WISL AM - Shamokin

[DXDXDX]

Ownership of WISL (out of Harrisburg) had no intention of doing anything to improve the place or spend one penny to that end. The two guys primarily involved were Art Sherman and Jim O'Leary. Both had tons of radio experience. If you remember, Sherman was manager until he died. He made no attempt to even move to the area, instead, staying at a traded out hotel room and going home on weekends. His replacement did the same thing. The game plan was the place was for sale for a long time. There were no takers because both the transmitter site and studios/offices were dumps. Engineering was a jury rigged mess. O'Leary's claim to fame was he was married to Carol O'Leary who divorced him and became Carol Logan of Forever "fame".

 

[DaveWilliams]

I thought Dave Gorman from Quakertown PA had the WISL property and he was the one who shut it off. He was the father of Curt Gorman of the company that builds the antenna tuning equipment.

 

[DXDXDX]

That was probably later in the life of the station. Gorman must have the engineer someone spoke of earlier.

 

[Tim Y]

Re: WHLM-Bloomsburg-

Regarding WHLM -Bloomsburg.

I had auditioned for a partime job in the late sixties at "WCNR"-930 AM in Bloomsburg. ( Of course WHLM's
call letters are there now ).They did not have cart machines. They played back all spots on a couple of reel to
reel machines.Their program director,I believe was Carl Conner. Gee.....And I thought my memory was failing me.
You guys keep me thinking with your "blasts from the past ". Thanks.

 

[DXDXDX]

I went there to seeking work but later than that. The guy who interviewed me was the son of the owner. I think that owner died and the son took over at that point. They were country back then and as I recall, they had a gentleman on the air who had been there forever. Then in the first half of the 80's he died. Eventually it was sold to the newspaper, I think.