{"id":6061,"date":"2013-01-11T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2023-04-08T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:20:12","slug":"wknr-1310-gone-but-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/wknr-1310-gone-but-not-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"WKNR 1310; gone but not forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reflecting the state of the economy in Detroit, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WDTW_%28AM%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WDTW<\/a> went silent on January 1st. Less than two weeks later, the towers come down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gskUrvJKT4\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks, Chris R for the video link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The license has been donated by Clear Channel to MMTC (Minority Media and Telecommunications Council), but not the land or towers. It remains to be seen whether the station will return to the air, however, given the costs involved and the economic conditions in Detroit, that is unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The station signed on in 1946, moving to 1310 KHz with full-time operation in 1948.\u00a0 Back in the day, it was a flame-throwing top 40 station and is purported to be the source of the &#8220;Paul is dead&#8221; rumors that surrounded the Beatles in the late 60&#8217;s.\u00a0 Much more history at <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.keener13.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keener13.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take pictures of your favorite AM stations now because tomorrow, they and all their history may be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting the state of the economy in Detroit, WDTW went silent on January 1st. Less than two weeks later, the towers come down: Thanks, Chris R for the video link. The license has been donated by Clear Channel to MMTC (Minority Media and Telecommunications Council), but not the land or towers. It remains to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/wknr-1310-gone-but-not-forgotten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WKNR 1310; gone but not forgotten<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[87,18],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-am","tag-am-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11466,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/11466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}