POTPOURRI—

WMAN, a Mansfield AM [and now also FM (98.3)] radio station does a segment on a popular local minister entitled “Where in the World is Paul Lintern?”  On that day it was established he was out west on the border of two states, one of which was Nevada.

Listeners were calling in attempting to guess the other state.

“Is it Nevada and Missouri” one clueless male caller wondered.

If your eyes are not rolling at this point you need to dust off your US road atlas.
____________________
Hint:  Three states and over 1,000 miles are between Nevada and Missouri.  The correct answer was Utah.

*          *          *

Speaking of WMAN; for years and years they only resided at 1400 on the AM radio dial.  That is known as a “graveyard” frequency; the same numbers assigned to nearly countless other fairly low power stations around the country. 

At night the ionosphere becomes more reflective of radio signals, bouncing them further and further as darkness approaches so these stations must power down even more to prevent interfering with others on the same frequency.

The consequence of that was WMAN was inaudible in Bellville, just 10 miles or so from its Mansfield transmitter.  Recently, they acquired the FM frequency of 98.3 and now their programs are readily available over a much broader radius of Ohio.