Re: Questions for you radio historians...

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 12:38 PM 11/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Mark wrote--
>>1. What happened to the WHIL (?) calls from Meffa?
>
>I assume that when ownership changed, as it often did in those days, the
>first thing that occurred was a change of calls.  When a new format or new
>owners would take over, the first thing was the call letter change.  Calls
>that were dropped became available again and the FCC just re-assigned them.
> I don't have access to all my radio guides, but the one I flipped through
>from 1980 shows WHIL as an FM in Mobile Alabama.  But I can trace where it
>went after it was dropped as a Meffa call, if you need me to.  
> 
I thought that the change from WHIL to WWEL occurred while the stations were
still owned by Judge Tarlow. (I believe that the AM and FM have shared the
base calls--WHIL, WWEL, WXKS--ever since the FM signed on.) I thought the
change to WWEL accompanied a format change--to beautiful music. I think
that, after Tarlow, the owner was Rep Cecil Heftel of Spanish-radio fame.
But as far as I know, Heftel never flipped either AM or FM to SS.

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