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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 282

Table Of Contents: 

	 If This Is Your First Digest [removed]
	 Re: Clear Channel Radio
	 Clear Channel Stations

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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 7:25:33 EDT
From: wdp@[removed]  (William Pfeiffer)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: If This Is Your First Digest [removed]
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi ...


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I have made some changed and I hope that these changed have worked.
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Sincerely

William Pfeiffer
OTR Digest

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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 20:05:11 -0400
From: Robert Kirk <kirk@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Clear Channel Radio
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Udmacon@[removed] said at Tue, 13 Aug 1996 17:13:23:

>If I am not mistaken, there are more than five clear channel stations,
>including WSM, Nashville; WGY, Schenectady; WGN, Chicago; WABC, New York;
>WLS, Chicago; WBZ, Boston; WHAM, Rochester; WLW, Cincinnati; WBAL, Baltimore;
>WHAS, Louisville, etc, etc. Is it that some are directional, like WWVA?
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>BILL KNOWLTON, WCNY-FM, Syracuse NY
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And even more, I think. Weren't at least some of the New York
stations WEAF/WOR/WJZ/WABC clear channel? And WWL New Orleans.
And who knows more. I missed the original posting, but it seems
there were a batch of clear channel stations which were all
'uncleared' a dozen or more years ago in the interests of 
deregulation or efficiency or de-monopolization or whatever.

Bob Kirk

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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:54:42 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Clear Channel Stations
Message-ID: <960814225441_456794568@[removed]>

Hi Gang -                August 14, 1996 -- Wednesday 9:40 PM cdt 

In issue 280, Ken Greenwald posted an interesting and informative 
article about KFI in Los Angeles.   In that posting he indicated that
KFI became a "clear channel" station when it went to 50,000 watts. 
This is true, but that's not the whole story about clear channel stations.

The "clear channel" comes from the fact that the station does not share
its frequency at night.  I believe it was in 1934 that the FCC created 
27 clear channel stations.   These stations were located in different
parts of the United States, to provide radio service to a very wide area.  
These "clear channel stations" were the only stations on the frequency AT 
NIGHT.  This is because the ionosphere (mentioned by Mr. Greenwald) 
creates skip conditions on broadcast frequencies at night, so if the 
channel is clear (no other station on that frequency) the signals carry 
great distances.  Most clear channel stations ran the maximum legal power, 
50,000 watts. 

Radio receivers in the 1930's and early 1940's required outside aerials.
Since many local and regional stations went off the air at night, it 
was possible for a modest radio receiver to receive stations a thousand
or more miles away.  The clear channel permitted the the listener to hear
the station without interference from any other station.

Some of the clear channels and their stations were:
650 WSM, Nashville, TN;  700 WLW, Cincinnati, OH;
720 WGN, Chicago, IL; 750 WSB, Atlanta, GA;  820 WBAP, [removed], TX; 
840 WHAS, Louisville, KY;  850 KOA, Denver, CO;  870; WWL New Orleans, LA.
(seems to me I posted a listing of most clear channel stations in a 
very early issue of the otrdigest)

I don't know all the stations, but I know that in the 1940's I used to 
"DX the Broadcast Band", and it was not unusual to listen to WBZ in Boston
and KSL in Salt Lake City and hear them as well as WGN in Chicago.  In 
fact, as recently as 1950 I recorded some of my otr material from distant 
clear channel stations (it wasn't considered otr back then).

There are no more Clear Channel Stations.  There are still plenty of 
50,000 watt stations, but none of them "serve the nation" any more. 
Some wag might even wonder if they serve anybody. 

Happy Taping -- Ken Piletic, Streamwood, Illinois 
kenpiletic@[removed] 


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