Fitz wrote:

mace wrote:

One thing I have noticed. The stations in Dothan,Ala, Pittsburgh, Ks and New Orleans that were received in the GTA recently are all 100,000 watt blowtorches. Are lower powered FM's, like our Toronto stations affected by e-skip as well? Grand Rapids, Mi has two monster signals that likely make it down south when e-skip conditions arise. 93.7 WBCT [320k] and 105.7 WSRW 265K. Although the latter might be less likely. I can't recall getting e-skip above CHUM FM.

Pretty sure I was getting Latin stations from Florida on 106.7 and 107.5. A few other stations at 107.5 as well. Don't think there's a clear ID on those unfortunately.
 

Around 1 p.m. yesterday in North York I had WXDJ-Fort Lauderdale on 106.7 (matching up to their webstream) and on 107.5 it was WAMR-fm Miami with the "Amor" slogan.
 

mace wrote:

Now that Kitchener is silent, I wonder if WSYR Syracuse will make it into the GTA.

Yes.  No problem hearing WSYR in the car in North York yesterday.  And no doubt they are even stronger in Scarborough.

In Kitchener, checking the on-line web SDR, WKBN can be heard in the daytime.    

http://22687.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/


 

If it is to be coming from a new album called "Foreign Tongues" I hope that CKNT (Sauga 960) will find time to play it.

Dicky Doo wrote:

The Canadian Crokinole Championships (CCC) are coming up in Tavistock (ON).     Enthusiasts are making room reservations from as far away as Plattsville and Clappison's Corners to experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.      Motel rooms are filling quickly and T-shirts are going fast.

D.D.  

I assume that if the CCC are being held in Tavistock that there will be play-by-play coverage on nearby Stratford's CJCS-FM.

As an aside, I notice that CJCS-1240 is still listed on the Toronto Blue Jays website as being on the Blue Jays Radio Network.  Even though the 1240 stopped coming down for breakfast in 2017.

mace wrote:

Saul wrote:

I've NEVER heard WCHB 1340, which is actually in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, even though it's pretty much straight down the 401 (and a couple other small highways). And, believe me, I have tried, even listening live to a remote SDR and waiting for similar content on the radio. Maybe when they finally open the Gordie Howe Bridge...

Those call letters sounded familiar to me. Perhaps because bup until 2017 they belonged to what is now 1200 WMUZ which I have occasionally heard in the GTA.

And for a much longer period of time they were on 1440 in Inkster.  Now 1440 has WMKM with gospel music.

Not surprising considering the plethora of Family Life Network stations and translators across NY and PA.  And then there's Joy FM, Smile FM, Relevant Radio, EWTN, Ava Maria Radio, K-Love, Air1 etc etc

I wonder how many kiddies in Lockport ask mommy or daddy to put the radio on 100.3 at 7 p.m. so that they can listen to Adventures In Odyssey on W262CQ?. 

Easily Amused wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRTO_(AM)

That's a Spanish language station out of Chicago, but the coverage maps don't even come close. Maps from radio-locator.com.

The full Wikipedia page for AM 1200:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1200_AM

WRTO is heard quite often here in North York. 

Although  I believe that the Detroit-area religious huxter WMUZ in Taylor has some Spanish also.

I wouldn't be surprised if one or both of CFNY and CIND played New Order's "Blue Monday" today.    I don't think that CJYE or CJMR would have played it if they were still on 1250 and 1320.

I am still waiting for an addition to this thread with Twitter posts showing parts of the Epstein Files (that have not been redacted) to reveal what is up with CKTB's transmitter issues.

Evuguy wrote:

Yes, I can't see them going to an oldies format. Other possibilities could be sports or sports-betting, maybe religion. But I think for that market a patriot format would be the most sensible fit.

Maybe they could do a hybrid of sports-betting and religion.   In that market I'm sure that the Panthers, Hornets, Knights, NASCAR and NCAA football and basketball are all followed and bet on religiously

When I checked around 6:40 a.m. this morning in North York, "Willie 106.7" (WFRB Frostburg MD) was inbooming on 560 with C&W, which is not unusual.

Saul wrote:

NW wrote:

Rickey Henderson never caught a game in his 25 seasons in the major leagues, including the 44 games he played for the Blue Jays in 1993. 
The question is, during his time in Toronto did Rickey listen to CHOG, as CFTR had flipped to all news a few weeks before he was traded by Oakland to Toronto.  Or was Rickey a devotee of Sports Radio The Fan on 1430?

If he did listen to 680, was he hoping CFTR would have transmitter issues and go off the air so he might have a clear shot at KNBR, "the Sports Leader".

I wonder if Rickey ever went over to Devon White's place after Blue Jays games to see if they could catch KNEW carrying the Oakland A's games on 910.   Although I guess CKLY might have made things tough for him.

RadioActive wrote:

In addition to 1490, those other AM low power frequencies are 1230, 1240, 1340 and 1450.

Maximum power is usually 1,000 watts day and only 250 at night. 

None of them go very far and even if you have one in your city, depending on where you live, they can be hard to get at night. 

Actually, there is no difference between day and night power with "graveyarders" now.  The Class "D" stations can operate with 1000 watts at night now also if they wish.

For what it is worth, in North York most evenings/overnights 900 is dominated by a combo of WURD-Philadelphia and WKDA-Lebanon TN.   WURD supposedly running 124 watts at night and WKDA supposedly running 136 watts I believe.   As sunrise approaches WCPA in Clearfield PA and WACA in Laurel MD are also present.   I just hope I can snag Prince Albert (CKBI) before this move actually happens.

I did note CHIN on during the nightmiddle at 2 a.m. about two weeks ago.   No trouble hearing what KXEL-Waterloo ("where Iowa comes to kvetch) was up to at that time. 

Saul wrote:

turkeytop wrote:

For a town its size, London radio listeners are not well served. With the exception of CBC everything else all sounds the same. I listen to SXM almost exclusively.

When I'm in a real city like Toronto, Montreal or Tampa Bay, I rarely even turn on the SXM. But London is a radio wasteland.

How do 92.7, 95.9 and 97.5 sound the same? Toss in not one but two campus-community stations (94.9, 106.9). And three CBC stations. Not to mention stations in immediately outlying areas, like Woodstock, St. Thomas. Not bad for a town...

I find that 1290 (CJBK) and 1410 (CKSL) sound the same to me.