[BC] WOWO

[Scott Fybush]

Barry Mishkind wrote:
> It is interesting that WOWO only went 50 kW in 1954

WOWO was fairly late to the big-power game, but then it was fairly late 
to the full-time game, too, sharing time at night with WWVA on 1160 
until 1941, when 'VA went full-time on 1170 and WOWO on 1190.

I suspect the delay in going to the full 50 on 1190 had to do with a 
transmitter site move - the 10 kW operation on 1160/1190 was at a site 
described as "Jct US 30/33," which I think is still the same spot where 
those two highways merge, about four miles northwest of Fort Wayne near 
exit 109 of present-day I-69. I don't know why it took so long for them 
to relocate to Roanoke; the land around the site is very undeveloped 
even now, and must have been really empty 53 years ago.

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