Fargo's WDAY Radio Is Back On Air

WDAY 970 AM, Fargo, ND,  is back to nearly full power after it lost two of its three radio towers in a major Memorial Day wind storm.

A story by Dave Roepke at inforum.com report General Manager Kevin Weaver says engineers are done boosting the signal and bolstering the structure of the one remaining tower, meaning there won’t be any more time off air.

“It’s near full power,” he said. “I don’t think any of our listeners will notice a difference.”

The news-radio station, owned by the same company as The Forum, had one tower crumpled and another snapped off at the top by the high winds that struck Fargo-Moorhead May 30.

It went off air for nearly three entire days, from 9:30 p.m. on May 30 to 5 p.m. on June 2, broadcasting only via the Internet, Weaver said.

Ever since, it occasionally had been forced to go silent as crews reconfigured the remaining tower to transmit a more powerful signal to make up for the felled towers, Weaver said.

All of the station’s signal strength, approved to be as strong as 5,000 watts, will be coming from one tower until the others are rebuilt.

Weaver said the station got special federal ap­proval to use its remaining tower to transmit nondirectional signals at night. Typically, its three towers only send a signal in one direction after nightfall, he said.

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