How many daytime only stations are left?

[Kevin Vahey]

I suspect WILD might have done it 10-15 years ago if transmitter was in
Boston but low power out of Medford at night was useless.

I believe Boston was the largest city in the country without a fulltime AM
transmitter inside the city limits.



On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>wrote:

> <<On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:20:53 -0500, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> said:
>
> > I am curious how many daytime only stations are left.
> > Obviously WILD is one but I suspect in this day and age they could go
> full
> > time if they chose to spend the money.
>
> Nearly every daytimer could go full-time "if they chose to spend the
> money".  But why would you bother if nobody could hear the station at
> night anyway?  It's just an extra expense at that point.  Better to
> buy a commercial-band translator -- at least that's useful in the
> daytime as well.
>
> -GAWollman
>
>