Re: [IRCA] US station history questions

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

And IF you can get into AMQ anymore. I had thought it was phased out &
disabled - perhaps they just changed the urls again.

Russ Edmunds
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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!)
>
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