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"Talk Radio" ranks right up there with the plagues of Egypt.

Are you sure that was not WBAP?

Not related to the OP, but in the early 70s an AM station in Juarez, Mexico was broadcasting with a tremendous amount of power at night. They billed themselves as "XEROK, X Rock 80." They'd crank it up at night and play the best underground rock of the day. Those were the days.

Never mind, I think. It's been many years, but now that I think about it, I believe WBAP was an FM station. I do remember the Grease Man always talking about "high steppers," and WAPE is beginning to ring a very faint bell.

WBAP was AM 820 out of Ft. Worth. Bill Mack’s Open Road Show!

I need a tuneup. I listen to WBAP every freekin day in the truck. I was thinking WAIV. Nuther shot or two of vodka will fix me right up. Maybe.

River Rider! That certainly works for me!

Have a great evening.

What about KVOO out of Tulsa. We used to listen to it way down here.

IIRC - KOMA, WHO, AND KOA (out of Denver) were 100,000 watt stations. I don't remember if KOB (out of Albuquerque) was, but I think so.

WBAP gets here sometimes.
Cinci,
Louisville,
Boston,
New York,
Chicago,
Detroit,
Cleveland,
Nashville,
Richmond,
Atlanta
Can listen to those at night maybe more.

Pittsburgh and Philly, don't work real well? They are 100 and 200miles away.

Used to listen all the time at night, especially to WLW, in the truck.
Still do when driving late at night.

I like to find the old radio comedy (honeymooners type) shows.

Border to border and coast to coast and then some.

kwg

I had forgotten WBAP and KVOO!

Most nights it can be picked up down here on the tip of the AKPEN.

WKBW in Buffalo, NY, was one of the few radio stations that could send AM top-40 music into the valleys of west-central NH when I was a kid. Most of the radio dial was filled with static, as the background radiation from the granite pretty much wrecked every AM signal that passed.

I spent many a nights listening to WLS. Back then I thought AM was American music and FM was foreign music since we couldn't pick up any FM stations.

KOMA, Oklahoma City!!!!! 1520 on your AM dial!

Also KSL, 1160 Salt Lake, KOA 850 Denver, and KOB 770 Albuquerque.

We got X-Rock 80, from Mexico too something like "Ekis 880, Ocan, Juarez, Mexico" used to have commercials for "Banco de ComerMex"

KFI out of LA sometimes too (620?)

I think KOMA went to 100000 about 7 in the evening because we could get it in North Dakota at that time. It would go away about 7 in the morning. Ed k

Dr. Don Rose 610 KFRC-AM

Top 40 Music of my youth.

Hell yes! I was a kid in Atlanta in 1966, I had a transistor radio, I used to listen to AM 700 in Cincinnatti, came in clear as a bell.
I thought that was fascinating listening to a station from a state so far away, on the banks of the Ohio.

My buddy and I were up in Canada in the fall of 1992, we couldn't believe it but our Braves were in the playoffs. We drove through Minnesota at night, listening to the baseball on AM 750 out of Atlanta, great reception.

With that smirk and stylin' stash, am guessing either an OB-GYN or procto...

I have spent many a nite ..with AM radio...... Since my dad told me 40 years ago to ..SHUT THAT CHIT OFF.....