so where does XWA Montreal fit into it?

[Kevin Vahey]

CKLW's daytime signal is simply astonishing. In the Big 8 years not
only did it rule Detroit but was also #1 in Cleveland and it also did
well in Buffalo.

Nights they were one of the strongest skywave signals in New England.
A tip of the hat to the person who designed the pattern as it was
about as perfect as you could get.

On 3/5/09, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
> <<On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:08:09 -0600, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net> said:
>
>> I would love to know how CKLW 800 Windsor wound up with an almost
>> defacto clear channel. For most of its history it acted as a Detroit
>> station until the CRTC clamped down with CANCON.
>
>> Can it be traced to the fact that Windsor was in the most southern
>> point of Canada?
>
> Well, it's certainly well south of all the other Canadian 800s, which
> gives it a chance to have some east-west components in its night
> pattern where all the others are oriented north-south (mostly north).
>
> -GAWollman
>
>