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To: MUDDOG
If you go back far enough, WTAM, when I first heard it, was KYW and later WKYC then they went into the "3WE" thing. Seems like they've always had an identity crisis. I am told that KYW was originally in Philly and the FCC made them move it.

According to Wikipedia:
KYW (1060 AM), "Newsradio 10-60", is a commercial AM radio station, licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation and broadcasts an all-news format. Its studios are located in Center City Philadelphia and its transmitter and two-tower directional antenna array are located in Lafayette Hill. KYW is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States, and also has had one of the more complicated histories. Located in Chicago, Illinois at its start in late 1921, it moved to Philadelphia in 1934. In 1956 the KYW call letters were transferred to a station in Cleveland, Ohio, only to be returned nine years later to their original Philadelphia home.

19 posted on 07/08/2017 7:18:55 AM PDT by capt. norm (Two can live as cheaply as one...but for only half as long)
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To: capt. norm

Baffling.

BTW, I discovered this year I can get Wash. Nationals games on 1500 WFED, which apparently used to be WTOP, but I got a headache trying to follow all the changes listed in that wikipedia article!


20 posted on 07/08/2017 7:35:36 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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