Re: [IRCA] WVMC

["HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>]

Agreed I couldn't make any sense out of Hensley's rant either.  He is a
local station op, here in Central Indiana (REL on FM) and at one time
had the FM band polluted with low, medium and high powered translators,
in areas where one could clearly hear the parent station.  He sold a few
(made some good $, I'm sure) and some of the others, I'm not sure of.  I
heard the 10 watt one from Mount Comfort, about 8 miles down the road a
few times but any tropospheric enhancement brought in Dayton, OH or
others and I'm sure that did the same for anyone else, unless you were
right under the "tower."

Since he is on this list, I'll have to refrain from name calling. ;)
Read for yourself about his exploits:

http://www.splc.org/report_detail.asp?id=1205&edition=36

http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-06082010.html - he calls
Hensley a gadfly :)

http://www.speedwaynavigator.net/V2I2/a29.html

73,
Dave in Indy


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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:44:44 -0500
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] WVMC
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If anyone can make WVMC go and be profitable again here in Southern
IL...
it's Withers. If they can't make it work, no one can.

And I second David, Mr. Hensley's post wasn't maknig much sense.. I had
to
read it several times and I didn't totally understand it.

Paul Walker
www.onairdj.com


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:35 PM, John Callarman
<JohnCallarman@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> I thought we resolved the status of this matter back on May 25 when we
> learned that there is an STA, that Withers Broadcasting, owner of
WYNG, the
> Mt. Carmel FM station, and others, is in the process of obtaining
ownership
> . ... but I've apparently deleted the e-mail reference to the current
status
> in the FCC files. I think it was sent by Scott Fybush. WYNG's Facebook
page
> has a link to a WVMC-1360 page, but, as I reported on May 25, the link
to
> the WVMC-1360 FB page remains blank.
>
> I do not have the knowledge to interpret Mr. Hensley's history of the
> demise of WVMC. I know nothing first hand of Williams, Walters or
either
> Wabash, but I do know Withers, who has the know-how, the finances and
the
> clout to make a resurrected WVMC work. Resurrected from DWVMC, as
explained
> in earlier correspondence on this situation.
>
> This probably doesn't clarify the referenced incoherence, but perhaps
> someone else still has all the May 25 correspondence somewhere on his
> computer.
>
> John Callarman, Krum TX
>
>
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:47:33 -0400
From: hensleym31@xxxxxxx
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Subject: [IRCA] WVMC
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Regarding WVMC,



  Eventually the FCC may post the information. 


WVMC was sold to another group, Wabash Broadcasting, in 2006.  Little
known to us, as we didn't find out til later. It was transferred, many
thought, because the old owner Wabash Communications had been collecting
employee withholding and other taxes and not paying them to the IRS,
according to the IRS employee who has this mess. The IRS was ready to
swoop in and shut the place down. Then everything was immediately Wabash
Broadcasting.  New name, new company, now new IRS problems were a year
or so away.


They were operating WVMC, an FM station under some agreement, and a TV.
The TV went dark in 2004 as DTV entered the picture.  The AM was off and
on but the FM still operated. In December 2009 we found out the bank was
foreclosing and we had to move the FM. The AM and TV did not get moved.
The AM had been off and on since 2008 and had no remote control. The TV,
2004.


The station license for WVMC which had been dark over a year was mailed
to 328 Market Street in Mount Carmel. This is where the FM station had
moved after the rats abandoned ship, so to speak. The mailing address
for WVMC was 606 Market, sold and all the equipment long gone since Jan
2009.  As I engineer for the station at this address they were not
amused that they kept getting the mail. They had lost money in the whole
deal and Williams of Wabash Communication and Walters of Wabash
broadcasting had disappeared.


We called FCC Staff and told them but the License kept coming back.
They said send a letter, so it was sent. After the fact we discovered
there was a deal, unknown to anyone associated with Wabash
Communications, because I did ask them, and Williams would not return
phone calls. 


Two "publications" that I am aware of and who have "published" things I
have indicated are incorrect wrote an "article".  I called them and
said, hey why did you not ask about this before writing it? To date they
have all the FCC data and have elected not to properly publish
information, instead, posting things to inflate the matter..like here.


There is much more that the FCC has not published.  To date, there are
MANY other issues that were not raised because we didn't know.


I will publish a link when it is available.



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