...when I was fired from WXOL/690 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1994, I was the last oldies jock on the air there; they kept me on for a couple of months after switching the rest of the format to Chuck Harder's People's Radio Network talk lineup because WCWC/1600 Ripon already had the local rights to Harder's live broadcast and had to cover that hole in the schedule. Station owner/PD/morning drive personality Steve Rose finally ran out of money, so he fired me as well as the last sales guy working there, changed the locks on the building (a bungalow near the tower site in rural Winnebago County), turned up the pot for the satellite feed, taped my final paycheck to the front door of the station and locked the place shut for two more months. No power and pattern changes at night, which allegedly raised hackles with Radio-Canada (whose CBF/690 Montreal was the clear channel signal assigned to that frequency), no IDs at the top of the hour, and no covering the hole in the schedule in which they were supposed to let WCWC have their live Harder exclusive for the market, which raised hackles on the necks of both WCWC and Harder himself. Harder was so pissed that he took the story to as many of the national trade papers as he could (Harder being the infamous publicity hound that he was). So the KWFM shenanigans sound really familiar to me. Rose eventually fire-saled the place to Milwaukee televangelist Vic Eliason, who turned it into the current-day WVCY, running his political religion programming...
