WWL Turns 100 Today

WWL 870  – the 50,000 watt New Orleans AM station – turns 100 today.  Worth noting, and worth listening in because they're doing some additional programming to commemorate the event.

Here's their main web site, and their Wikipedia page.  It's an interesting station with an interesting history.  A lot of these old-line AM behemoths are turning 100 about now: KDKA (Pittsburgh) a year and a half ago, WSB (Atlanta) a couple of weeks ago, and WSM (Nashville) in a couple of years, just to name a few.  I expect they'll be around at least as long into the future.  It turns out that – despite dire predictions a few decades back – AM on the medium wave band is just too handy to go away.