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Couple broadcast from their house.


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Posted : 18/06/2025 12:16 pm
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Very cool. Excerpted from his description...

This is a look (and listen) into a unique little FM radio station that Peter Hunn and his wife put on the air on a hill outside Port Henry, New York.  Having long dreamed of being a broadcaster, he scraped together the $30,000 needed to acquire land, fill his Datsun/Nissan hatchback with second-hand broadcast equipment, build a studio/transmitter building from a 20' x 24' two-car garage kit, and debuted the 818 watt signal on 92.1 mHz during the fall of 1982. ...

... After selling WHRC-FM for $210,000 in 1985, he earned a Masters degree at Central Missouri University, bought a defunct daytimer in suburban Syracuse, New York, revitalized it as WZZZ, and then sold the AM at a profit in 1995. 

Local radio was alive and well prior to the Internet era.  This video provides a glimpse of how much fun and rewarding that brand of media ownership was for young radio entrepreneurs....   ... Often asked if he misses the radio business, Hunn reflects that he misses it the way it was, but not the way it is.

I think there was a LPFM station broadcasting from an apartment not so long, within 10 or 15 years anyway that we discussed here before.

Nice find @Mark


 
Posted : 19/06/2025 8:20 pm
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".. Local radio was alive and well prior to the Internet era..."


 
Posted : 19/06/2025 8:26 pm
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