[BC] Dead air or no air...

[WBRadiolists at aol.com]

In a message dated 03/12/2009 9:36:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
richwood at pobox.com writes:

> WDEW is where I started. The call letters went away a long time ago. 
>  It's now WNNZ. When I worked there it was 1Kw at 1570 and was 
>  seriously signal-challenged. It's now 50Kw at 640. I drove by their 
>  old studio/transmitter site and found the grass mowed nicely outside 
>  the tower's fence. What was stranger were the trees growing inside the 
fence.

That does paint a rather odd picture, huh? A hired landscaper... but since he 
can't get into the fenced area, the trees grow with impunity?

I remember someone posted a picture of a tree that had completely engulfed a 
guy anchor and some of the guy cables. "That must have happened last night, Mr 
Inspector!"

>  I'd say the no calls thing was an aberration. When I was in High 
>  School I was interviewed because I won first prize in a science fair. 

Perhaps the prize was totally out-of-sync with the audience? I don't think 
I'd have gotten many (any?) calls if I tried to give that away when I was on 
WFIF, either. ;)

>  advertising on WDEW helped him sell a lot of cars. I'd say it was 

That's because it was back when Radio was Relevant, Live, and Local.

>  your typical small city station that focused on Westfield. We had 

There you go. People related to it. It was THEIR station.

>  The buyer probably wanted to take the station dark to increase its NY 
>  power. At 1600 that would have been WWRL, New York. If he was 

Yes. At that time, I nicknamed them "The Blob" because they were engufing a 
number of stations around the 3-state area and killing them off. The 1600 in LI 
was simulcast on their sister FM, so nobody was even listening to the AM 
anymore. He was going to turn-in the license for that reason. Instead, he made a 
handsome amount on something he was about to discard.

Willie...