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Blowtorch Radio Station The Latest To Reach 100 Years
The latest North American radio giant to reach 100 years of service is a DXers favourite - the great KOA 850 AM in Denver. It's one of my best catches, especially since CJBC makes it almost impossible to get. But many here will recall when the 860 signal signed off at night, leaving the airwaves free to pull in the faraway giant.
(An even bigger one for me was the day I pulled in its TV station late one summer night in 1977.)
The station celebrated its centennial anniversary with a special video tribute to itself and some neat audio from its past. You can watch it here.
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The latest North American radio giant to reach 100 years of service is a DXers favourite - the great KOA 850 AM in Denver. It's one of my best catches, especially since CJBC makes it almost impossible to get. But many here will recall when the 860 signal signed off at night, leaving the airwaves free to pull in the faraway giant.
(An even bigger one for me was the day I pulled in its TV station late one summer night in 1977.)
The station celebrated its centennial anniversary with a special video tribute to itself and some neat audio from its past. You can watch it here.
June 1977 was a huge TV DX month. I was living in Hamilton then and had access to a tower [no rotor] I had then CBS KTVS [now Independent KCDO] Sterling, Co plus a mixture of WNBC/WBZ on ch 4, WCBS on ch 2 and Radio-Canada Yarmouth, N.S on ch 3. They ID'd as Radio-Canada Atlantique.
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Next year WJR Detroit hits 100 years on the air. In 1925 the Jewett Radio and Phonograph Company started sharing 580 kHz with WCX. Although WCX began in 1922, it was owned by the Detroit Free Press, and was not WJR. In 1929 there was no longer a WCX, and the radio station simply became known as WJR. During the daytime WJR's 50 KW signal can be heard from Northeast Indiana to about where Woodstock, Ontario is. At night it compares to AM 740 Toronto and 1100 WTAM from Cleveland.