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WELE-AM 1380 will not go silent

Essentially this is nothing more than an LMA agreement between Wings Communications, Inc. and Goliath Radio, LLC. The big question now is how much longer will the FCC allow Doug Wilhite to remain a licensee now that Wilhite has a felony conviction on his record. It's possible Wilhite has removed his name as an officer, director and stock holder in the licensee, leaving someone, such as his daughter, who has no felony conviction that I am aware, as the sole officer, director and stock holder in Wings. This may satisfy the FCC for the time being until the license renewal and transfer issue has been resolved. My understaing is the FCC is currently reviewing the license renewal which has to be resolved first before the license can be transfered to Goliath.
 
It has been, since 2004, in the pending renewwal stage, and continues to remain in the pending status now. This is why the license transfer from Wings Communications to Goliath Radio has not yet been approved.
 
Who actually holds the FCC license for WELE to be on the air? The State of Georgia has dissolved Wings Communications which had the WELE FCC license and according to the FCC online site Goliath/Big John has not yet been granted an FCC license.
 
dancer67 said:
Who actually holds the FCC license for WELE to be on the air? The State of Georgia has dissolved Wings Communications which had the WELE FCC license and according to the FCC online site Goliath/Big John has not yet been granted an FCC license.
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The Wings Communications, Inc. stockholders of record, as each appears on the FCC license, including percentage of voting rights, were the owners of WELE all along and will remain responsible for the WELE license until such time the FCC takes further action regarding the license renewal and license transfer, whether said license transfer is to Goliath Radio, LLC or another entity.

It should be further noted that Wings Communications, Inc. can be easily re-activated by simply paying the State of Georgia all back annual report fees, including late penalties, and designate a Georgia resident as the Registered Agent to accept service of process within the State of Georgia.
 
vadar said:
AM/FM/XM, which is worse? Who will survive?
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Glorida Gaynor??!? :D

Seriously, it hard to say whether any of the above will survive in the long term, techology is changing so rapidly.

drt
 
jmtillery said:
dancer67 said:
Who actually holds the FCC license for WELE to be on the air? The State of Georgia has dissolved Wings Communications which had the WELE FCC license and according to the FCC online site Goliath/Big John has not yet been granted an FCC license.
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The Wings Communications, Inc. stockholders of record, as each appears on the FCC license, including percentage of voting rights, were the owners of WELE all along and will remain responsible for the WELE license until such time the FCC takes further action regarding the license renewal and license transfer, whether said license transfer is to Goliath Radio, LLC or another entity.

It should be further noted that Wings Communications, Inc. can be easily re-activated by simply paying the State of Georgia all back annual report fees, including late penalties, and designate a Georgia resident as the Registered Agent to accept service of process within the State of Georgia.
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My recollection from when I lived down there was that the signal wasn't bad, but there was never any major-league programming on it. I always thought that this station could do a lot better with better content, given the long history of WNDB and the relative success of the small signals doing nostalgia formats there. Locally produced straight-up 60s oldies, or maybe Scott Shannon's "True Oldies" (which is getting ratings on the Tampa Bay rimshot FM WJQB) would work, with some sports play-by-play at night and on the weekends.

Marc, did you not have the option to buy this from the previous owner, or knowing all the inside stuff, did you figure it was best to just get as far away as you could as fast as you could?
 
parttimer - I agree. In my opinion, WELE has the best AM signal out of all the AM signals in Daytona Beach. I would say WNZF has a better signal but AM 1550 does not cover all of Daytona although it does cover Ormond quiet well.

When I was there, we had looked into possibly implementing a full service format consisting of oldies based adult contemporay/MOR interspersed with heavy news and information, complete with local traffic reports. We also looked into upgrading the news-talk programming using the moniker NEWSONERADIO, again with heavy news content. I had secured a few top tier programs that were never aired. I did, however, manage to add FNN, Florida Roundtable, Dave Ramsey, ABC News and Paul Harvey to the WELE programming line-up.

Additionally we had also looked into making an offer to acquire WPUL and moving its tower site to the WELE four tower array with the intent of upgrading power to 5kw-D; 1kw-N; DA-N. Our findings indicated this may be possible although a full and complete engineering study was not implemented.

Regarding an option to buy WELE, Doug Wilhite and I had discussed that possibility and I was in talks with financial backers to finance any WELE/WPUL deals that may have come to fruition.
 
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