[BC] Westinghouse WOWO

[Stanley Adams]

When dad and I came to Wabash Indiana (the FIRST ELECTRICTLY LIGHTED CITY IN
THE WORLD). 

WOWO kicked every bodies butt.  All of the young and young at heart listened
to the mighty 1190.  In 1965, it was HARD to make a Class A mono at 150 feet
with a six pole Andrew H pole antenna take on WOWO.  But we tried and
did fair. I was wrong in an earlier email about working on the Gates K
models, it was the G models, that I can work on in my sleep.  We all cussed
WOWO every single day for years. Even though they were our EBS monitor
station.  We monitored them on an old 1936 RCA AR 136 with a home built un-
squelch detector to listen to their 1 K audio alert tone.

There were some people in N Central Indiana who listened to WGN and to WJJD
(country) as well as WMRI and WLBC out of Muncie and Marion; WIBC out of
Indy.  A few listened to WARU out of Pee-ru as the red necks up there say
it.  It truly is the CIRCUS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD :).

But WOWO was the one everyone had to beat, there were not many group owners
any better than Westinghouse in the 1960's.

Radio was a household word, and we must find our ways back somehow, even in
face of independent audio providers.  We need to be aggressive and to be
provide-ive.  One of the worse things that has happened to radio, although,
I understand all of the dynamics, is satellite programming.  A radio jukebox
that some of you guys work for just does not provide the enormous
opportunity and responsibility that has been given to us in our broadcast
license.

And I could just hug and kiss our little sweetheart Donna H for her
wonderful article on local radio in Sundays Boston Globe.  What a great way
she has at writing words, but her politics, now that is something else :)

My 3 cents, inflation because of the Iraq war you know.  

Stanley Adams
Memphis