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The end of an era in Panama City

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The old WDLP/Sunny 98 studios aka the WDIZ transmitter on East 15th Street will be demolished starting next Tuesday, February 7. The building and the three 300 foot towers were destroyed by Hurricane Michael .... If those walls could talk......sex drugs and rock and roll....... 590 AM WDLP was located there in the 60s before FM took over. Even the first WPAP transmitter was located there until 1974... It later became the Sunny 98 studios in the late 80s. Before that it was WGNE FM which programmed “ beautiful music” from 1976 until 1988 …. .....the original WDLP 590 studios and transmitter were built in 1946 and were located east of the towers off of a road named "Transmitter Road"......back then there was nothing in the area but woods......A lot of Panama City broadcast radio history happened in that building and at that location
 
Didn't even think to look over that way when I was in PC in May. Drove right by the location and did not think to look.

Left radio in 2005 but always still interested in what is going on in PC. Moved to Michigan in June 2022 after the paper mill closed. Went back for our daughter's graduation at FSU-PC as she stayed there to finish school and the day after graduation got her moved to Michigan. I doubt we will ever be back in the area because it is such a long drive but lots of memories in PC, living there for 22 years!
 
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