Posted on 09/01/2018 7:22:52 PM PDT by nanetteclaret
WBBM in Chicago was very strong. Easily could receive it all the way in Florida.
Yup -used to listen to them at night. WLS had the new Beatle hits about a week before St. Louis stations started playing them.....such great, innocent times...sigh....
890 and 1040 are clear channel night stations I believe.
WLW in Cincinnati is also a clear channel night.
Larry! I could laugh so hard from those bits!
I grew up in small town in Central IL. Listened ALL THE TIME to WLS on a transistor radio. Day & night. They would play the same songs almost every hour, but we loved it. All the kids listened to it, so it was on the transistor radios everywhere.
In the mornings they had Animal Stories - some of the funniest stuff you ever heard. Little Snot Nosed Tommy would start laughing & could hardly finish the animal stories.
Ron: I used to give updates on the air to people listening on the radio. The PR department came up with this idea of the Batman club, and got a Batman suit from Hollywood, and we did a promo at Channel 7. We made up a fan club card, and got bumper stickers, and it was way bigger than any of us thought it would be. Someone sent me a picture of a tank in Vietnam with my bumper sticker on it. I remember when we started, Taylor asked me how many bumper stickers they needed to print up, and I guessed we’d need about 5000, but it ended up being about 100,000 or so.
I used to listen to it at night in north Florida.
Yep. My old days of Shortwave radio, that was my buddy growing up. Spent many a late night trying to pull in stations from all over the world.
WOW! You could get WBAP in Hong Kong? 50,000 watts went a long way! (Back then)
Animal Stories! Holy Schiff!
Remember “If a shark ever bites off one of my “dangling appendages”, I certainly hope it’s an arm or a leg”!
Animal Stories was the greatest.
And I couldn’t wait to listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater at night.
I can still hear E.G. Marshall saying....”Until next time, pleasant…dreams?”
We in Eastern New England listened to WKBW in Buffalo at night.It came in like gangbusters.
Driving thg through southern Kentucky and Tennessee at night I had no problem listening to Joe Nuxhall broadcast Reds games on WLW.
Not every day or all the time. But, yes I was able to occasionally hear it there.
Today those same airwaves are full of noise from almost every electronic device made. The FCC stopped enforcing noise standards in the broadcast bands decades ago. Almost impossible to get the clear channel stations in the states the got to 50 years ago.
Progress !@#$
I listened to WLS down in Panama City Fl, which is where I grew up. They played songs two to four weeks before the local stations down there would start playing them. I remember listening to ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ long before it was played locally. We had a big wood console record player and radio. The record player was pretty mediocre but the AM section of the radio picked up signals from all over the country.
WBAP was the home of Bill Mack, who had a nightly show after midnight for the truckers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mack_(songwriter)
At Fort Gordon, KYW and WCAU in Philadelphia came in like locals after dark.
I got my first transistor when I was 10. Listed to KLIF all the tine. I can probably recite the whole playlist for summer 1964 because it was glued to my ear. I found WLS as a teenager, but KLIF was my station when I was in elementary school.
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