AM Technical Profile: WYLD

Frequency:

940

Format:

Black Gospel

Transmitter Location:

Power (ERP):

10,000 watts day / 500 watts night.

Antenna:

4 towers day: Tight lobe northwest / 3 towers nights: Northwest and southeast lobes.

Other Information:

Reception only good during day.

Owned by Clear Channel

History:

940, in the 50's, was WTPS. It was a typical network affiliated adult station -- the calls represented ownership by a local newspaper, the Times Picayune States. The channel was bought around 1960 by a black station and it became WYLD. For the next 25 tears it was a formidable competitor in the New Orleans market as a soul station. When FM compeition -- including its own WYLD FM -- caused the AM to diminish, it switched over to black gospel.

Transmitter map:

Daytime antenna pattern:

Nighttime antenna pattern: