshistory.com.
Every time I visit that website, I really get
choked up, especially when I listen to the airchecks.

I realize that, with every passing year, I'm turning
into my Dad, especially when I say "Those were the days."

73,

Steve Lawrence
KA0PMD
Burnsville, Minnesota