Looks like the station at 1560 is now history. Did they sell the tower land?
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It's now DWCNW
- Thread starter Directional Ray
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Please post the market / city of license when referring to a station.
Radio-locator has COL Fairfield OH. Northwest part of Cincinnati. No translator is listed on R/L. Google Maps shows a housing development adjacent. It could be a decent size lot spacing 4 towers. Not the cheapest station to run : directional: 2 towers day 4 towers night, high frequency I can only guess there were not enough religious programs buying time to keep it going.
and a daytimer
Huh? It had four night towers!
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Paul is correct, previous poster misread the authorization details.
5kw DA four towers daytime, 1kw DA two towers critical hours.
And on 1560... rather worthless as is evident.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
"Without Christ, Nothing Works" ... says the slogan on the Radio-Locator page. Does that mean that they are now without Him at WCNW since it no longer works?
I stand corrected. Total brain misread. It would not accept 4 tower direction daytimer at 1560, 5kw in a former top 30 market.
I would listen to this one from time to time going to Cinci - I enjoyed when they had music, and it was pretty much human ran from sign on to sign off from what I understood - i.e. no automation so that made it a fun listen but clearly a Daytimer on that real estate with no FM translator was not a money maker for them (even with the brokered peaching they aired at times).
When they signed on in the 50s they were Country. "We're Country n Western.
They had major equipment problems, was not worth the expense to fix.
Could have sworn I posted this on the Cincinnati board.
Not sure about the Bozo's history there.
As for Bonnie Lou? Per Kiesewetter's story, WCNW signed on 1964. But Bonnie Lou had arrived at WLW radio in the mid 1940s. Originally part of the cast of the Boone County Jamboree which became Midwestern Hayride. She left town for a few years but returned in 1952. At WLW-T, she appeared on Hayride, the Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club and recorded for King Records. After Paul Dixon moved to WLW-T in 1955, she joined his show's cast. When Paul Dixon passed at the end of 1974, the show was obviously cancelled and she left WLW-T. It was Colleen Sharp of the Dixon cast who moved to the 50-50 club, by then hosted by Bob Braun. Bonnie helped her husband run his Cheviot furniture store for a few years and eventually became part of the staff at WCNW.
John Kiesewetter posted about WCNW on his blog
www.wvxu.org
Gospel WCNW-AM gone for good
Owners of the Christian station are relinquishing FCC license for 1560 AM, which had broadcast from Fairfield for 60 years.
www.wvxu.org
I read it. I even referenced it. Kiesewetter isn't trying to say that Bonnie and Fred were working there in 1964. Growing up in Middletown, he knows their history in the market far too well to suggest that. His mention was simply to say that they worked there sometime in the past 60 years.
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