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Need info on WSPF 1000 kHz in Hickory, NC

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artsutton

I'm trying to locate some info on the 1000 AM station which operated in Hickory, NC til the late 1980s. My research so far shows that the station was 1000 watts til around 1980 when it went 5000 watts. We're having difficulty finding the files on that power increase at the FCC. We're wanting to see if signal measurements were taken on 1000 WGOG(AM) in Walhalla, SC. If anyone has any info on this matter, please share. Thanks.
 
Former Channel 1 jock.

What difference did it make in 2009 or who cares?
 
After six years, I assume you have found the info you were looking for, but for what it's worth, I worked for both WIRC/WXRC and WHKY in the 1980's while never working for WSPF, but I did have "radio" friends that worked there for years. What I remember about WSPF was it was a creation of a "group" of investors and in 1963, Willis Deal and ten other investors "pooled" their money to build and start a NEW radio station in Hickory after four other radio stations had already been broadcasting since 1940. WHKY AM 1290 just celebrated its 75th anniversary having begun in June if 1940. In the 1980's while working at WIRC-WXRC, ( WIRC AM 630 is now operating as 63- BIG WAYS (WAIZ) having taken the 63-BIG WAYS moniker from the former 61-BIG WAYS in Charlotte). I might suggest to you to contact Tom Long at WHKY as he may be able to steer you in the right direction. The former WIRC-WXRC is now owned along with WNNC in Newton as a three station group by Dave Lingerfelt who has been in broadcasting for 40 or more years, and formally worked in Morganton before buying WNNC in Newton in the late 1960's, and then buying WIRC-WXRC in the 1980's and combining all three into his ownership.

Thanks,

Richard Garrison

Morganton, NC. 28655

[email protected]
 
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