report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs

[Dan.Strassberg]

Eaton also owned 1410 in Hartford and, IIRC, 1380 in NYC (or maybe it
was WPOW 1330 in NYC, which, back then, shared time with WEVD 1330 NYC
and WHAZ 1330 Troy). I recall that he also bought WHAZ from my alma
mater, RPI, with the idea of getting its nine-hours per week (6:00PM
Mondays until 3:00AM Tuesdays) for WPOW. He turned WHAZ into a
daytimer and WPOW began using WHAZ's share-time allocation. But WEVD
protested and WPOW wound up getting only 5:00PM to 8:00PM, which had
been its Tuesday-Friday schedule (in addition to 3:00AM to 8:00AM).
WEVD lost 5:00PM to 6:00PM Mondays, but got 8:00PM Mondays through
3:00AM Tuesdays. WPOW was purchased by religious broadcaster Salem
Communications, which changed the calls to WNYM and eventually also
acquired the hours that WEVD had been running so WNYM could become a
full-timer. (WEVD already owned 97.9FM, to which it moved in its
entirety.) Then Salem sold WNYM so it could acquire WMCA (this was
before duopolies were allowed). I'm not sure whether the buyer was or
wasn't Spanish religious broadcaster RadioVision Christiana, the
present owner of the current occupant of 1330 in NYC, WWRV.

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Subject: Re: report: NBC to sell Hartford, Miami TVs


> Dan you are correct about Storer as once you said it the memory came
> back. The only reason I remember this was an old news article was on
> the bulletin board at WMUR.
>
> Richard Eaton wound up with the station and he was a frugal owner to
> put it midly.
>
> He also owned channel 14 in DC (WOOK) and one other station in El
> Centro, CA.
>
> I seem to recall the license for WOOK was revoked by the FCC but I
> can't remember why.