Fascinating video. I worked at that station. 96-98. WNNN Salem. It was a Contemporary Christian music format. Heard in 3 states. I ran the show "Star Rock". All the heavier Christian music at the time. It was cool. I got merch from the record companies to give away and reported to Billboard for the charts. New owners came in and replaced the Christian FM station with an urban format. The Christian format was moved to AM. Basically killed it. Range was gone. Sorry to see the Wes King CD on the floor...damaged from the elements. Thought I saw an album from Barren Cross. Christian metal with an Iron Maiden sound. Back then, we played vinyl and CDs. Carts were mentioned. Those had commercials and PSAs on them. You could erase and reuse them. You could put songs on them as well. Thanks for posting this. How did you get in?? LOL.

@timryanfromnj117

Ай бұрын

My father worked there for a couple of years in the early 90s

Oh man, those reel-to-reel decks need to be rescued!!! Sad to see everything rotting away. Great explore guys.

@sherripidcock5464

10 ай бұрын

I agree with you

@PrestonHazard

4 ай бұрын

The Ampex has value, the other ones look sorta low end. But yes i’m 100% for #SaveTheTapeMachines

@dcfanchris

27 күн бұрын

Was coming on here to say that! Save the records and reel-to-reels!

OMG! I worked there in the early-mid '80's! WJIC/WNNN Salem/Canton, NJ, just across the river from Wilmington, Del. WJIC was the Country station at 1510AM and WNNN was a religious station at 101.7 FM. The owners (PFJ Broadcasting) sold it to "Tony Q" who switched the FM to Urban formatted "Kiss 101.7." Religion went to the AM, but I don't remember if someone else bought it separately or if Tony Q bought both then sold off the AM later. Eventually, the owners of Wilmington's WDEL and WSTW bought the FM to put WDEL, an AM news/talk station at 1150, on FM as has been the trend for AM's these days. That big satellite dish IIRC picked up the ABC radio network for newscasts, et al... What a blast from the past! At 15:29, they're in the old AM studio where the Country (and later religion and some news/talk programming) came from. 22:01 is where the old transmitter and controls were. At 22:14 is the old production studio. At 23:00 is the old newsroom. Sticker at 23:51 is instructions on where to tune if the sirens went off at the Salem Nuclear Plant. 26:24 is the old FM studio where, when I was there, the religious programming came from (a mix of paid preachers and contemporary Christian music). At 31:42 was an old Gates FM transmitter. When I was there, that transmitter was auxiliary to the main transmitter located a few miles away.

@Truckguy1970

6 ай бұрын

This is off of 45 near Fulton bank

This was a Christian radio station according to the internet. The machines on the desk in the front office and in some of the studios are cartridge players and recorders/players. The cartridges are kind of like old school 8-track tapes. They would have commercials, announcements, and maybe music recorded on them. I used to work in TV production and we used cart machines like that back in the 1980s. And the small records are 45rpm singles with one song on each side. Thanks for another cool video!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

That’s cool! Thanks for the info, and thank you for watching as always!!

@billlouhoff5824

9 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the radio station I worked at WKEX

@johnedwards80

5 ай бұрын

They were carts they ran at 7 and 1/2 ips not like 8 tracks at all

@briancorty4348

2 ай бұрын

That station is still live at that site it’s just remote operated

@maryrafuse2297

Ай бұрын

The proper term is NAB Cart Machine. NAB is the National Association of Broadcasters. Thus the Cart Machine was approved by the NAB. 🙂

I am only halfway through the video, but I can answer the questions that you posed so far; until the late 1990s, the FCC required that radio stations have an "operator" (often though of by laypeople as the DJ) on duty while they were broadcasting. The operator's main duties were to sign the station operating logs and to operate the Emergency Broadcast Service equipment. Then, EBS was replaced by the Emergency Alert System (which still continues to be used today); that is an automated system. Concurrently, stations were allowed to use computerized systems to maintain logs and control the transmitter. Modern radio stations do not need to have humans at the controls if they do not want to write their paychecks. Modern radio stations often automate the programming, as well. Today, if you should happen to hear a person's voice on a radio station, there is no guarantee that somebody is sitting at the studio, operating the equipment, and waiting to answer phone calls from listeners. In the late 1990s, computer hard disks became inexpensive and reliable enough that they could hold a radio station's entire music library plus all of the commercials, announcements, and the "voice tracks" (this is when voice talent pre-record their banter so listeners get the illusion that they are hearing a DJ in real time). The bumper sticker in the remnants of the 1510 AM studio ("15X") says that this is a talk radio station. Very likely, the station ran talk radio in its later years at that location and then did a special Christmas broadcast each year. I recall that in the late 1980s, it was not uncommon for talk-formatted stations to program music for special occasions, such as Christmas or New Year's Eve. The empty record bins with labels corresponding to different record companies may have been associated with a music format that previously aired on this station. Segregating the records would have helped the DJs and the music director to track airplay of songs at the station. Record labels and industry trade magazines would have called the station to get this kind of information. The rack of equipment that has the meters and buttons is the transmitter remote control. The transmitter would have been located in a different building. The air monitor is a radio that keeps track of the audio levels for the 1510 AM signal and provides a high quality signal back to the studio. In this way, the person operating the studio console can have constant reassurance that all components from the broadcast console through the transmitter are operating properly. This gets loused up if the station runs a profanity delay because in that case, the sound coming back through the air monitor is approximately 7-10 seconds "in the past" with respect to what is happening in the studio.

I’m an engineer for a radio station. They were probably bought out by a big corporation. Most radio stations now are completely digital. Digital control boards, digital audio MP3s Completely Automated by super computers and servers. Some on is using those towers actively. The sticker has to do with Emergency Alert System. All licensed radio stations are required by law to send emergency alerts and run weekly tests.

Your assumptions about the gear were pretty accurate for the most part. The slots that look like 8-track players were for NAB tape cartridges, simply called "carts". Commercials and station identifications were played from those. Today, most stations play audio files from compters. The racks with labels for watts and volts would have controlled the transmitter; the box that creates the juice the feeds the antenna out back. The towers are still transmitting the station, but the studios and controls are at another location.

15:21 Eh, there are still many stations going off of records and CDs. There's a station near me that I record from that still uses records, mainly because they play rarer music, some of which is not available digitally.

@RichardFelstead1949

7 ай бұрын

I've digitised a lot of my vinyl which I use for my radio show.

@Apinkinkling

4 ай бұрын

ok (saved progress at: 16:35 )

@user-lk7ne5ub6o

3 ай бұрын

What is the name of the radio station that plays vinyl records?

@5:04 those are air cart players for playing commercials and PSA's. The cart looks like a small 8 track and each one could hold 30, 60 or 90 second spots for commercials, jingles or psa

@urbaxvibes

11 ай бұрын

Cool!

You got a new sub out of this one. I love the fact that if you don't know what something is, you admit it and ask! Pretty rare in my opinion of Urban Explorers. There are many that "think" they know about everything they see. Being in radio since the late 1970's, your assessment of most equipment was correct. The machines that looked like they played 8 tracks, were called cart machines. They ran at twice the speed of an 8 track and utilized more space for each channel on the tape, giving it much better sound. I know others may have covered other things, so I won't go on. I will say that I like your style of exploring and will be looking forward to other videos!

@urbaxvibes

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much we appreciate it tons! @Jonsymmonde1120

That station is live the transmitter is in the shed out back and it’s feed by internet and satellite 😊

The first thing I noticed in this video was that the wall A/C unit on the transmitter shed was running, meaning those towers are still live. I'm assuming that you had permission from the owner look around. WOCQ-AM 1510 is currently located at that site on Salem Woodstown Rd.

Wow! What a time capsule! Thanks for your respect of the place and the people who worked there.

That Star Wars album at 9:45 is actually notable- aside from being a truly ancient bit of Star Wars musical silly, it was also Jon Bon Jovi's first professional work! He does the lead vocals for "R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas", under his birth name of "John Bongiovi". It actually came out before The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, and that looks like it's the one and-done-first-print by the shortly-after-defunct RSO.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Wow that’s some cool history! Coool!

@michaelanderson2886

4 ай бұрын

I’ve still got my Star Wars Christmas album from then! Awesome

Wow my nerd senses are tingling big time. I loooove old radio stuff. Those big satellite dishes are C-band dishes, and the radio station would use them to pick up syndicated radio shows and broadcast them. Some people still use those dishes for tv too. They watch foreign channels, raw feeds of news, sports, etc, religious, p**n, All kinds of stuff. You might stumble across a news reporter in the middle of a protest waiting for his cue to do his report for example. you might see them rehearsing lines, getting powered/makeup, stuff like that. Many years ago someone was running a bingo game with those dishes and it got shut down for illegal gambling. Pretty wild. Was called Basset Bingo or something. 27:14 The Huntingtons are like a Christian punk-type band , heavily influenced by the Ramones. It's quite possible the station had a Christian Alternative show on Saturday nights or something. The emergency sticker at 23:43 is quite fascinating too.. I wonder how many of those stations are still around? They even included marine channel 16 for boaters, was surprised by that. I'm glad you showed us the sticker This was a really really cool video guys, Thank you so much!

@Apinkinkling

4 ай бұрын

nice (saved progress: 18:56 )

Great video guys I enjoyed it very much thank you

@urbaxvibes

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!!

I listen to the old country station on Sirus XM (Yes I know I am weird) I have always loved old country music from as far back as it goes (Did I mention I was weird?) I found my dads old records when I was young and fell in love with the old country and some rock and roll oldies. Those records were stored in a barn and got warped from the heat so sad. Also there is a certain show they actually play recordson XM or you can at least here the cracking sounds of a record.

As a music lover, I would have liked to see the owners donate those records and CDS to local non-profit thrift stores. I am not saying for explorers and others to steal them and do this but to see them just abandoned like this, even if its stuff no one listens to.... it's sad. Now, something else that would be cool, and this is something I would do if it was a country or rock station, is to photograph all the records I recognized and look them up online to add to my digital library, so the music lives on. Still, this is a great find.

Wow, cool explore! I remember those huge satellite dishes from back in the day. I didn't recognize any of those band names; though I thought I saw Freddy Fender at the beginning. Thanks for sharing, hope the bird made it back outside! 👍😁

Those are tape cartridge machines for broadcasting use. The tape cartridges or carts as they were called by broadcasters had an endless tape loop inside a plastic tape. The carts came in varying lengths and were used primarily for recording radio commercials and jingles. The longer tapes could be used to record music. There was usually a rack full of these tapes in most radio station control rooms. The tapes could be erased for new recordings and were used over and over for several years. If the tape cartridges were damaged or worn they could be repaired with new parts. In today's world of broadcasting the tape cartridges became obsolete as radio stations transitioned over to computers and automation and were no longer needed. In this video another radio station in the area is running a live transmitter in that small building and using the tower. Broadcast transmitters are usually located in small spaces and need air conditioning to keep them cool because transmitters make quite a bit of heat.

I love how curious you guys are. Definitely my favorite who do this. At one time every small town had a station. Our old station was in a very old downtown business building and the frane to house the letters is still there. It's now a Mexican restaurant/market.

I shared this out 2 my brother cuz he did some stuff like this in stoney brook university in the 70's. Very cool.

We have discovered the avocado refrigerator color. All the rage in mid 1970’s to early 1980’s. Funny thing is, I bet it still runs.

I used to work for my college radio station and you were totally right it was all digital. We had the commercials on a track and made playlists from massive lists on a computer. We literally ran one of the studios off a Mac. Mine was all prerecorded because I had the 4am slot.

Wjic is still on the air WJIC is a Christian radio station licensed to Zanesville, Ohio, broadcasting on 91.7 MHz FM. The station is owned by VCY America. WJIC is also heard in the Cambridge, Ohio area on 94.3 FM, through translator station W233AL

Did it ever occur to you guys that the station probably shut down Dec 31st of that year, which explains all the Christmas stuff? Just saying. A lot of radio stations will only play Christmas music from Dec 1 through the 25th. Also, Most modern radio stations, do use digital media, however, they also have turntables, cassette decks, CD players and some even have 8-Track players, just in case they get older media they want to play.

Those 2 apparatus on the desk are cartridge decks. They were used to play and probably record sound onto open reel tape wound in a tape cartridge.

I love y’all’s videos I have been here since 1k subscribers

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Wow! That’s cool thank you so much!

My husband, having grown up in a radio family, finds this both sad and interesting. It is hard to imagine just abandoning a fully working radio station and transmitter plant. Leaving it to the elements seems illogical. His dad was the General Manager at AM 580 CJFX Radio located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia Canada. Before conversion to FM, 98.9, CJFX was a powerful regional radio station that reached into five of Canada's ten provinces. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec. Changing to FM destroyed the massive coverage area and proved the superiority of a clear channel AM signal as opposed to the one lung capacity of FM Radio.

I see that black vinyl discs are bouncing to a rebound. I believe that most radio stations have shirked using digital discs because compact disc technology is a bad mode of high-quality sound because the digital compact discs and their players worked awkwardly. Modern radio stations use microcomputers (PCs) to download music, commercials and other sounds with MP3 technology style.

Donna Fargo was a popular country music star in the 1970s. The smaller records are 45 rpm singles. A Google search of the call letters show this station currently operates a Christian format. Drawn to Light is an album and song by Paul Clark, released in 1982. I'm not familiar with him. Cool video.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool!!

@inter_1097

Жыл бұрын

the station that uses WJIC now is from Zanesville Ohio, this looks to be from New Jersey, and are currently WXCY. They were WJIC at one point, but I don't believe they are affiliated using WJIC now.

So interested to explore 💜

Carol of the bells, cool and pretty song.

Somebody gave up trying to play that 45 on the reel-to-reel 😂

5:10 Cart Machines. Used to broadcast radio-jingles, Pre-Recored Commericials on special cartridges (hence the machine name).

Nice! 👍🏻

The station signed on in 1966 as WJIC ("Jersey Information Center") airing middle of the road (MOR) music and information. From 1981 to the early 1990s, WJIC featured a country music format as "Just Country WJIC", then changed to a talk radio and information format, calling itself "News/Talk 1510." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOCQ_(AM) WJIC (1966-1997)

You didn't know it, but you hit the jackpot at 31:42 ! That was a Gates FM transmitter

@Apinkinkling

4 ай бұрын

ok (saved progress on: 5:14 )

@6:31 that is a CD player from the 80s. I remember having one from the early 90s but it was similar.

wow so much stuff.rotting away from the elements like the records and cd's. i am an avid collector and i would love to collect those things. i have many collection of tapes, cd's a few records. even dvd's i felt nostalgic about them. as if.i am going back to the past i missed so much.

Cassettes where never used in Radio Station. They used Carts for announcements, Commercials, Station ID, and Show Spots. Most stations changed Formats around Christmas Time. As it was a Country Station, nothing your finding in this station is normal. Stations back in the day ran Religious Programing on Sunday Mornings. If they had CD's that was the new format back in the late 80's. And your not going to find "hip-hop" back then. If they left the station as is, is because that equipment couldn't be used to transmit digital broadcasting like everything is today. The only reason I know this was my Dad was a Engineer for WLRW FM in Champaign, Ill. I pulled records for the DJ's I was 7 -8 years old then. (WLRW FM is now a Mix Station. ) Learning a little about Radio Stations, you'll have more of a clue when checking things out...

Wow amazing

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Sure was!!

Some or all of those LPs, 45s, and CDs need rescuing, especially the CCM stuff. That reel-to-reel deck would be cool too.

awesome video thanks for sharing

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@IcedCoffeeLover33

Жыл бұрын

@@urbaxvibes you’re welcome Anytime

Paul Clark is a composer based in London. Early life and education Clark was born in West Kirby in 1968. He studied classical guitar with Lee Sollory

It looks like some sort of Apocalyptic disaster hit around Christmas. Cool video. Many of us probably worked at a small station like this, with the very same paneling on the walls. Did you go back later for the safe?

This is cool It's sad that another radio station went off the air

fantastico , no puedo dreer que se dejen todos esos discos

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

My guess the more modern dish recives the radio feed digitally, and it is than transmitted via AM on the old antenna. If it is AM the entire tower is the antenna and dangerous to touch why there is fence around.

🎉 today it's all digitized.The music, the afs, the PSAs, and sometimes the DJs are all on a file server somewhere. If there is a live DJ, he/she is just pointing and clicking a mouse at a computer screen. They still need to pot sound levels up and down. Ive been told that the urban contemporary station here,, a 1000 watt AM station, is just a metal box on the wall at a sister FM station. They recently put in an FM translator repeating this AM station.

OK interesting video. We called those big cartridge players ?cart" machines. They could have commercials on them or station ID's or even songs.Top 40 stations would use these to replace playing the original 45 RPM ( those little records) and the usual accidental bump on the desk and the record skips or the stylus on the turntable becoming defective on the air and screwing up the song. The touring guy opened a door near the end of the video and mentioned that there was another "machine" in there. That was an old huge transmitter hiding in that room. When the video began you guys noticed that someone was using the property and maybe the tower antennas for a station in that large out building with the air conditioner running???? Hard to believe that if the station's life ended in the 90's that there wouldn't be tons of dust all over the records that were just laying around UNLESS the station was abandoned in the last 10yrs. A lot of damage from the leaky roof. Anyway you guys asked for any helpful comments. The expensive studio equipment looked like it was all taken out. Those large mixing boards and turntables were all removed. The ancient tape equipment was worthless to the owners

Those rooms with large windows were most likely studios.The room with all the records could have been the main on air studio.Having records close by would make it easy for the announcer to grab a record instead of going down a hall to a separate record library.Looks like several studios so they may have a net work of stations all broadcasting out of the building.I saw stickers for AM and FM stations so they have all been here. Also I saw "Realistic" brand players which were "Radio House (Tandy in Austra;ia) and not what I'd expect for a professional station.

@chickenfizz

5 ай бұрын

You're correct, that realistic kit would never have been used on air, even the Akai reel-to-reel deck is just consumer grade kit. The actual tape units would have probably been Studer or Otari. That pile of kit with the cart machines, CD player, akai deck etc with the CDs in front of it, that stuff has been deliberately staged to make it look to the uninitiated that it was a studio setup that's been left as it was, that's definitely not the case, the studios have been gutted of all the pro equipment and some urbexers have collected up all of the 'junk' kit and put it in a pile there, I will give our hosts the benefit of the doubt and assume it was previous visitors.

What if we create a fundraiser to restore and reopen this 80s radio station to its former glory?

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

That’ll be cool!

@reneastle8447

Жыл бұрын

@@urbaxvibes Indeed it will.

@extremedrivr

Жыл бұрын

@@reneastle8447 I'm with you 200% their music and all!!

@reneastle8447

Жыл бұрын

@@extremedrivr Sweet, anything is possible if we make a difference.

@butchfletcher5694

11 ай бұрын

Probably some corporations tax write off.

Great explore you don't often come across abandoned Radio Stations with kit still in them. Shame those Vinyls and CDs are left behind. As a Vinyl/CD collector myself but not Religious or Christmas related mind. Is quite upsetting to see decaying away. Some of those 7" Vinyls could be one hit wonders. And can fetch a lot of money in the right hands 💷💵😊

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@GrupoNathanDj

Жыл бұрын

​@@urbaxvibes 1983 dec 23 😢 sad next like 1998 February 11

this video made me remember to listen to wtnv lol

I know this place! This is in Mannington township near the hospital

Donna Fargo sang alot of great songs she sang the happiest girl in the whole usa witch was a great song 80s music i love

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

That rack with the 3 meters looks like it was part of a remote control system, the 3 meters are probably power,antenna current etc meters, back in the days when I was engineer, you were supposed to log the meter readings.

It sucks that all those albums were just left there to rot. I guarantee, there are collectors out there who would be thrilled to give them all good homes, especially that Star Wars album.

@russellmontielmontojo1974

4 ай бұрын

exactly.it was kinda sad.to see.those records laying around just rotting away. id like to have one of those. unfortunately.i.cannot buy a record because it is expensive here in our country.

These were cart machines, how commercials got played in the 80s-90s.. Used an "8track" like cartridge.

I used to work in radio, and you'll likely discover that this station transitioned around the switch to predominantly digital broadcasting. During this time, the station was also transforming into an all-new country format, abandoning the use of records. It's probable that they removed higher-value items and possibly donated them. There's a good chance they relocated to a new studio, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and undoubtedly new transmitters. The radio broadcasting industry, much like television, underwent a shift in transmission methods during this period, marking the inception of AM stereo. They do still Use Record and CD in radio But Very little Radio must pay now like us now for every song they play so they subscribe to services witha fix number of songs that can be used they pretimed so ads can be played in spots . all atop mated there is only a Engineer few station have Live personalities any longer they higher oursider to do on location and they blast a radio with the stations music .

Yo here before this blows up

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Hello!! 😁

@God-is-King1108

Жыл бұрын

@@urbaxvibes right back at you!

Those machines are reel to reel tape and 8 tracks That is really old I worked for a radio network I was the control room engineer The person behind the glass with the control boards Everything was digital in the late 90s and 2000s We loaded everything onto the computer server Just like an MP3 file We loaded everything by touch screen We did all our media on digital except for if we needed to send a CD I would burn a CD and mail it out. We used lots of satellite feeds and we had satellite uplinks to put our feeds on the satellites to our remote sites

at 10:04 that looks to be an ampex AG 600B (I own a 600B - 2). They make fantastic preamps and they’re quite valuable (the preamps alone can sell for $200 +, I’ve seen them for close to 1k). I’d contact the owners and ask if you could have that. Looks to be in good condition, they’re tanks so I doubt it wouldnt work with a little TLC and basic tape machine knowledge

A radio station that plays Star Wars music, okay, new one on me lol

I would love to have that mesh C-band Satellite dish and the receivers for them

21:40 that rack was the transmitter rack They took the transmitter out There would have been a coax feed cable out to the antenna. The rooms with the glass windows were control room and the booths, the booths were where the DJ and the shows were recorded The EBS emergency broadcast system we had the EAS unit in line with our transmitter If one of the state, federal or other agencies sent an Emergency Alert, it automatically switches to the EAS and sends the feed out over our transmitter Amber Alerts, Tornado Warnings, any type of alerts The racks were for transmitter equipment But it doesn't look like they had any type of control boards So they took them Some of these are still valuable, so they were stolen if not removed by the company The outside building with the A/C running has an active transmitter The transmitter makes it over 150 degrees without constant A/C running Transmitters make a lot of heat

I wish that radio stations would go back to local broadcasting. I saw quite a few Christian albums that I have in my collection. The record that was on the turntable was Leslie Phillips's record, and I have that in my collection.

I'd be pulling up with a van after exploring

@mrradio2187

26 күн бұрын

Ditto! I see hundreds of dollars sitting around just rotting away.

It looks like someone canabilized the transmitter at 21:46... It would have been easy to do. They left the rack and meters, but all the 'good stuff' is gone. -----very interesting video......

To the comments about leaving everything behind. When stations move they will first build out new studios, with new equipment. So some items were likely taken, but the old stuff was old stuff not much value at that time. Today those tape machines might be worth something if they were working.

My grandma had a solid sattelite dish at first and then she got a black one that was a metal mesh and she got thousands of channels and had a little black descrambler box with it 😄😄😄 .. this was between 88-94

There were 2 stations one was WNNN 1017 and WJIC 1510am my father worked there for a couple of years

Most likely the antennas are still being used. The dishes probably not. I've seen several radio stations that look like houses along the road. There's one outside Portsmouth Ohio on us 23. I believe it's still in use.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

@andyrose5616

9 ай бұрын

The satellite in orbit that is used by most radio networks to deliver programming changed a few years back, so dishes that are still pointed where the old satellite was are useless. I know some stations abandoned their old dishes because the mounting bolts had gotten so badly rusted over the course of decades, the antenna literally could not be moved into a new position. They had to buy and install a whole new dish and left the previous one to rot.

The machine with the 45's on them are actually reel to reel players...They don't actually play record's. I'm guessing someone put them there as a joke, or assumed they played them.

Wes King (born January 20, 1966) is an American contemporary Christian singer, songwriter, photographer, and musician. He is perhaps best known for his 1993 album The Robe. His demo material, a cassette tape named "Lonely Poet", is sung by other artists, such as Kim Hill. He briefly attended Covenant College outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the late 1980s. He also led worship at Christian youth retreat camps.

Do you guys ever take stuff from places like this as a souvenirs to keep as a memory of a good exploration.

That one satalite dish was the normal size for tv back in the day now the satalite dish is small and now when people cancel it they don't have to turn the dish back to the provider

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

@robertmailhos8159

Жыл бұрын

@@urbaxvibes you are welcome young man and Lady 👍😎

Everything was rotten except to the TOILET PAPER that you've found inside a comfort room! Salute to the staff who put that toilet paper before that radio station was abandoned.

Sad to see people just up and leave stuff like this behind. Why?? Makes no sense.

It is possible they shut down at the end of a year, so they were sending christmas music when they shut down.

The Little records are 45 rpms Donna fargo is a country singer some Radio stations still ue vinyl not many this is cool explore seen someone else Eplore here to very cool find Those machines in the front office are 8 track cartridges they would use those for comercials

Most radio stations nowadays use automation, I used to be an engineer at a station just before they changed to computer automation systems

10:14 It's labeled Ampex but that tape deck sure looks like an Akai, one of those mediocre mechanisms with two knobs and pot metal cams that crack.

Just so you know. Everything was not left behind. I’m in Radio and it’s threadbare.

@chickenfizz

5 ай бұрын

indeed, all the pro kit is gone, what's left is the 'junk' that was lying around that some previous explorer has dubiously staged into an incoherent pile to make it look somewhat like a studio to those that don't know.

Records are doing a come back

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Sure is!!

@greywebs1944

Жыл бұрын

Vinyls never went away. People just got lazy with other resources available.

@dorcasia109

8 ай бұрын

If i love an artist, I buy the record because if electricity ever stopped you could hand crank an old record player and still hear it.

Need to be careful around towers. They could be hot since the AC in the transmitter shack is running. Probably still on air, just not from that location. So, basically, you're breaking and entering.

@urbaxvibes

19 күн бұрын

Nobody went within the transmitter shack or went to in the tower fence. The old station is abandoned and extremely decayed. No breaking and entering on active equipment.

@JackT_Music_on_Vinyl

19 күн бұрын

@@urbaxvibes Cool. Glad you were careful.

She has AWESOME hair

Abandoned studios like this really aren't that uncommon. Once small local stations go out of business (usually because they are bought out), most buildings (like the one you were in) end up being purchased by tower companies (like American Tower and Crown Castle) as tower real estate. If the buildings are in half way decent shape, they are usually used as rental space (as the transmitting site for multiple transmitters) belonging to various nationally syndicated radio stations who all rent antenna space on the tower, re-transmitting signals via satellite from distant "big network" studios many states away. Buildings that are not in good shape are usually torn down or left to rot while newer buildings are constructed near the tower. Small town studios are becoming a thing of the past as the big radio networks buy up the smaller stations as part of their network. Local radio is also becoming a thing of the past. Most FM station sites simply rebroadcast what they receive off of the satellite dish and have no studio on location (like that little building behind the studio). Yes, it is most likely a live station fed by one of those satellite dishes, probably the newer one.

It's like a lot of mine I engineer for. I killed the radio star... didn't mean to. The computers were supposed to help not replace them but that is what happened. Eventually the studios went away in a lot of cases or were abandoned like this except for the little shack there which houses a transmitter and a rack of equipment that gets it's network feed from the smaller dish next to it. More and more are going that way. I wish I was around for the heydays of the 80s and such when the stations were the social hub of the town and a non stop party. Especially the rock and big country stations. 5:15 those are cart machines. They take cartridges that look like 8 track and similar that they are an endless loop. Commercials, liners and legal ids would be recorded on to the carts then those would be quad up to play between songs. Usually only a few minutes on them. Some of us salvage that stuff. I haven't gotten there yet but a lot of us broadcast engineers will take the dismantled studios and equipment home. Set it up the way it used to be when it had a soul with turntables, reel to reels, etc and usually becomes a ham radio station but also kind of a shrine to what used to be before the music died. 10:18 Reel to reel. Before digital workstations that was how you did editing using a splice block and tape. Then that was put on a cart to use.20:00/22:00 the stuff in the rack is a remote transmitter monitor/control. The meters are for monitoring the tube volts, current etc and have to be recorded daily so you can math it out to prove you are legal if the fcc asks. It was custom built. 27:00 those turntables in good condition are worth a lot of money now due to being rare. Dunno if that one could be revived. Carpet and pegboard was sound dampening before the foam stuff was an option. 31:48 is what is left of a small tube transmitter. Maybe Gates or Harris. If you love stuff like this get in touch with some stations that still actually have studios and ask for a tour. Most station owners are happy to show you around. If the engineer is there you can get a tour of all the technical stuff including the transmitters. The old tube ones some of us still use are amazing beasts.. We take pride in them. All the info for the station owner and engineer will be on their website and FCC info. If you have more questions about what equipment is and how things operate let me know. I am not really an expert just the last guy standing in the area that can read a schematic and use a soldering iron. I am trying to talk my mentor/former engineer into letting me put a camera in front of him and tell me your 70 year life in radio. Could talk for hours. We like radio honestly are a dying breed.

45s were all single song on them. People who abandoned this stuff might not have left it all behind if they knew some of it be worth some money. Donna Fargo was a country singer from the 70s.

Might want to do some research. And may be a wise decision to put on a mask inside that moldy building!!

Rural areas didn't have cable TV and DirecTV was not invented yet So people who want to get TV you needed a 10 foot 📡 C-band Satellites were all that was available You could get all the cable channels on C-band and most were free on satellite 😊

How is there no dust on anything?

The cars in the background…

I keep wondering who pays the property taxes on these abandoned pieces of real estate?

those towers are still hot. Trespassing on property used for broadcasting is a federal crime. Lucky you didn't get caught.

The station looks to active. I did enjoy this video however some words of caution. Although the studio building was "abandoned in place" all the equipment of any value is gone, What's left is Broadcast Cartridge machines, reel to reel decks, CD Players & some desktop turntables. Someone took some time to lay out everything in there so its possible someone still goes in there from time to time, most likely the Engineers. The CD's and records probably have no to little value, Religious music is not sought after by any collectors. The tiny building behind the old studio Is active, there's a chance the satellite dishes are too, Most radio stations still use large C band dishes to receive network/syndicated programming. The towers have high voltages on them and are lethal if touched it WILL kill you and will hurt the entire time while dying. Trespassing or tampering at a radio/tv station can lead to federal charges not just city/county. considering the driveway to the station is locked and no trespassing signs you still entered the location. Be careful.

@Truckguy1970

6 ай бұрын

That is true. Even though they're just looking around and filming and really not doing anything serious, if something was to go wrong then the owners can be held liable unless they press charges. As fun and as interesting as it can be there's too many risks. I used to explore a lot of places myself but with everything going on today with lawsuits and social media it's too risky. My dad told me this one time: "What would you do if you walked into one of those places and found a dead body? You would have to go to the police to report it and risk questioning and getting blamed since you can't just leave and not say anything because they would find evedence of you being there and you would get questioned and be even more of a suspect". I was like oh crap lol

I'm part of a radio station cause the station I'm part of they have me and two of my friends as part of their caroling Crew for Christmas time the radio stations are now digital I'm also friends with the owner of the radio station in Lincoln Nebraska where I'm from

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

@johngoffhtd4life618

Жыл бұрын

​@@urbaxvibesyou guys are so awesome and amazing keep up the great work and I am friends with the owner of the radio station in Lincoln Nebraska

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

Do you guys just get lucky and these places are left unlocked or do you have to get permission?

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

In this case, door wide open

@Truckguy1970

6 ай бұрын

Just please be careful. I'm not trying to tell you what to do or trying to get into your business but if possible try to have permission from the owners. What would you do if you walked into one of these places and there's an excaped convict or gang members with weapons squatting in one of these places or worse you come across a dead body? I always loved doing this too but with everything going on today there's just too many ways of something bad happening.@@urbaxvibes