[BC] Trouble up North?

[Mike McCarthy]

I know WHOW is under new owners. I don't know about the Mattoon stations. 
but I seem to recall they were all sold.

There was a mention of WHOW in a RW article a couple months ago.  What I
found amusing is they have a new tower as a result of the one falling a
few years ago. When I was there doing some due diligence for a prospective
buyer, I noted there were substantial defects in the tower and it's
support systems (among other things there).  Thus I was not at all
surprised to see it fell.

While Ray was a promoter of the medium, his stations suffered for it at
the end.

MM

> The prime promoter of the Daytime Broadcasters Association was the late
> Ray
> Livesay
> who had stations in Illinois based out of Mattoon (IL) (WLBH).  He was a
> voice for the many daytime-only stations of the day and a prominent
> broadcaster..  I was always amused, though, when we chose to spend a ton
> of
> $ to make our daytimer a full-time 4-tower DA,  Ray instead
> chose to increase the power of his daytimer at Mattoon.  He was a good
> friend over the years and died 12 to 15 years ago.  I'm not sure if his
> son
> Jim still runs the company or not.
>
> Dale Adkins
>
>> And wasn't there also at one time a "National Association of Daytime
>> Broadcasters"? Seems like I remember reading about it when I first got
>> into the business. Whatever happened to them?
>>
>> --
>> Jerry Mathis