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Re: The case for keeping AM radio
I am a fan of AM radio, but for most stations, there is no staff on from about 6 pm until dawn...
They are on auto pilot most of the night....
I like the fact that they have distance, and when travelling, I look for AM stations for traffic and weather..
A case in point......the once great CFPL 980 in London (Bill Brady being one of their great announcers)
Local programming has become minimal, with the Global brand especially prominent on the weekends
Another, even though still frequently listen is CFRB, once called "Ontario's authoritative news voice"
And as I have posted earlier, I will miss CFCO 630 when it is gone at the end of April
I was in Chatham Kent last week and 91.3 cannot be heard in Corunna/Sarnia due to an educational station in Michigan
It does not come in Windsor either
I wonder what the exact range will be for new signal
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I recently drove from London back home to Windsor and tested the range of Chatham's 91.3, as well as driving by the stick on Fairview Road. The signal held up into Essex County but by the time I reached the outskirts of Windsor, it faded away and sparred with Toledo's Public Radio WGTE-FM.
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Thread Starter- RadioAaron
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Doesn't really work when most people don't even have an AM radio other than in their cars, and never venture there anyway.
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The new 91.3 CFCO-FM won't go as far as CKSY or Cool FM. The best reception will be within the circle on this map.
Next week two Port Huron, Michigan area AM stations will leave the air. 1380 WPHM will move over to the 105.5 and 1450 AM spot. They will combine the music that 92.7 The Hills now plays with some of the Sports and the Talk that they have now. 1590 WHLX + the 92.7 relay will shut down. Here in Sarnia that means 630 Chatham, 1380 Port Huron, and 1590 Marine City have shut down their AM transmitters before the month is over.
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With CFCO now on the verge of vacating the AM band, it seems apropos to look back at the station’s early history and founder Jack Beardall. 
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Thread Starter- darcyh
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Marc1178 wrote:
The new 91.3 CFCO-FM won't go as far as CKSY or Cool FM. The best reception will be within the circle on this map.
Next week two Port Huron, Michigan area AM stations will leave the air. 1380 WPHM will move over to the 105.5 and 1450 AM spot. They will combine the music that 92.7 The Hills now plays with some of the Sports and the Talk that they have now. 1590 WHLX + the 92.7 relay will shut down. Here in Sarnia that means 630 Chatham, 1380 Port Huron, and 1590 Marine City have shut down their AM transmitters before the month is over.
It is too bad Radio First turned off the WHLX 1590 signal. It probably did not cost them much money to operate a one kilowatt non-directional transmitter. WHLX 1590 propagated much better than WHLS 1450. The WHLS AM tower is quite tall and also contains the FM transmitting antennas for the 105.5 FM translator as well as WSAQ (Q Country 107.1 mhz).
I can understand the shut down of WPHM 1380 which was a 5 kilowatt, 7 tower directional station that never seemed to propagate very well either and was probably more costly to operate. They will also have the transmitter property that could be sold provided the station owned the land. Still too bad to see the demise of more AM stations.
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Yes, 1590 had a good signal for such a low power station...
I wonder what year it switched to 24 hr operation.
When it was WDOG, it signed of at sunset.....
I remember Freddie Cale, who had a great announcer's voice (this would be in the early 1960s)
The night time 102 watts was quite weak...