Speaking Of 1440 AM's...

[Scott Reppert]

Caught this this morning at 6:06am playing Arthur Alexander's "You Better Move On"...



WJJL, Niagara Falls, NY. Was coming in along with WNFL and WAJR.

An interesting sidelight from WikiPedia...

WJJL (1440 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a 1950s music (oldies) format. Licensed to Niagara Falls, New York, USA, the station serves the Buffalo area. The station is currently owned by M. J. Phillips Communications, Inc., Debtor in Possession. WJJL went on the air in December 1947, and it serves Western New York and Southern Ontario, Canada. WJJL was the first radio station to feature a two-way telephone talk show, Party Line. The show was renamed to Viewpoint in the 1960s.

A studio fire at the station's Niagara Falls headquarters in 1999 necessitated a move out of Niagara Falls to West Seneca. Until its closure, the station maintained a satellite studio in The Summit Park Mall in Wheatfield. In June 2009, WJJL's morning show started broadcasting from The Niagara Arts and Cultural Center. In late 2010, the station moved into a new Southgate Plaza Location.

The station's owner is M.J. Phillips. A considerable amount of controversy arose in 2007, when a woman who identified herself as "Joann Nicola Lutz Distefano Phillips", an Internet troll who was known for her bizarre screeds on radio message boards, claimed to be the owner of the station, as well as M.J.'s ex-wife, and tried to take over the station's license by filing a parallel license renewal listing herself as the station owner. The FCC rejected her claim to the station, just as they did in 2004 when she previously tried to file a license renewal

[Scott Reppert]

Got a call this morning on the way in to Morgantown from Steve, the PD. He said, yes, it was WJJL that was playing Arthur Alexander that morning and since it was before 7am it was coming out of the computer which they program themselves. Obviously they know good oldies.

He also said that their transmitter "had not been working properly or at full power recently" and wondered just how that signal could be getting to Fairmont, WV. He said he had never experienced interference from WAJR or WNFL or Cowan, TN...but "them Bible thumpers in Ohio can be killer"...