WAMV (Illinois)

[6] That same year, on April 17, 1945, a young Harry Caray called his first Major League Baseball game over WTMV, a Cardinals broadcast with Gabby Street.

[18] WTMV-FM was not a success; even though the AM-FM stations were profitable in 1949, WTMV tried, to no avail, to get the Federal Communications Commission to waive its minimum hours of operation rule for the FM side.

[28] While several complaints centered around the format flip planned by Stan-Lin, the sale approval took East St. Louis city officials by surprise.

That same month, Hess-Hawkins initiated foreclosure proceedings against Stan-Lin, alleging it had never been paid; in East St. Louis city court, it received a $314,000 judgment against the current owners.

[33] While Stan-Lin applied for permission to sell the station back to Hess-Hawkins so it could be conveyed to a group of East St. Louis businessmen,[33] this never happened.

[34] WAMV's closure marked the beginning of years of hearings and competing applications to return the 1490 kHz frequency to use in East St. Louis.

At the start of 1969, FCC hearing examiner Isadore A. Honig proposed the grant of the station to East St. Louis Broadcasting.

[36] In finding in favor of East St. Louis, Honig noted the "unusually poor" broadcast record of Metro-East principal Harmon I. Moseley, who had been found of "irresponsible conduct" in his time running KAAB in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he once attacked other local stations on the air.

[37] The hearing proceedings finally ended on September 29, 1971, when the FCC granted the East St. Louis application;[38][39] their WESL went on the air July 10, 1972, more than eight years after WAMV ceased operations.