While passing through, I found only silence on AM 1300. How long has it been off this time? What's the trouble, something to do with the DA?
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WBZQ Huntington?
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It's been down for a long time (I'd say over 2 years...)
After Chris Larko died his estate sold 101.1 FM to Bryan Walsh and 1300 to a group that put Mexican programming on it. It used to be a good station for picking up Chicago Cubs games.
After Chris Larko died his estate sold 101.1 FM to Bryan Walsh and 1300 to a group that put Mexican programming on it. It used to be a good station for picking up Chicago Cubs games.
The last entry posted on the FCC data base is from 2016.
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/p...etimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=65416
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/p...etimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=65416
Searching the FCC database the last extension of authority to remain silent expired in Sept. 2016.
I went near the towers today...all three are standing. Didn't go past the building or look in but it's still standing too.
Transmitter failure perhaps?
I went near the towers today...all three are standing. Didn't go past the building or look in but it's still standing too.
Transmitter failure perhaps?
It got out of Huntington about 10-15 miles daytime, but I don't know if anybody was selling for them or how they were raising ad dollars.
Last format on the station was Hispanic (what origin I don't know...sat driven possibly...) and now it's just THERE. 3 towers by the ditch and a building that looks about an hour from falling down.
Last format on the station was Hispanic (what origin I don't know...sat driven possibly...) and now it's just THERE. 3 towers by the ditch and a building that looks about an hour from falling down.
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Even more amazing -- somewhere in the 70s or 80s, the new owner (a farmer, aka Agricultural Enthusiast, who was unfamiliar with the underground radials around the towers) decided to create "mo-money" by planting corn on the property. For those unfamiliar with planting crops, it involves using a large tractor dragging behind a large angular multi-disc plow which gouges deeply into the sub-soil. This Green Acres attempt to gain more Green Bucks destroyed the entire radial system and required a total re-construction of the broadcast field structures. This disaster brought about a new non-agricultural owner and a change to the previous omni-directional pattern by building a new directional 3-tower system so the 500 watt signal could be beamed toward the Big City of Fort Wayne.
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