WCLB
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WCLB (950 AM) is a radio station in Sheboygan, Wisconsin which airs a hybrid classic country/rock format simulcast from WGXI (1420) in Plymouth. WCLB's license is owned by Mountain Dog Media, a company owned by former State Senator Randy Hopper, with WGXI's owner, Galaxie Broadcasting, providing its programming from its studio facility on WI 57 in Plymouth. The station is also translated via FM on W297CK (107.3), also licensed to Sheboygan. The station's AM transmitter is located in Sheboygan Falls, with W297CK's transmitter located behind the Sheboygan County Detention Center on Sheboygan's south side.
WCLB (950 AM) is a radio station in Sheboygan, Wisconsin which airs a hybrid classic country/rock format simulcast from WGXI (1420) in Plymouth. WCLB's license is owned by Mountain Dog Media, a company owned by former State Senator Randy Hopper, with WGXI's owner, Galaxie Broadcasting, providing its programming from its studio facility on WI 57 in Plymouth. The station is also translated via FM on W297CK (107.3), also licensed to Sheboygan. The station's AM transmitter is located in Sheboygan Falls, with W297CK's transmitter located behind the Sheboygan County Detention Center on Sheboygan's south side.
Technical details
The station has used a three-tower directional facility in Sheboygan Falls since its launch in the 1950s, located off Forest Avenue near the interchange between Highways 23 and 32. The station receives heavy interference due to the factors of cell phone traffic from towers nearby interfering with the signal, and the need to reduce the signal at night in order to protect WWJ of Detroit and Chicago's WSFS, also both at 950. WCLB's after-dusk license power is eleven watts, thus it can barely be heard in its city of license without interference, and why the FM translator is all but critical for the station's operation and existence. Even with the translator though, its signal reach is half of the translators of WXER and WHBL, who are based on WHBL's three-tower array and transmit at twice the height of that of W297CK's leased tower on Sheboygan's south side.
References
External links
Official station website
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