LOOK
It's possible on occasion to catch VIDEO and Pictures of radio. We hope to find more for this little section!
WKY Oklahoma City loses a
tower during the big Oklahoma City Tornadoes in 1998. This was caught by
Channel 9's Tower Cam.
Other Places:
This listener didn't expect much of a prize when asked to guess
what's in the secret "Black Box"
(Listener Discretion Advised)
Andy Savage of 93.7 "The Edge"
in Minneapolis plays "He loves me, he loves me not" with a very
confident young lady who is long distance dating a really nice man from
Duluth...except for one tiny problem...
Detroit Loses Classical to
Alternative. Here is your typical format clash, as a two part Aria seques
into Nine Inch Nails at 5:00pm...and it actually works fairly well!
It wasn't a "Good Day!" for this announcer who had to
read a serious ad during a newscast. While it's not him breaking up, this
is known as the famous PAUL HARVEY
clip.
Stations that take jabs at each other can be cute, if they're
creative. This clip is from Rock 100.3
in Minneapolis. Their competition was a station consisting of Three rim shots, each covering only a portion of the Twin Cities.
This has to be the worlds longest Legal
ID
So your station buys the book, yet you're not #1? CHAMP
101 tells Arbitron what to do!
These were donated by an Alan Kabel
fan, from his days at Z-95 in Chicago.
This guy must hit the floor when he leaves the studio at the end of his
shift. Here's a cruel bit at the expense of a caller and a totally new way
to approach the same old boring weather forecast.
Courtesy of Jon Ellis
A little thing called a "Time Share Agreement"
Back before the days of FM and expanded band allocation there were an abundance of AM radio stations, many of which operated only portions of the day. The FCC used a method called "Time Sharing" to resolve the situation. Today only one such arrangement remains. (Information courtesy of Mark Roberts)
WIBW-Topeka/KKSU-Manhattan
Until October 2, 1961, the stations alternated
blocks of time on weekdays on Saturdays. WIBW broadcast until 9:30 am. KSAC broadcast from
9:30 until 10:30. WIBW then broadcast until 12:30 pm. KSAC came back on until 2:00 pm,
when WIBW resumed use of the frequency. At 4:30 pm, KSAC took over for one last hour. From
5:30 pm onward, WIBW broadcast.
On Saturdays, KSAC broadcast from 9:30 to 10:30
am, and from 12:30 to 2:30 pm, with WIBW on the air at all other times.
Beginning October 2, 1961, the handoffs became
much less frequent. On weekdays, KSAC broadcast from 12:30 to 5:15 pm, with WIBW
broadcasting at all other times. On Saturday, KSAC handled all K-State football
broadcasts; otherwise, WIBW was on the air. At present, KKSU broadcasts weekdays from
12:30 to 5:30 pm, with WIBW on the air at all other times. WIBW now airs (and networks)
Kansas State football. The stations still operate from separate transmitter sites. The
difference is noticeable in Kansas City, and it's even noticeable in Lawrence, Kansas,
which is some 50 miles closer to Topeka and Manhattan than Kansas City. (1997 audio clip
courtesy of Richie Kennedy.)
AUDIO CLIP OF DAILY HAND-OFF TO KKSU
The only three way Time Share
in Chicago was recently dissolved.
1240 kHz (WCRW, WEDC, WSBC)
Until July 1996, 1240 kHz was the home of the
last three-way time-sharing arrangement in the United States. WCRW, WEDC, and WSBC, all
broadcasters specializing in ethnic and specialty programming, shared this frequency. In
May 1996, WSBC bought out WCRW, for a price of $762,500, as reported by the M Street
Journal (July 17, 1996). In July, WSBC took over WCRW's time in addition to its own. WSBC
once owned WXRT(FM) and WSCR(AM) in Chicago, which were subsequently sold to Westinghouse
Broadcasting, and are now a part of CBS. On June 13, 1997 at midnight, WSBC assumed
control of WEDC's time as well, putting an end to the last of the original time-sharing
arrangements in the United States. WSBC and WEDC used separate transmitter sites, located
within a mile of each other on the northwest side of Chicago. With the 1997 merger, WSBC
also began using WEDC's transmitter on a full-time basis.
WEDC/WSBC HAND-OFF
1450 kHz (WCEV,
WVON)
Licensed to Cicero, a suburb next to the
southwest side of Chicago, these stations shared a transmitter in the city of Chicago
proper. The daytime signal covers most of Chicago, though, on some car radios, there is
interference northwest of O'Hare airport caused by proximity to the 50,000-watt
transmitters of WMAQ, WGN, and WBBM. At night, along the shore of Lake Michigan, the
signal encountered the typical class C "graveyard channel" co-channel
interference at Belmont
Avenue (3200 North). Similar results were
obtained inland at Ashland Avenue (1600 West).
WCEV/WVON HAND-OFF