Talk:WOR (AM)

Wattage; Randi
Magician James Randi, in his SWIFT Newsletter of 22 June 2007, mentioned his appearing on WOR when it had a 100,000-watt signal. It would be nice to have a timeline of the station's wattage. Also, according to Randi, he took over Long John Nebel's time slot for "almost two years", so he should be among the "noted personalities" listed here.

The history of WOR should include its first airing of "The Voice of Experience" (M. Sayle Taylor) who ran an advise program in 1932. It drew thousands of letters and was so successful that the "VOICE" switched to CBS in 1933 and went to NBC in 1936. Returned to WOR and the Mutual network in 1937. The VOICE left the air in 1939. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.249.116.162 (talk) 15:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

RKO General ownership
Richard Buckley died this weekend - he ran Buckley Radio, the owner of WOR since he inherited the station from his father.

I'm amazed to find this article has none of the history of the RKO General purchase of the station in the 1950s and how Howard Hughes was forced to divest the station in the early 1980s over "character issues" - which explains how a small radio owner in Connecticut wound up owning a major market AM radio station, making it distinct from the other stations in the New York metro market. In the encyclopaedic scheme of things, that chapter of radio history stands out as being a turning point in the rules of radio ownership and the power of the government to punish media operations it dislikes.  108.82.248.203 (talk) 02:10, 1 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Didn't Howard Hughes die in 1976? — HarringtonSmith (talk) 03:27, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Antenna in Carteret?
http://www.middlesexcountynj.gov/About/ParksRecreation/Pages/PR/Joseph-Medwick-Park.aspx