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Almost Flip Side of the Coin: FM station with the lowest power.

WMTH 90.5 Park Ridge, IL operates with 8 Watts ERP. When it first signed on it was 10 watts TPO with a 2 Bay Antenna, on 88.5, apparently 16 Watts ERP. It's biggest claim to fame is that their first student announcer was Harrison Ford, according to some claims. It does have some Music Surveys on ARSA from the mid 1960s. Along with WLTH and WNWC, they were the first to break some regional (Midwest) Garage Band Tracks a few weeks before WCFL and WLS did.

The FCC ordered that NCE-FM stations that fit in were to upgrade to 100 watts Class A, and those could bump the 10 watt Class D stations. There was no place to go except 8 watts on 90.5. Attempts to go to 100 watts were apparently unsuccessful.
 
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bigic said:
Is it cheaper than feeding them by an ordinary satellite receiver? Maybe the rent for a satellite audio channel is too expensive?
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when this was set up, i think this was the only real option
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
WMTH 90.5 Park Ridge, IL operates with 8 Watts ERP. When it first signed on it was 10 watts TPO with a 2 Bay Antenna, on 88.5, apparently 16 Watts ERP. It's biggest claim to fame is that their first student announcer was Harrison Ford, according to some claims. It does have some Music Surveys on ARSA from the mid 1960s. Along with WLTH and WNWC, they were the first to break some regional (Midwest) Garage Band Tracks a few weeks before WCFL and WLS did.
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Very true about WNWC and WLTH. They played many records earlier than WLS and WCFL. One of the early DJs there was Steve King who later went to WBBM-FM, WLS, WIND and his long run at WGN.
 
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