Re: [Swlfest] Regional MW news of possible interest

2011-06-06 Thread Irv [K3IRV] McWherter
When I was a kid in Binghamton I had a small crystal radio in a rocket format {clip to brass bed, nose cone screwed out to change frequency} that I used to listen to MW stations all over the east coast, and WWVA Wheeling WV! I vividly remember one evening in the early 60's when WKBW broke in with

Re: [Swlfest] Regional MW news of possible interest

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Cuff
KB comes in well here and does so in NYC from what I remember my NYC based college friends saying at UB in Buffalo in the 1970s. On Monday, June 6, 2011, John Figliozzi wrote: > > WKBW 1520 Buffalo, another legendary 50kW rocker, now carries progressive > talk as WWKB. > > Don't know if any of

Re: [Swlfest] Regional MW news of possible interest

2011-06-06 Thread John Figliozzi
Up here in Albany, I can get CRI every night on CHIN 1540 out of Toronto, which puts a decent 10kW signal into these parts after 10 p.m. when WCDC (formerly WPTR) signs off its Contemporary Christian programming for the day. (Parenthetically, what a comedown for the once proud 50,000 watte

Re: [Swlfest] Regional MW news of possible interest

2011-06-06 Thread David Goren
Both freqs come in decently here in NYC. l remember listening to WWDB when it was a commercial jazz station on FM back in the 70's. On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Richard Cuff wrote: > To those Festers living in greater Philadelphia, comes this item in > today's Northeast Radio Watch courtesy of

[Swlfest] Regional MW news of possible interest

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Cuff
To those Festers living in greater Philadelphia, comes this item in today's Northeast Radio Watch courtesy of Scott Fybush: "And in Philadelphia, WNWR (1540) is running announcements saying its current multicultural programming will move down the dial next Monday (June 13) to Beasley's WWDB (860),