Licensed to non-actual locations

[Dan.Strassberg]

The guy who built WUPY (later WUPI) 105.3 was named Harvey Sheldon,
right? If I'm not mistaken, he was a vegetarian long before it was
fashionable to be a vegetarian, and I remember him touting on the air
herbal cures for various and sundry maladies (pretty much like the
infomercials on WBIX do today). I gather that Sheldon or his companies
filed for and emerged from bankruptcy a couple of times before he went
under for the full count. I guess the WUPY/I transmitter was in
Peabody, but wasn't the station licensed to Lynn? I think so. Sheldon
also had a station in Miami, IIRC--a full Class B (on 95.7, I
believe). In fact, when he received the CP for the Miami station,
didn't he move the WUPY calls there and rename the Lynn station WUPI?
I think that, after a relatively short period on the air, he lost the
Miami license for some transgression, but I can't recall what. Can
you?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <Joe@attorneyross.com>
To: <kvahey@comcast.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations


> On 30 Jan 2008 kvahey@comcast.net wrote:
>
>> I am reminded of the ill fated WXPO Channel 50 that was licensed to
>> Manchester but never had as much as a PO Box there. The station was
>> based in Lowell but the FCC would not approve a second COL so 70
>> percent of programming had to come from the transmitter in Windham
>> which was less than 15 air miles from Manchester. In the long run
>> it
>> didn't matter as we couldn't pick up the signal in Lowell as the
>> transmitter was poorly designed. The defacto owner of the station
>> Neil
>> Cortel argued with the FCC that 50 should be a Lowell outlet but.
>>
>> Still ranks as the greatest fiasco in Boston area broadcasting.
>
> I don't know, I think it is surpassed by WUPY/WUPI, Peabody.
>
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