Friday, May 18, 2018

590 MIGHTY MEMORY #134

WARM RADIO SOLD IN MAY OF 1958 

This article from the Scranton Tribune of May 2nd, 1958 tells us that WARM Radio was sold to Susquehanna Broadcasting. A few weeks later, the staid format of WARM Radio became "The new WARM, the Mighty 590" and nothing was bigger than that for years in the local radio market. 
 

Sunday, May 13, 2018

590 MIGHTY MEMORY #135

WHEN WARM TV BECAME WNEP 

Here is a story from January 1958. It involves the changing of the call letters of WARM TV to WNEP. Currently WNEP is one of the most iconic and successful TV stations in America. And it all started with WARM. 
 

590 MIGHTY MEMORY #136

WHEN WARM OPERATIONS MERGED

Our friend Joe Klapatch provided us with these stories from The Times Tribune dated November 13th, 1957. It outlines the story of how different broadcast entities merged with WARM broadcast operation. Then there was a story about how it affected the stock in the company. (Check out the story on the politics of the day in the city of Scranton).