Being 65, I sometimes listen to the oldies stations. None of them ever seem to play folk music. Kingston trio, New Christy Minstrels and such. Anyone know why?

If you want real folk music check out folkalley.com.

Climbed any mountains lately?

Welcome, both of you!

KKAD 1550 AM is great

Check out AM 1400 KEDO, Longview, weekday mornings 6-to-10am. A real wide and eccentric mix of oldies, from '50s to early '80's, (occasional 40's) with Folk, Blues, Crooners, Instrumentals, Doo Wop, and some Big Band. Novelty and others on Fridays.

Radioblogman sez...
"KKAD 1550 AM is great"

I like the music on 1550 and listen to it sometimes.....I just think it's kind of a shame they aren't using Cquam like "Sunny 1520" used to.

In terms of sound quality itself, I think 1520's sound was far superior to the narrow bandwidth mono audio KKAD is currently using. In my truck KKAD kinda' sounds like an SCA channel, but without the crosstalk! ;o)

I've heard very few AM station that sounded as amazing as "Sunny 1520" did.

that seems to be true and I agree the old KKSN 1520 sounded amazing during their days as a standards/nostalgia station especially considering the fact they were in wideband AM stereo even from where I am about 64 miles north of the transmitter site this made a huge difference. I don't see why KKAD 1550 is not wideband after all, stereo is not required when modulating out to the full 10 KHz limit and it would again be a significant improvement even on existing narrowband AM receivers and on ones capable of wideband AM the results will be dramatic and the listener with such a receiver will have to convince themselves that they are not listening to FM as wideband AM under low noise conditions will sound just like monaural FM.

I believe there's such a thing as broadbanding the towers and they probably don't want to spend the time and money that it would take for such a venture. Besides, how long do you really think this format can last?