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The Old WHHT, Harriman

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Josh Owens

Just throwing this out there, because I am personally unable to locate any info online about it, as I used to. My first acquaintance with this old facility, was through one of my heroes the late Evangelist Billy Mitchell, formerly of Jamestown, TN, who started his radio ministry (The Faithful Witness Hour) there in 1964, on Sunday afternoons at 2:30. I read somewhere, a while back, that the station was in some kind of legal battle with another one in the area, but as I said, can't find anything online about it now or anything else of them, for that matter. Anybody got any memories and/or info?
 
JJSPC said:
Perhaps search David's World Radio History site. Are you thinking of AM 1600 in Harriman?
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Thanks for the suggestion, reply and question. Honestly, after I posted this, I realized my faulty memory and lisdexia kicked in. WHHT, was a station in Durham, NC, that another one of my heroes (the late Dr. Harold B. Sightler) was on for a time, circa, 1946. This station was at AM 1580. I may be thinking of WHBT. Was that the one at 1600? I thought it was further down the dial though. Between my fuzzy head and my fumble fingers, I'm havin' a time today. :D)
 
JJSPC said:
Yes, WHBT was the one at 1600. There were different call letters later on. It was also WKJS and at least one other call sign.
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Roger on that, thanks for the reply and info. Above, are two links of interest, including the legal battle I spoke of in the initial post of this thread. Wow, sounds like that guy was a snake in the grass, from the documentation. Wonder when they moved from 1600 to 1230.
 
Digging around old Broadcasting Yearbooks on the World Radio History page it looks like after WHBT, 1600 became WJZA around 1978, WKJS around 1983, and WWBR around 1986. The last listing for that station seems to be in the 1993 yearbook. 1230 AM is listed as signing on in October 1982 with a different owner as WKCE. That station last appears in the 1992 yearbook.
 
JJSPC said:
Digging around old Broadcasting Yearbooks on the World Radio History page it looks like after WHBT, 1600 became WJZA around 1978, WKJS around 1983, and WWBR around 1986. The last listing for that station seems to be in the 1993 yearbook. 1230 AM is listed as signing on in October 1982 with a different owner as WKCE. That station last appears in the 1992 yearbook.
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Gotcha, thanks for the research. I read somewhere, that Harriman was staged like a resort town or something like that, but it never got off the ground as such. If memory serves, more crooked business dealings in the real estate sector were the cause. Wow, a lot of stations came and went over the years, way before COVID shut small stations down.
 


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