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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…
Contract, Rev. Paul Von Henderson
Box 8 Folder 2: "This is folder 2 which is a broadcast time order from the Johnston Broadcasting Company dated April 18, 1980. It’s for a church ministry, "Nothing too hard for my Lord Ministry" with Rev. Paul Von Henderson, and just lays out the…
Memo, J. D. Ferguson Advertising to WZZK Radio
Box 8 Folder 1: "We’re looking at Box 8, folder 1. Inside here is just some correspondence referring to a golf tournament, and ZZK radio is being notified back in 1980. And at this time ZZK was the partner station, a sister station, or the station…
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…
Correspondence, WBMG-TV to George Johnson III
Box 6 Folder 16: "We’re moving now to folder 16. Folder 16 contains a letter from Channel 42 to George Johnston III paying him some money in accordance with… the letter is from Hugh Smith, executive vice president of Channel 42, WBMG. Construction…
Correspondence, WJLD to FCC
Box 6 Folder 3: "Alright, now moving along to folder 3. Folder 3 are letters to the FCC. These are FCC related letters which also contain job descriptions of the personnel at WJLD and WJLN-FM. All the different job descriptions it seems like: news…
Correspondence, David Anderson to George Johnson III
Box 5 Folder 40: "Ok. we’re up to folder 40 which contains a letter from David Anderson rather, who was a… my guess is an attorney handling filings with the FCC. It doesn’t specifically say, but on December of 1969, instructing George Johnston III to…
WJLN Application to FCC
Box 5 Folder 39: "This is folder 39 from 1969 which has within it various applications to the FCC to make changes to the tower and to increase power from 23kw to 100kw for WJLN 104.7. It includes the direct application, also notices that needs to be…
Correspondence, George Johnson III
Box 5 Folder 37: "Alright, we’re moving on to folder 37 which is a copy of a letter, it’s unclear who it’s addressed to, but it verifies Jimmy Lawson’s employment at the radio station, WJLD, with the signature, the name George Johnston III…