The LuLac Edition #792, Apr. 23rd, 2009
PHOTO INDEX: OLD WARM SURVEY SHEET LOGO.
BREAKING NEWS
Just one week after it was declared dead and gone, WARM Radio is back on the air. Here is the text of an e mail we received today: "Guess who's back on the air? Tune to 590AM. Don't know how it came about so fast, but its back on the air." Great news. Updates later on this site and our 590 FOREVER location.
UPDATE
From the Times Leader, Bill O'Boyle reports...WARM, the Mighty 590, returned to the AM radio airwaves on Thursday. The station, which went silent on April 14, was back on the air playing The Kinks, The Monkees and other oldies. Bill Palmeri, general manager for the Citadel Broadcasting station, was unavailable for comment. WARM is the AM-radio station that became synonymous with northeastern Pennsylvania for broadcasting news, music and sports for more than 50 years.
The station had been silent and a posting on its Web site thanked listeners for their support. “We love you and we’ll miss you,” it read. The station posted a message that stated a backup transmitter had failed. At its height in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, WARM, known as “The Mighty 590,” featured on-air personalities playing the latest Top 40 rock ‘n’ roll records. They populated their shows with signature characters and their antics entertained listeners well beyond the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area on the strength of its 5,000-watt transmitter. Here's a link to the WARM website where you can listen LIVE to tyhe True Oldies Channel. http://www.warm590.com/Article.asp?id=598365
posted by David Yonki @ 10:17 AM
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When I first saw this site, I thought it was the old Lu-Lac Oil company. Is that where you got the name from?
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I thought it was the old Lu-Lac Oil company. Is that where you got the name from?
AS A KID GROWING UP MIDWAY BETWEEN WILKES BARRE AND SCRANTON, I WAS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE LU-LAC OIL COMPANY AND THEIR FLEET OF TRUCKS. AS I RECALL, THEY WERE BIG ADVERTISERS ON WPTS RADIO. AND WHEN I WAS THINKING OF A NAME FOR THIS SITE, LULAC CAME TO MIND GIVEN THE FACT THAT I WAS GOING TO COVER POLITICS IN BOTH LUZERNE AND LACKAWANNA COUNTIES. SO I GUESS YOU CAN SAY THE OIL COMPANY INSPIRED THE NAME.
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