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photos of wibg 48 years ago this month

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I was looking at some of my old 8mm film reels and came across this little gem, I was at the WIBG studios October 1965, it was around 3pm the Bird was on spinning the hits and I took some 8mm video, this was before super 8 LOL, the pictures are not too clear because I took them from stills of the video. You can still make out the 4 bay antenna on one of the towers for WIBG-FM. That is when radio was radio, all the hits on one station, from Country to Soul, to Rock, to British Invasion, to Surf, Teen Idols, Singers, Female groups, Instrumentals and everthing in between and you tuned in to hear the jock, the Bird was my main man, he was the best, no one like him or ever will be like the Rockin' Bird...I WILL POST AS MANY AS I CAN ON THIS THREAD AND CONTINUE ON ANOTHER...


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"WOW", I never knew WIBG had an FM channel, what was on it, how long did it last, was it programmed separately from the AM, did it have a strong signal, that is news to me. What was the frequency??
 
JAKOB said:
"WOW", I never knew WIBG had an FM channel, what was on it, how long did it last, was it programmed separately from the AM, did it have a strong signal, that is news to me. What was the frequency??
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WIBG-FM was on 94.1. It didn't have a good signal because it had to protect a station on 94.1 in Sunbury PA, and because the antenna was on one of the AM towers instead of being in Roxborough. It mostly simulcast the AM; when the FCC limited simulcast time around 1967 they started running separate automated programming half of the time. When the AM was sold in 1969 the FM did not go with it. The FM call letters were changed to WPNA, but if those calls were ever used they were only on briefly before the station went silent. Eventually the FM was sold and came back on the air as WYSP in 1971.
 
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