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WSSM 105.1 Havelock Goes To K-Love

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ToddJenkins

NextMedia's bankruptcy has forced it to sell off a few of its Down East stations, and the first one to go was WSSM 105.1 down in Havelock.

This is the heritage WKVO-FM, WQSM (Q105), and WANG. The AM sister was not included in the deal.

So now, NextMedia has gotten quick cash for a station from a company/ministry that won't compete for advertising dollars.
And EMF has another big stick to feed its massive network of translators.
 
Guess WSSM will simulcast with the K-Love station in Swansboro (104.1 WKGV). One note..the station was actually WMSQ in its Q105 days (WQSM is in Fayetteville). That was when they were still on 104.9 with a weak class A signal (I remember it literally dropped off in western Carteret County...even sister station 1330 was still audible).

Is 1330 doing popular standards now?
 
I was one of the owners of WKVO........ We bought it in 1968 when it was WUSM at 1330 Am.........


The studio was atop the Havelock Red and White..........We moved it to a mobile home at


the transmitter site a few years later when the FM was added........
 
'KVO was a big deal in New Bern. Well, right IN New Bern. My parents had a preset for it when they went to town from Cove City. I guess it carried up the Neuse River really well back then.

I can pretty much guess what the WUSM calls meant.
But what did 'KVO stand for?
 
I do not recall the calls standing for anything special..........I used the name


Bill Sherwood on the air after the Sherwood forrest and Sherwood Motel
 
ToddJenkins said:
'KVO was a big deal in New Bern. Well, right IN New Bern. My parents had a preset for it when they went to town from Cove City. I guess it carried up the Neuse River really well back then.

I can pretty much guess what the WUSM calls meant.
But what did 'KVO stand for?
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Hey Todd, It would be quite ironic if the folks at k-love can get the WUSM calls back, since k-love is religious WUSM could mean: yoU Send Money
 
I always get a chuckle out of people who seem to criticize religious stations for asking for money, but I never see those same comments thrown at NPR and Sirius/XM.......
 
blue67ccm said:
I always get a chuckle out of people who seem to criticize religious stations for asking for money, but I never see those same comments thrown at NPR and Sirius/XM.......
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That's because so many of the religious stations sound so either cheesy or pleading in their asking for money.. NPR stations do the pleading and Sirius/XM is a money making enterprise so there is no comparison to a non-profit religious outfit. Also most religious station owners think that the "faith" will automatically bring in money and they run the stations like churches, but a radio station of any kind is a business and should be run as such whether it is a profit or non-profit station.
 
I'm aware Christian Media depend on contributions and must to remain viable and strong financially to stay on the air, but when
you constantly ask all the time, it's one of the reasons why many don't give.
 
If people are going to give, they're going to give. Maybe not the first time you ask, but by the severalth time.
If they're not going to give, then they're not going to give, no matter if you ask 100 times.
 
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