Why does AM1610 exist?

[InsomniacInkRoss]

I have never been anywhere in the city where AM1610 (the 'tune here when flashing' radio station) has come in as anything recognizable

 

It's just garbled unpleasant static and a terrible computerized voice

 

Is there a law that says it has to exist? Does the DOT or city think it's helping people?

[Invader3K]

Are you sure that's the right frequency you're referring to? I can't find a reference to it on the web...radio-locator.com, which is usually pretty reliable, doesn't list 610 AM as a Milwaukee station either.

[Bikeage77]

there is another radio station that has traffic alert with a monotone guy, but that's something like 1180. that's what they have signs for on the freeway, we listened to it for a minute on the way into the Keg on Friday, just to see what the lines were like.

[Paul77]

Are you sure that's the right frequency you're referring to? I can't find a reference to it on the web...radio-locator.com, which is usually pretty reliable, doesn't list 610 AM as a Milwaukee station either.

1610 has been around for a long time... and never once helped anyone get anywhere.

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[InsomniacInkRoss]

1180 is the stadium radio frequency, and is actually audible

 

For sure there is a 1610, there is signage for it just north on 94 on 45 Northbound, and another one near the Falls, also on 45 Northbound. They both have the "tune in when flashing" lights on them

[Invader3K]

For some reason I read it as "610" in your post. Sorry.

[brewerjamie15]

At the end of last season, I was going to a sell out game and was in a ton of traffic. I remembered the 1610 thing, and flipped it on. I must have preset it because in the dead I winter I was flipping through A.M. radio and a Miller Park traffic report from the same playoff game I was at was still on the air. I left it go for a bit for a nice flashback.

[Diskono]

I put on 1180 on the way to the stadium on opening day, and it was just the robot voice saying "tune in to this station for Miller Park traffi c information" on repeat, with no actual info. It was only after I changed over to 620 when I was informed that I had just wasted the lasthour sitting in traffic, and that the stadium lots were sold out.