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The Fall of WVKO

The FCC has finally transferred the license of WVKO-AM despite the objections of Percy Squire, a lawyer who was chief executive for the radio station’s former owner, Stop 26-Riverbend. The FCC transfer approval took almost a year.

Click here for the FCC grant of this sale:

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=22341Application_id=1158800
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This is a NEW news story on WVKO AM. I don't understand why they would even bother appling for a building permit this late in the game because WVKO's license is set to expire on May 5th, the one year anniversary of WVKO going silent... They no doubt will go begging for an extension of their STA but I doubt it will be granted because they have yet to even break ground at their new site.
Is filing for a building permit application progress when they should have already be on the air at the new site?

Click here for the full new story below:

http://www.thisweeknews.com/?sec=no...020107/Northland/News/020107-News-297578.html

WVKO seeks permission to build four towers

Thursday, February 1, 2007

By RANDY NAVAROLI
ThisWeek Staff Writer

The owners of WVKO (1580 AM) have filed building permit applications seeking the city's permission to erect four transmission towers on the site of the radio station's new home on Morse Road.

The city's Building Services Division is currently considering the application, although it's not certain when a final decision will be made. Division officials said the building plans and related zoning issues are being reviewed.

The financially troubled local radio station was pulled off the air by a bankruptcy trustee May 5, 2006, partly because its previous lease for a site in Upper Arlington had expired and it had no place to move.
 
gabigley1 said:
I don't understand why they would even bother appling for a building permit this late in the game because WVKO's license is set to expire on May 5th, the one year anniversary of WVKO going silent... They no doubt will go begging for an extension of their STA but I doubt it will be granted because they have yet to even break ground at their new site.
Is filing for a building permit application progress when they should have already be on the air at the new site?
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My guess is they get it. All they need to do is say, "Ummm... we waited a year for transfer of licenses to us due to FCC red tape... the least you can do is grant a small extension."

My guess, they are on the air in 2007. These guys aren't amateurs and they are in the business of making money, not losing millions due to lack of diligence. I am sure all their moves have been calculated.

I'd be SHOCKED if they lost the license.
 
I agree - I don't know of many owners that would not have this calculated. They probably aready have had their FCC lawyer inquire about the progress and what the steps would be.

Its hard to get the permits before you have the land.

I hate to see any station go dark - I hope they can pull it out.
 
Interesting article on this subject in The Call and Post Columbus edition this week. Way more hopeful than I expected when I saw the headline. I'd post a link, but it's not available online.
 
Radioboy989 said:
Interesting article on this subject in The Call and Post Columbus edition this week. Way more hopeful than I expected when I saw the headline. I'd post a link, but it's not available online.
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It's been dark so long, now would be a perfect time to change programming. Maybe pinko liberal radio would be a good fit?
 
You know what? If they WERE to pick up Air-America-ish programming, it would probably be the best they have done since the 70's...especially if they can find a way to pick and choose some of Radio-One's talk shows too.
With all the hype over 1230...it would likely be moderately successful if for no other reason than for AA listeners to try to make some sort of statement.
 
Radioboy989 said:
You know what? If they WERE to pick up Air-America-ish programming, it would probably be the best they have done since the 70's...especially if they can find a way to pick and choose some of Radio-One's talk shows too.
With all the hype over 1230...it would likely be moderately successful if for no other reason than for AA listeners to try to make some sort of statement.
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Hey, not a bad idea. A full slate of whiny liberals, full of suburban white guilt ..... who think government owes everybody everything ....... sandwiched between rants of "George Bush doesn't care about black people!" (One morning I heard this on the syndicated Radio One morning show on Springfield's 102.9.) The pinko programs can then fail on 3,000 watts instead of 1,000 watts!
 
KevinFodor said:
I will say nothing bad personally about Mr. Squire, because I did work for him. I did get the sense that he valued the people who worked for him, even though challenges within his company made taking "care" of his people, to be gentle here, difficult.
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I only have ask where your paychecks on time and when you went to cash them were the funds available? Mr. Squire played a game with the people he "valued". He had several checking accounts and "companies". He would issue checks to his "valued" people from one account which did not have money in it when the paychecks were given out. He would then wait about 3-5 days and then deposit money into it. This amount never covered all the checks. You got paid if you were among the first to get to the bank. Those who got there at the end many many times ended up with nothing but paper and then had to go to him in person to get their money eventually. Maybe.

His other "companies" such as Associated Radio were no doubt maintaned to throw off his creditors. :)
 
Radioboy989 said:
Interesting article on this subject in The Call and Post Columbus edition this week. Way more hopeful than I expected when I saw the headline. I'd post a link, but it's not available online.
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Here are some interesting excerpts from this article called:
"The battle continues Over WVKO future"

Gilbert Price. Call & Post. Columbus, Ohio: Feb 8-Feb 14, 2007.Vol. 91, Iss. 6; pg. 1A, 2 pgs
Subjects: African Americans, Radio stations, Minority owned businesses, Business closings, Public hearings, Corporate profiles
Locations: Columbus Ohio
People: Hadley, Alvin, Squire, Percy, Zwirn, D B
Companies: WVKO-AM-Columbus OH (NAICS: 515112 )
Author(s): Gilbert Price
Document types: News
Publication title: Call & Post. Columbus, Ohio: Feb 8-Feb 14, 2007. Vol. 91, Iss. 6; pg. 1A, 2 pgs
Source type: Newspaper

The voice of WVKO - a fixture in Columbus' African-American community for more than 50 years - is now dead.

And Alvin Hadley is mad about it.

Hadley and officials from Common Cause are planning for a community hearing to be held in Columbus to discuss the loss of Black radio stations. Three of the five members of the Federal Communications Commission, which has the responsibility to monitor the radio and television airwaves, will be in attendance.

The hearing is scheduled for March 8 at the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, 760 E. Broad St. The public is encouraged to attend.
[Author Affiliation]
By GILBERT PRICE
Senior Editor
 
gabigley1 said:
The voice of WVKO - a fixture in Columbus' African-American community for more than 50 years - is now dead.

And Alvin Hadley is mad about it.

Hadley and officials from Common Cause are planning for a community hearing to be held in Columbus to discuss the loss of Black radio stations. Three of the five members of the Federal Communications Commission, which has the responsibility to monitor the radio and television airwaves, will be in attendance.
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LOL

Here's a question for you: If they're so mad about the loss of WVKO, then why doesn't somebody just step up and buy it?
 
Click here for the rest:

http://www.dispatch.com/features-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/02/20070302-B7-05.html

FCC panel to discuss future
Friday, March 02, 2007

Members of the Federal Communications Commission will attend a town meeting on the future of the media at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Broad Street Presbyterian Church, 760 E. Broad St.

Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein, Michael Copps and Robert McDowell will have a panel discussion on how media concentration affects communities.
 
that was from when the license was transfered over a month ago, the document is dated 1/22/07 all of the challenges had been filed over a year ago when Percy lost the stations
 
Something else i noticed when looking up info for the new transmitter site for WVKO, there is another AM station applying to move to the same location and sharing the towers, It is at 1000 AM and currently the call letters are WSLW currently in White Sulfur Springs WV. it is changing its COL to Bexley Oh and will be Daytime only with a whopping 250 watts
 
I think you'll find if you dig a little deeper on that station in West Virginia that applied to move to Bexley, they ended up going into receivership after filing that application, so I wouldn't count on anything ever happening with that.

Did the FCC open a window a while back for completely silly AM applications? You probably also saw the one for WBLL Bellefontaine applying to move to Grandview, using the WOSU day tower on the OSU Golf Course.

The worst one had to be a little AM in Metro New York that applied to move to a suburb of Los Angeles. Come on, as Aretha said, "Who's Zooming Who?"
 
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