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WYGL AM 1240 Selinsgrove
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hmb
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Station sounding poorly the last 6 months. Carrier was there,audio almost non existent. The station went silent on Febuary 6 and tower removed from Studio location.
FCC Data base still shows the station as liscensed but it ain't there no more.
Dave Bernstien would be proud of Max Media for killing his first radio station that he owned as Sunair Communications. Sorry Dave.
FCC Data base still shows the station as liscensed but it ain't there no more.
Dave Bernstien would be proud of Max Media for killing his first radio station that he owned as Sunair Communications. Sorry Dave.
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GATESYARD
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Question regarding this station--back in the late 60's early 70's there was a small power station in Selinsgrove with a call letter-I think WSEW that operated out of a house at the edge of town. Is this the same station?
Couple of guys I knew worked there back then--Donny Hartman, Big Ed Madden.
Couple of guys I knew worked there back then--Donny Hartman, Big Ed Madden.
I believe you are absolutely right!..the calls were WSEW and I remember
a guy who worked there too!!..Nick Reed (who previously worked for WMLP
Milton) back then. I did some part time work at WMLP during my high school
years in the mid 60's. Never good to see any "local" AM stations go "dark"
or just give up.
Steve Williams
a guy who worked there too!!..Nick Reed (who previously worked for WMLP
Milton) back then. I did some part time work at WMLP during my high school
years in the mid 60's. Never good to see any "local" AM stations go "dark"
or just give up.
Steve Williams
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GATESYARD
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Stonecold49-that really was a neat little setup for WSEW. As you came off the bypass to go up the strip, you could see the tower. Such low power though (I think 250 watts when the station came on the air)-when you got down rt. 15 several miles, the signal got lost in that first big cliff along the river.
Old friend Big Ed Madden left WHYL to join that station when it started up. Never could figure that??
Old friend Big Ed Madden left WHYL to join that station when it started up. Never could figure that??
Retired Guy said:WTGC- I believe they were on 1010 khz ! Sad to see so many AM stations go dark . :'(
Yep, I guess I was right!
Only reason I remember because it was owned by Lou Maierhofer at the same time I was working at his WHPA/WKMC stations and some of the guys traveled down there for work to help out. The slogan was Town & Gown radio.
i believe the call letters for that Lewisburg AM station at 1010KC was WUDO
when it first went on the air. WSEW in Selinsgrove played MOR first then it
changed to WYGL (Wiggle) when the owners
changed format to country. The other Lewisburg FM station was at Bucknell
University, 90.5 or 90.9FM I believe. I surely miss the 60's radio days when
all the little AM's popped up with different genres or formats or that was before corporates and formats or "Brands" The Susquehanna Valley had some
good radio stations then, including WKOK 1070am in Sunbury, WHLM in Bloomsburg, WISL AM in Shamokin, then you could travel north to Scranton and hear the mighty 590, WARM, to Allentown to WAEB, to Harrisburg for WFEC, and WSBA York, Lancaster, Harrisburg.
when it first went on the air. WSEW in Selinsgrove played MOR first then it
changed to WYGL (Wiggle) when the owners
changed format to country. The other Lewisburg FM station was at Bucknell
University, 90.5 or 90.9FM I believe. I surely miss the 60's radio days when
all the little AM's popped up with different genres or formats or that was before corporates and formats or "Brands" The Susquehanna Valley had some
good radio stations then, including WKOK 1070am in Sunbury, WHLM in Bloomsburg, WISL AM in Shamokin, then you could travel north to Scranton and hear the mighty 590, WARM, to Allentown to WAEB, to Harrisburg for WFEC, and WSBA York, Lancaster, Harrisburg.
Wow, this topic has been a trip back in time for me, to my high school days in Selinsgrove, listening constantly to the radio, and working at my first radio job at WSEW in high school. So when that tower went down, so did a bit of my history. That was the tower my first radio broadasts went out over.
Before I go further - please, if anybody has any pics of WSEW studios, or the outside of the house it was in (this would be 1970's) I really, really would love copies. Now, a little bit about WSEW, circa 1974-77
In high school I had met Than Mitchell, then at WKOK (Fort Augusta studios) who got me on the path to getting my FCC license. So the day I finally walked into my hometown station, WSEW, I already had that (which surprised them). That very night, they had me come in and hang out with Charlie Stake, who let me start some records, etc, and needless to say I was hooked. It would be 6 months until I got my first shift there. They didn't have any openings. But I was free to come in, hang out, help out. And boy, did I. Some kids did sports after school, I walked from Selinsgrove High to WSEW to hang out (my senior yearbook even says, "usually found at the radio station"). Classic equipment: Gates Yard board, RCA 77DX mic, Gates turntables, Ampex reel to reel. UPI teletype machine.
Bill Mahoney owned WSEW. Nick Reed was the morning man/PD, "Big" Ed Maddon did afternoons (yes he was very short), Charlie (who died at a very young age) and others did the night show. Bill, Nick and Ed were like a small-time "Selinsgrove/Sunbury rat pack". Playing Sinatra, Bennett, Peggy Lee. Everybody in that area knew them. I look back now and wish I had talked more with those guys, getting more of their history, more about the music, etc. But I was 16, what did I care. I was thrilled to be almost in radio. And then on Thanksgiving Day 1974, I was. My first shift. I followed Robert Collings, who was I guess part-time with them. Shortly after this I ended up doing weekends, most of the time Sat & Sun 6am-noon, sometimes afternoons or nights. I loved it, even though I wanted to play top 40 music for WMLP lol. This job turned out to be a radio learning experience, and a music education that to this day I am grateful for. I might not know those American standards were it not for WSEW.
We chose our own songs, from that library of course. I knew none of these artists or songs when I started (other than Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett) - Bobby Darin, Julie London, Andy Williams, Percy Faith, Ray Conniff Singers, Jerry Vale, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin.. the list goes on. Being high school kids on weekends, they didn't want us to talk much at all. The weather once an hour, but we would sneak in some other talk between some songs. It was a great high school job, and, for me, the start of a career that I'm still in.
I was sitting here thinking of things from those days at WSEW. Just randomly, I remember: the guys smoking in the studio! Ashes would be on the albums, the counter, it's hard to believe it was allowed, but that was the norm then. Some of the commercials: Bastian Tire Sales, Gary's Farmhouse Restaurant, Keo Mobile Homes, Joe Kleinbauer most of them with that reverb they seemed to love!) There really was a doorbell chime in the studio, because now and then you'd hear "Valsing Jewelers time (DING DONG) 9:05" LOL funny to think about now.
One day & event I always remember: I was either hanging out at WSEW, or working a couple hours that afternoon, not sure which. But I went onto the porch of the house, and the night guy was standing at the teletype machine, as if he had seen a ghost. "I can't believe it - Elvis died" he said. 8/16/77. I've never forgotten how that hit him.
And WSEW was doing "voice tracking" long before anybody knew that word. From 6-8pm weeknights, they had a show called "Dinner Date". Bill Mahoney voiced it, with his deep, laid back, trying-to-be-romantic sound ("Hello Dear Heart"). He picked the artists to play, and cut the voice tracks on a reel-to-reel machine. If you board op'd that show, you played the albums, mixing Bill's voice tracks in manually from reel, it seems like every 15 minutes.
WSEW was in a house - just an older, 2 story house, right along Rt. 204. The house is no longer there, it was about 50-100 feet from where the Max Media building is now. It was pretty close to the road. When you walked in, the "living room" was the reception area. To the left - and behind a full wall of glass, floor to ceiling - was the studio (I still think this looked cool). As you walked back, the next "room" is where the transmitter was. Yes, in the house, just feet from the studio! To the other side of that room was a small production room. And then out the back door, you went onto an enclosed porch that had the UPI teletype, coffee, etc. Upstairs, the "bedrooms" were the offices.
I look back on this now with fondness, especially given radio today and how different it is. It was all so quaint then. Not that I want to go back to the days of smoky studios, turntables, and cart machines, mind you. But in a way I feel lucky to have experienced radio at that time and in that way. And yes, I did go on to better radio - WILQ in Williamsport was my next step, in 1977. Then on to Keymarket, CBS, Citadel and others.
Sadly, I have NO pictures of me working at WSEW, or even just of the WSEW studio or house. So if you or anyone you know have any pics of the place, I'd be extremely grateful to be able to get copies. It would mean a lot. Back then, I was a kid thrilled to be working at a radio station, who didn't take pictures, or even think of it.
Mark Lindow
[email protected] to contact me.
Before I go further - please, if anybody has any pics of WSEW studios, or the outside of the house it was in (this would be 1970's) I really, really would love copies. Now, a little bit about WSEW, circa 1974-77
In high school I had met Than Mitchell, then at WKOK (Fort Augusta studios) who got me on the path to getting my FCC license. So the day I finally walked into my hometown station, WSEW, I already had that (which surprised them). That very night, they had me come in and hang out with Charlie Stake, who let me start some records, etc, and needless to say I was hooked. It would be 6 months until I got my first shift there. They didn't have any openings. But I was free to come in, hang out, help out. And boy, did I. Some kids did sports after school, I walked from Selinsgrove High to WSEW to hang out (my senior yearbook even says, "usually found at the radio station"). Classic equipment: Gates Yard board, RCA 77DX mic, Gates turntables, Ampex reel to reel. UPI teletype machine.
Bill Mahoney owned WSEW. Nick Reed was the morning man/PD, "Big" Ed Maddon did afternoons (yes he was very short), Charlie (who died at a very young age) and others did the night show. Bill, Nick and Ed were like a small-time "Selinsgrove/Sunbury rat pack". Playing Sinatra, Bennett, Peggy Lee. Everybody in that area knew them. I look back now and wish I had talked more with those guys, getting more of their history, more about the music, etc. But I was 16, what did I care. I was thrilled to be almost in radio. And then on Thanksgiving Day 1974, I was. My first shift. I followed Robert Collings, who was I guess part-time with them. Shortly after this I ended up doing weekends, most of the time Sat & Sun 6am-noon, sometimes afternoons or nights. I loved it, even though I wanted to play top 40 music for WMLP lol. This job turned out to be a radio learning experience, and a music education that to this day I am grateful for. I might not know those American standards were it not for WSEW.
We chose our own songs, from that library of course. I knew none of these artists or songs when I started (other than Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett) - Bobby Darin, Julie London, Andy Williams, Percy Faith, Ray Conniff Singers, Jerry Vale, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin.. the list goes on. Being high school kids on weekends, they didn't want us to talk much at all. The weather once an hour, but we would sneak in some other talk between some songs. It was a great high school job, and, for me, the start of a career that I'm still in.
I was sitting here thinking of things from those days at WSEW. Just randomly, I remember: the guys smoking in the studio! Ashes would be on the albums, the counter, it's hard to believe it was allowed, but that was the norm then. Some of the commercials: Bastian Tire Sales, Gary's Farmhouse Restaurant, Keo Mobile Homes, Joe Kleinbauer most of them with that reverb they seemed to love!) There really was a doorbell chime in the studio, because now and then you'd hear "Valsing Jewelers time (DING DONG) 9:05" LOL funny to think about now.
One day & event I always remember: I was either hanging out at WSEW, or working a couple hours that afternoon, not sure which. But I went onto the porch of the house, and the night guy was standing at the teletype machine, as if he had seen a ghost. "I can't believe it - Elvis died" he said. 8/16/77. I've never forgotten how that hit him.
And WSEW was doing "voice tracking" long before anybody knew that word. From 6-8pm weeknights, they had a show called "Dinner Date". Bill Mahoney voiced it, with his deep, laid back, trying-to-be-romantic sound ("Hello Dear Heart"). He picked the artists to play, and cut the voice tracks on a reel-to-reel machine. If you board op'd that show, you played the albums, mixing Bill's voice tracks in manually from reel, it seems like every 15 minutes.
WSEW was in a house - just an older, 2 story house, right along Rt. 204. The house is no longer there, it was about 50-100 feet from where the Max Media building is now. It was pretty close to the road. When you walked in, the "living room" was the reception area. To the left - and behind a full wall of glass, floor to ceiling - was the studio (I still think this looked cool). As you walked back, the next "room" is where the transmitter was. Yes, in the house, just feet from the studio! To the other side of that room was a small production room. And then out the back door, you went onto an enclosed porch that had the UPI teletype, coffee, etc. Upstairs, the "bedrooms" were the offices.
I look back on this now with fondness, especially given radio today and how different it is. It was all so quaint then. Not that I want to go back to the days of smoky studios, turntables, and cart machines, mind you. But in a way I feel lucky to have experienced radio at that time and in that way. And yes, I did go on to better radio - WILQ in Williamsport was my next step, in 1977. Then on to Keymarket, CBS, Citadel and others.
Sadly, I have NO pictures of me working at WSEW, or even just of the WSEW studio or house. So if you or anyone you know have any pics of the place, I'd be extremely grateful to be able to get copies. It would mean a lot. Back then, I was a kid thrilled to be working at a radio station, who didn't take pictures, or even think of it.
Mark Lindow
[email protected] to contact me.
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ChuckB
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I worked at WSEW 1967 to 1970, They came on the air at 1240 on the dial, a frequency held previously held by WKOK Sunbury. WSEW first operated at 250 Watts. I worked with Nick Reed, DC Hartman, Big Ed Madden, Bob Snyder and Bill Mahoney, this was greatest bunch of radio guys I ever had the opportunity to work with. There Logo or slogan was " The AM Station with the FM sound" I was in high school at the time, this was my first radio job. Someone mentioned WTGC 1010 Lewisburg, in the late 60's changed the call letters to WUDO and was a rocker then.
My first radio job was after I got my 3rd class FCC license when I turned 16 and could drive to WMLP Milton to do weekends! I was a high school sophomore and worked there thru graduation in 1967 with some of the best
radio guys at the time..Jim Jacobs ("JJ"),Paul Herbert, Bill Lowe, Bill Stutzman
(aka Bill Stewart-went to WARM Scranton) Jimmy Madison, Tom Hyland, and
George Vaughn..owner/GM then was Vic Michaels and Sales Mgr John Yingling.
After I left to join the USAF,JJ moved to Indiana and Don Steese came along
(Don and I were neighbors in Sunbury as kids..he being a few years ahead of me). I did Shikellamy HS news on WKOK back in 1965 and knew Than Mitchell, Bob Snyder, Glenn Shankweiler, Big Pete Gabriel (went on to WFEC Harrisburg). Like most of us "wannabe" jocks, listened to WKBW Buffalo,
WBZ, Boston, WABC, New York (my favorite Cousin Brucie), and WLS, Chicago
at night booming in on the east coast!! P.S. Still listening to Cousin Brucie
now on Sirius XM Sat channel 6, sixties on 6 wednesday and saturday nights.
radio guys at the time..Jim Jacobs ("JJ"),Paul Herbert, Bill Lowe, Bill Stutzman
(aka Bill Stewart-went to WARM Scranton) Jimmy Madison, Tom Hyland, and
George Vaughn..owner/GM then was Vic Michaels and Sales Mgr John Yingling.
After I left to join the USAF,JJ moved to Indiana and Don Steese came along
(Don and I were neighbors in Sunbury as kids..he being a few years ahead of me). I did Shikellamy HS news on WKOK back in 1965 and knew Than Mitchell, Bob Snyder, Glenn Shankweiler, Big Pete Gabriel (went on to WFEC Harrisburg). Like most of us "wannabe" jocks, listened to WKBW Buffalo,
WBZ, Boston, WABC, New York (my favorite Cousin Brucie), and WLS, Chicago
at night booming in on the east coast!! P.S. Still listening to Cousin Brucie
now on Sirius XM Sat channel 6, sixties on 6 wednesday and saturday nights.
The Selingsgrove Station came to life at WSEW and easy listening on 1240. As far as Lewisburg is concerned, it start out as WITT, then became WUNS and WUDO, I believe it was 250 watts. A old friend of mine Ted Hodge managed it back in the WITT days. It was owned by some sports group, I can't think of who was involved other than Ted. They were always up against WMLP the big gun in that area, and WKOK with 10 K's and WHLM in Bloomsburg with a gang buster signal on 550. (i think)
Kelly, you're pretty much right on the money except perhaps for skipping the 1010/WTGC calls. And, yeah, HLM was on 550 back then, and it just boomed down the valley.
And Mark, thanks for sharing your radio memories from 40-some years ago. I was a few years ahead, and a few miles south, but I'll attest to your general accuracy. And I've come around to the same conclusion. We were lucky to have been involved in radio during that charmed era.
And Mark, thanks for sharing your radio memories from 40-some years ago. I was a few years ahead, and a few miles south, but I'll attest to your general accuracy. And I've come around to the same conclusion. We were lucky to have been involved in radio during that charmed era.
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