Well, it's about time someone sets the record straight.
a) Smashedcd ... I never cease to be amazed at your continual negative posts about anything to do with religious or christian radio. Your fifteen minutes of fame on this issue were up months ago on the "Religious format" page of this forum when you were appropriately chastised by professionals working in the realm of religious and christian radio.
Since the date of the termination of your employment at WQCK (a Christian radio station at the time) you have made it your goal to criticize, moan, and whine. Grow up and get over it.
b) Regarding WLNO ... the station was purchased in 1995 by Communicom Company, a national operator of Christian formatted stations for $700,000.00. In 2005 Communicom Company rejected an offer of $10 Million Dollars from a party desiring to purchase the station. The financial performance of the station must be pretty phenomenal to support that offer and the fact that Communicom Company turned the offer down indicates they felt the offer was too low. I call that kind of performance by a broadcast station SUCCESS.
In 2006 ... after Hurricane Katrina decimated the New Orleans market ... Communicom Company purchased two broadcast stations in Phoenix and one in the Miami, Florida market. No broadcast lender on the face of the earth would have loaned the kind of money necessary to transact this sale if WLNO was not, even after Hurricane Katrina, generating extremely positive financial performance. I call that SUCCESS.
Regarding the comment about WLNO claiming listeners in other countries, Smashedcd has once again shown his ignorance. The station is, quite possibly, able to claim those listeners via the skywave (yes, 50,000 watt stations generate enough RF at critical hours to bounce off the ionesphere and reach long distances) and/or via internet audio streaming (which WLNO does).
Regarding the comment about the old WNOE turntables in the photographs on WLNO's website, Smashedcd's ignorance is, once again, apparent. If you wish to view the old WNOE Control room I invite you to visit
http://www.jdthedj.com/wnoe.htm to see the condition of the equipment during the station's operation on Bienville Street (the original location) in 1975. The turntables you reference actually belonged to KMEZ, 102.9FM, when KMEZ was located in the Gretna, Louisiana area. When Communicom Company purchased WNOE-AM in 1995 and changed the call letters to WLNO they also purchased the studios and equipment 102.9 abandoned in Gretna, Louisiana and moved WLNO's studios from the original WNOE location in the French Quarter to the abandoned 102.9 facilities in Gretna.
Again, Smashedcd ... your fifteen minutes of fame on the issue of religious and christian radio ended in the "Religious format" forum section. There is no need for you to continue attempting to justify the termination of your employment within religious/christian radio by bashing stations within the format. By doing so, you appear to be trying to justify your own failures in the broadcasting industry.
