Re: WDIA/730 & 1070 kHz (Was Re: "all-girl" radio)

[dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net]

My reference to unprecedented was to an AM station going 
all at once from 250W-D to 50 kW-U (well, it was only 5 
kW at night). I don't think that any station had gone 
from the puniest facilities then authorized (I guess a 
few 100W stations still existed back then, but they were 
full-timers or share-timers) to (almost) the most 
powerful. I also believe that whatever station took over 
730 in the Memphis area from WDIA did not do so as soon 
as WDIA changed frequencies.
 
>         There was in the 1976 Broadcasting yearbook list a 250w daytimer,
> KSUD, licensed to West Memphis, Arkansas, on 730 kHz. It shows a start date
> of 1961 and as far as I know was never connected with Sam Phillips or WHER.
> I don't know if 1961 is when WDIA moved to 1070. I guess I thought that
> happened earlier.