WHIZ AM has a long history of broadcast history. We have been serving
the area for over ¾ of a century. AM 1240 is a 1KW station that serves
Zanesville and Muskingum County, as well as reaching into the surrounding counties.
AM 1240 has undergone several significant changes in the past few years.
The most recent was the construction of a new tower site. This site was
needed in coordination with the building of the WHIZ-DT transmitter site.
For almost 50 years, AM 1240 was housed on the same tower as our TV station.
In order to build a new transmitter facility with a new tower for our
TV stations,
it was necessary to first move the AM site to another location. During
the
conversion of operation to the new site, transmission was maintained from
the
old site using our auxiliary transmitter. When the new site was completed,
operation was switched to the new site, and then the auxiliary transmitter
was
moved to the site.
Our main transmitter is a solid state Harris SX-1A that was purchased
in 1986. Our auxiliary transmitter is a RCA BTA-1S transmitter. It uses (4) 4-400A
tubes, 2 as modulators and 2 as drivers. This was the main transmitter
for AM 1240 until the purchase of the Harris transmitter.
The studio for AM 1240 is built around a Harris Gold Medalist 12 channel
console.
Music and spots are on hard drive. We also utilize a 360 Systems Shortcut
audio editor. DAT is the primary tape format used in the facility.
