{"id":1724,"date":"2011-07-22T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2011-07-22T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:50:16","slug":"the-ghost-that-owns-two-radio-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost that owns two radio stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/licensing.fcc.gov\/cdbs\/cdbs_docs\/ef\/Form323\/323_print\/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&amp;acct=0&amp;appn=101416658&amp;fac_num=17835&amp;formid=322\">https:\/\/licensing.fcc.gov\/cdbs\/cdbs_docs\/ef\/Form323\/323_print\/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&amp;acct=0&amp;appn=101416658&amp;fac_num=17835&amp;formid=322<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emmett H Whitehead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cemetery.state.tx.us\/pub\/user_form.asp?pers_id=9554\">died in 2002<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the owner of radio station KTLU-AM and KWRW-FM &#8211; and mayor of the town of Rusk Texas,\u00a0a town of about 5,000 people in East Texas (and home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasstaterr.com\/\">Texas State Railroad<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 He was also the head of the Chamber of Commerce, the county judge, the owner of the Cable TV system and represenative in the Texas House of Representatives.\u00a0 You have to love small town Texas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081121111704\/http:\/\/www.thedailysun.com\/obits19.shtml\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081121111704\/http:\/\/www.thedailysun.com\/obits19.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, he is still the licensee of the radio station, even though being dead for 9 years.\u00a0\u00a0 That would suggest his widow (and children)\u00a0may have never taken his estate through probate, which would have given her clear title to the radio station.\u00a0\u00a0 The email address\u00a0at the FCC for the stations belongs to\u00a0one of his daughters.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope the Social Security administration knows he&#8217;s dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/licensing.fcc.gov\/cdbs\/cdbs_docs\/ef\/Form323\/323_print\/323_101.cfm?form=323_101.cfm&amp;acct=0&amp;appn=101416658&amp;fac_num=17835&amp;formid=322 Emmett H Whitehead died in 2002.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the owner of radio station KTLU-AM and KWRW-FM &#8211; and mayor of the town of Rusk Texas,\u00a0a town of about 5,000 people in East Texas (and home of the Texas State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1724\">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-1724","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\/1724","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=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}