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WZUM 1590

Is still just a carrier, no audio. Is this station becoming available again or just and absentee owner?
 
The new sound of Open Carrier 1590.....it's Secret Radio that Controls Your Mind!
 
Just checked and it is still blank open-carrier. Guess it is possible an absentee owner never tunes in his own station to see if the program is making it out over the STL?

There are stations that broadcast blank open carriers....in Israel!
Observant Orthodox Jews are not supposed to operate any sort of technology or listen
to TV/Radio on the Sabbath. This creates a bit of a problem in getting to them with
government warnings about storms, floods, or (unfortunately in their case) incoming rocket attacks.

The solution was for the Israeli Government to license some radio stations that would transmit
only dead air. That way people can turn on a radio tuned to that frequency before the Sabbath starts,
and it will just be on in the background without creating any sort of noise. But if an emergency happens they can break in with an announcement and warn everybody to take cover.
 
PBRTV is reporting this morning that their studio has been padlocked because they did not
pay their rent. Apparently though the juice is still on at the transmitter.
 
As of this afternoon, someone finally has silenced the WZUM transmitter (which, as far as I can tell, was transmitting
dead air for well over a month).

C.
 
cingram said:
As of this afternoon, someone finally has silenced the WZUM transmitter (which, as far as I can tell, was transmitting
dead air for well over a month).

C.
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Yep. Checked a little while ago and WAKR was fluttering in from Akron.
I guess they can always go back to broadcasting from the pizza joint on Banksville Rd.
 
Pat Sajack used to own/LMA WKHZ in Ocean City, MD. It is currently owned by longtime Washington DC area broadcaster Bill Parris. What pizza shop did WZUM used to broadcast out of ?
 
Didn't know Pat sold it...thanks for the heads up.Six years ago my wife and I took a vacation in Ocean City. The condo we stayed in was the location of 1590's studios on the main floor. Automated back then, studios were empty and dark most of the time. I will always remember that vacation. I love to boogie board in the ocean, I got caught in a rip tide, almost didn't make it out. Now i gravitate to the pool, hot tub and golf course. I also had lunch with Kemosabie Joe Johnson on that vacation!
 
Jkf said:
Pat Sajack used to own/LMA WKHZ in Ocean City, MD. It is currently owned by longtime Washington DC area broadcaster Bill Parris. What pizza shop did WZUM used to broadcast out of ?
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Pietro's on Banksville Road. The place was owned by Mad Mike's daughter and son-in-law.
 
When Mr. Horvath owned WZUM, Pietros had turned the entire right hand side of the building
into a studio. It is still there as far as I can tell from the road. Mad Mike was doing live
weekend shows for a few months until his passing. I remember years ago they were the
first place in the South Hills to get a Pac Man machine.
 
Maybe the landlord contacted Allegheny Power to disconnect service.

I saw that WZUM was behind on rent.

You know how landlord's can be.
 
Horvath sold WZUM to Starboard (the Catholic "Relevant Radio" people) in 2005 for $435,000, minus a percentage of
ownership Starboard already had. They had been leasing time on WZUM for Catholic programming since 2003. After
four years, Starboard (through a subsidiary) sold WZUM to the Believe and Achieve Family and Educational Center of
Norfolk for $800,000, most of which amounted to a tax certificate. That's ten times what Horvath paid the Hicklings
for 1590, though admittedly he made numerous upgrades.

C.
 
cingram said:
Horvath sold WZUM to Starboard (the Catholic "Relevant Radio" people) in 2005 for $435,000, minus a percentage of
ownership Starboard already had. They had been leasing time on WZUM for Catholic programming since 2003. After
four years, Starboard (through a subsidiary) sold WZUM to the Believe and Achieve Family and Educational Center of
Norfolk for $800,000, most of which amounted to a tax certificate. That's ten times what Horvath paid the Hicklings
for 1590, though admittedly he made numerous upgrades.

C.
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I don't know many upgrades he made but he was running it from a closet in his house. :)
 
xm41 said:
I don't know many upgrades he made but he was running it from a closet in his house. :)
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He had to completely rebuild the transmitter plant, at a new site, with three new towers. I presume that couldn't have been
cheap.

C.
 
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