Saturday, December 10, 2005

No News? No, News!

WLOP WIFO-FM
WLOP/WIFO-FM Radio Station. Photo by The Press-Sentinel.
A couple of days ago, we reported about a radio station in southeast Georgia that burned Wednesday morning. At the time, the latest news I had was that the station was off the air.

Turns out that the station has risen from the ashes.

I got word Saturday from "Laura" that the station was running out of an RV.

An RV!

I love it! That's the kind of attitude that I really like. Never stay down. Never say die. Do whatever you have to do to come back.

This little radio station has done what it takes to get back on the air from troubles in the past.

Gosh, it was years ago, but the little AM/FM station in Jesup, Georgia lost its broadcast tower to, I think, a storm. A bad storm. Like I said, it took out the tower.

In about a day, they were back on the air. The chief engineer at the time (who I have worked with) solved the issue by stringing an antenna up in the pine trees!

Whatever it takes.

That little station, which first went on the air in 1948 (as WBGR, now WLOP & WIFO-FM), has shown the spirit you see in small town America. The spirit that says you can't keep them down.

Winnebago Radio. I love it.

4 comments:

  1. "The Little Radio Station That Could".

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  3. Just a footnote. I was listening to our "LIVE" broadcast since we have not automation equipmenment everything is live. The DJ says welcome to the worlds smallest studio . LOL I loved it!

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  4. >>Just a footnote. I was listening to our "LIVE" broadcast since we have not automation equipmenment everything is live. The DJ says welcome to the worlds smallest studio . LOL I loved it!

    We were in an RV. We were not live, (maybe thats the reason for "live") except for Mornings and local news for the first week. Laura did work with us at this time, and did an admirable job, above and beyond. We _were_ on the Air within 3 days. And we DID have automaton equipmenmenttttttyyy.

    Our Engineering Room, where the redundant computer was stored was not destroyed. It was pre-formatted with Country and Xmas. This computer died in the line of duty due to smoke damage after it was powered down when its replacement arrived about 2 weeks later. BTW, see Laura and her hubby on Judge Hatchett, Hackett or whatever they call her. Massive Laffs when we saw this. And we did say we were broadcasting from the world's smallest studio. We had to remove a bed from the RV, but we couldn't remove the platform that the bed was on, because the sanitary tank was under it.

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