Nighttime Driving and Am Radio

TheMartianChick · #21 08/01/12, 09:12 PM

When I was a kid, I would wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to go back to sleep. I used to listen to 62 WHEN Radio out of Syracuse NY on my little transistor radio. The deejay ran late night trivia contests. I learned a lot of trivia about a lot of trivial subjects as a result. That same (former) deejay hired me as the manager of a retail scientific store when I was twenty. While interviewing me, he was impressed by the amount of scientific trivia that I knew!

**clovis** · #22 08/01/12, 09:44 PM

As a side note, when I was a kid, I used to be amazed at all the stations that I could pick up on my little alarm clock with a radio.

I remember wanting to tell my dad that I had listened to stations so far away...I really was amazed that I could listen to those stations...but I knew that if I told my father, I would be in big trouble for sneaking radio at night.

Raven12 · #23 08/01/12, 09:51 PM

Hockey on Canadian stations and the occasional French broadcasts from Quebec. Something about flipping though and catching a station in the French language seems so comforting. Leftover stuff from my childhood I guess.

Rick · #24 08/01/12, 10:16 PM

I love to scan the AM dial at night, and see what stations from what cities come in.

fellini123 · #25 08/01/12, 10:44 PM

DH and I are always driving late at night, usually coming home, or going to, dog shows. We are/were Art Bell fans, even had a dog named Suncrest Coast to Coast. I dont like the new guy much, I love it when they replay the old Art Bell shows.
Mostly we listen to books on CD now.
Alice in Virginia

thesedays · #26 08/01/12, 10:56 PM

Don't remember if this was on the AM or FM band (more likely FM) but in 2007, I was driving through the Oklahoma Panhandle and stumbled onto a station whose format was entirely #1 songs from the 1950s to the present. I knew it was canned, however, because the songs played were not the same ones listed by the announcer.

DavidUnderwood · #27 08/02/12, 12:56 PM

Clear channel was 50000 watts!
WBT 1110 AM in Charlotte had Hello Henry 9 till midnite.
Then Art Bell all night. I don't much like the new guy on
"Coast to coast AM".
There was WSM 650 in Nashville with the Grand Ol Opry.
In mornings I liked Ludlow Porch on WSB 750, Atlanta.

Joe in SD · #28 08/02/12, 06:33 PM

KOMA Oklahoma City. Great listening back then.

camp10 · #29 08/03/12, 07:19 AM

WGN - Eddie Schwartz, followed by Steve and Johnny
Otherwise WLW, KMOX, KOA

Too many stations have a syndicated program running in the late night slots nowdays. I preferred the local hosts.

Big Dave · #30 08/03/12, 08:01 AM

Wolf man Jack - Midnight Cowboy Bill Mack and WLS out of Chicago. Love corn no matter how it is cooked.

mahto · #31 08/03/12, 12:01 PM

Daytime it was Johnny Dolence on KC's WHB--710 on your radio dial. After dark, we switched to 89.9--Chicago's WLS. Then, the kicker! Like Nimrod, at midnight we would meet on the town square, park side-by-side, open our trunks and listen simultaneously to Little Rock's KAAY--Bleeker Street Theatre! Sneak a beer or three when the constabulatory wasn't looking! Bliss in a very small town!!