NEW OWNER OF BJU RADIO STATION -- Just a Minute Radio for Monday 120827

This is a surprise package. I guess I had an idea something like this might be coming down the pike – but it caught me flatfooted.

 

I’m no great detective, but I did know that Bob Jones University had been looking for some time for a way to sell their radio station in Greenville.

Since I was first employed as an announcer in the fall of 1949 when the original 1 KW AM station went on the air in September – the opening days of the school year. I jumped at the chance to work for the station. [So I was such a poor announcer I got fired twice the first year…but eventually convinced them I *could* read and got hired on as an engineer (J).]

 

It’s a long story and I’m already beyond deadline time.  So I’ll tell you about it sometime when we have time to chat. But the WMUU Facility will (or perhaps has) become the property of Salem Radio Network.  They go by SRN news… and are currently the news broadcasters on WMUU-FM.

 

It’s a lot of detail to go into and I don’t know much about it – really! – so don’t let me waste your time. But we’ll all probably know a good deal more before too long when we get more details. Both the University and SRN indicate it will not be making radical changes and it will still harbor good music and Gospel programs. Beyond that… SRN will be telling you more – and more than I know.

 

All the best… (typing at night so … ) Good night – and Good luck. [I borrowed that from Edward R. Murrow.}

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

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“JUST A MINUTE”

NEW OWNER OF BJU RADIO STATION

 

    

                        Just a Minute: Friday afternoon BJU-Radio listeners found they would soon be listening to Salem Radio Network the new owner of WMUU-FM in Greenville. At 5:05 PM Friday afternoon a special program hosted by Station Manager Paul Wright announced the change to listeners alerted to be tuned in for a “special” program on August 24^th.

            The news was a surprise to most of the staff and audience of the 100 kilowatt FM station known as – WMUU which originally stood for “World’s Most Unusual University. It had begun its radio life September 15^th 1949 on the University campus eventually adding FM to the original one kilowatt AM station and then adding a mountain-top transmitter upping its antenna height giving coverage in states adjacent to South Carolina.

            The University Chancellor Dr. Bob Jones III, CEO of the Gospel Fellowship Association the station’s current owner; Participated with Stuart Epperson, CEO of Salem Radio Network – also a BJU graduate. They indicated the station will continue to be a strong Gospel and good music facility in upper South Carolina.

                      <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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