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WRKL for sale

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WRKL AM 910 in New City, NY (Rockland County) is for sale, according to radio-info.com. The owner, Polnet, is asking $3 million(!) for the station.
 
Probably over-priced at that. The facilities were dreadful in the "heyday" of the place.

Tanya Hansen of WCBS-AM started out there. Steven E. Roy of Lite-FM fame called it home once too. Pam Puso of Fox, Scott Stanford on Channel 4, some others.

Nice 4 tower set-up in Pomona, New York for the fellow tower climbers to check out. I am sure it cost mucho denero to keep the 4 red lights flashing.

Polenet mistakenly believed they would get some sort of modification to their signal to shoot it into Brooklyn and serve the polish community.
Clearly that couldn't happen and over a year ago they gave up and leased the time to a spanish network.

WRKL has a nice little tribute site for anyone interested.

www.wrkl.org
 
TC, you mentioned Pam Puso of Fox was at WRKL. Do you know if she got her start in radio there? I believe at one time she was at WCSS in Amsterdam, NY.
 
Knick- Not WCSS, but the little pea shooter (I mean that lovingly) just across the Mohawk on Route 30, 1570 WVTL. Pam was a peach from day 1, did her thing and you knew she would end up somewhere relatively soon. I think anyone who knows her would believe this to be true.

Like a lot of the little AM's in Upstate, WVTL is simulcast on an LPFM, in this case 104.7 Lite Rock. The LPFM signal is sent severly West for you tower buffs. (104.5 Mechanicville and 104.7 Poughkeepsie need protection)

WVTL was actually a nice little news operation in the day. It wasn't so long ago the Carpet City could boast of two decent local news operations, WVTL and WCSS.

In addition to her time at WRKL, Pam also spent a few years at WFAS in White Plains, and many nights and weekends working for the Associated Press at 30 Rock.
 
OK TC, I knew she was in Amsterdam, is she native to Amsterdam do you know? I can remember 1570 when it was WKOL. Back in Dec 1977, I helped out putting a temporary station together when it burned down. Yes, Amsterdam had some pretty good news departments at those 2 stations years ago.
 
Towerclimber31 said:
Knick- Not WCSS, but the little pea shooter (I mean that lovingly) just across the Mohawk on Route 30, 1570 WVTL. Pam was a peach from day 1, did her thing and you knew she would end up somewhere relatively soon. I think anyone who knows her would believe this to be true.

Like a lot of the little AM's in Upstate, WVTL is simulcast on an LPFM, in this case 104.7 Lite Rock. The LPFM signal is sent severly West for you tower buffs. (104.5 Mechanicville and 104.7 Poughkeepsie need protection)

WVTL was actually a nice little news operation in the day. It wasn't so long ago the Carpet City could boast of two decent local news operations, WVTL and WCSS.

In addition to her time at WRKL, Pam also spent a few years at WFAS in White Plains, and many nights and weekends working for the Associated Press at 30 Rock.



The Associated Press was formerly at 50 Rockefeller Plaza,not "30 Rock". Current AP headquarters is at 450 W. 33rd Street.
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