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Gary Richardson, Oral History
Gary Richardson (b. Feb 18, 1957) Born to a coal mining family in Praco, Alabama, Gary spent some early years with childhood friends rummaging through junk yards, experimenting with discarded electrical components and such, and evolved into owning…
Maintenance Log, WJLD Transmitter
Box 8 Folder 41: "All right, moving right along. Folder 41 is a maintenance log from the Johnston Broadcasting Company and this from January of 1986. In the FCC regs, it tells us that transmitter output power = ep x ip x efficiency factor "f" where…
Gene Lockett's FCC License
Box 8 Folder 23: "This is folder 23 which is an FCC radio telephone operator’s permit, a little engineering license for Gene Lockett and he was an evening jock on weekends. This is dated November 29, 1985. And Gene Lockett had a nickname and I can’t…
Jesse Champion Jr.
Box 8 Folder 17: "Folder 17 is a 8x10 of Jesse Champion Jr. Jesse passed away prematurely. He was overweight, he had a great voice, he had a great singing voice as well, (like his dad) a very very lovely man. Spent the last part of his life writing…
Public Service Announcement Script, WJLD
Box 8 Folder 12: "Ok, moving right along to folder 11… folder 12 is from WJLD. It’s a continuity sheet again, requesting the announcer Malcolm Scott. This is from 1982. I don’t know who Malcolm Scott is, and it is just a public service announcement…
Engineering License, Margie Davis
Box 8 Folder 7: "This is folder 7 which is an FCC restricted radio telephone operator’s permit, otherwise known as an engineering license, for Margie Davis, who was with WJLD in the ‘80s, and this license was granted to her in November of 1981. …
Lester "Showboat" Young
Box 7 Folder 31: "We’re up to folder 31 which contains Lester Young’s FCC restricted radio telephone operator’s permit and also a picture of Lester Young who was known as “Showboat.” This from about 1979, he was with JLD till about 1990. Did just a…
Clipping, "2 Radio Stations' Licenses Renewed"
Box 7 Folder 2: "Ok, here we are on folder 2. A clipping from the Birmingham Post Herald of December 16, 1975 indicating that both WENN radio and WENN FM under their new owner, the Booker T. Washington Broadcasting Company, so were awarded licenses…
Clippings, FCC Complaint, WJLD
Box 6 Folder 38: "This is folder 38 which has two clippings. Again, referring to much of the hoopla around the reinitiation of the license to WJLD; however, these clippings are public information now so… these clippings are probably from the…
Public Notice, Notice to all Broadcast Licensees
Box 6 Folder 37: "And we move on to folder 37. Folder 37 is a public notice which indicates that this probably accompanied the revised edition of the broadcast procedure manual which, "in accordance with a particular section of the commissions of the…