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1290 WOMP Bellaire-Wheeling
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Are they still simulcasting WSTV?
Sounds like another radio station in a box plugged into the wall. Haven't heard any WSTV calls, just WOMP.
Jim Trefney said:
Are they dark as in done for sure, or are they on a tech-related STA?
http://www.hsconnect.com/page/content.detail/id/567701/Station-ownership-in-legal-dispute.html
this article tells the story.
this article tells the story.
Thanks for sharing that link, Jim. It's interesting. This is the third Forever/Keymarket property that's been 1) dark at one time or another, and 2) on AM 1340. Connellsville and Oil City are the other two. Coincidence? I wonder...
I been listening to 1290, not bad....reminds me of the old days on WWVA with Bill Berg, Tom Miller, Bob Berry and Frank (and the time is) Karroll
RadioEngnr said:
The really old days of WWVA had "Scheming" Al Zeidman on the weekends, the "Hymn of the Hour" just before the hourly news and Kathryn Kuhlman at night in the religious block.
Even though Wheeling is just a short distance from Pittsburgh, it always seemed like the call letters should have started with an 'X'.
Off Topic Alert:
Many years ago when I was in HS, Al Zeidman was my English & Radio teacher at Wheeling Park HS, Al and I got into many a debate on the topics of the day, I remember one such conversation in class where he looked at me and said that he hoped that Skylab would land on my head...okay now I will wait while the younger crowd Googles Skylab and dates this story...... anywho as the year ticked by he told me in front of the radio class that I will never amount to anything in radio and I should just hang it up and pursue a career in the fast food or cleaning industries (okay I'm exaggerating a bit, he did make a comment sorta like that, I got that saying from the movie Ghost Busters) well.... more years ticked by and Al was rehired by WWVA to work Sunday afternoons and by this time Roy and I rebuilt the AM Studio with a new computer system and console, Al was not 100% with the new system and he called the Assistant Chief Engineer, Moi.... This is how I wanted listed in the company phone directory and I live just a few blocks from the studio and was there in 10 minutes and as I walked in the studio,,,, he said "Oh.... My.... God" in that classic Al Zeidman voice I replied.... "common mistake Al, But I'm the Assistant Chief Engineer" I showed him how to fix the problem and we talked the rest of his air shift about radio and where it was going
Many years ago when I was in HS, Al Zeidman was my English & Radio teacher at Wheeling Park HS, Al and I got into many a debate on the topics of the day, I remember one such conversation in class where he looked at me and said that he hoped that Skylab would land on my head...okay now I will wait while the younger crowd Googles Skylab and dates this story...... anywho as the year ticked by he told me in front of the radio class that I will never amount to anything in radio and I should just hang it up and pursue a career in the fast food or cleaning industries (okay I'm exaggerating a bit, he did make a comment sorta like that, I got that saying from the movie Ghost Busters) well.... more years ticked by and Al was rehired by WWVA to work Sunday afternoons and by this time Roy and I rebuilt the AM Studio with a new computer system and console, Al was not 100% with the new system and he called the Assistant Chief Engineer, Moi.... This is how I wanted listed in the company phone directory and I live just a few blocks from the studio and was there in 10 minutes and as I walked in the studio,,,, he said "Oh.... My.... God" in that classic Al Zeidman voice I replied.... "common mistake Al, But I'm the Assistant Chief Engineer" I showed him how to fix the problem and we talked the rest of his air shift about radio and where it was going
hypwr said:
I knew this wouldn't get passed you
Doin' my part to keep this thread off-track:
I remember Mr. Zeidman speaking to an up-and-coming young singer named Joanna Jones-I was just a few feet from her. Basically he told her she had no chance of having a career. She had a nice voice, the right look, and was a very nice person. I have no idea what happened to her, but unless reverse psychology was part of his repertoire, I was puzzled at his comments toward her. He was channeling his inner Simon Cowell that day, decades before we had heard of the petulant ex-Idol judge.
I remember Mr. Zeidman speaking to an up-and-coming young singer named Joanna Jones-I was just a few feet from her. Basically he told her she had no chance of having a career. She had a nice voice, the right look, and was a very nice person. I have no idea what happened to her, but unless reverse psychology was part of his repertoire, I was puzzled at his comments toward her. He was channeling his inner Simon Cowell that day, decades before we had heard of the petulant ex-Idol judge.
All the comments about Al Zeidman remind me how peculiar he was. In the late 60's, I was working part time in the WWVA news department, and often worked during Al's Sunday shift. For whatever reason, he decided he just did not like me. One newscast, I came into the news booth to do my thing. It was two minutes to air...and all my copy and news carts were gone. I walked into the studio to ask Al what's going on...and there, in his trash bucket, was my newscast. I didn't say anything, I just grabbed my stuff and went back into the news booth. But I guess Al wasn't having it. While I was doing the news, he actually started turning my mic volume up and down while he glared at me through the studio window.. Not the monitor volume, mind you. The actual on-air volume control. The program Director (Bob Finnegan) had to talk to him to chill him out. Weird guy.....
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Wasn't WOMP the WEEP to WKWK
WOMP.....Ohio's Music Place (trivia)
Okay, back off topic:
When I was in HS and Uncle AL was the radio instructor he had an office completely separate from the class room and on his desk he had all of these stuffed dolls, we the students never asked but we surmised that is was for something we would rather not know about, and one day he was really getting on my nerves and I was doing the after-school air shift on WPHP 91.9 FM, and around 8pm I took all of his dolls and hanged them noose and all from the ceiling in his office. The next day I was asked if I knew anything about it, I replied you called me an idiot in front of the whole class, what do I know....nothing....remember
Okay, back off topic:
When I was in HS and Uncle AL was the radio instructor he had an office completely separate from the class room and on his desk he had all of these stuffed dolls, we the students never asked but we surmised that is was for something we would rather not know about, and one day he was really getting on my nerves and I was doing the after-school air shift on WPHP 91.9 FM, and around 8pm I took all of his dolls and hanged them noose and all from the ceiling in his office. The next day I was asked if I knew anything about it, I replied you called me an idiot in front of the whole class, what do I know....nothing....remember
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