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5 unusual facts about AM broadcasting


2013–14 Wichita B-52s season

The team's games are broadcast locally by KGSO (1410 AM, "Sports Radio 1410") and over the internet via America One Sports.

Norm Hitzges

Norman R. "Norm" Hitzges (born July 5, 1944) is an author and sports talk radio host at KTCK (1310 AM / 96.7 FM, "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") in Dallas, Texas.

Royal Parker

He began his broadcasting career in the late 1940s on WASA (now WJSS), an AM radio station in Havre de Grace, Maryland, hosting a music program called the Royal Record Review.

WJDM

WJDM AM (1530 kHz, "Radio Cantico Nuevo") is a radio station licensed to Elizabeth, New Jersey (the seat of Union County) and the surrounding municipalities and broadcasts a Spanish Christian format.

Later that decade, the station became the first in the United States to acquire a license to operate in the expanded AM radio broadcast band at 1660 kHz, carrying AAHS World Radio network children's format until 1997.


CJOI-FM

Originally known as CFLP when it opened in 1978 as an AM station on 1000 kHz (and identified itself as "Radio Mille"), the station moved to the FM band in late 2000, due to serious problems in nighttime coverage resulting from a very directional signal necessary to protect WMVP 1000 in Chicago, Illinois.

DXBR-AM

Bombo Radyo Butuan (DXBR-AM 981 kHz Butuan City) is an AM radio station of the Consolidated Broadcasting System, Inc. under Bombo Radyo Philippines in Butuan City.

DXMF

Bombo Radyo Davao is the flagship AM commercial radio station owned and managed by People's Broadcasting Service, Inc., under Bombo Radyo Philippines.

DYFM

Bombo Radyo Iloilo is the flagship AM commercial radio station owned and managed by Consolidated Broadcasting System, Inc. under Bombo Radyo Philippines.

DZHH

DZHH (1566 kHz Metro Manila) Radyo ng Hukbong Himpapawid (Radio of the Air Forces)" was an AM station of the Philippine Air Force.

DZLG

Bombo Radyo Legaspi (DZLG-AM 927 kHz Legazpi City) is an AM station of the People's Broadcasting Service, Inc. in co-operation with Bombo Radyo Philippines in Legazpi City, Albay.

Foster Hewitt

In 1951, he started his own radio station in Toronto, CKFH, initially at AM 1400 kHz, until moving to 1430 in 1959.

KAZM

KAZM (780 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a mixed format consisting of news, sports, variety talk, classic rock and oldies music, the Wolfman Jack show, and Coast to Coast AM at night.

KEYJ-FM

Before 1979 however, the call letters "KEYJ" were assigned to an AM station located in Jamestown, North Dakota, broadcasting at 1400 AM, (now: "KQDJ"), which gained brief fame in 1957, when it was featured in Life Magazine, as the home of the "World's Youngest D-J"; the now world-famous Shadoe Stevens.

KGGR

KGGR is an AM urban contemporary gospel radio station that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, airing only during the Daytime hours on AM 1040 because this station shares the same frequency with "clear channel" station WHO-AM in Des Moines, Iowa.

KVLR

On February 23, 2007, the call letters were changed from KKLB to KXXS as part of a format switch to Spanish Pop "Digital 92.5. "La Lupe" moved to AM 1560 KXTZ.

Travelers' information station

The concept is not limited to the United States; TIS stations operate in Canada (on both AM and FM bands), in France (at 107.7 MHz FM along selected autoroutes), in Australia in some areas on 87.6–88 MHz FM, and other countries as well.

WCAT-FM

The station started as WHYL-FM airing a simulcast of WHYL, an AM station housed in the same building.

WLKD

WLKD (1570 AM) is a radio station in Minocqua, Wisconsin The station is owned by Fulcrum Radio LLC through Raven License Sub, LLC.

WOBL

WOBL (1320 AM) – branded Gold Country 1320 AM – is a commercial classic country radio station licensed to Oberlin, Ohio, serving Lorain County and western parts of Greater Cleveland.

WWCB

WWCB (1370 AM) is an oldies/classic hits radio station licensed to Corry, Pennsylvania and serving Corry, Union City, eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania and Clymer, New York from its studio located at 122 North Center Street (PA 426) in downtown Corry and a transmitter facility off of West Columbus Avenue (U.S. Route 6).


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