Can a 50,000-watt AM station disappear from the airwaves and no one notice?
The answer is yes if you live in the Albany, NY area. WDCD, 1540 KHz, (formerly WPTR) surrendered its license to the FCC last Friday, September 28, 2018. Seventy years on the air and quite the legacy as a Top-40 station in the 60s and 70s.
Unfortunately, the station had fallen on hard times the last few years, being silent twice for long stretches of time. In the end, I suppose it was simply time to pull the plug.
This was my first CE gig in the early 1990s. What I remember was, I had a lot of fun working there.
So long and thanks for the memories.