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1220 AM in Hazlehurst

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danfling

The AM station in Hazlehurst (1220 AM) is now simucasting with the town's FM station. I noticed it on July 3. I didn't listen to the station very often, but it was still playing Gospel music the last time I had heard the station (probably within the last month).
 
Hasn't Telesouth dumped the sister AM station of several FM stations they have taken over. The last time I drove through the area 1450 in West Point was off the air not long after they took over the FM sister station. And isn't the AM station they took over in Corinth also off the air?
 
Oh what memories of Hazlehurst radio . That used to be 1220 WMDC-AM and the sister station was 100.9 WMDC-FM and they always simulcast all the programming. The station was owned by Albert M. Smith for a long ,long time. Mal Jones was the station manager and Moe Turnbo ( yes, that was his real name) was one of the radio announcers. They tried to get "hip" with the FM at night by playing some pop tunes and calling it " DC-101" .
 
I too worked at WMDC in the 60's. Al Smith was the owner, Mal Jones did all the work. It was my first paying job in radio, although I had "worked" at WJXN, without pay, prior.
 
I remember Mal Jones briefly worked at WOKJ AM in Jackson after it was sold and switched to rock. It was strange hearing Mal Jones on a head banging station.
 
It was strange to have heard of Mal Jones working at WOKJ. He just didn't seem like that kind of guy, I remember him taking me to lunch on town square in Hazlehurst when he hired me at WMDC. I used to announce "This is clear channel WMDC 1220." Of course, we were just 250 watts, but technically speaking, it was "clear channel" in those days.
 
Blantant mis-use of the term ... 1220 was a MEXICAN clear channel - primary station XEB 1220 ... back then all US stations on 1220 were daytimers ....
 
Not quite now that I think about it ... WGAR 1220 Cleveland was 50 kw fulltime but highly directional away from Mexico.
 
The clear channels were only clear in the country they were located in. The other countries could have stations on those channels as long as they only put a certain, low, amount of signal on the border of the country with the clear channel. Using an example in Mississippi, WCPC can only put so much signal on the Mexican border because 940 kHz. is a Mexican clear channel.

Bob
 
Henry McClurg said:
Of course, we were just 250 watts, but technically speaking, it was "clear channel" in those days.
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When I listened to Mal Jones in Hazlehurst when I was around six years old it was on a transistor radio, so the concept of listening to "Sugar,Sugar" by The Archies on a "clear channel" station didn't matter. Was like listening to a coffee can, but thought that radio gig might be kinda cool.
 
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