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FCC to Hold Public Hearing on Media Ownership in Nashville on Monday, Dec. 11th

We are debt free as well. There's still a lot of AM's out there, doing bad. Its my passion! Digging is the hard part. White Bluff, and Hoenwald sold recently, and I missed them.

Trying to find something quickly. But its never easy! Sorry you won't volunteer what you own? But we must be doing well, because we post here all the time. :)

I'm on the air myself three hours a day, so killing some time I guess. Email me off the board sometime. [email protected]
 
Re: FCC to Hold Public Hearing on Media Ownership in Nashville on Monday, Dec. 1

"...in Nashville there are 62 radio stations with 38 different owners..."

Whit doesn't seem to mention anything about percentages of revenue. Hmmm. Why do you think he just happens to ignore the subject? The sentence should read, "there are 62 radio stations with 38 different owners; Four of whom generate 75% of the income, while the other 37 are barely black lining one dollar a year.

I'm a member of the TAB and I, too, found the tip of the TAB hat to Cumulus, Clear Channel, etc, ("...our broadcasters cannot be saddled with decades-old rules that ignore the rapidly changing media tapestry.) to be truly offensive.

What decades-old rules? The only thing left in those rules is the need to air a legal ID? Anyone have to go through asertainment or actually have an office, much less a studio in a city of license, lately? Do you think Steve Dickert has a "meaningful management presence" in Manchester? What changing media tapestry? The scare tactic regarding the Internet (again)?

Nevertheless, Mr. Adamson is right smack dab in the middle and what else could he possibly say? He's got a family to support.

If you gentlemen really want to slow down the train that is coming your way, may I suggest a call or a letter or two to your respective congressional representatives. They actually may understand the need for a local station to actually serve the respective cities of license.
 
I plan to talk to Congresswomen Marsha Blackburn very soon. And you are correct in your statements. I won't join TAB, NAB or any other organization that supports the big media the way these agencies do.

They've never even asked me to join. It continues to show where they think.
 
ROCKO11 said:
If you want to know who I am, ask Chris Romer. He worked at my station back in the early 70's.

R
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really? news to me. I started at WCOR-FM Lebanon August 1975...that's not the early 70's.
WAMG Gallatin December 1975...then 92Q in 1976. I don't know who you are, either...
 
Hey Chris, come fix my hot water heater! Lee Raines bought one that leaked all over the damn station (HA!)
 
There's a big hole in the floor where the old Gates Transmitter sat. The old CCA is gone as well. One brand new rack is back there that holds the transmitter and processing gear. It's almost an empty room! Oh, I did replace the hot water heater (larger) than the one Lee installed in there!

R
 
RockO you and Romer mention WAMG and Lee Raines, I worked there in 79 or 80, sometime ago. Is Lee still kicking. He was 100 when I worked 4 him
 
Believe it or not, Lee is still kickin! I know before he bought WAMG, in the early 60's, Lee was at WHIN, along with Charlie Brewer, Hoyt Carter (now GM of WNAH), along with Ms. Lottie Shaw the bookkeeper, and Tommy Perkins was Part Owner of the station. Some of this was before I was born (I'm only 42). These days Lee is preaching in different churches in town as a guest speaker. I still see him from time to time.

Lee Rains, along with Al Bennett, purchased WAMG in the early 70's. They moved the WAMG studios from behind the square in Gallatin in the Enlow Center to the transmitter site property. In the mid 80's, they sold the station to Mike Hight, Jack Bell, and another partner in Knoxville. In 1991, they sold the station to Ernie Ashworth. Ernie didn't know, but the IRS had a lean against it. Erine was forced to take it dark.

I bought the WAMG studio building, tower site and equipment for $40,000 from the IRS in 1991. Ernie was forced to find another tower site for WAMG. WAMG went back on in 1995 as WYXE at a new tower site. WYXE is now hispanic and owned by a hispanic church. The WYXE studios are at the corner of Gallatin Rd and Trinity Ln in East Nashville. The transmitter and tower site remains in Gallatin. ISDN Lines are used to get the signal from the studio in East Nashville to the transmitter site in Gallatin.

As far as the old WAMG property, I obtained the license of the old 1560 WWGM from Faye Lindsay in 1992, who lost her tower site to the IRS. I filed to move WWGM from Nashville to Gallatin, change antenna pattern from directional to non-directional at 1 KW. I changed the calls from WWGM to WMRO. The day I change the calls, Grace Broadcasting over near Jackson was dying to get those WWGM call letters for thier FM facility over there, and they got them. I didn't want them. There is another story of how I got the calls WMRO, but that's another show. WMRO (was WWGM) signed back on Feburay 19th, 1994 at the former WAMG site in Gallatin, where it still is today. I put up a new tower in 1999, at 1/4 wave, to match the 1560 frequency.

Someone asked me about all the old WAMG equipment. It's all gone, and I have replaced everything with newer digital gear.

I hope this clears things up.
 
slight correction: Lee Raines bought WAMG in the fall of 1975 (for $250k)...I was working
for Lee at WCOR-FM in Lebanon (weekends) and jumped at the chance for full-time at WAMG,
starting in December 1975. Ken Larkin was doing 6a - 1pm...Bill Hart 1pm - sign-off.
There must have been 10,000 45s scattered in piles around the console...no shucks...no order.
My instructions were "play what ya want". Unreal. Dirty. Smoky. Awful place.
Lee did a lot to clean the place up...made lots of improvements...and the station did sound reasonably
good (eventually).
 
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