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Greeting from the Crossroads of the West

Bill — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:40:57 +0000

As I am in Utah (also known as the Crossroads of the West) at this moment and managed to find some Internet access, I decided to completely shift gears this week. I am dumping a load of Salt Lake City-Provo-Ogden area clips from the 1990's. These clips were recorded over the years, and I have been spending some time editing them the past few weeks.

Hope you enjoy!

Bill

Storm Damage

Jeff — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:22:25 +0000

A little over a week ago, a storm that brought a lot of snow to the New York/New Jersey area, brought a lot of wind to parts of New England. One of the hardest hit areas was Manchester, NH, where the roof of the building holding the Saga stations was damaged. Apparently the damage to the roof also caused damage to the building's sprinkler system which then flooded the building with a few inches of water. Here's a video taken by an employee there showing the extent of the damage. Enjoy new IDs today from the 4 stations that are housed in that building, along with several others from Manchester.

Clever headline goes here

Scott — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:24:57 +0000

I'd love to say something witty and amusing about the FM stations of the greater Harrisburg, PA area...but it's just one of those days (and in fact one of those years so far), and so here are a whole bunch of IDs for you to enjoy.

More next week!

Welcome from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Bill — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:11:58 +0000

This week, I am following suit with Scott and presenting all of my AM clips for the Harrisburg-Lancaster-York-Carlisle-Gettysburg-Hershey-Hanover-ad nauseum, PA market. Lancaster County, in part of this market, is known for the tourist industry that has developed from the "Amish and Plain People" and is known as Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

The next two uploads will include FM clips.

Have fun listening!

Bill

There is no radio in Intercourse

Scott — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:41:09 +0000

But if there were a radio station in that curiously-named central Pennsylvania town, or in nearby Blue Ball, PA, for that matter, it would fall in the hugely hyphenated mush of markets that we call Harrisburg-Lancaster-York, PA.

Our Toppy survey of that area isn't complete, but it moves one step closer this week with a batch of AM IDs from the summer of 2008. There's more to come, too: FMs from that trip, which I'll post next week, and then another big, big round of IDs from a visit that Bill and I made together in September 2009.

And there's one more matching Tower Site of the Week installment for your enjoyment, surveying the AM sites of Carlisle, PA, over at fybush.com!

From The Middle of New York's Southern Tier

Bill — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:23:39 +0000

This week features a bunch of "drive-thru" clips which were recorded on our trips between Baltimore and Rochester, NY over the past couple of years. The market spotlighted this time is "Elmira," one of those spread-out markets which includes several smaller sub-markets. For those who are unaware, Elmira et al is located in the middle of New York's Southern Tier.

Enjoy!

From Elkridge, Maryland, the 2009-2010 unofficial snow capital of the USA, not including mountain areas.

(I am sure here in Elkridge, unofficially we have had over 100 inches of snow fall this year so far. Baltimore-Washington International officially broke the 80 inch total barrier last week.)

Bill

Winter E Skip

Jeff — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:47:38 +0000

Normally during the winter months E Skip propagation is not all that common, and when it does happen, usually it's just for a few minutes. However, on January 31st and February 1st, mother nature had other ideas. Both of those days, I had great openings to Florida, and some stations from the midwest as well. I was able to catch IDs from WOCL in Orlando and WUFT-FM in Gainsville.

Also, from an area with much different weather (although is has been a cold winter in Florida!) enjoy some new IDs from the Northern NH-Northeast Kingdom VT area as well as Portsmouth.

Snow more where these came from

Scott — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:35:41 +0000

Sorry...I'm still amused that we had a far less snowy February here in upstate New York (even with a couple of inches today) than Bill & company did down in the mid-Atlantic.

In any case, this week we wrap up my big stack of IDs from July and August 2008 on the fringes of the Baltimore-Washington megalopolis, adding IDs from the Annapolis MD, Cambridge-Easton MD, Hagerstown MD-Chambersburg PA, Wilmington DE and Winchester VA-Martinsburg WV markets.

More DC tower pictures, too, over at Site of the Week!

FINGER LAKES SPECIAL

Bill — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:35:34 +0000

This time I am uploading several clips for the Geneva NY Market.

Enjoy!

Bill

Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha.

Scott — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:25:18 +0000

That about sums up the way most of us in America's Usual Snow Capital feel this week as we watch our friends and neighbors down in DC, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania (Hi Bill!) get buried under the snow that usually comes our way this time of year without benefit of screaming national news headlines. (For the record, we had "a dusting" here in Rochester today.)

There was no snow, of course, in July and August 2008, when we recorded a whole bunch of IDs down there in the markets adjoining Washington and Baltimore. This week, we add to the pile with some specimens from Annapolis MD, Wilmington DE and Hagerstown MD-Chambersburg PA.

(And we have more tower pics over at Site of the Week, too!)