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ANOTHER WCIN EXTENSION; WCVG IS DARK?

Jeff_Davis said:
I just found all of my old WCLU pictures. I have shots of the studios and the cowboy in the lobby. He's gone now. For those of you who know the layout of that building, La Ley moved the studio into Irv's office and put in a showcase window. This will be interesting to watch. I love that little place since it's where I started at age 16. I'd hate to see it go dark permanently, but it's a different world now.
I was there in 1972...when were you there?
 
Bob, I was there from '85 to '87 when Irv sold it. I stayed with the Plessingers at WCVG and JOY 107 until I went to WUBE/WDJO. It was "Cincinnati's Hit Playin' AM" then. We actually never called it CLU-132 except in the legal ID. Listeners (both of them) thought we were saying, "CLU 1-3-2-2." And, Irv wrote all of the copy to say WCLU, so we just quit saying it. Same equipment you had in '72 for sure.
 
gabigley1 said:
Jeff_Davis said:
Davidson is still the owner, but under some subsidiary that took over when Peter Davidson took himself out of the company. A sale to the Gospel programmers who have been doing the LMA was approved, but never consummated. So, Davidson is still the owner of record.

Here is their FCC Correspondence Folder on this very topic:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/corrp_list.pl?Facility_id=56220

Here is the sales agreement between Davidson and TMH MEDIA GROUP, LCC, the Buyer:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101313788&qnum=5030&copynum=1&exhcnum=1

They were going to pay $450,000 dollars for that radio station.
 
Jeff_Davis said:
Bob, I was there from '85 to '87 when Irv sold it. I stayed with the Plessingers at WCVG and JOY 107 until I went to WUBE/WDJO. It was "Cincinnati's Hit Playin' AM" then. We actually never called it CLU-132 except in the legal ID. Listeners (both of them) thought we were saying, "CLU 1-3-2-2." And, Irv wrote all of the copy to say WCLU, so we just quit saying it. Same equipment you had in '72 for sure.
Sorry to hear about the equipment...In 1972, it was a tube type Gates console with the meter on the right, a tube type Gates limiter & a tube type Gates transmitter--and the quality from the air monitor was superb...sounded like mono FM. Two rack mounted cart decks & 2 turntables. The cart decks had to be beat on to get them to start. Irv was in Production with PD Roy Wakely when I was observed banging the cart machine to get it to start...Irv blew up & fired me. My $2 an hour country DJ career up in smoke...If you have any pics of the studio you can share, please PM me...I'd love to see them.
 
I NEED SAX said:
Have there been any stations that have went dark in the Cincinnati area and never returned? I can't remember any right off hand.

WCNE was a high school station in Clermont County that's gone now. Also, I think there was a high school station in Reading called WRCJ which is gone now too.
 
Didn't WCNE become WOBO, and WRCJ become WMKV. I still have an old WRCJ sticker here somewhere. I toured WRCJ back in '84 when I was in high school at WHSS Hamilton.

Colerain had WNSD, but I never heard it. Christopher Geisen started there.
 
js said:
Didn't WCNE become WOBO, and WRCJ become WMKV. I still have an old WRCJ sticker here somewhere. I toured WRCJ back in '84 when I was in high school at WHSS Hamilton.

Colerain had WNSD, but I never heard it. Christopher Geisen started there.

I thought WCNE actually shared time with WOBO, which was a separate license. But it vanished around 1989. Also, I thought WRCJ was a completely separate license from WMKV, which came much later.

I don't remember ever hearing of WNSD.
 
gabigley1 said:
gabigley1 said:
Jeff_Davis said:
Davidson is still the owner, but under some subsidiary that took over when Peter Davidson took himself out of the company. A sale to the Gospel programmers who have been doing the LMA was approved, but never consummated. So, Davidson is still the owner of record.

Here is their FCC Correspondence Folder on this very topic:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/corrp_list.pl?Facility_id=56220

Here is the sales agreement between Davidson and TMH MEDIA GROUP, LCC, the Buyer:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101313788&qnum=5030&copynum=1&exhcnum=1

They were going to pay $450,000 dollars for that radio station.


I'm tring to remember what Plessenger sold the station for? $800,000 They are taking a hit on that sell price.
 
microbob, it's a much bigger hit than you think! Davidson bought it for $1.9 million. I was chatting with Dick Plessinger a lot around that time and he was very proud of that deal!
 
Jeff_Davis said:
microbob, it's a much bigger hit than you think! Davidson bought it for $1.9 million. I was chatting with Dick Plessinger a lot around that time and he was very proud of that deal!

So right, Jeff!!

It was Cincy's own John Pierce that fetched this lofty number.

Today, it is worth about 350 or 375........
 
jry said:
Jeff_Davis said:
microbob, it's a much bigger hit than you think! Davidson bought it for $1.9 million. I was chatting with Dick Plessinger a lot around that time and he was very proud of that deal!

So right, Jeff!!

It was Cincy's own John Pierce that fetched this lofty number.

Today, it is worth about 350 or 375........

Yes, this is the 1.9 million deal Dick Plessinger struck with Davidson:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101145622&qnum=5100&copynum=1&exhcnum=1
 
NoWayNoCC said:
I NEED SAX said:
Have there been any stations that have went dark in the Cincinnati area and never returned? I can't remember any right off hand.

Also, I think there was a high school station in Reading called WRCJ which is gone now too.
I was let in the door there for a tour in 1969 or 1970...little 10 watt tube type transmitter.
 
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