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WHIS Resumes OperationsAfter 44 Hours Of SilencetcS£ItCiirfcI:Bluefield Radio Station WHIS; casting at mid-morning, Pat resumed b'oadca.siln.g at 12:10 Flanagan, station manager, said p.m. yesterday, 44 hours after it; good reception was reported in was silenced by a $100,000 fire Welch and Winston-Salem, N. that destroyed its transmitting during the tests.r%equipment The station began its broadcasts with borrowed equipment set up under a lean-to covered with roofing paper at the scene5The station will broadcast during its regular broadcasting hours, from 5 a.m. until midnight, Flanagan saidThe station’s 5,000 watt trans-slt;Tvsic0ntl!Pi5rof the fire, a station spokesman mitter and the one-story building reported, that housed it on Harry Heights,Workmen, meanwhile, are con- Route 52 near Bluefield, were strvcting a cinder-block building destroyed by fire Sunday after-to house the transmitter equip- noon. Firemen were able to save ment The borrowed transmitter only movable furniture from the was converted to ’he WHIS fre- blaze, as there were no fire-fight-quency of 1440 kilocycles by eng-'ing facilities available.dnPPg$gineers working throughout Monday night.The building also was used as a residence by the station’s mana-eThe transmitter was tested early ger. Flanagan, who was away with yesterday morning, and the Fed- his wife at the time of the lire, era! Communications Commission Ail of their personal furniture w' i in Washington, D. C., gave ver-| taken from the building before it bl permission to resum* broad-1 was razee by the fire.cfst
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Wed, May 11, 1955
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