nice article about a little bit of radio nostalgia

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2006/10/good_vibrations_xms_top_40_tim.html

I've written before about how I liked WLS. As my family would travel across the country on vacations each summer, it was great to have that powerful signal that you could hold onto for hundreds of miles, and not have to worry about switching stations every half hour. I think we could start to pick it up on the Ohio Turnpike at the Western end and could hold on till central Iowa where it would get drowned in polka and Paul Harvey schlock. In the early days you'd then have to wait until nightfall to get relief from KOMA out of Oklahoma City, as it cranked up its wattage to cover the plains and Rocky Mountains. There was something both very comforting and very exciting about those stations in those days.