REMEMBER THOSE OLD "DAYTIME" RADIO STATIONS?

Do any of you remember the days when many radio stations used to sign-off when the sun went down?  Yes.  Here in Boston, we had a number of radio stations that went off at night-WCAS, WRYT, WGTR, WILD, WLYN, WHIL, WJDA and WNTN, among others?  These stations were required by FCC law to leave the air, due to the fact that they shared the frequencies with "clear channel" frequencies.
These radio stations would offer local news and information, along with various kinds of music.  From rock and pop to classical and sweet music, they offered small cities and towns good listening that big city radio stations could not give them.  Of course, when the stations went off the air at night, out-of-town radio stations would blast into the areas.
I remember some of the best ones-WILD in Boston was a black contemporary music(up until 2005, when Radio One bought it and ran it into the ground) that would present the best in soul, rhythm and blues, disco and gospel music.  At night during the late 1960s and early 1970s, they would end their broadcast day with the Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice."  In the mid-70s, they would end with a flat out declaration, "When We're Off The Air, You're Off The Air!"  Later, it was switched to a more friendly statement, "Please join us tomorrow."  Their sign-offs changed over the years, but they always were cordial in their saying goodbye to their listeners.  For example, this was heard in the 80s.
"Until we join you tomorrow morning at sunrise, here's hoping you and your family have a very pleasant evening."
During the latter part of the 2000s and up until 2012, WILD was run to the ground with a brokered/talk format during the week and classic soul and gospel on the weekends.  Earlier this year, the station leased out its broadcast day to news and propaganda programming in English from China Radio International.  (It still must go off at sunset because it shares its AM 1090 frequency with WBAL in Baltimore.
WCAS in Cambridge was a pop/MOR station in the early 1970s until it switched to a folk and acoustic format in 1974.  They would end their broadcasting with various stingers using everything from a rip off of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" to WCAS being a superhero being stripped of power at night.
"Oh, no!  I'm losing all my powers!  I can feel them fade..."
And just before the sign-off, there would be a news and arts show called "The Sundown Rundown," which reported on the arts and media.
In the 1980s, the station switched to a soul music format, and then to a gospel station under the call letters WLVG.  The station went bankrupt and its signal was silenced until the early 1990s, when Bob Bittner bought the station and turned it into the easy listening/MOR format with the call letters WJIB.  (Yes, it's a tribute to the old WJIB.)  It operates 24 hours a day, but must reduce its power to protect the signal of Boomer Radio in Toronto.
WRYT in Boston started as WORL, a big band radio station at 950.  It switched to a brokered time format(mostly religious programming during the week) in the 1960s, which continues today. In 1974, the call letters were changed to WROL(these call letters continue today).  In 1982, it started expanded its broadcast time until it went 24 hours in the early 1990s.  During the week, there is an overnight broadcast of Brazilian religious programming.  And on the weekends, there's the Irish Hit Parade, a marathon 9 hour program of Irish and Celtic music, which was started by John Latchford in 1967. It airs from 10 a.. until 7 p.m, and is hosted by Paul Sullivan, Matt O'Donnell & Bill Bailey(his last part of the show is known as "The Bailey Ceili"). On Sundays, there's A Feast Of Irish Music with Seamus Mulligan, 4 hours from 1 to 5 p.m. By the way, in the 1980s, it was carried on satellite; today, it's heard on the internet.
http://www.wrolradio.com
In Quincy, WJDA was a local Quincy radio station that featured mostly local music and news for the South Shore, while its sister station in Salem, WESX, broadcast their programming towards the North Shore.  I remember that I used to hear announcer Jerry Howar and his Downeast alter-ego Slim Pickens with the weather.  And I also remember him doing "The Little White Church" on WROL and a morning show on WATD-FM in Marshfield.  On weekends, WJDA would do a weekend festival of music while WESX would air Polish programming.  In the 1990s, the two stations began to broadcast 24 hours a day, featuring satellite programming from "The Music Of Your Life" and CBS Radio sports.  WJDA would also broadcast a Chinese program on Sunday evenings.  The station was sold to an ethnic broadcaster, which now broadcasts Hispanic and Brazilian programming 24/7.  By the way, WESX is squelched out in Boston is drowned out by WMKI-AM's HD Radio signal.
WLYN in Lynn broadcast news, music and local information for many years; it also had an FM frequency of    101.7 with ethnic programming during the day and rock music at night.  In 1983, the FM side was sold to the Boston Phoenix with alternative rock until it was recently sold to Clear Channel.  WLYN was bought out in the 1990s by the Multicultural Broadcasting chain in New York and broadcasts ethnic programming around the clock.
WHIL-AM in Haverhill, which broadcast on 1430 in the AM Band was a radio station that broadcast ethnic programming and progressive music.  It also broadcast at 107.9 FM with more contemporary music and speicalty shows.  In the mid-1970s, they ran a beautiful music format with the call letters WWEL, until it switched its call letters to WXKS and ran a disco format.  In 1980, WXKS-AM dropped disco permanently for a standards format called "The Music Of Your Life."  It went 24 hours in 1988 and continued to do so until it got bought out by Clear Channel and started playing Latino music.
Meanwhile, WNTN is still a daytime only station.  It was founded by the Newton Broadcasting Corporation and began life as a progressive rock station during the early 1970s until it switched to the brokered/ethnic format that it still runs today.  I still remember listening to Rosetta Romagnoli's Sunday Italian programming which featured same-day coverage of the Italian Serie A soccer league.  Its 1550 AM signal used to share a signal with CBE in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.  Although it's no longer the case, the station still signs off at sunset; however, it now airs programming online at night.
Many daytime radio stations still broadcast only from sunup to sundown, but a good number of these radio stations now broadcast online music or informational programming after the signal goes off.  I've listened to daytime radio stations from St. Louis and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania up until they go off, after which they start playing Polish polka music online.
There are many more examples of daytime radio stations that are too numerous to mention, especially here in the New England area.  But this is just a small sample of how daytime radio stations entertained and informed the small cities and towns of our country.  And with no new daytime radio stations being authorized, and many of these radio stations either operating 24/7 under reduced power at night(and running internet streams 24/7) or going out of business, the idea of daytime only radio is a dying breed of communication.
What do you think?