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Sept
15, 1957
:
WCWC
signed
on the air on a Sunday afternoon at
1:00
PM
.
First
song played
was S’ Wonderful by Ray Conniff.
Francis
Stratman was manager.
July
1961:
Arlow
Bice Jr. and his brother Ralph purchased WCWC,
From
Central Wisconsin Company (John Monroe was major stock holder).
Nov
1962:
Applied
for Class C F.M.
Frequency (wanted 50,000 watts).
March
1963:
Applied
for Night-time system for WCWC.
Application
was submitted a few days before F.C.C. "froze" all
applications
for
a period of 2 years.
April
1964:
Requested
and received permission for a change to the F.M. transmitter site
to same place as WCWC AM.
March
1964:
Received
construction permits to construct both AM Night-Time and F.M.
Nov
1964:
Started
construction on building addition.
Nov
1964:
Started
night-time antenna construction.
January
1965:
Moved
AM transmitter
into new addition and one week later, moved
the Control Room into new addition.
Jan
1965:
Arlow
Bice
installed A.T.C. Automation equipment.
Feb
1965:
WCWC-FM
went on
the air at 6:00
PM. Ripon's
Mayor Adamski
officially
turned on the F.M. transmitter.
Feb
8, 1965
:
F.M.
moved sign ON to
1:00
PM
April
5, 1965
:
WCWC
went
night time. Mike
Engler was first D.J. at night.
May
7, 1965
:
WCWC-FM
began
to broadcast S.C.A.(Muzak)
June
7,1965
:
FM.
moved Sign On to
5:00am
(Simulcast till 0800)
Sept.
20 1965
:
F.M.
Signed
off at 0200 hours instead of
midnight
.
Oct.
19, 1965
:
F.M.
went
full time or 24 hours each day.
June
24,
1965
:
WCWC
Transmitter off the air 1014 to 1721 -
shorted mod.
April
24 1965
:
WCWC
Transmitter
off
the air again 0755-1714
- short.
mod. trans.
Jan
16, 1969
:
Heavy
icing conditions.
WCWC off air from 0043
until
0934 due
to
Wis.
Power and Light
failure.
Two
utility
poles supplying power
to WCWC
went down. Off air
8 hours 52 min.
Feb,
1970:
Received
and
temporarily installed a standby electrical generator.
Onan, 35,000
watts.
Feb
5, 1971
:
Due
to
heavy icing conditions, WCWC
lost
power from 0728 until
0100 hours
Feb. 6th.
Operated
on emergency generator 16 hours for AM and 17 hours for F.M. Power
lines between WCWC
and
KK broken
in three different
places.
Oct
1, 1971
:
By
mutual Agreement, Ralph
Bice purchased remaining stock
of Greycote from Arlow. Arlow maintained
control
of Muzak franchised and leased F.M sub-carrier from Greycote.
October
2, 1972
:
By
mutual
agreement between WCWC-FM
and
Sunshine Sounds (Leasee
of S.C.A)
SCA broadcasting
ceased at
11:15
AM
.
Jan
31,1972
:
FM
went 24hrs.
June
1972:
FM
began broadcasting
varied programs on
FM with
MikeCuthbert
as program director.
January
7, 1973
:
F.M.
began
simulcasting with AM 100%
of
the time.
January
7, 1973
:
FM
Transmitter down due to burned out
fan motor for
I.P.A. Repaired
Tues .Ian 9 at 1654 hrs.
FM
off the air for 32.5 Hrs.
August
10, 1973
:
Installed
two new
Revox reel to
reel machines in AM Control
Room.
March
27, 1973
Installed
ITC 3D-0003 cart
machine in AM Control Room.
June
10, 1974
:
Installed
new Marti receiving antenna.
June
11, 1974
:
Repainted
tower #2.
September
28, 1975
:
Installed
and started to operate new
control
board in A.M. Cetec,
Series 10.
March
5, 1976
:
0nce
again operated with emergency generator from
0330 to
1345 hrs.
No
electrical power due to sleet and ice storm. Power
feed on Hwy 49
S.
of
Ripon had 21 broken
power poles.
Many
areas in
Southern
Wis.
declared disaster areas..
WCWC
generator used about 6 gallons
of gas each hour. (12hrs)
March
6,
1976
:
Loss
of WP&K
power from 1351 to
1813hrs. 12000 volt
line 1/4
mile
south of WCWC
(4+ hours) Downed
March
12 1976
:
License
of
WCWC
AM/FM transferred to DeNovoCom, Inc. Walter and Paula Richey
effective March 12,
1977
October
6, 1977
:
Meem
Adams, Secretary, received
call from a man
saying there was a bomb in
the radio station.
Ripon
police and
Fond
du Lac
County
Sheriff
Dept and Ripon Fire Dept responded.
Call
was received at WCWC at about
4:05pm
.
after
a thorough
search of station, normal operation resumed at
about
4:59
PM
September
1, 1979
:
WCWC
AM & FM becomes a CBS affiliate.
May
1, 1980
:
Radio
Station WYUR-FM signed on at 5:00 A. M. with a new Beautiful Music
format provided by TM Company of
Dallas
TX
.
November
19th 1992
:
Wrpn
Sold to BBK Broadcasting of
Fond
du Lac
,
WI
.
March
15th 2004
:
Radio
Plus Inc. Formally BBK applied for STA from the FCC for Repairs.
February
4th 2005
:
Radio
Plus Inc. Filed to sell WRPN-Am to Michael S. Enfelt of Radio One
Communications LLC, WI.
March
15th 2005:
Radio
Communications (WRPN) Started carrying WFRV-TV 5 news at 5:00pm -
Local news 5:30pm to 6:00pm.
April
4th 2005:
FCC
approves sale to Radio One Communications
April
18th 2005:
Tower
base brush cleaned for antenna re-build.
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