The ELM - 1620 AM

CALL-IN LINE: (412) 947-1620
Please note: All calls are recorded and may be broadcast.

Somewhere beyond the power lines, maybe deep in the Nature Center, or beneath the Green Tree Water Tower - The Elm transmits 24/7 on AM band 1620 kHz. Just one transmitter, a turntable, and a voice reaching out to whoever might be listening.

We don’t officially confirm this broadcast exists. But if your AM dial lands just right, here’s what you might hear:

10 AM to 8 PM

Dr Johnny Weaver & AM Gold

Late-afternoon slow jams. This isn’t a “best of” anything - it’s a living mixtape of the 1970s, spun by a ghost who never left the record store.

8 PM to 9 PM

Signal Fade

An hour caught between memory and static. The sky dims. You're driving around on $5 worth of gas and the jams from an old cassette come back to life. Familiar tunes - too familiar. You’ve heard them before, but not like this. No names, no labels. Just transmission. Just the sound of something trying to reach you... before it fades.

9 PM to 10 PM

The Howler Hour

You’ll know it when it hits. A raspy-voiced madman takes over the mic with vintage energy, gravel-slick charm, and some of the wildest records you’ve never heard on real radio. The legend lives on, right here, once the sun goes down.

10 PM to 10 AM

Signals from Elsewhere

Calls from the void. Warnings from deep space. Late-night stories you were never supposed to hear.

Hosted by a velvet-voiced guide with a fascination for time slips, shadow people, and unexplained signals. It’s radio the way it used to be - and maybe never was.

Saturday & Sunday - 6 PM to 10 PM

The Chubby Willems Oldies Show

You’ll know it’s Chubby when the hum in the dial gets warm.

Every weekend, like clockwork, Chubby Willems takes the booth, drops the needle, and vanishes behind four solid hours of choked with smoke GOLD from a jukebox that doesn’t seem to exist.

These records were meant to be forgotten.

Buried in basements, erased from memory, lost in time.

But somehow... Chubby is spinning them.

This is Chubby Willems... rumored to be broadcasting from the underground bunker beneath the Green Tree Water Tower. If the signal reaches you, you weren't meant to hear it. Shhhh.

Sunday 8–10 A.M.

Polka Transmission 

At the edge of the morning, the signal changes.

Polka Transmission comes through.

It’s a tradition older than Parkway traffic - Sunday mornings and polka music, rolling out from radios and open windows across Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

We're keeping it alive here in Green Tree every Sunday.

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Call-In Line Now Open - 412-947-1620

Got a request? A message? A Bigfoot report? UFO sighting?

The Elm - 1620 AM now accepts call-ins. Dial the number, leave your message, and it might just find its way onto the airwaves.

Please note: All calls are recorded and may be broadcast.

We don’t screen. We don’t edit. Speak clearly… or in code. Your voice may become part of the signal.

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Station History:

First air date: September 9, 2023 

The Elm – 1620 AM

Unlicensed but legal. Static-soaked but alive. Broadcasting for those who learned how to hear between the noise.