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301 TX
250 CA
226 FL
217 NC
187 TN
181 PA
180 GA
170 NY
151 AL
146 VA
137 MI
133 IL
132 KY
123 OH
117 MO
112 WI
109 WA
102 MN
101 SC
95 OR
91 MS
86 IN
85 AR
84 IA
83 LA
80 CO
73 AZ
73 MA
66 OK
66 WV
62 NM
61 KS
52 MD
52 NE
50 MT
46 ID
43 UT
40 AK
40 CT
40 NJ
37 SD
33 ND
33 WY
29 HI
29 ME
29 NV
28 NH
19 VT
15 RI
10 DE
7 DC
4712
Synchronous transmitters on the same frequency as the main station were not
counted.
AK: KINY-800 Juneau operates a 10-watt relay on 690 from
Skagway. Station is legal as far as I know, and was counted.
IL: The FCC still lists the three Chicago sharetimers on
1240. WSBC bought out the other two back in the late 1990's! Only
WSBC was counted.
MA: WLLH-1400 Lowell was counted; synchro WLLH-1400 Lawrence
was not.
MI: Daytimer WNZK-690 and nighttimer WNZK-680, both in
Dearborn Heights, were counted as two stations.
Stations in the FCC database with "D" in front of their calls were
counted. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether they're still
licensed. Quite a few ARE still on the air per recent reports and my own
monitoring.
In the handful of cases where dual cities of license are in different
states ( e.g. KRLC-1350, KBMW-1450, WRLA-1490), I counted the state of the
first-named city in the FCC database.
4712 grand total: You'll find this number to be several dozen shy of
the totals that the FCC periodically releases. This has been the case for
decades. I suspect they count Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,
etc. in their totals. Or maybe it IS the U.S. only, and they include
Construction Permits in the total. On the FCC database, you can
request a list of a given state's AM stations; they'll even give you
the total number of stations at the end. Those numbers were not used in
this research; I investigated every individual listing, weeding out synchros,
stations accidentally listed twice, and anomalies such as the Chicago-1240
situation cited above. A few stations which took to the air in 2005 or
2006 are still listed as CP's, but have been reported as heard and on
regular schedule in the DX press; these of course were counted.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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