On 12/24/2015 8:28 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:
620 NJ When did this move from Newark to Jersey City ? 860 MD When did this move from Dundalk to Baltimore ? 1230 WV When did this change from WTAP to WKYG ? 1240 TN When did this change from WBIR to WEZK ? 1300 NJ When did this move from Trenton to Ewing ? 1340 PA When did this move from Wilkes Barre to Plains ? 1340 NY When did this change from WUSJ to WLVL ? 1340 DC When did this change from WOOK to WYCB ? 1460 NY When did this change from WHEC to WWWG ? 1470 WV When did this change to WHRD ? ( now deleted ) 1540 NY When did this change from WPAW to WYRD ? 1540 PA I have conflicting listings for Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd. FCC currently shows Philadelphia, the old WJMJ was also Philadelphia ? Was it ever really in Bala Cynwyd ?
WHEC became WAXC January 5, 1972. WAXC became WWWG in 1978, if memory serves. Might have been early 1979.
For many of these questions, the answers reside in the FCC's history cards, which can be accessed through the AM Query. *IF* the station existed before 1978, and *IF* its history cards have been scanned, a PDF link will appear in the detailed search results from AM Query. The scanning is taking place as resources permit, in alphabetical order based on the station's callsign as of the end of the history card system in 1978. They are up to about WK-- now, maybe WL--.
The 1540 Philly question is complicated. In order to get night power, 1540 had to be relicensed from Philadelphia to Bala. (There was never a site change.) There was a CP grant in the early 1990s, and the CP was actually built out. But the story goes that the station never paid the consulting engineer who did the work to put in the new night phasor (at the day location along Ridge Pike in Roxborough), and after waiting for his bills to get paid, said engineer went back one night, removed the night equipment and walked away. The night facility was never rebuilt, no license to cover the CP was ever filed, and 1540 reverted to daytime-only with Philadelphia as COL. (It's safe to tell this story now; the engineer in question died some years back and it's become local broadcast legend, with the added fillip that it's actually true!)
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