Re: [IRCA] US station history questions

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/24/2015 8:28 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:

> 620  NJ   When did this move from Newark to Jersey City ?
> 860  MD  When did this move from Dundalk to Baltimore ?
> 1230  WV  When did this change from WTAP to WKYG ?
> 1240  TN  When did this change from WBIR to  WEZK ?
> 1300  NJ  When did this move from Trenton to Ewing ?
> 1340  PA  When did this move from Wilkes Barre to Plains ?
> 1340  NY  When did this change from  WUSJ to WLVL ?
> 1340  DC  When did this change from WOOK to WYCB ?
> 1460  NY  When did this change from WHEC to WWWG ?
> 1470  WV  When did this change to WHRD ?  ( now deleted )
> 1540  NY  When did this change from WPAW to WYRD  ?
> 1540  PA  I have conflicting listings for Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd. FCC
> currently shows Philadelphia, the old WJMJ was also Philadelphia ? Was it
> ever really in Bala Cynwyd ?

WHEC became WAXC January 5, 1972. WAXC became WWWG in 1978, if memory 
serves. Might have been early 1979.

For many of these questions, the answers reside in the FCC's history 
cards, which can be accessed through the AM Query. *IF* the station 
existed before 1978, and *IF* its history cards have been scanned, a PDF 
link will appear in the detailed search results from AM Query. The 
scanning is taking place as resources permit, in alphabetical order 
based on the station's callsign as of the end of the history card system 
in 1978. They are up to about WK-- now, maybe WL--.

The 1540 Philly question is complicated. In order to get night power, 
1540 had to be relicensed from Philadelphia to Bala. (There was never a 
site change.) There was a CP grant in the early 1990s, and the CP was 
actually built out. But the story goes that the station never paid the 
consulting engineer who did the work to put in the new night phasor (at 
the day location along Ridge Pike in Roxborough), and after waiting for 
his bills to get paid, said engineer went back one night, removed the 
night equipment and walked away. The night facility was never rebuilt, 
no license to cover the CP was ever filed, and 1540 reverted to 
daytime-only with Philadelphia as COL. (It's safe to tell this story 
now; the engineer in question died some years back and it's become local 
broadcast legend, with the added fillip that it's actually true!)

s
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