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Nope, it's still very much on the air and still playing an adult standards music format. My wife and I own three cars. Two receive AM stations very well and the third has AM reception that's spotty at best. I don't know what the difference is between the two that receive AM well and the one...

While driving home Friday evening, I noticed that 1690 AM WPTX was broadcasting a high school football game between St. Charles and Thomas Stone. Apparently the station is going to broadcast a local high school football "game of the week" this year. They have even started a website for the...

Not sure about the FCC regulations concerning the types of transmissions Quality Moving and Storage is making but I don't believe that they're allowed to interfere with or block local broadcast signals. I'm assuming that they're sending transmissions to their trucks. It sounds like their...

I've noticed over the years that most of the weekday talk shows that were on WPTX are also on WMAL (630 AM & 105.9 FM) out of Washington, D.C. but I'm not too sure about their weekend shows. I don't have a problem with the music and where I was driving the signal was coming through very clear...

During the drive to work this morning I was flipping through the presets on my car radio when I noticed that WPTX (1690 AM) is now playing music. They seem to have a nice mix of oldies that would probably appeal to older listeners. Maybe it's just me but for some reason I don't mind listening...

You make a really good point. I agree that UMD needs to do a much, much better job in promoting the image of the entire university, both in the state and throughout the DMV. I don't know exactly what they need to do differently but whatever they're doing now isn't working well. The last few...

I almost didn't send in a channel request to Metrocast or post here in the forums for that exact reason. I'm not looking forward to paying the increased rates any more than anyone else. Maybe Metrocast could offset the costs of adding the Big Ten Network by dropping the SEC Network, since the...

Definitely not the proudest moment for UMD sports. Coaches and the AD need to address this with the players, beyond the apology issued to Penn State. I know they're trying to establish a rivalry with Penn State but this was just poor sportsmanship. It certainly wasn't a good example for any...

Yea...they don't have the greatest program in college football but they did win yesterday and are bowl eligible for the second year in a row. By the way, the Big Ten Network will carry ALL UMD sports. Their men's soccer team has been one of the best in the nation over the years, their women's...

With the University of Maryland now in the B1G I really thought Metrocast would offer the Big Ten Network (http://btn.com/) as part of their channel line-up, especially since some of the UMD games are only available on the Big Ten Network. Maybe if enough of people requested that Metrocast add...

Good new show. Comes on Wednesday nights at 9. Mike Rowe is from Maryland. He has some good advice on education: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/10/06/orig-mike-rowe-career-advice-should-you-go-to-college.cnn.html.

I was doing some research on local radio frequencies and stumbled across this thread. I hate to revive an old thread but thought a reply might be helpful. Yes, the atmospherics and sun spots do interfere with all radio stations at different times during the year. Lower powered local stations...

CSM's Career Starters Program In terms of HVAC training, has he checked into the Career Starters program at the College of Southern Maryland? He can find out more here: http://www.csmd.edu/CareerStarters/. As a fellow veteran, I wish him good luck.

At one time the the store in the Saginaw, TX area (NW of Fort Worth) was supposed to be one of the largest Wal-Marts in the nation.

When the wife and I lived in Texas there was one in the far Northwestern part of Fort Worth that had a funny name, LIQ-O-RAMA: LIQ.