The operator of WGOP, an AM station destroyed by hearth on Maryland’s Japanese Shore, says he intends to get the station again on the air.
Mike Powell, interviewed by native TV information station WBOC, mentioned he could use a shed on the base of the tower system (watch that interview). Powell is the final supervisor and reportedly operates the station underneath an LMA from licensee Birach Broadcasting.
Nondirectional WGOP is licensed for 500 watts daytime, 240 nights evening to Pocomoke Metropolis, Md. It’s the former WDMV and has a historical past in the neighborhood relationship again to the Fifties, as associated by the Shore Day by day Information. Its sign was heard on 540 kHz and an FM translator at 106.5.
Based on the Related Press and different information experiences, the Thursday hearth was began by a defective electrical wire, destroying the station’s services, which weren’t insured. AP quoted the hearth marshal’s workplace saying the constructing, which was in-built 1955, is taken into account an entire loss.
The location RadioTowers.Information has extra historic photographs.