{"id":8962,"date":"2013-11-20T18:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T23:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2013-11-21T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:30:04","slug":"im-better-than-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8962","title":{"rendered":"“I’m better than nothing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now this is old-timey radio – this station WUAT-AM in Pikeville, TN reminds me a lot of a station in Mount Airy that held on like a radio museum – due to one elderly man’s love of bluegrass music and resistance against changing technology.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/30\/radio-station-delivers-a-daily-dose-of-homespun\/?print<\/p>\n

Joyce Bownds is 78 years old, and spends 6 hours a day on the air in a studio in the front window in a storefront in downtown Pikeville (Population 2,800). WUAT is 250 watts on 1110 KHz, so it leaves the air at sunset so WBT in Charlotte can light up the east coast. The Internet stream apparently stopped working, and my email to the station bounced with “mailbox full”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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