I remember the evening the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. I was a 14 year-old in Louisville, at home from school when the first bulletins came in about 6:10 PM, I believe. Our heritage Black/R&B station, WLOU-AM, was then a well-established daytimer pulling huge ratings, having been all R&B since 1951.
WLOU excersized authority given stations in Part 73 & 74 of the FCC Riles and Regulations empowering daytimers to stay on the air past sign-off with full facility power in case of public emergency for the good of the community. They relayed news, interviews and valuable information (with, of course, no commercials) with music to serve their audience until about midnight.
Any one remember what their local Black/R&B/Soul stations aired that 3-day period? Oldtimers, sound off and tell the young ones! :-X
WLOU excersized authority given stations in Part 73 & 74 of the FCC Riles and Regulations empowering daytimers to stay on the air past sign-off with full facility power in case of public emergency for the good of the community. They relayed news, interviews and valuable information (with, of course, no commercials) with music to serve their audience until about midnight.
Any one remember what their local Black/R&B/Soul stations aired that 3-day period? Oldtimers, sound off and tell the young ones! :-X