Re: NY Times Jr. -- WABV Radio

["Stephen Pickford (new account)" <nmi@saturnus.com>]

On 15 Dec 2002, at 15:39, Scott Fybush wrote:

> Maybe now that Bill Griffith knows WWZN is a 50,000 watt station, he can 
> get someone to look at the Globe sports section's
> radio listings. For at least four Sundays running, they've let us know that 
> the Bridgeport Whatevers AHL team will be on the
> radio, on a station identified as "WABV (1300)."
> 

Of course the signal from the real WABV, on 1590 in Abbeville (SC), can barely get 
across town in Abbeville itself at night...

WABV Abbeville is a true step-back-in-time operation...its studios and equipment 
reminiscent of small-town America 1962...manned by the eccentric "Radio Joe" 
Burgess whose task, during its days of carrying Liberty Works' programming, was to 
rush in and put on "something, anything" if the satellite feed was cut --- thus, WABV 
for an hour or so a day became undoubtedly America's only all-Joplin (Scott, not Janis)
outlet.

For anyone traveling in the Carolinas, Abbeville is a picturesque, historical little town 
with a beautiful town square, an elegant turn-of-the-century railroad hotel (The Belmont 
Inn), and a lovingly-restored Opera House.  In fact, it was the owner of WABV Radio 
back in the 50s and 60s, a transplanted New Yorker, that led the crusade to preserve 
the town rather than bulldoze it and erect wall-to-wall strip-malls.  

WABV recently went silent (it had been LMAed by John Kotmair and Liberty Works 
from its absentee Georgia-based owner), and is for sale to anyone desiring to realize 
their dream of running a small-town radio station.

Stephen Pickford
Host/Executive Producer
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