OKLAHOMA
KFXY 1640 Enid may have changed format to ``The New Faith 1640`` with southern gospel music --- but that doesn`t mean an even more important religion, baseball can`t bump off the praise whenever there is a game.
Monday afternoon April 12 at 1840 UT, I am hearing Royals baseball vs Tigers at Detroit! And frequent commercial breaks including local ones for the KC area, such as Edward Jones in Prairie Village. What good does that do us in Enid, with half a dozen of those right around here??
Next check at 2026, still Royals game. It was about over so after the post-game wrapup, and I could not care less who won, at 2046 slogan as ``The sports authority for Edmond, 1640 The Score`` and already mixing with gospel music as it immediately converted to ``The New Faith 1640``. Edmond is a northern suburb of OKC well within coverage.
There are bound to be night games too, so DXers may still hear either format and either slogan, depending, on 1640. But apparently still not sports talk any more, just live games and associated chatter.
While I was at it, scanned the MW band to find what other stations were audible on the Royals network, no IDs heard but easily presumed:
1550, KKLE Winfield KS (tho CCI KYAL Sapulpa OK is also sports)
1510, KNNS Larned KS, barely audible in KOKC splash, but // 1640 (was surprised to get this, as not usually audible daytimes)
1150, KSAL Salina KS
1130, KLEY Wellington KS, sibling station to 1550 KKLE Winfield
860, KKOW Pittsburg KS
690, KGGF Coffeyville KS
580, WIBW Topeka KS
and some 8 seconds delayed, 610, KCSP Kansas City, which I assume is the originating station. Is that so it will be less obvious that the same game is on 580 WIBW? It`s also incredible that 690 and 860 in essentially the same market with huge coverage overlap are both carrying Royals. Axually, 580 alone would suffice to cover this entire area in KS, MO and OK, not to mention NE and IA. [and more of the same the afternoon of April 13]
I also ran across more silly ball games on the dial; they all sound alike to me, so in the parked car I employed the handy portable I always keep in the vehicle, and checked for parallels.
Cardinals were also playing, on:
1390, KCRC Enid OK [we are so lucky to have access to both!]
1230, WBBZ Ponca City OK
Rangers on:
710, KGNC Amarillo TX
Glenn Hauser, Enid, dxld yg (14/4-2010)
OKLAHOMA
Enid`s X-band station, 1640 has just changed format. It had been Fox sports talk, but who needs that with Chisholm Trail`s other station KCRC 1390 also sportstalk with ESPN?? Well, we "needed" that for several years. But this church-on-every-streetcorner town has an even greater "need" ---
First noticed April 6 as I tuned by at 0618 UT playing country gospel music! 0621 slogan thrice as "solid gospel music", and "The new Faith 1640". Are the calls still KFXY?
Yes, next check at 1557 UT again slogan "The new Faith 1640", and 1559 legal ID as "KFXY, Enid-Oklahoma City, bringing you the best, a better variety of southern gospel music, the new Faith 1640".
1600 into SRN News, which consists of two minutes of seemingly secular world news, a minute of religious promotion, and the remaining two minutes of the "news" with a pro-Christian, anti-Moslem slant.
1605 back to gospel music. Thus KFXY has switched from one totally useless format to another, as far as I am concerned. Now that I have got the word out, back to ignoring 1640.
As a reminder, this station is one of few on the X-band with a direxional antenna, same day and night, NNW/SSE from a site a few miles east of Hennessey, so it gets into city of license OK and also into Oklahoma City, 10 kW day and 1 kW night, --- but makes it difficult to DX in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and also in much of North America, off the sides of the beam.
Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD yg (6/4-2010)
OKLAHOMA
Daytime DX in Oklahoma
Glenn Hauser's MW bandscan.
DX Listening Digest (19/12-2009)
OKLAHOMA
KTOK, 1000, a ``Clear Channel`` station in OKC, without IBOC both on Sept 13 between 18 and 19 UT when checked on caradio, and also Sept 14 at 1740. During talkshows, not sports. Hope it`s gone for good? But it has been sporadic in past. Weak TX/KS signals audiblized on 990 and 1010. Meanwhile, WWLS-640 IBOC still blasting away.
Glenn Hauser, OK, dxld 9-070 (15/9-2009)
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