Sonny Flamingo joins The Elm - 1620 AM!

If you’ve been scanning the dial on a quiet afternoon, you may have already stumbled onto it. A soft fade-in through the static, the trace of salt water in the air, and a voice laid-back enough to slow the day to half speed. That’s Sonny Flamingo.

Sonny’s the newest voice on The Elm - 1620 AM. Picture him in a sunlit booth, shades on, leaning back with a stack of vinyl that smells like salt air and long summers. Since the early 70s, Sonny’s found ways to get himself on the air, sometimes straight, sometimes sideways, but always with a style that feels like it belongs to him alone.

His promise is simple, “songs the stations forgot.” But when Sonny Flamingo spins, it’s more than forgotten. It’s music that feels like it washed ashore. Soft grooves, Carolina beach music, yacht rock smoothness, a little Caribbean breeze drifting in from nowhere. Between tracks, Sonny doesn’t just cue records, he talks to you, like an old friend sliding across the barstool beside you.

Before drifting onto our frequency, Sonny Flamingo spent seasons spinning records up and down the coast in Ocean City, Maryland, and even slipped south of the border to Tijuana, where his voice carried through cantinas and midnight airwaves alike.

Sonny Flamingo keeps his hours loose, but you’ll find him some afternoons, letting daylight drip into golden sound. No set show time, no promises. Just a feeling waiting on the frequency.

After all, our existence is known only to the observant or initiated.

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

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.

Welcome to The Elm - 1620 AM - What Breathes in the Static Hides in Plain Site.

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 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.

Happy New Year 2025!

Happy New Year from The Elm 1620 AM! 

Dr. Johnny Weaver is back and on the air now playing AM GOLD!

Call-In Line: (412) 947-1620

Stay Tuned. Stay Unseen.

Christmas on The Elm!!!

The ELM 1620 am will run traditional Christmas programming starting Friday, November 29th through New Year's Day!!!!

Confirmed! WNRP - 1620 AM from Pensacola, FL

Yesterday morning I was able to confirm the station on 1620 am was indeed WNRP News Radio out of Pensacola, FL. 

So it's a 10,000 watt station during the day and turns down to 1000 watt at night. I originally misread this thinking there was no way it could get up here.

This is the first time I've heard this station while monitoring 1620 am since September. Hopefully it's a seasonal or conditions thing.

UPDATE: Last week, WNRP was no longer heard and The Elm was coming in at the high school. Good news.

Possible Pensacola, FL Station?

I heard a station override The Elm this morning in Dormont around 8 am. They stated "92.3 and 1620." The only station I found was WNRP from Pensacola, FL. Not sure it's right but I heard a traffic report and then a traffic report on their online feed. I was driving so it was hard to 100% it. I will revisit this and figure it out another day. 

I just don't believe that Florida station could get that far out. It's a mystery for now.