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Originally Posted by leadlike
Jeff,
I found CFZM through this wiki article. Their line following their call sign was 'the best of the best' which helped in my search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFZM
I agree with you on this dinky Florida station. I would like to think that as this was just playing the national ESPN sports feed, that some slovenly local ESPN affiliate was just repeating the Florida signal during their off hours. Hence, the Florida call sign rather than their own. Although if that was true, it would have to be a heck of a coincidence that they shared the same frequency on the dial...
I used to get a Raleigh station when I worked right on the Susquehanna river. The river formed sheer cliffs on all sides except to the south, so there was no television or FM radio. But we did get that one weak am station out of Raleigh. I believe it was WPTF as that was my first exposure to Art Bell and the freaky side of late night radio. I still get that station from time to time here, but that has been my record for southern reception. |
I looked up CFZM on Wikipedia myself earlier tonight and found that it is the former CHWO-AM 740 in Toronto; its website, however, is the same as it always was:
www.am740.ca. I live near Lake Erie and hear 740 over the air very well, 24/7, but I have also bookmarked its website in my browser so I can listen when I'm working at the computer. Noticed the station has changed its format, from big band to oldies. It dawned on me at that moment that there had been talk of the station dropping its big band format for some other type of music, but they weren't saying at that time what the new format would be.
The Florida station I heard 38 years ago on my stereo FM radio was, IIRC, WEAT-FM, 107.9, and I was in a suburb of Cleveland then. Must have gotten that station on a fluke, as the frequency was dead silent at the time, the local Cleveland station having been knocked off the air by lightning as I explained in my post. The Florida station was a rock station at the time (1970); ESPN (radio or TV) did not exist then. I don't know what the "dinky little Florida station" you were referring to could have been, as I have never heard any Florida AMs here in my entire life (I've been an Ohioan all my 52 years; never lived anywhere outside the state).