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But at night, to protect WWKB Buffalo, New York, the other Class A station on AM 1520, KOKC must use a directional antenna. With a good radio, KOKC can be heard across much of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states at night. KOKC is also heard on a 250-watt FM translator K237GE at 95.3 MHz, which covers Oklahoma City and adjacent communities.
Power Legend: U=unlimited time, D=daytime power, N=nighttime power, CH=critical hours power. Class A unless otherwise specified. Omnidirectional antenna unless otherwise specified. A comma after the power indicates sunset. Whatever is after the comma is the night-time authorization, to avoid interfering with other, higher priority stations.
A clear-channel station is a North American AM radio station that has the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave signals. This classification exists to ensure the viability of cross-country or cross-continent radio service enforced through a series of treaties and statutory laws.
Because the AM broadcast band developed before technology suitable for directional antennas, there are numerous exceptions, such as the US use of 800 (kHz) and 900 non-directionally in Alaska, limited to 5 kW at night; and 1050 and 1220, directionally, in the continental US, and without time limits; each of these being assigned to specific ...
WMEX was founded in 1934 by Bill and Al Pote, with studios in the Hotel Manger, and was originally on 1500 kilocycles, with 250 watts daytime, 100 watts nighttime. [5] It broadcast from a transmitter site on Powder Horn Hill in Chelsea, and later (1940–1981) from a site off West Squantum Road in Quincy, near the then-WNAC/WAAB (now WBIX) site in the Neponset River Valley.
KKOB-AM-FM provide local news and weather updates around the clock, traffic "on the 7's" and national news updates from ABC News Radio.On weekdays, the schedule features mostly local talk shows including Bob Clark in morning drive time, Brandon Vogt middays, TJ Trout afternoons and Eric Strauss in the evening.
After the FCC authorized nighttime operation for many daytime AM stations, WJUN began nighttime coverage of sports events in 1986. For the first 25 years, it ran a MOR (middle of the road) format and block programming consisting of country (6 - 7 am, 11 - 12 AM), Gospel 12:45 - 1:00 PM + weekends), Easy listening (5 PM - Sign off), Polka (12:30 ...
The FM provided local radio service after the AM was required to sign off after local sunset. Before becoming famous, actor George Peppard was a DJ at WLOA and frequently talked about working at the station, including once while delivering the weather, accidentally forecasting "flow snurries" instead of snow flurries.