So Near And Yet So Far

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In a message dated 12/18/2008 6:41:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
dan.strassberg@att.net writes:

""Don't  you mean WBUD 1260? There is no 1310 in the Trenton area,
although there  are several 1310's in NJ (Asbury Park, Camden,
Parsippany--IIRC). There is  a 1300 in Trenton (used to be WTNJ, but
that was a long time ago). The  reason I know this is that the Trenton
1300 used to be on 1310 MANY decades  ago, and it was part of a
three-way time-share on 1310 with Asbury Park and  Camden. The FCC
broke up that time-share in the '60s--or maybe even the  '50s--by
turning the Asbury Park and Camden stations into what were then  called
Class IV AMs on a Class III channel and moved the Trenton station  to
1300 as a 250W daytimer, which must have been a very  rare--maybe
unique--Class IID AM on a Class III channel. (Class IIDs could  run
250W; Class IIIDs were required to run at least 500W; there were
no  Class IV daytimers.) With the help of directional antennas, Asbury
Park and  Trenton became true Class IIIs (now Class Bs), but Camden
remained a Class  IV until all Class IV AMs were reclassified as Class
Cs. A bit of NJ radio  history there, long forgotten by almost everyone
except probably Scott  Fybush and me.""
 
The station on 1310 I was talking about was the station that is licensed to  
AP WBUD. The call used to be in Trenton but moved it to WADB, actually in  
Neptune next to Asbury Park, when Millenium sold the Trenton  station.  WADB used 
to be on the Asbury Park boardwalk as WCAP (City of  ASbury Park" in the late 
20's and early 30's. This station had a colorful  past as well and also was 
part of a time share. 
_http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/njamhistory8.html_ 
(http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/njamhistory8.html) 
 
Mike

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