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Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966
Yeah, it seems like FM talk is growing, we have one here in Pittsburgh, 104.7, WPGB that is ripping KDKA-AM a new one. They first took Rush Limbaugh away and then the Pittsburgh Pirates. Come to think of it, I notice that many sports teams are going FM too, heck, all three teams here, the Penguins, Pirates, and Steelers have their flagship stations on FM. My maternal grandmother passed away in 1997 but if she was still around, she'd be going ape on her Pirates not being on KDKA anymore. The downside is that the Pirates always pre-emps Michael Savage and he pre-emps George Noory. Wish the Pirates were somewhere else, oh well....
Yeah, sometimes I listen to 770 out of Jeanette and they have a sister station on 620 kc, when there isn't any doctor shows on, they play oldies too.
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Pittsburgh also has an FM oldies station, WWSW-FM, as I found when I did a search for the city's radio stations on RadioLocator.com. The two AM oldies stations you mention are there as well, although I can't see why two stations (WKFB770/WKHB620) in the same area are simulcasting the same programming. I can't see why, unless 620 (WKHB) is so weak at night at 50 watts (5.5kW daytime) no one much outside the area can hear it.
Doctor shows? WKHB620 must be a talk/oldies station; talk during the day, oldies at night or vice-versa. I can think of at least one other station that splits formats like that: 50kW WBZ-AM 1030 in Boston, which booms in here near Cleveland at night and should be audible in the Pittsburgh area as well after dark. That station is news during the day and talk at night. A small station in the Detroit area, WPON 1460, also has the same format as WKHB; talk and oldies, at least they did the last time I looked at their listing on RadioLocator.com.