In this week’s issue… FCC takes on Dodge – Remembering Zacherle – Montreal’s 940 returns – WHEC’s Lomax retires
By SCOTT FYBUSH
*The wheels of justice may grind exceedingly slowly, but they’ve at least finally ground out some small form of vindication for those who’ve followed the long, strange tale of Brian Dodge.
We’ve been reporting on the New England broadcaster and his antics for most of the 22 years we’ve been writing this column, observing what have appeared to be repeated violations of FCC rules ranging from the use of fake names in filings to unauthorized transmitter sites and power levels to blatant violations of LPFM multiple ownership rules.
All the while, it had appeared that the Commission was turning a blind eye to most of the problems, allowing Dodge and his many aliases to clog the tubes of bureaucracy with repeated sloppy applications that sometimes blocked other, more responsible broadcasters from making their own legitimate moves.
Well, guess what? It turns out the FCC was paying attention all along – and on Thursday, it released a consent decree that it reached with Dodge to settle some matters that had been left hanging for literally decades.
Under the agreement, Dodge will surrender a number of his licenses and CPs, including WCKL (560 Catskill NY) and LPFMs in Westhampton MA (WDOE-LP 97.5) and Williamsburg MA (97.9). He’ll be granted a license for WWNH (1340 Madbury NH), which operated from 1989 until 2010 under program test authority but was never actually licensed. And he’ll be granted license renewals for three translators in New Hampshire and Vermont whose sales had been pending for most of the year.
Those renewals mean the sales of the translators (two to Costa-Eagle, for $150,000 total and one to RHODE ISLAND‘s WNRI 1380, for $75,000) will be allowed to proceed – but $100,000 of that $225,000 will go straight to the FCC as a “voluntary contribution” from Dodge that’s part of the consent decree.
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*Did Dodge get off too easy? It’s not a hard argument to make, considering that the consent decree leaves him with $125,000 from the three translator sales and also gives him conditional one-year renewals on seven other translators in northern New England, even though most of those signals have been silent for far more than the FCC’s one-year drop-dead clock. For someone who’s so consistently flouted FCC rules – and even admits as much in the consent decree – is that still too much? We’d like to think the key here may have been in the Commission’s timing: it announced the decree with just a couple of days remaining before the end of the window for 250-mile translator moves. So while Dodge might still be able to pull some cash out of selling his remaining translators, he won’t get to reap the benefits other translator owners have seen from selling their signals. (And he’ll have to show the FCC that he’s fully complying with its rules on those remaining translators, which won’t leave him much opportunity to make money from them at all. There are few, if any, AMs to which the translators can be moved now that the 250-mile window has closed.)
*Will we ever see “Pastor Tim Allen” again? One of the most interesting bits of the agreement (read it in full here) is Dodge’s admission that he’s used fake names to make FCC filings over the years. Given Dodge’s personal problems, including legal issues having to do with spousal abuse, we’ve long suspected that his penchant for pseudonyms has been a way to avoid inquiries into his own fitness to be a licensee. Can Dodge stop himself from filing again in the future? We now know for certain that FCC staffers spotted the Dodge applications right away over the years (and that they suffered phone and email harassment at his hands), and we’ll be interested to see how quickly they respond the next time an all-caps “Tim Allen” application appears in the CDBS filing queue.
*The return of WWNH. Perhaps Dodge’s biggest “win” out of this deal, aside from his $125,000 translator windfall, is the potential return of WWNH on the New Hampshire seacoast.
It’s not immediately clear how much still remains at the old WWNH site after six years of silence, nor how much he’d need to spend to rebuild, but the grant of a license would at least give Dodge one spot from which to originate programming and raise money. Thanks to the FCC’s timing, Dodge can’t now move one of his reinstated FM translators over to Madbury, though he’d presumably be able to apply for a new translator when that window opens sometime in 2017.
For many broadcasters who’ve watched Dodge openly flout rule after rule, it must sting this week to watch him walk away with any licenses at all. It would be interesting indeed to learn why the FCC didn’t simply give him the “death penalty,” declaring him unfit to hold any licenses at all. Was the opportunity to extract some cash from him too tempting to pass up? (After all, a “death penalty” would have left Dodge with no assets that the Commission could seize, as well as leaving Costa-Eagle and WNRI hanging on the translator front, even though those broadcasters did nothing wrong.)
We will, of course, be watching very closely to see what Dodge does next – and how quickly the FCC responds if he once again gets on their bad side.
*It’s only fitting that our NEW YORK news on this Halloween begins with the death of John Zacherle, who combined high camp and ghoulish scares in a career that stretched for many decades on radio and TV.
After serving in World War II, Zacherle did theater in Philadelphia, which led him into early TV with appearances on WCAU-TV (Channel 10), which led to his 1957 debut as horror movie host “Roland” (pronounced “roh-LAAAND,” of course.) And that quickly led to an even bigger hosting gig at New York’s WABC-TV (Channel 7), where “Zacherley, the Cool Ghoul” became an institution. Over the course of the next decade, Zacherle moved to WOR-TV (Channel 9), WPIX (Channel 11) and then to newcomer WNJU (Channel 47), where he somehow became a horror host who emceed an afternoon teen dance party show.
And that, in turn, led to a radio career, starting at WNEW-FM (102.7), then most famously at WPLJ (95.5), and finally at WXRK (92.3) for a few years in the 1990s. Along the way, Zacherle continued to appear in movies and at conventions well into his 90s. He was 98 when he died last Thursday in Manhattan.
*After 36 years at the station (and 40 in the business), WHEC (Channel 10) anchor Janet Lomax announced last Monday that she’ll be retiring in December. Lomax is the last on-air survivor of the late 1970s-1980s era at the Rochester station (then a CBS affiliate), when it dominated the market. No replacement has been named yet for her 6 PM anchor slot.
Over at iHeart’s WAIO (95.1), morning institution Brother Wease is expected back on the air this week, a month after undergoing surgery for a growth in his throat. Wease tells local papers this growth was not cancerous, which is good news indeed considering that he’d had cancer of the throat 11 years ago.
*Fresh from his purchase of a radio cluster in Lafayette, Indiana, Bill Christian is adding another translator in upstate New York. His Sound Communications is paying Robert Lynch $50,000 for W273CO (102.5 Lansing), which will move to 96.3 in Olean to relay WOEN (1360).
More translator sales: Ed Farmer’s W266CI (101.1 Ithaca), which had been the subject of an FCC complaint about unauthorized control by the station it relays, WXHC (101.5 Homer), is headed to Long Island. WIN Radio Broadcasting is paying $65,000 for the translator, which will relay WNYH (740 Huntington).
Is there room for another translator in Buffalo? WUFO (1080 Amherst) thinks so – it’s applying to move W289AU (105.7 Scranton) to 100.7, squeezed in tightly against co-channel CHIN-FM from Toronto.
In the Hudson Valley, Joergen Klebe’s Sunrise Broadcasting is applying to move translator W247AW (97.3 Poughkeepsie) to 98.1 in Newburgh, relaying WGNY (1220).
In Cobleskill, Dialogos has filed for a license for WCSQ-LP (105.9). The station is apparently broadcasting to the Greek-American community, which is something we didn’t know existed in Cobleskill.
*Murray Green, who died Oct. 24 in Florida, rose through the ranks of the old Malrite Communications, including a stint in the 1970s and early 1980s as GM of Rochester’s WNYR/WEZO and as the founding GM of WUHF-TV (Channel 31). Green moved to West Palm Beach in 1982 to put Malrite’s WFLX (Channel 29) on the air. He eventually became Malrite’s senior VP of television and served as chair of the Fox affiliate board.
*On the PENNSYLVANIA state line, Todd Bowers is selling his half of WATS (960 Sayre) and WAVR (102.1 Waverly) to his partner Charles Carver, Jr., in a transaction valued at $200,000.
*In NEW JERSEY, CSN International is selling W272DF (102.3 Ocean City) to Press Communications for $55,000; it’s headed up the coast to relay WHTG (1410 Eatontown).
Salem has filed to modify its plans to move W283BR (104.5 Dansville NY) to the WABC (770) tower in Lodi: it’s now telling the FCC the translator will relay WMCA (570 New York) instead of WNYM (970 Hackensack).
*A big-ticket translator sale in VERMONT: Dennis Jackson’s Sun Signals is selling W273CH (102.5 Middlebury) to Sugar River Media for $90,000; it will head east to relay WCVR (1320 Randolph).
Vermont Public Radio is selling two translators, too – W272AU (102.3 Hanover, NEW HAMPSHIRE) goes to Kurt Jackson for $32,000 to relay WARE (1250 Ware MA), while W234BD (94.7 Bolton) heads to Vizella Media for $30,000 to relay WPIE (1160 Trumansburg NY). Fybush Media served as VPR’s brokers for those sales.
*In MASSACHUSETTS, Sharman Sacchetti has departed her post as political reporter at WFXT (Channel 25). The 11-year veteran of the Fox affiliate had been on vacation for two weeks before announcing last week that she’s leaving for good. Will she be the next to join the staff of the new NBC Boston, just two months before its launch date?
*The big news from CANADA this week continues to be TTP Media’s deadline-beating attempt to return a signal to the air at 940 on the dial in Montreal. Listeners up that way heard test tones all last week from what’s going to be a French-language talk station – and while we still know next to nothing about its planned on-air lineup or even its studio location, we at least know what its callsign will be: CFNV. (We’re going to go out on a limb and guess that the “NV” is short for “Nouvelles,” but even that’s just speculation.)
There’s no sign yet of CFNV’s planned English-language sister at 600, which has a few more weeks yet before the CRTC’s drop-dead date following multiple construction extensions.
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From the NERW ArchivesYup, we’ve been doing this a long time now, and so we’re digging back into the vaults for a look at what NERW was covering one, five, ten, fifteen and – where available – twenty years ago this week, or thereabouts. Note that the column appeared on an erratic schedule in its earliest years as “New England Radio Watch,” and didn’t go to a regular weekly schedule until 1997. One Year Ago: November 2, 2015 *It’s not every day that a major-market broadcast facility marks its 50th anniversary as a useful, even vital part of broadcast infrastructure. But the 32 elements that make up the Alford FM master antenna at the Empire State Building are unique in so many ways – not least in the party that celebrated their history on Thursday night in New York. It was actually early December 1965 when WHOM-FM (92.3, now WBMP) became the first of more than a dozen stations to use the Alford antenna. With the Audio Engineering Society convention in town, just down 34th Street at the Javits Convention Center, late October turned out to be a more amenable time to celebrate the anniversary, though. And what a celebration! Empire’s recent renovations included the installation of a massive LED lighting system, which showed itself off to maximum effect with a light show at dusk set to the soundtrack of Steely Dan’s “FM” (what else?), simulcast on Empire tenant WCBS-FM (101.1), which led into the song with a montage of “radio” songs and a special message from jock Dan Taylor saluting the antenna’s long history of providing more FM service than pretty much any other site in the world. Here’s what it looked like from the party atop a rooftop bar a block away as AES attendees began the celebration… And here’s what the show looked like from the air, in an amazing video produced by Empire itself that got the attention of media outlets as far afield as Rolling Stone… As spectacular as the light show was for the whole city, what followed for a select audience in an Empire State Building conference room was even more remarkable: your editor had the signal honor (alongside AES’s David Bialik) of moderating a panel discussion about the fascinating history of FM from Empire. *After more than 60 years of getting its CBS programming from Syracuse or Albany, the Utica market is finally getting its own full-time CBS affiliate. As of November 22, Heartland Media’s NBC affiliate, WKTV (Channel 2), will launch a CBS subchannel on 2.2. The new “CBS Utica 2” will likely replace Syracuse’s WTVH (Channel 5) on cable lineups around the market, though a quirk in market boundaries means that viewers in nearby Rome and the rest of western Oneida County will continue to be within the boundaries of the Syracuse market, and will thus keep getting WTVH. *A legend of NEW JERSEY radio has died. Pinky Kravitz was an Atlantic City broadcast fixture through six decades, starting at WLDB (1490, now WUSS) and moving to WOND (1400) back in 1958. That’s where Kravitz remained right up until this past May 14, when his declining health took him off the air. What started as a temporary absence became permanent when Kravitz formally retired in August. At 88, his family said at the time, “all good things must come to an end.” Kravitz died Saturday, ending a legacy of civic promotion that extended through some of the city’s highest and lowest moments. Born Seymour Kravitz in West Virginia, the 6-foot-5 Pinky worked for many years as a teacher during the day before turning to radio and TV at night. In addition to his long-running “Pinky’s Corner” radio show on WOND, Kravitz was also a fixture on the old WMGM-TV (Channel 40) until it lost its NBC affiliation and ended local programming at the end of 2014. A memorial service for Kravitz is set for Wednesday in Atlantic City. *John Fuller’s Red Wolf Broadcasting is growing in a big way in its native CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND and western MASSACHUSETTS with the acquisition of four stations from Davidson Media Group. Davidson, which has been shrinking its footprint fairly rapidly, is entering an immediate LMA with Red Wolf to operate Spanish hits WKKB (100.3 Middletown/Providence), Spanish tropical WSPR (1270 Springfield) and oldies WACM (1490 West Springfield)/WXCT (990 Southington) while it files to buy the four stations for an as-yet-undisclosed sum. Five Years Ago: October 31, 2011 *Some weeks, it just hurts to sit down and write this column. Over 17 years, we’ve chronicled a lot of ups and downs in the radio business all over the northeast, and in the last few years it seems like there have been more downs than ups many weeks. But this past week – this past Wednesday, to be specific – set a new level of ugly, as dozens of talented, hard-working, dedicated radio people all over the region found out their jobs had been pulled out from under them, and by several different companies all at once. Industry gossip leading up to Wednesday made it pretty clear that local Clear Channel Radio employees in small and medium markets would be the targets of some pretty extensive firings as part of the company’s plan to centralize more of its operations. (We could reprint the press-release PR-speak about “improving local service” and whatnot, but really, why bother?) It wasn’t just Clear Channel Radio making cuts on Wednesday, though: Townsquare Media pulled the plug on local airstaff in one of its markets, Cumulus eviscerated one of its big markets out west, affecting several New York veterans along the way, and Clear Channel’s traffic services, operated separately from the radio stations, went through their own Black Wednesday, leaving at least one local office reportedly unable to fully service its clients on Thursday. *A few new signals to report in MASSACHUSETTS: in Marshfield, WUMT (91.7), the new relay of Boston’s WUMB-FM (91.9), has applied for its license to cover, while out west in “Baptist Village” (in reality, Hampden, east of Springfield), construction on the new religious outlet WJCI (89.5) wrapped up just before the snow started flying.
Ten Years Ago: October 30, 2006 Even as Clear Channel was making national headlines over the possibility that it might go private, the company quietly went through a “restructuring” on Friday that leaves several veteran employees in western NEW YORK out of work. While the in-house memo that went out Friday afternoon said “these individuals have not been fired,” we’re not sure how else to describe the status of the five Clear Channel Radio employees in Rochester who are collecting severance pay and unemployment checks this week. Craig Kingcaid was the cluster’s chief engineer; Susan Ashline had been reporting for WHAM (1180) for several years; Rob Jason had joined the WHAM news staff just last year after leaving the executive producer’s slot at WROC-TV (Channel 8); Mike DiGiorgio was Bob Lonsberry’s producer for his midday talk show; and Jonathan Wallace was in the promotions department. (Another veteran of the cluster, Dan Guilfoyle, left the sales department recently in what was apparently an unrelated move; we’re also hearing that some of the remaining staffers may have some of their titles shuffled.) The memo says the “restructured” employees will be encouraged to apply for jobs elsewhere in the company, including (we’d presume) the “many new positions (that) are being created during this restructure in an effort to continue to super-serve our advertising and listening community.” It goes on to say “the positions being created will focus on our online products and will also include an expansion of our sales force.” And, oh yes – it reminds the remaining staffers that “those outside of our stations may not fully comprehend the changes that are taking place,” and reminds them not to talk to the media, leaving that duty to the cluster’s market manager. Since the news broke late on Friday, and NERW goes to press Sunday night, we’ve been unable to reach the local management; we’ll be happy to report their comments in next week’s issue. Longtime New York program director John Mainelli is returning to the PD chair, this time at CBS Radio’s “Free FM” WFNY-FM (92.3). Mainelli, whose resume includes stops at WABC and WOR, was most recently the radio reporter for the New York Post – even while continuing to do consulting for talk radio around the country. In Westchester County, Bill O’Shaughnessy is bringing a venerable callsign back to the airwaves. On Wednesday (Nov. 1), he’ll flip WRTN (93.5 New Rochelle) to WVIP-FM, paying tribute to the late Martin Stone’s WVIP in Mount Kisco, an erstwhile sister station to O’Shaughnessy’s WVOX (1460). The WVIP calls are still in use on 1310 in Mount Kisco, though that station’s now merely a simulcast of Spanish religious WWRV (1330 New York); the former WVIP-FM on 106.3 in Mount Kisco is now WFAF. Western MASSACHUSETTS’ new sports station signed on right on schedule Thursday afternoon at 2, as Entercom put WVEI-FM (105.5 Easthampton) on the air from Mount Tom. Before the station’s simulcast of WEEI (850 Boston) kicked in, it stunted for a few hours with readings from Dr. Seuss books, paying tribute to the author’s hometown, Springfield. WVEI-FM will take the Red Sox broadcast rights from Springfield’s WHYN (560) and Northampton’s WHMP (1400) next season; the Sox will apparently continue on WHMP simulcast WHMQ (1240 Greenfield). It’s the end of an era in Atlantic CANADA: CHNS (960) in Halifax, Nova Scotia is silent for good, now that Maritime Broadcasting System has completed its AM-to-FM conversion. CHNS-FM (89.9) signed on in July as classic rock “Hal FM.” With the three-month simulcast period over, so is the run of CHNS on AM, which dated back to 1926. Even as Clear Channel was making national headlines over the possibility that it might go private, the company quietly went through a “restructuring” on Friday that leaves several veteran employees in western NEW YORK out of work. While the in-house memo that went out Friday afternoon said “these individuals have not been fired,” we’re not sure how else to describe the status of the five Clear Channel Radio employees in Rochester who are collecting severance pay and unemployment checks this week. Craig Kingcaid was the cluster’s chief engineer; Susan Ashline had been reporting for WHAM (1180) for several years; Rob Jason had joined the WHAM news staff just last year after leaving the executive producer’s slot at WROC-TV (Channel 8); Mike DiGiorgio was Bob Lonsberry’s producer for his midday talk show; and Jonathan Wallace was in the promotions department. (Another veteran of the cluster, Dan Guilfoyle, left the sales department recently in what was apparently an unrelated move; we’re also hearing that some of the remaining staffers may have some of their titles shuffled.) The memo says the “restructured” employees will be encouraged to apply for jobs elsewhere in the company, including (we’d presume) the “many new positions (that) are being created during this restructure in an effort to continue to super-serve our advertising and listening community.” It goes on to say “the positions being created will focus on our online products and will also include an expansion of our sales force.” And, oh yes – it reminds the remaining staffers that “those outside of our stations may not fully comprehend the changes that are taking place,” and reminds them not to talk to the media, leaving that duty to the cluster’s market manager. Since the news broke late on Friday, and NERW goes to press Sunday night, we’ve been unable to reach the local management; we’ll be happy to report their comments in next week’s issue. Longtime New York program director John Mainelli is returning to the PD chair, this time at CBS Radio’s “Free FM” WFNY-FM (92.3). Mainelli, whose resume includes stops at WABC and WOR, was most recently the radio reporter for the New York Post – even while continuing to do consulting for talk radio around the country. In Westchester County, Bill O’Shaughnessy is bringing a venerable callsign back to the airwaves. On Wednesday (Nov. 1), he’ll flip WRTN (93.5 New Rochelle) to WVIP-FM, paying tribute to the late Martin Stone’s WVIP in Mount Kisco, an erstwhile sister station to O’Shaughnessy’s WVOX (1460). The WVIP calls are still in use on 1310 in Mount Kisco, though that station’s now merely a simulcast of Spanish religious WWRV (1330 New York); the former WVIP-FM on 106.3 in Mount Kisco is now WFAF. Western MASSACHUSETTS’ new sports station signed on right on schedule Thursday afternoon at 2, as Entercom put WVEI-FM (105.5 Easthampton) on the air from Mount Tom. Before the station’s simulcast of WEEI (850 Boston) kicked in, it stunted for a few hours with readings from Dr. Seuss books, paying tribute to the author’s hometown, Springfield. WVEI-FM will take the Red Sox broadcast rights from Springfield’s WHYN (560) and Northampton’s WHMP (1400) next season; the Sox will apparently continue on WHMP simulcast WHMQ (1240 Greenfield). It’s the end of an era in Atlantic CANADA: CHNS (960) in Halifax, Nova Scotia is silent for good, now that Maritime Broadcasting System has completed its AM-to-FM conversion. CHNS-FM (89.9) signed on in July as classic rock “Hal FM.” With the three-month simulcast period over, so is the run of CHNS on AM, which dated back to 1926. Twenty Years Ago: October 30, 1996 After 52 years of radio and 70 years of a full life, Norm Nathan passed away on Tuesday night, October 29, at his home in Middleton, Massachusetts. Norm was not only one of the finest broadcasters New England has ever known, but he was also a colleague and, I’m proud to say, a friend. I trust NERW readers will understand if I depart from the usual rundown of news items and indulge in some remembrances of Norm. Over the years, Norm came to find himself as the last of the breed, as colleagues such as Jess Cain, Dave Maynard, and Larry Glick left radio or went into semi-retirement. I know Norm was crushed when his old radio home, WHDH, disappeared from the airwaves in August 1994, especially when he found out the last noise heard on the station was a toilet flushing. In the end, Norm’s show sat alone even on WBZ. At the end of a week filled with hard news and the political, hard-edged talk of David Brudnoy and Bob Raleigh, Norm’s show was where we all went for a soft chuckle, a smile, and the feeling that there was somebody out there who just wanted to cheer you up. There’s something more than a little bit eerie about the timing of Norm’s death. For the last few months, WBZ has been in the process of moving out of its old studios, and into a new facility on the other side of the building. The new studios are cleaner, brighter, and better-equipped…but I will never picture Norm anywhere other than in the dark, somewhat musty old talk studio. It was just a few days ago that they finished tearing out the guts of that studio, and it was unsettling to walk into that familiar room and find only an empty physical space. Suddenly, it’s not merely physically empty; there’s a huge spiritual hole there too. It’s 2 A.M. as I write this; Norm’s time of the night. This was the hour when he hit his stride, making life a little brighter for listeners all along the path of BZ’s booming signal. Norm’s producer, Tony Nesbitt, found the right phrase on BZ tonight, when he talked about “a hole 38 states wide.” So did another colleague, who asked simply, “What will I listen to now?” Out there in the vast corporate world that’s radio in the 1990s, there are still a few remnants left of a simpler time, in the days before shock jocks and satellites, when a jazz record and a joke could be the foundation for a half-century of great radio. We’ve just lost one of the best. Goodbye, old sport. There’s one fewer silent AM station in Massachusetts this week, with the return to the airwaves of Worcester’s WNEB (1230). The station has been silent since 1991, but it signed back on last Thursday (Oct. 24) under the ownership of Bob Bittner, who also owns WJIB (740) Cambridge and recently sold WKBR (1250) in Manchester NH. WNEB uses 947 watts, non-directional, from the old tower site on Worcester’s west side, near Chandler Street. Programming for now is largely a simulcast of WJIB’s beautiful-music, although plans include Spanish-language broadcasts at night. With WNEB’s return, only two AMs in Massachusetts remain silent, and in danger of losing their licenses in February: WBIV (1060) in Natick and WCEG (1530) in Middleborough. In business news, SFX Broadcasting’s Hartford group has hit near-maximum size with last week’s purchase of WWYZ (92.5 Waterbury). “Country 92.5” was owned by the Gilmore family, who will keep their WATR (1320) in Waterbury, along with $25.25 million of SFX’s cash. SFX’s Hartford properties include WKSS (95.7, CHR), WHCN (105.9, classic rock), WMRQ (104.1 Waterbury, modern rock), and WPOP (1410, mews-talk). The company also owns WPKX (97.9 Enfield CT) in the Springfield MA market and WPLR (99.1) New Haven, which has an LMA with Yale University’s WYBC (94.3). Boston University’s public radio station is about to expand its reach on Cape Cod. WBUR (90.9) already simulcasts most of its programming on three small Cape noncomms, WSDH (91.5) at Sandwich High School, WKKL (90.7) at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable, and WCCT (90.3) at Cape Cod Voc-Tech in Harwich. Now WBUR is buying car dealer Ernie Boch’s WUOK (1240) in West Yarmouth. WUOK has been simulcasting sister FM WXTK (94.9) for a year or so…but it can trace its roots all the way back as the Cape’s oldest station, WOCB. |
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