he real story about wzoo radio new owner.If you go to the
www.wzooradio.com web site you will see that they still list me working and if you click on the listen on the web you will hear my internet radiostation
www.wogaradio.com.
I worked at WZOO Radio for about 5 years. 2 years I worked with no salary with the promise that after 2 years,
I could buy the license from D. W. Long, owner. Mr. Long's daughter, Martha Baity has the Power of Attorney, and Huey Turner managed the radio station. I have emails proving that the license was offered to me for $10.000.
After the 2 years were up and the license that was to be signed over to me, I contacted an attorney and he informed me that he would not handle the case until I had a lease agreement from the owner of the land and equipment
which is Fred Keith of Atlanta GA. Mr. Keith was willing to sign a lease agreement but decided not to and Mr. Long said he would sign the license to me even if Mr. Keith was not willing to the lease. At this time Mr Keith informed
Mr. Long. and Martha that he would sue them for back lease monies that was owed to him! Mr. Long was still willing to sell me the license until Mr. Keith said he would take action against him,
I cannot blame Mr. Long because he had no idea that Mr. Keith would take the action that he took. I cannot blame Mr. Keith because he was really owner of the radio station. The 2 years that I worked for free, I made a lot of improvements at no cost to the station. After my wife and
I found out that Mr. Keith stopped me from buying the license, my wife contacted the FCC person over North Carolina . She let them know that violations of the FCC were being broken which includes no fencing around the towers, no lighting on the towers, no locks on the tower tuning buildings
and she was concerning of children getting hold of the 1,000 watt towers. She was also concerned about children climbing the towers and falling to their deaths.
The person at the FCC was not really concerned unless a written complaint was submitted and he said if they closed the station, the small county would not have a radio station. My wife said she got on the Internet and filed complaint but did not hear anything from it.
When I worked at WZOO the transmitter was only making less then 800 watts.Years ago when I got my first FCC licence you could only go 5% over and 10 % less then your licence power.I paid a engineer to work on the old gates transmitter to get it to license power to meet FCC rules
But I have a real concern because Mr. Keith has turned WZOO from a Gospel station into a mostly news station. I worked at WZOO a total of five years and I have gotten to know a lot of the listeners. Most of the listeners are on fixed income and the highlight of their day is to call the station
to give testimonies and a lot of the listeners are confined to their homes and they got a lot of enjoyment when they called the station and requesting a song be played for them.
At this point in time there is no calling the station for testimonies or music requests. I know that is being missed.
