Originally Posted By: Kira
What are its call letters?
Used to LOVE listening to the CBC show "As It Happens". The 50K watt transmission is no longer.
The signal would skip all the way down Lake Champlain all day long.
I was a younger radio listener then.
The local station here, 101.5, used to have similarly insane broadcasting power, 48,500W according to the WIKI I'm reading. We used to be able to have it for the entire two hour drive to Muskoka no problem, and could get it on the island. When driving out east, you could get it well past Kingston, it was amazing.
However, that is no longer the case and my thought was that it was stepping on the toes of the New York station running on the same frequency. It seems in 2006 broadcasting power was decreased to 15,300W, in part due to the new 1,000ft tower they put in. Regardless, that seems to have had a significant effect on the range, as it's nothing like what it used to be.