For those that didn't notice the item on today's main news page, Clear Channel has donated four silent AM stations --- including silent Laurel 10KW AM daytimer WHJA --- to the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving equal opportunity and civil rights in the mass media and telecommunications industries.
WHJA has been silent for nearly a year, since what was described as a "massive transmitter failure". It had occupied the former transmitter site of sister station WNSL-FM near Moselle, in south Jones County.
The station had most recently been known --- albeit briefly --- as "Blues 890". During a time in the '90s, it ran an easy listening format and was known as "Kiss 890", but was best remembered as WQIS "Q-89" from 1985 when the station moved frequency from 1260 and aired an R&B format.
According to the news item, "the Council and the NAB Education Foundation’s Broadcast Leadership Training Program will use these currently-silent stations as real-world training facilities".
We shall see...
WHJA has been silent for nearly a year, since what was described as a "massive transmitter failure". It had occupied the former transmitter site of sister station WNSL-FM near Moselle, in south Jones County.
The station had most recently been known --- albeit briefly --- as "Blues 890". During a time in the '90s, it ran an easy listening format and was known as "Kiss 890", but was best remembered as WQIS "Q-89" from 1985 when the station moved frequency from 1260 and aired an R&B format.
According to the news item, "the Council and the NAB Education Foundation’s Broadcast Leadership Training Program will use these currently-silent stations as real-world training facilities".
We shall see...