[IRCA] Fwd: [ABDX] Shortwave Central: WYFR to close all shortwave services

[Dennis Gibson <wb6tnb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this the beginning of the end of Family Radio? They have sold stations in major markets. Donations are down 70% since Harold Camping's prediction of the end of the world last year didn't happen.

In Southern California just a few weeks ago it applied for a CP to diplex KFRN with another station. It has cancelled that application.  

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> From: kevin redding <amfmdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: June 17, 2013, 6:23:43 PM PDT
> To: "ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <abdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ABDX] Shortwave Central: WYFR to close all shortwave services
> Reply-To: ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2013/06/wyfr-to-close-all-shortwave-services.html
> 
> WYFR to close all shortwave services
> 
> We regretfully inform you that the final day of operation for WYFR will be June 30, 2013.
> 
> This station descended from W1XAL (an experimental class license assigned in 1927).  In 1939 the call letters were changed to WRUL, and then changed to WNYW in 1966.
> 
> Initially, broadcasts came from Boston.  In 1936 the station moved to Scituate, Massachusetts.
> 
> On October 20, 1973 Family Stations, Inc. took ownership of the station using the call letters WYFR.  (FSI had been buying airtime from WNYW starting in January of 1972.)  At that time, the station sported four transmitters and nine reversible rhombic antennas.
> 
> Construction started in Florida in 1976.  On November 23, 1977 the first transmission from Okeechobee went on the air.
> 
> For several years WYFR operated simultaneously from Scituate and from Okeechobee.  The last broadcast from Scituate took place on November 16, 1979. 
> 
> The Okeechobee site eventually grew to 14 transmitters and 23 antennas.  And now we’ve gone full cycle.
> 
> Good listening to all, and 73,
> 
> Dan Elyea
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