{"id":9804,"date":"2018-10-01T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2023-03-19T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:16:07","slug":"gone-and-apparently-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/gone-and-apparently-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone and apparently forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a 50,000-watt AM station disappear from the airwaves and no one notice?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is yes if you live in the Albany, NY area.\u00a0 WDCD, 1540 KHz, (formerly WPTR) surrendered its license to the FCC last Friday, September 28, 2018.\u00a0 Seventy years on the air and quite the legacy as a Top-40 station in the 60s and 70s.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the station had fallen on hard times the last few years, being silent twice for long stretches of time.\u00a0 In the end, I suppose it was simply time to pull the plug.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WPTR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WPTR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WPTR.jpg 876w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WPTR-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WPTR-650x285.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WPTR-768x337.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WPTR-400x175.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was my first CE gig in the early 1990s.\u00a0 What I remember was, I had a lot of fun working there.<\/p>\n<p>So long and thanks for the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 WDCD, 1540 KHz, (formerly WPTR) surrendered its license to the FCC last Friday, September 28, 2018.\u00a0 Seventy years on the air and quite the legacy as a Top-40 station in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/gone-and-apparently-forgotten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gone and apparently 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],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-am"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","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=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11081,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions\/11081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}