The Infinite Dial

One of the advantages of working in Somerville, N.J., is that you have plenty of over-the-air radio to listen to. No matter what the Infinite Dial may offer at the desk, there's New York, Philadelphia, Trenton, N.J., Allentown, Pa., and Monmouth/Ocean County, N.J., waiting in the car.

Unless you're in one of those places in Southern New England where you can pick up about six markets at once, Somerville is the best place for multiple choices in most genres. You could have at least five CHR buttons, depending on how you count. When pre-Beatles Oldies were briefly sweeping the AM band, I had four to listen to. At home, 30 miles away, I have no Country station except for WKTU-HD-2. Here I have two, and sometimes three.

And sometimes you have multiple buttons for the same thing. Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel comes in here on three AM frequencies (although they're all traveling a ways to get here). Ryan Seacrest is available from at New York, Philadelphia, and Allentown, and listening is not the same experience on three of them. Rush Limbaugh, whose ubiquity is well documented, is heard on at least three.

So I'm curious. What programming is available on the most over-the-air stations in your market?