We Used To .....

But NOT NO More !.. We Used to Listen to AM radio all day long in the kitchen and out in the hog barn . Mom listened to Metz and Perky on WHAS Louisville. Barney Arnold came on around noon , You Guys in Texas got to listen San Antonio Rose at noon . Our Hogs listened to Diky and Bux Braun on WINN . There were Many other good DJs that were quite entertaining in those days ,.I could always tell what time of day it was when the DJs switched Out , Mom would turn the radio on while Making Dad His breakfast and the would draw the rest of us out of bed, while it was still dark.We milked and fed , got on the Bus listened to Bill Baley on WAKY . I remember Dad stoppin Us from planting corn to come over and hear the DERBY on the radio from the pickup under the shade tree . , I heard SECRETARIAT make history. TV was just as good in those days .. But Now things are just too different for me to like the changes that took us to where we are now . Just thinking,after reading 37 Cheif's post . Thought provoking but ,the end of rant

Local AM used to sign off at sundown. Some still do. My mother always listened to WPLB Greenville or WION Ionia. After dark she'd listen to WOWO in Fort Wayne or WLS Chicago. We could get WSM at times. I always had WSM on my car radio in high school. Most everybody else listened to rock and roll on Super CFL, WCFL Chicago. I still listen to WSM Nashville or WRVK Renfro Valley Ky online now and then.

The first FM I had was a converter in my pickup that plugged in and the AM had to be on a certain frequency. We had arrived when we got an FM radio in the dairy barn.

Used to listen to WOWO and WLS at night here in NW SC when I was a kid.

As a teenager it was KTSA, San Antonio, TX. Rock n roll. Mama had WOAI San Antonio on. It had the soap operas and Daddy would catch the market reports.

Diode+coil+headphone in pillow picked up 50,000 watt station in Omaha 80 miles away all night long. Later listened to WWL in New Orleans, WLS Chicago, KOMA, Oklahoma City, A Dallas station WBAP? on old car radio with a junk battery and charger most nights in bed. Now usually Earl May's old station KMA out of Shenandoah, IA, That's where the Everly Brothers started singing on their way to school in the 50's.

KNUJ and WCCO mostly the local one, baseball on the big city one. The local is still going and still on now and then. The big city one lost most of the sports and went a bit urban which is fine, but Im country. Listen to Yankton AM station a fair bit now, they have changed a little too.

I find myself watching MeTV most nights now, the tv shows that were on just before or after black and white turned to color. Some H and I tv as well similar.Was good times stuff.

Paul

Absolutely nothing good on FM radio nowadays. All I listen to is a.m. and thats not very good anymore either. And dont get me started on TV. Literally throw your televisions away you will be happier.

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I listen to KWMT radio 540 on the radio dial out of Fort Dodge , Iowa. It is classic country with weather, news, markets. It is my go to station in my truck always.

My first radio was a Crystal set, and late at night I could catch Wheeling West Virginia. I had absolutely no idea where the heck that was. In 2016 while travelling, we stopped into Wheeling for lunch one day.

WABC,NYC,WBZ BOSTON,WLS CHICAGO

First FM converter I bought went in my 1030 Case tractor. Spent a lot of time in that tractor at night.

Cklw 800 out of Windsor and wknr 1270 in Detroit. One of the djs that was on both is now on satellite 60s channel. Pat StJohn.

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Paul, Try 1310 am when you have time. Seemed like it was a strong signal down to Hector when I was down that way the other day.

Back in Cleveland are high schools it was WIXY and WHK and CKLW out of Detroit for rock and roll. These days I listen to classic rock stations.

When the Kennelly-Heaviside layer moved further from the earth after nightfall, we could pull in Juicy Brucie Bradley of WBZ AM in Boston MA all they way up in northern NH. At 9:00 PM he would perform the ceremony of lighting the purple candle for the start of the "night people's" evening. My mother always had an AM radio on during the day in the kitchen. I remember Gail Garnett singing "We'll Walk in the Sunshine" in the summer of 1964.

WOWO. After sunset here in Virginia we could usually catch WOWO Fort Wayne for another hour.

That's something- you listen (or listened) to WOWO, I'm 35 miles from that station but the station in Richmond, Virginia (WRVA?) often comes in better at night than WOWO.

Used to listen to stations afr just toi be able to do it. Like WSM,WWL, WBAP, AND WRVA along with WABC WBZ and A couple others one was in Baltimore MD just thought it was fun finding and listening to some of them. Also could use the lightening strikes for a weather report. IF you had lightening strikes at WBAP and not at WSM or WWL then the storm was out past those places and between Dallas and LA, IF it was clear north of WSM and not over by IA or Chicago then you knew it was coming from down MO way. IF it was in Chicago then it was about a day away if on WSM then it was about 2 days away or might even go south of us. AM picks up a lot of things like that so it was another form of weather besides the weather guessers. OF course there were always the local stations to listen to in Lansing Saginaw and At the time Detroit with Gene Autry owning a station there. I used to listen to a San Antionio TX station Something like 670 or 790 AM online after finding it in the truck going down to Laredo or some place close to there a few times. There were also stations out in Cheyenne WY and MT as well as ID. To ger WSM at night I had to wait for a Canadian Station CFCO or something like that to go off as it would over power WSM since we were closer to the Canadian station and both were real close in Frequency. Like 650and 670 or something like that been 40 years since all this was around. I remember listening to a winter storm that came through from IA or NE back in the 80's we got hit with it also but not as bad as they did. IF they had listed the things that were open the list would have been shorter at the time. they even closed MSU for a few days at that time. We got about 18 inches of snow which is a lot for us in one shot. This is in Mid MI. Milk truck missed the pickup for a day due to it. He had his daughter driving while he shoveled to get through some of it. He said he had not been to bed in a couple days from it.