CKLW and WJR Radio

[drt]

THAT was a good catch! What time of night? Around sunset or later?

It was around 1 - 2 a.m.; Coast2Coast was on, this was either in late February or the first week of March.

Just glad that Cuba doesn't have a high powered station on that frequency.(at least not yet!)

Haven't received CKLW since, I try every time I'm up there; that's as close to Detroit as I be anytime soon........ until a trip to Albany,NY the last week of August; that should be a whole new dx'ing experience.(Actually hearing Radio Reloj under stations instead of over everything!)

Further south in St. Petersburg, the last time I received CKLW was about 1997 or 1998, IIRC.

drt

[gr8oldies]

At one time you had that huge 500,000 watt PJB in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles to contend with.

[nightfly61]

Does anyone know when WJR stopped playing music?

It was when Jimmy Lontz still worked there...had to have been around 97 or 98. I remember most of the music was short oldies. I recall Jimmy or Foster Brown doing mid-days & playing the Toys "A Lovers Concerto" before an interview with Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson).

btw...is it just my TWO computers or have the smileys on this site been dismantled?

[nightfly61]

610 WTVN in Columbus stopped playing music around that same time. I haven't listened lately but Sunday mornings Tom Campbell does a one hour music show (maybe called "Horizons???) with a different theme every week. a year or 2 ago I was impressed with the odd old Halloween classics he was playing a week or so before Halloween.
Technically, if you're lucky when Coast To Coast is on every so often George or Art let a tune slide in their entirety. Art's always good for letting Brandy by Looking Glass or Al Stewart's Year of the Cat. Just bumper songs "extended".

[drt]

At one time you had that huge 500,000 watt PJB in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles to contend with.

Very true, now 800 is one of the very few quiet night time frequencies at least here (St. Petersburg); I can hear several weak signals, but so weak, that I can't identify them.

Just one step down at 790 is WLBE,Leesburg,FL with Radio Reloj underneath during the day and at night Radio Reloj rules that frequency with 790 out of Miami underneath.

drt

btw- Nightfly61; it's not just your computer, several people have commented about the "smileys" not working; I was hoping with the maintainance done on the site last weekend, that they "smileys" would be fixed.

[gr8oldies]

Technically, if you're lucky when Coast To Coast is on every so often George or Art let a tune slide in their entirety. Art's always good for letting Brandy by Looking Glass or Al Stewart's Year of the Cat. Just bumper songs "extended".

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If you're in range of CKLW's nighttime signal, it can briefly remind you of the old days.

[KeenerGold]

Haven't been able to catch CKLW here in Atlanta yet, but ever since WSB-AM turned off their I-BLOC garbage, WJR is a daily catch for me in the morning.

[gr8oldies]

Think you'd have a good shot at CKLW right after sunrise pattern change

[fortmill]

I can remember listening to CKLW in Richmond VA back in the 60s and 70s.  They had an ok signal, but not booming like WABC or WKBW.  My memory was they sounded a lot like one of our local top 40s, WLEE.  I think they might have been using the same jingle package.  I've never picked up even a trace of CK here in the Carolinas, even in the 70s when AM was more reliable.

[MsMusicRadio]

WLEE was truly great for a small market station. I guess Richmond really is not so small now. CKLW came in great in Pittsburgh back in the Sixties