Wow..greenwood am operated for 12 years on a deleted license?

[Gatekeeper007]

Ok my question is, is this station or was this station providing a service to the local community that it was serving.  Was it live and local and filling some kind of void or was it just there.  Since it was AM did it have a decent listener base or was it a station like many AM's today that use to have a decent listener base.  My reason for asking this is simple, is the area loosing something that it needed from the lose of this station that I would like to know.

[eacalhoun1]

Ok my question is, is this station or was this station providing a service to the local community that it was serving. 

What was WLMA's city-of-license? To have moved the tower location 10 miles, I am doubting the COL was Greenwood. If it was NOT Greenwood, then the answer to Gatekeeper is "no" the station was not serving its community as it was authorized.

[borderblaster]

If the answer to "serving its community: is live and local programming, it looks like they had or still have 3 hours of local talk per day. Moving the tower without authorization of course is a big no-no.

[payb4upray]

Ok my question is, is this station or was this station providing a service to the local community that it was serving. 

What was WLMA's city-of-license? To have moved the tower location 10 miles, I am doubting the COL was Greenwood. If it was NOT Greenwood, then the answer to Gatekeeper is "no" the station was not serving its community as it was authorized.

Greenwood was the City of License. That's where the trouble started. Ron got locked out of the tower site so he put up a tower in Laurens County 10 miles away to stay on the air. He eventually moved it back to within a mile or so of the original site but it was too little too late. I still think with a good FCC attorney he could have straightened everything out with the commision and and gotten that license renewed. As for the "serving the community" issue. They did broadcast a lot of local programming and info. Some would argue that with WCRS-AM, WMTY-AM (I think WCZZ now), WMTY-FM (WZSN I think) and WZLA-FM in neighboring Abbeville (with a decent signal over Gwood) the community has more than enough without WLMA but I hate to see the little guys all disappear.  I know as far as advertising budgets among local businesses in the lakelands there are still too many stations for anyone to really thrive. Putting all the bs aside boys it always comes down to billing enough to stay on the air!

[artsutton]

Ok my question is, is this station or was this station providing a service to the local community that it was serving. 

The FCC should be embarrassed it took  all this time to shut down WLMA. We all have rules to abide by and when Ron Moore made a mockery of them it made Greenwood radio look bad in general. There were tons of violations with his operation of the station and many of them weren't necessary. The FCC was well aware of them but didn't act until now. It's not fair to other operators who are making the effort and spending the resources to operate their stations legally. He was basically a pirate radio station and out selling less than $1 per holler radio ads, cheapening the pot for all the stations. I knew Ron Moore and while there is good and bad in everyone, some folks have more of one than the other. It didn't seem to bother him in the least he was illegal and why should it, the FCC wouldn't shut him down.  Greenwood had a FM pirate station too back before you heard of many. Not sure why so many people have wanted to be in the radio business in Greenwood. Even in the heyday of AM radio, it was always a marginal market and underperformed similar sized markets elsewhere. The town in general is just not a good advertising market and advertising is what makes the business possible. Since we sold WCRS AM and the original WCRS FM permit moved to the Greenville market, I haven't ever looked back. As a Baptist preacher once said concerning trials and tribulations, "if you have never been tested, you ain't got a testimony." My testimony is stay the hell out of Greenwood!



What was WLMA's city-of-license? To have moved the tower location 10 miles, I am doubting the COL was Greenwood. If it was NOT Greenwood, then the answer to Gatekeeper is "no" the station was not serving its community as it was authorized.

Greenwood was the City of License. That's where the trouble started. Ron got locked out of the tower site so he put up a tower in Laurens County 10 miles away to stay on the air. He eventually moved it back to within a mile or so of the original site but it was too little too late. I still think with a good FCC attorney he could have straightened everything out with the commision and and gotten that license renewed. As for the "serving the community" issue. They did broadcast a lot of local programming and info. Some would argue that with WCRS-AM, WMTY-AM (I think WCZZ now), WMTY-FM (WZSN I think) and WZLA-FM in neighboring Abbeville (with a decent signal over Gwood) the community has more than enough without WLMA but I hate to see the little guys all disappear.  I know as far as advertising budgets among local businesses in the lakelands there are still too many stations for anyone to really thrive. Putting all the bs aside boys it always comes down to billing enough to stay on the air!

[borderblaster]

Apparently the plug has been pulled and programming is being consolidated on WCRS

http://wlmawcrsradio.com/