{"id":1110,"date":"2011-06-03T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2011-06-18T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:41:59","slug":"another-am-radio-pioneer-goes-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"Another AM radio pioneer goes dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-info.com\/news\/chattanoogas-oldest-station-wdod-am-at-1310-signs-off-after-86-years\">http:\/\/www.radio-info.com\/news\/chattanoogas-oldest-station-wdod-am-at-1310-signs-off-after-86-years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These days, the land and the tower are worth much more than the radio station.\u00a0\u00a0 WDOD-AM was started in 1925 and ceased operations June 1st and is turning in the license to the FCC.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a 5 kW day\/night station in Chattanooga (choo choo), Tennessee.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the end, it was running Fox Sports &#8211; one of those formats you stuff on an AM station you wish you no longer owned.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the 3 towers was destroyed by wind in 2007.\u00a0\u00a0 Keeping an AM station running can get very expensive &#8211; according to the story above, the equipment is very old (translation:\u00a0 everything is analog, and the transmitter is using tubes you can only find in a museum)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.radio-info.com\/news\/chattanoogas-oldest-station-wdod-am-at-1310-signs-off-after-86-years These days, the land and the tower are worth much more than the radio station.\u00a0\u00a0 WDOD-AM was started in 1925 and ceased operations June 1st and is turning in the license to the FCC.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a 5 kW &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}