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Need a radio station in time for Christmas, This one is for sale......Cheap!

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Stormychuck

Your gonna love this new addition to add to your chain of stations, and just in time for Christmas and at a rock bottom $ price, but, you've gotta hurry, before Clear Channel, Cox, or CBS radio get's involved and you know their gonna wanna buy it, so get it while it's a new hot listening.....Click below for a full photo pictorial and further information, buy it for your wife and kid's for Christmas it'll make a great gift.... It's a must have!

HTTP://bobandtanya.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album49
 
I've worked in some bad stations over the years, BUT NEVER anything like that. The best repair for that station would be two bulldozers.
 
Stormychuck said:
Your gonna love this new addition to add to your chain of stations, and just in time for Christmas and at a rock bottom $ price, but, you've gotta hurry, before Clear Channel, Cox, or CBS radio get's involved and you know their gonna wanna buy it, so get it while it's a new hot listening.....Click below for a full photo pictorial and further information, buy it for your wife and kid's for Christmas it'll make a great gift.... It's a must have!

HTTP://bobandtanya.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album49
Click to expand...

What is the asking price and does it include the building(s), real estate and the FM?
 
Here is the FM,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
Holy crap I thought I had a big mess in my old Apt.what a shame. to bad it looks like it went to waste of a combo setup.I'm supprize the local fire marshall did not show up.probably could get a cheap deal on the classic equipment shown in the photos or clean out and startover with new equipment.in the photos the side of the building with the sat dishes did not look bad.

I found this on wikipedia.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSLM_(AM)
 
There is also a TV station (LPTV) somewhere in there and a AM too!!!
 
I've seen worse. I've worked at worse. Ever work with a dial board and holes in half the modules? Monitor speakers mounted in the back, ready to drop and crack, pop, hissing all the way when you turn the monitors up. Not to mention the awful audio you have to endure when you put your cans on.

Ouch....Merry Christmas. ;D
 
I was hoping this would be of some humor for the holidays, and it seems that it has! In my career and for that fact, alot of us, just starting out in radio have worked in some real "shit-box's" that station owner's dare call a radio station, but I've never worked in one where it was necessary to wear some sort of "Bio-Toxic-hazard-waste-suit" just to go to work, and as you can see from the photo's this suit was a must..

This combo was for sale at one time, and as the story go's you probably could have traded it for a box of Krispy Cream doughnut's, in which case I would think the doughnut's were worth substantially more!

Also this will come as no surprise, the AM transmitter because of equipment failure was stuck in the night-time mode thus operating in low-power 24/7 which the stations owner's felt was no big deal..

So if by chance you were a radio consultant/broker and successful in off-loading this land-fill, to some poor unsuspecting schmuck (s) it would be a real career boost earning you a spot in the top ten in the National Association of Radio Consultant Broker's Directory and coupon Handbook!
 
I have a Volumax, just like the one in the pic, that is still operational.

The tarp over the transmitter was the worst. Kinda reminded me of some pic I saw of the
WHOW-AM 1520 in Illinois that also had a tarp over their transmitter near the end of the Sunbelt Broadcasting days.

Thanks for the pics, Stormychuck. Merry Christmas to you.
 
Wow, these photos take me back to WKIQ in 1995-96 just after it's resurrection from going dark in the 80s. It wasn't this messy inside but the console, the interior's insides and transmitter tower are mightyyy familiar.

Merry Christmas to you all and your families as well.

Byron
 
It just occurred to me that in 1972 I worked for a station what was flooded with 9' of water (one story location) and even then it didn't look as bad as this one. We did some very creative things then to return to the air, such as isolating the modulation transformer on some damaged LP's, ran wires across the floor, etc. That gave me a saying that I still use today, "anything that is temporary for more than three weeks is PERMANENT!"
 
Kelly your right, anything after 3-week's is permanent, and JimmyJames, yes every station is for sale and if your interested LOL I would really reconsider.....
 
Why would CC or CBS buy these stations? Can they be moved to Louisville? Of course price is another issue. If it can't be upgraded that AM/FM combo might be worth less than the property itself! Small market radio is great but a lot of times are quite overvalued...

Radio-X
 
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