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A nice looking station...

Isn't this located in or around Franklin, NC west of 441 on sr 64 ???? Pretty sure it is or a clone of it...
 
Damn... could have sworn it was the same.... Must be copying NC
 
Had to go wash my hands after looking at the photos of the console. A real class act, indeed.
 
Priceless!
 
Damn, I worked on that same board (it is a Collins) in the late 70s...except ours was clean. It kept breaking because a design problem in the power supply. We had already replaced it in the early 80s and moved the Collins to the news room. I'm shocked one is still running.
 
If you didn't work at a station, such as that one, you didn't work in radio.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
badjef said:
If you didn't work at a station, such as that one, you didn't work in radio.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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Truer words were never spoken Jeff! For me it was WGUL/WPSO in New Port Richey in 1980, WPAS Zephyrhills in 1981 and WHBS/WWQT in 1984! Then again, all I have to do is walk upstairs and I can almost say the same thing about WORL/WTLN/WBZW (Orlando) in 2011.
 
Serio and Jeff....right you are! Many a great sounding station came out of buildings the public would never imagine. WSVP in Providence was in the basement of a sign shop. We had the "Drake" Johnny Mann jingles and sounded like we were in a penthouse. It is theatre of the mind. Many of us old timers worked in places not too far removed from the one pictured here. Know what...it didn't matter, we were on the air and in radio.
 
Mike_Serio said:
Then again, all I have to do is walk upstairs and I can almost say the same thing about WORL/WTLN/WBZW (Orlando) in 2011.
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It has been a few years since I set foot inside the WTLN building; However, it didn't look too bad upstairs when I visited. Although the building is old, I happen to know Tom Moffit upgraded WTLN with state-of-the-art broadcasting equipment before he sold WTLN and WHIM (now WBZW) to Salem Media, combining these two stations with WORL. Has WTLN / WBZW run down THAT much since Salem took over the former Moffit stations?
 
druidhillsradio said:
http://bobandtanya.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album49&id=Nov_2004_WSLM_1
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Thank you for the link although I have seen this station once before posted on another thread on radio-Info.com. If I remember correctly, this is a small AM-FM combo licensed to Salem, Indiana and I believe there is also a LPTV - WSLM-TV - co-owned with the radio. Before I would even consider entering the building, I believe I would put on a hazmat suit and bring along a radiation detector. Interestingly I have actually worked for stations that looked the same, or worse, than this one in the beginning of my career.

The licenses, on the other hand, may have some value, in which case a buyer may want to buiild a new facility from scratch keeping the respective AM and FM licenses updated and valid.
 
Wow this station reminds me a lot of what WKIQ used to look like inside. Working at a small station like that really makes you appreciate photos of a place like this. These photos seem to be from 2004, so it has me wondering if anything has changed with the property since?
 
When I first got into broadcasting, I worked for some pretty crappy operations ... but nothing that even came close to this.
As an Engineer, I made sure that the equipment, no matter how old, was clean and well-maintained. That was my job.
 
Mike Serio, you worked at WPAS? You must have been leaving just as I was coming in! Actually that double wide wasn't all that bad..at least not compared to WSLM...that one takes the cake! That Collins board brings back memories. We had a mono version at the first place I ever worked: WFSH 1340 in Niceville, FL. Our owner Charlie Wister (Yes Mike S. the same Charlie Wister) traded out half the rent in the Palm Plaza mini mall, for top of the hour ID's that said "From the beautiful Palm Plaza mini mall"...come to think of it, I think the clocks had the Sunbeam Bread logo on them and I think they were traded out too...

One thing's for sure working in the dumps helped me appreciate the privilege of working in a station engineered by Dr. Frank Berry!
 
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