Talk:WSAN

message: This page should have been moved to WSAN when the call sign changed instead of creating a new article. Added history merge tag to WSAN per User:JPG-GR's suggestion since there has been no objection. RobDe68 (talk) 21:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History merge with '''WSAN'''. 

message: A history merge was not possible, therefore some edit history for WSAN can be found in the redirect pages' WSAN (FM) and WYHM edit histories. RobDe68 (talk) 21:32, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit history for '''WSAN''' 

message: How on earth has this story been missed: ? Martinevans123 (talk) 13:37, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The history of WSAN could not be more incomplete. This was the most significant station in the Valley's history. Hands down. No mention of the Roxy concerts or the deejays who made WSAN a great station...Denny Somach, Lynn Kratz, Joe Swanson, Dave Fox, Joe McLaine (of WAEB "good guys" fame a decade earlier). No mention of Harold Fulmer, the "hamburger king" who bought the station in the 1980s, the station's trafffic helicopter, the billboard contest. I realize cites are short on these subjects since other local media ignored radio as much as possible in those days, but still I'm sure enough could be dug up to flesh out at least a better story than one-liners. Allreet (talk) 12:48, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The “You’ll Love To Live With Us” contest, 1982. 

message: Where the current story on the early days came from is hard to fathom. Here's an account I synopsized from RadioWorld:
WCBA and WSAN both went live in 1923, at 5 and 10 watts respectively. In 1927, the Federal Radio Commission allowed both stations to increase to 250 watts. WCBA was owned by the Allentown Call and WSAN by Rev. B. Bryan Musselman. In 1934, WCBA assumed control of WSAN with Musselman managing the two stations, which had separate transmitters. In 1936, the FCC approved construction of a shared transmitter, and the next year, the two stations merged with the Call owning 65 percent and Musselman, 35 percent. WCBA officially ceased to exist at that point. Since the deal gave the Call control of the town's only newspaper and only radio station, a long FCC battle ensued during which the station used dual call signs. Finally, in 1944, the Call gave up and sold out to Musselman.
The RadioWorld article's one inaccuracy is its claim that the Musselman's sold out in 1985. Actually, former hamburger baron Harold Fulmer III bought the station in late 1981 (according to Broadcasting magazine, January 1982). In any case, the Wikipedia account gets bogged down in the 1970-80s with discussions of format changes that appear to be based on someone's memory while missing WSAN's incredible Roxy Theatre concert series and its outstanding air staff of the 70s, as well as events under Fulmer's ownership in the 80s, including its billboard contest and helicopter traffic reports.
I'm in the process of digging up materials to re-write the section, but some stuff will be lost to history since the Call studiously avoided covering radio station machinations because of the competition for ad dollars. Ownership is a different matter in terms of sources, and the site American Radio History provides a wealth of publications where these details can be unearthed. Allreet (talk) 20:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is the  FCC History Card.StreamingRadioGuide (talk) 19:08, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  WSAN history: close but no cigar 

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