RE: NY Times Jr. -- WABV Radio

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Isn't 1300 WAVZ? Maybe that's what you heard?

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Stephen
> Pickford (new account)
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 5:16 PM
> To: Scott Fybush
> Cc: bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: NY Times Jr. -- WABV Radio
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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