WIFM YADKIN VALLEY BROADCASTING COMPANY AddEtt WHHC THE INLAND EMPIRE SERVING BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA Line gm Mange Síation =%MFG RIM Hibbing and Virginia, Minnesota The National Radio Club's J NRUX AM Radio Log A listing of U.S. and Canadian AM Broadcasting Stations The 28th Edition 2007-2008 KRBM gI.YELLOYSTOE PApN STATWN' B O Z E M N $SUB uuu ONTAN AA HAZLEHURST ALMA KTRM BAXLEY WHAB WATS 6EAUMONLTFXAS BAXLEY. GEORGIA SAYRE KB01 1260 On Your Dial MOUNTAIN WEST CONCERT ga1i2E Lin diana 1250 ON YOUR DIAL YORK, PENNSYLVANIA 1 1 1 WA L L State Theatre Building MIDDLETOWN KEYZ NEW YORK 5,000 1 WATTS FULLTIME 1340 KILOCYCLES 1 1 1 l30 IC - 0 CHUB "0 ^ c rc. ev iuixs P. 0. BOX 1779 - W P - BOISE IDAHO PAMPA. TEXAS 79065 + " The National Radio Club Twenty-eighth Edition AM Radio Log ISSN 0889-3748 ©2007 by Wayne Heinen for The National Radio Club P.O. Box 473251 Aurora, CO 80047-3251 For more information on obtaining National Radio Club Publications visit us at http://www.nrcdxas.org/ National Radio Club's A M Radio Log 28th Edition Over the years we have dedicated each edition of the Log to a club member or Log contributor who has supported the effort to serve the hobby. This year I have de- cided to dedicate the Log to the Paul Swearingen. Over the years Paul has been a constant contributor to DX NEWS and the past editor of many columns. He has been the Pub- lisher of DX NEWS magazine for nearly twenty years and more recently e-DXN.com. Paul will be retiring as Publisher in June 2008. I salute him for his many years of dedica- tion to the Broadcast Band DX hobby and the National Radio Club (Wayne Heinen Au- gust 15th 2007) We continue to track the development of IBOC (In Band On Channel) digital au- dio. It is now available to broadcasters on a full time basis and this new modulation method is known to cause co -channel interference for DX'ers. We have added it to the individual listings (see page 3), as well as adding a listing by location on page ***. Formerly called the National Radio Club Domestic Log, the first edition of the Na- tional Radio Club Domestic Log was published by mimeograph and hand -typed stencil in Bos- ton in 1968, with John Callarman providing the typing and the original Boston Publishing Committee the hand labor. The second and third editions were published in Boston as the Boston Publishing Committee changed the method of print for National Radio Club publications to commercial offset. A "mid-term" edition was published by the New Jersey Publishing Committee in 1975 and a new edition of the National Radio Club Log in the fall of 1976 . The log also underwent another technological change when in 1978 the log information went from 3" x 5" cards to a computerized system. In order for us to keep you abreast of the ever-changing AM dial scene, the logbook is now published annually, just prior to the start of the fall listening season. The roots of the National Radio Club AM Radio Log, though, date back to the 1930's when RADEX magazine published a log, and the `40's and `50's when the Newark News Radio Club BCB editor Carroll Weyrich produced an annual medium wave log. The accuracy of an endeavor like the National Radio Club AM Radio Log cannot be guaranteed, primarily because changes occur daily in the vast amounts of information contained in this publication. Network, format, schedule, and address information is very volatile, and since there are no central sources to which all this information must be re- ported, it requires close monitoring by many people to keep this information up to date. Information from the FCC and from the stations themselves, as well as from you the user of this log, help to keep the information current and accurate. J © 2007 National Radio Club AM Radio Log 28th Edition Page i The National Radio Club publishes DX News 30 times a year. By subscribing to DX News magazine, you will receive important AM station changes within 3 weeks after we first hear of them. The National Radio Club is a non-profit organization beginning our 73rd year of service by radio enthusiasts for radio enthusiasts. The people who publish the National Radio Club AM Radio Log, DX News magazine and DX Audio Service, some with many years of background in the professional broadcasting field, are as interested as you are in the need for accurate and fast information. We hope you will consider joining us as we ex- plore the ever-changing world of AM broadcasting and distant reception. This edition has received numerous updates by many National Radio Club mem- bers and other interested AM radio hobbyists. Special thanks go to Bill Hale for an ex- haustive effort to correct many errors to the Federal Communications Commission data that appear in the log. Bill's work on this edition assures you of the most up-to-date power and antenna information available anywhere. For our Canadian data, a special thanks to Shawn Axelrod for that information. Bill and Shawn were by no means the only partici- pants in this Club effort to continue to bring you the best and most accurate log. Many up- dates were gathered from the FCC database and some network web pages that are available. However, we've found many web pages with data that are hopelessly outdated. This log is updated through DX News Volume 74 Number 29 and IRCA's SOFT DX Monitor through the Volume 44 Number 30. It is of great importance that the users of the AM Radio Log pass to us changes as they occur. The accuracy of the AM Radio Log's next edition will be due to the input of DX'ers which helps us keep this publication database up to date. Your input to the next addition can come to us by mail or by Internet e-mail: National Radio Club Publications Center Log Updates P.O. Box 473251 Aurora, CO 80047-3251 INTERNET: [email protected] (Log updates only please) 73 Wayne NOPOH and Joan KBOYRX Heinen AM Radio Logbook Editor and Production Director Page ii © 2007 National Radio Club AM Radio Log 28th Edition How to read the AM Radio Log Call City of License State Time Zone Antenna Applications and Permits l WGOP Pocomoke City MD E U1 500 243- prra 250- CP U4 1000/1000 CoL Damascus 1637 Dun Swamp Road 21851 - 410-957-1904 C&W - A - 24 hr 96.9 "Bay Country" -$ t -//FM Day Night Additional Powers in Watts WGOP Pocomoke City MD E U1 500 243-psra 250 - CP U4 1000/1000 CoL Damascus 1037 Dun Swamp Road 21851 - 41 -957-1904 W -A - 24 hr -//FM 96.9 "Bay ountry" -$ Mailing Address Daytime Phone Hours of Operation WGOP Pocomoke City MD E U1 500 243 puma 250 - CP U4 1000/ 1000 CoL Damascus 1637 Dun Svqmp Road 21851 - 410-957-1904 C&W - A - 24 hr -//FM 96.9 " Country" 4 t- S. Stereo I = IBOC Format Networks It Operation Slogans and other notes Call The call letters of the station or an indication that it is a Voice of America (VOA) station. Calls of stations that have not previously operated New Not on Air or CP FROM on a given frequency contain a #. W# C# K# (with a number for database integrity) indicate New Not on Air stations with no assigned call letters. A small "n" is a nighttime only op- eration. City of license City of License is shown or in certain cases, cities of authorized station identification. These are shown as they appear in the FCC data base. Even though you may hear multiple cities announced during an ID, that is usually for promotional reasons. My local KCKK-1600 ID's as "Lakewood -Denver"; Lakewood is the City of License, and Denver is the major market that is served. © 2007 National Radio Club AM Radio Log 28th Edition Page iii Station Classes This discussion focuses on AM radio stations contained in the NRC AM Radio Log, specifically those in the United States and Canada. References are made to stations in other countries in North America as pacts were established between the nations' regulatory agencies as to the enforcement of rules regarding broadcast stations in this region. Since signals in the AM broadcast band travel beyond political borders, such agreements were necessitated. Most of the definitions are those of the U.S. Federal Communications Com- mission. The story of classes of radio stations goes back to the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, which divided the (then) Medium -Wave radio spectrum into three groups of stations: one which served large areas (clear channels); those which served a smaller geographic area (regional channels); and a third for small communities and rural areas (local channels). Although signals in the medium -wave frequencies are absorbed into the ionosphere during daylight hours, hence ground wave DX is limited by strength of signal, its path, and the receiver. But, they bounce off this level of sky at night and travel hundreds, even thou- sands of miles. Protection was granted to a select few stations which were designated I -A Clear Channel operations. These stations were allocated to frequencies upon which only one sta- tion was authorized to operate at night, and transmitted from a single, efficient tower with a power of 50,000 Watts (50 kW).