Posted on 12/15/2017 12:54:23 PM PST by raccoonradio
KQV radio, the historic local all news/all the time AM station that has been broadcasting for nearly a century, intends to go off the air at the end of the night Dec. 31.
Station general manager and owner Robert W. Dickey Jr. said he delivered the news Friday morning to his staff of about 20 in the KQV office at Centre City Tower, Downtown.
Candidly, I think its a sad day for broadcasting, Mr. Dickey told the Post-Gazette afterward. Its fair to say weve been trying to provide a community service. The bottom line is I just cant sustain the business model. Were an independent, labor-intensive format, and we were happy to take it on as long as we could financially do it.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
WFIL (aka “wiffle”) is now Christian.
About the last of the three letter, K’s out east?
Looks like KYW is the last one in the east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_three-letter_broadcast_callsigns_in_the_United_States
I used to listen to KQV top 40 radio in the early Beatles era. I remember Chuck Brinkman.
That’s where he met Jim Quinn, who gave him a lot of his lessons in how to do radio.
If he’s shutting down and not selling out, his license should be up for grabs. Hard to argue that you are operating in the public interest when you aren’t operating.
A K call east of the Mississippi. Those are grandfathered and rare.
KDKA is another, also in Pittsburgh.
Wow. This brings back memories.
My three brothers and I had a little AM radio in our bedroom and late at night about 1970 we would listen to far off stations (WLS in Chicago?) another one out of Buffalo- Cheektowaga!- call sign forgotten.
The reception was better in the winter and it would come and go as the latest hits were played.
Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you.
How far we’ve come electronically.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/122829/kqv-to-be-resurrected/
KQV 1410 Pittsburgh to be resurrected..application to diplex tower on the one for 810 in McKeesport (N Versailles)
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