Here in Oklahoma I have a choice of music, if you can
believe it.
There is an old country station down near Dallas, TX that
plays it plus a small town station about 50 miles away. On
top of that a station about 25 miles South has R&R from the
late 60s to the 80s. There is another station about 25
miles North that has the same format, unfortunately it
subscribes to the same satellite service.
In Dallas there is also a big band station KAAM which gets
some of my attention.
Frequencies for all this is 770, 1190, 1240 and 1470. That
keeps my dial lubricated. But I do miss 50 KW KOMA in OKC
playing true R&R from the 50s to the 80s. They sold 1520 a
couple of years back and now it is talk. The R&R format
moved to the FM band with 4 of the old time DJs from the OKC
market.
As a youth I had it good in SW Oklahoma. 890-WLS, 930-WKY,
1510-KSTP, 1520-KOMA, 1060-WNOE (remember Jack the Cat?),
1200-WOAI, 940-KIXZ, and 990-(I forget their call) in
Wichita Falls, TX.
Aha the good old days.
Jim/W5JO
Now living in Utah, obviously I can't listen to WLS
directly - at least
during daylight hours. Nice to listen to the internet
stream. I lived in
Chicago for a time 20 or so years ago, and fondly remember
them as the "Big
89."
A major interest in my hobby is restoring vintage
broadcast receivers, and
also building high-performance crystal sets. I have one
local AM station in
Provo that broadcasts music. Otherwise, it's band edge to
band edge of
conservative talk and sports. I've set up my own Part 15
transmitter so I
can at least have something worthwhile to listen to on my
old radios if the
Provo station doesn't suit me.
Now, KSL in Salt Lake, for example, has gone digital.
They still broadcast
analog as well, but the digital content spews 30KHz wide!
Why does Rush,
Sean, et al need "digital" AM?
The market might be small, but I believe there is still a
market for music
on AM.
73,
Joe, N6DGY
Pleasant Grove, Utah
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