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WBNO, WQCT/W242DP, Bryan, OH destroyed by fire

Wish them the best on recovering. Hopefully they can get some form of temporary housing and get some form of signal on air sooner than later. They were running mostly syndicated stuff off the bird.
 
Reminds me of the Sunday morning I drove past the WFOB studios, just south of Fostoria - must have been in 1975 or '76, and saw that it had burned down the night before. I had a hatchback car with a couple of boxes of LPs in back, on my way back to College at Ohio U. One of the handful of people who had gathered at the site thought I had arrived to help them get back on the air, somehow. I used to listen to them a lot, but had to get to Athens and back to school. Someone at the time told me that folks with the time-brokered Mexican music show on Saturday night left a burning cigarette, which caught the station on fire after it signed off at Midnight. The price of time-brokered programming!
 
Goldilocks94941 said:
Reminds me of the Sunday morning I drove past the WFOB studios, just south of Fostoria - must have been in 1975 or '76, and saw that it had burned down the night before. I had a hatchback car with a couple of boxes of LPs in back, on my way back to College at Ohio U. One of the handful of people who had gathered at the site thought I had arrived to help them get back on the air, somehow. I used to listen to them a lot, but had to get to Athens and back to school. Someone at the time told me that folks with the time-brokered Mexican music show on Saturday night left a burning cigarette, which caught the station on fire after it signed off at Midnight. The price of time-brokered programming!
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The word i received from a dj friend of mine at WFOB was that mice chewing thru wires caused that fire. WFOB operated out of a trailer for a long time until they built a beautiful new studio and offices. The sad part is that they are not even using that studio any more opting to move to Fostoria's dead downtown area.
 
1Doug1 said:
The word i received from a dj friend of mine at WFOB was that mice chewing thru wires caused that fire. WFOB operated out of a trailer for a long time until they built a beautiful new studio and offices. The sad part is that they are not even using that studio any more opting to move to Fostoria's dead downtown area.
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I remember that fire at WFOB. I was no longer working there but heard about it in Bowling Green. I will never forget driving over after dark and there was Dave Smith alone at the site. We stood at the edge of what was now only a smoldering ruin and told each other stories of things that happened at the station in the past. It was like an era had ended. Years later a fire would destroy my WNRR in Bellevue and force us to build a new facility.
 


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