It will be interesting to see if he flips formats or not. WHLD's site is southwest of Buffalo, so the coverage to the east, including downtown Buffalo, is quite constrained because of the protection to WHTK 1280 Rochester.  WECK, despite its 1 kw power, is non-directional and is actually a lot stronger in the core of Buffalo. WHLD is aimed boresight at Niagara Falls, so a lot stronger there.
The construction permit for 5 kW day, 143 watts night dates back to 1999. They got a subsequent increase to 1 kW night.

Law and Crime TV just finished live streaming a nine week murder trial from California in which four of Carlin's seven words were entered into evidence multiple times by prosecution and defence attorneys.using witness statements, taped conversations, transcripts, and direct witness testimony.

I once made an "aeronautical mobile" ham radio contact on 20 metres with a flight crew member in a commercial airliner. From his accent I speculated that he was German, but wouldn't answer when I asked if he was with Lufthansa.

CKOC had a very complex 10 tower array which was apparently difficult to tune and unstable.  With certain Canadian co-channel stations having gone dark (such as 1150 Ottawa), it was possible to come up with a single six-tower array which met day protections at 50 kW and night at 20 kW.
One nice advantage of a single (DA-1) pattern is that you don't have a dramatic shift in coverage that two-pattern stations often have on night pattern. With the power reduction, the coverage shrinks but is not that noticeable until a couple of hours after sunset.

So much for my knowledge of US state codes.
 

CKTB's operating certificate shows that they are licensed for 1 kW standby operation, whereas the normal day power is 10 kW and the night power is 5 kW. For daytime that represents a 10 dB reduction in signal strength, and for night 7 dB. If their main transmitter has failed, that would explain the significant drop in signal strength.

Rogers Xfinity cable appears to be out in north central Toronto at least. When you go to the self service web site, you can't log in. It says they're working to make things better. I called the 1-800 number, and they are having "a higher volume of calls than normal due to technical difficulties".
Good thing it wasn't last night during the hockey final.
Fortunately, I am a firm believer in belt and suspenders/route diversity.  I get my TV services from Rogers, cell phone from Fido, and landline and internet from Bell fibre-to-the-premises.  So I'll be streaming comfortably for the rest of the night.....

AM640 is definitely licensed for 50,000 watts DA-1, same pattern day and night.  25,000 watts may not be that common, but it is a normally licensed power level - CJRJ in Vancouver as an example. CKOC is now 50,000 watts day, 20,000 watts night, same pattern.
Back in the day of its venerable RCA 50F tube transmitter, CFRB's pattern change took little more than a second. It was triggered manually by the control room operator during a pause in the programming. The changes are always on a quarter-hour, so it was easy to orchestrate.
It's probably more noticeable now because the solid state transmitters ramp up slowly, and being clock-controlled, they can occur in the middle of any content, including commercials.

And given the month we're in, my pet peeve of Feb-you-airy, instead of Feb-rooh-airy Unfortunately, even at the revered BBC where they once had pronunciation police, this misuse is now excused as "common usage".
You can look it up next time you go to the Lie-berry.

It's stupid that they are cutting back fibre-to-the-home investment in Canada yet spending 4 billion (plus debt) to buy an American company thousands of kilometres away.  Two years ago I was one of those forced to migrate to fibre by a date certain or lose my landline phone and internet services.  But here's the rub.  Bell is sitting on a time bomb with its twisted pair infrastructure.  Much of it is buried, waterlogged, and targeted by moles. After every major rainstorm, a lot of customers lose service. Bell needs to continue with FTTH as quickly as possible.  Stick to the knitting at home, Mirko. I give him another year and then he's history.
 

I had a Dodge Caravan which came with AM stereo as standard equipment.  It was actually reasonably impressive, although the high frequencies were truncated above 10 kHz to avoid adjacent channel nighttime interference.
The FCC, in its wisdom, refused to specify a single standard after a lot of industry testing, and instead said that it would be a "marketplace decision".  They had originally anointed the Magnavox design, but there were howls of protest that the analysis was flawed. That left Kahn, C-Quam and Harris as the competing systems.  GM, Ford and Chrysler adopted C-Quam, and Harris decided to pull out and back C-Quam. It wasn't until four years later that Mexico and Canada declared C-Quam as the standard, as if it made any difference by then.

I knew Ed well, and he was an excellent engineer with an eye for detail.  Part of the "RCA Mafia" during the halcyon days when RCA Montreal was a powerhouse for broadcast engineering and manufacturing.

Is it just me, or do others find the incessant "breaking news" animations tedious and twitch inducing? I feel like the infamous Inspector Dreyfus in The Pink Panther.

The sequence:
1) Three flashing dots on the left side of "Breaking News"
2) Reverse the background behind "Breaking News" from red to white.
3) Add three flashing white dots to the right of "Breaking News"
4) Repeat ad nauseum..
5)At the "LIVE" word, insert upper and lower yellow bars and splay them outwards from the yellow square.
6) Flash the square next to "LIVE" three times.
7) Rotate the square on its axis.
8) Flash again three times.
9) Repeat ad nauseum.
10) Right hand side of screen: CCBC NN Live wipe, off, wipe on CBC, wipe on "NEWS".
11) Backward wipe on red background. Repeat every ten seconds.
12) At bottom right, scroll through the time in each time zone.

CTV News, on the other had, has a very slow "breaking news" crawl at the bottom of the screen.

Just because the equipment is capable of animating every letter and sympbol individually, you don't have to use it incessantly (and it is incessant). The BBC is so hyper-sensitive to anyone with epilepsy that they always post a warning about flash photography or strobes if the video content contains any of it.  Just wouldn't fly over there.

Enough already!
 

Philips made an after-market 45 rpm player to mount under the dash, and connect into the car radio. You can buy one at the link below.
The pickup cartridge was tracking at several grams to overcome the road bumps, so needless to say the grooves wore down at an alarming rate.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/405271317086?_skw=philips+car+record+player&itmmeta=01JDJ6WER3XREYV8B2HXYQHNF0&hash=item5e5c0d8a5e:g:~9IAAOSw5U5nA9Yl&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAABAHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKlujbhiCo1g2dyoNAhTNQjyBTmZd2H%2BJOpicl8pLat4xz%2BNmwkNrWyyUvPuvIZb0lGpePDSPpjukv7kHPWfHEAj%2BIBo46j2F51xdlTELcXUa4E2pN8DPfrl%2BYibpjnp93JIxp6fMSjiDFx0Chp4fA0Xg5slP--Tna6RDU4cRb%2BlSuUU2xoSbnoFX03dOU%2FUl1O0H6aOrFLESnswmy8yNop1Mf19DecxSRAaHlNQUHob0A0DoKVT50Y0G3US7V3Uw8uBrvlnLRJvo3xpBsSlFTGvdrdY%2BZaOvXmuo6%2BtqShQk6OVctMDavS%2BWlSwsZZBX9M%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5Ls8cbsZA
 

I predict this will be to BCE what Chrysler was to Mercedes - a disaster.
Perplexing is perhaps too charitable a word to describe this transaction.  You have to ask what BCE's due diligence was:
1) 14.3 x EBITDA!!
2) A litany of 37 pages of complaints to the Better Business Bureau
https://www.bbb.org/us/wa/everett/profile/internet-providers/ziply-fiber-1296-1000096444/complaints
3) A 2.5 rating on Trustpilot
4) A $900,000 fine in 2020 in Washington State over hidden fees and misleading internet speeds.

Ziply clearly has a cultural problem, and culture is something that Bell has difficulty in managing.
Well, at least we can how have a comparison of connectivity costs under common ownership but in different markets.
Finally, why would you want to buy a company that's over 3000 km away?  Bell is not one for in absentia management.