Comments for pmmbh.org Blog http://pmmbh.org/blog This is where you can comment Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:16:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on The news about Gospel music by President http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/02/15/the-news-about-gospel-music/comment-page-1/#comment-63 President Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:16:25 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/02/15/the-news-about-gospel-music/#comment-63 For release January 7th , 2010 Program Content Contact: David Lenington E-mail: DAVELEN@epix.net (570) 268-5035 after 4:45 p.m. Venue and Media credentials Contact Messiah Village Campus Events Manager Jamie Seilhamer JSeilhamer@messiahvillage.org (717) 790-8237 Information about Pennsylvania Museum of Music and Broadcast History Bill Trousdale Bill.Trousdale@pmmbh.org The Pennsylvania Museum of Music and Broadcast History welcomes: A free concert to honor Pennsylvania Gospel Song writer P.P. Bliss and Museum Curator Emeritus, Janet B Trousdale has been scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2010, at 2:15 pm at Messiah Village Chapel, 100 Mount Allen Drive, Mechanicsburg PA 17055. Mrs. Trousdale has been an active participant in the organization for over three decades as well as historian of the P.P. Bliss Gospel Song Writers Museum in Rome, PA. The museum honors several popular hymn writers from the ecumenical movement era of Dwight L. Moody, following the American Civil War. In additional to Bliss, gospel songwriters D.B. Towner, James McGranahan were also from Rome Township in Bradford County. P.P. Bliss and wife Lucy Young experienced many joys and tragedies while in service to the Lord. These experiences created the source of memorable hymn's still sung by Christian Churches around the world. It is Well with My Soul, Halleluia, What a Savior, Let the Lower Light's be Burning, and "Hold the Fort" a hymn inspired by a battle, during Sherman's March to Sea. The one hour program will be produced by David Lenington of Towanda PA a friend and supporter of the Bliss Museum. The program will include Carrie Hooper, soprano soloist; leading residents in singing several selections, plus Mrs. Trousdale's video produced to archive the life, times and tragedy surrounding Phillip Paul Bliss and his wife Lucy Young. The program will also include, select tunes from Steven Foster, who attended school in nearby Towanda, PA. Mr Foster authored many secular tunes during the same period. P. P. Bliss Museum is located on Main St in Rome, PA 18837. Regular Hours, during the summer and by appointment year round. More information or to visit the Gospel Songwriters Museum, can be obtained by The Endless Mountain Tourist and Visitors Bureau and the Bradford County Historical Society. Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Psalm 147: 7 The Pennsylvania Museum of Music & Broadcast History is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and celebration of Pennsylvania’s music and broadcast industries. By collecting and sharing their accomplishments through education, presentation, displays, and histories, we shall strive to retain these contributions for all to enjoy. www.pmmbh.org For release January 7th , 2010

Program Content Contact: David Lenington E-mail: DAVELEN@epix.net (570) 268-5035 after 4:45 p.m.
Venue and Media credentials Contact Messiah Village Campus Events Manager Jamie Seilhamer JSeilhamer@messiahvillage.org (717) 790-8237
Information about Pennsylvania Museum of Music and Broadcast History
Bill Trousdale Bill.Trousdale@pmmbh.org

The Pennsylvania Museum of Music and Broadcast History welcomes: A free concert to honor Pennsylvania Gospel Song writer P.P. Bliss and Museum Curator Emeritus, Janet B Trousdale has been scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2010, at 2:15 pm at Messiah Village Chapel, 100 Mount Allen Drive, Mechanicsburg PA 17055.
Mrs. Trousdale has been an active participant in the organization for over three decades as well as historian of the P.P. Bliss Gospel Song Writers Museum in Rome, PA. The museum honors several popular hymn writers from the ecumenical movement era of Dwight L. Moody, following the American Civil War. In additional to Bliss, gospel songwriters D.B. Towner, James McGranahan were also from Rome Township in Bradford County.
P.P. Bliss and wife Lucy Young experienced many joys and tragedies while in service to the Lord. These experiences created the source of memorable hymn’s still sung by Christian Churches around the world.
It is Well with My Soul, Halleluia, What a Savior, Let the Lower Light’s be Burning, and “Hold the Fort” a hymn inspired by a battle, during Sherman’s March to Sea.

The one hour program will be produced by David Lenington of Towanda PA a friend and supporter of the Bliss Museum. The program will include Carrie Hooper, soprano soloist; leading residents in singing several selections, plus Mrs. Trousdale’s video produced to archive the life, times and tragedy surrounding Phillip Paul Bliss and his wife Lucy Young. The program will also include, select tunes from Steven Foster, who attended school in nearby Towanda, PA. Mr Foster authored many secular tunes during the same period.

P. P. Bliss Museum is located on Main St in Rome, PA 18837. Regular Hours, during the summer and by appointment year round. More information or to visit the Gospel Songwriters Museum, can be obtained by The Endless Mountain Tourist and Visitors Bureau and the Bradford County Historical Society.

Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Psalm 147: 7

The Pennsylvania Museum of Music & Broadcast History is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and celebration of Pennsylvania’s music and broadcast industries. By collecting and sharing their accomplishments through education, presentation, displays, and histories, we shall strive to retain these contributions for all to enjoy. http://www.pmmbh.org

]]> Comment on Calling all Call Letters!!! by Tim Portzline http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Tim Portzline Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:37:33 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/#comment-29 John Summers has it right - call letters were frequently assigned in sequence in the early days. Some calls were requested for obvious reasons, such as WHP being in Harrisburg, PA, or WHTM being owned by the Times Mirror company in the 1980's. But that doesn't mean that EVERY set of calls has a meaning. That notion makes for good folklore, nothing else. KDKA probably never stood for anything, just as W2XMN didn't have a hidden meaning when Howard Armstrong put the first FM station on the air in the 1930's. John Summers has it right – call letters were frequently assigned in sequence in the early days. Some calls were requested for obvious reasons, such as WHP being in Harrisburg, PA, or WHTM being owned by the Times Mirror company in the 1980’s. But that doesn’t mean that EVERY set of calls has a meaning. That notion makes for good folklore, nothing else. KDKA probably never stood for anything, just as W2XMN didn’t have a hidden meaning when Howard Armstrong put the first FM station on the air in the 1930’s.

]]> Comment on Hello from Dave Burman by studiokid http://pmmbh.org/blog/2008/06/23/hello-from-dave-burman/comment-page-1/#comment-22 studiokid Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:14:52 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2008/06/23/hello-from-dave-burman/#comment-22 Hi Dave - Thanks for the update. Last I heard, you were in VA. Too bad I didn't read this sooner. I was in Lewistown last week. Randy S. Hi Dave -

Thanks for the update. Last I heard, you were in VA. Too bad I didn’t read this sooner. I was in Lewistown last week.

Randy S.

]]> Comment on Calling all Call Letters!!! by studiokid http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-21 studiokid Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:04:43 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/#comment-21 Actually, Barry Mishkind at oldradio.com has a fairly complete listing on call letter meanings. I haven't checked it recently but I think most local stations are there. It changes and sometimes stations get dropped if there is a unconfirmed conflict. That said, WSBA isn't listed there. I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that it was the initials of Sylvia B. Appell. It is interesting how you are told one thing for years and discover it means something else. I had been told years ago that WITF stood for Instructional Television Foundation. Years later, I heard the Top Flight response from Mike too. WPMT - Pennsylvania Movie Time (was an indy stn playing mostly movies) WHTM - Harrisburg Times Mirror (former owners) WLYH - Lancaster-Lebanon (cities of license) York Harrisburg (market area) WHP - as noted earlier Harrisburg, PA but I have heard people think it meant Harrisburg Patriot. Station was owned by a publishing company at one time, but they didn't print daily papers. WRHY (92.7) Radio Harrisburg York WYCR (98.5) York County Radio WHVR (1280) Hanover WOYK (1350) Orioles York (former owners owned WFBR that was flagship for Orioles Network) There are more, but this is a start. Actually, Barry Mishkind at oldradio.com has a fairly complete listing on call letter meanings. I haven’t checked it recently but I think most local stations are there.
It changes and sometimes stations get dropped if there is a unconfirmed conflict.
That said, WSBA isn’t listed there.
I’m pretty sure that I read somewhere that it was the initials of Sylvia B.
Appell. It is interesting how you are told one thing for years and discover it means something else. I had been told years ago that WITF stood for Instructional Television Foundation. Years later, I heard the Top Flight response from Mike too.
WPMT – Pennsylvania Movie Time
(was an indy stn playing mostly movies)
WHTM – Harrisburg Times Mirror
(former owners)
WLYH – Lancaster-Lebanon (cities of license) York Harrisburg (market area)
WHP – as noted earlier Harrisburg, PA
but I have heard people think it meant Harrisburg Patriot. Station was owned by a publishing company at one time, but they didn’t print daily papers.
WRHY (92.7) Radio Harrisburg York
WYCR (98.5) York County Radio
WHVR (1280) Hanover
WOYK (1350) Orioles York
(former owners owned WFBR that was flagship for Orioles Network)

There are more, but this is a start.

]]> Comment on Calling all Call Letters!!! by John Summers http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-17 John Summers Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:21:23 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/#comment-17 Some call letter meanings are obvious; others are more obscure. Harrisburg's Top 40 station in the 60s was WFEC. The new company that flipped the station to Top 40 was East Coast Broadcasting, and this was their first aquisition. The calls stood for "First East Coast." Harrisburg's former WCMB was originally licensed to Lemoyne in Cumberland County, hence CMB. Mike Greenwald told me, and he should know, that WITF stood for "Where It's Top Flight." One might think that the WHYL calls represent Harrisburg, York and Lancaster, but they really were the initials of the owner's wife. Do the calls of WPDC in Elizabethtown stand for Pennsylvania Dutch Country? No. Charles Smith owned the station in the 70s and his daughters names were Patty, Debbie and Cathy. WGAL-TV got its calls from the former WGAL radio. The story goes that WGAL stood for World's Gardens at Lancaster. Nice story but not true. According to FCC records, those calls were not requested but sequentially assigned, as the Commerce Department did in those days. Someone just made up that World's Gardens story to match the calls. And here's some Harrisburg radio history for you: WHP did not acquire the WHP calls until 1929. Prior to that it had been WMBS, which stood for Mack's Battery Service, and licensed to Lemoyne. KDKA? That's anyone's guess. Some call letter meanings are obvious; others are more obscure. Harrisburg’s Top 40 station in the 60s was WFEC. The new company that flipped the station to Top 40 was East Coast Broadcasting, and this was their first aquisition. The calls stood for “First East Coast.” Harrisburg’s former WCMB was originally licensed to Lemoyne in Cumberland County, hence CMB. Mike Greenwald told me, and he should know, that WITF stood for “Where It’s Top Flight.” One might think that the WHYL calls represent Harrisburg, York and Lancaster, but they really were the initials of the owner’s wife. Do the calls of WPDC in Elizabethtown stand for Pennsylvania Dutch Country? No. Charles Smith owned the station in the 70s and his daughters names were Patty, Debbie and Cathy. WGAL-TV got its calls from the former WGAL radio. The story goes that WGAL stood for World’s Gardens at Lancaster. Nice story but not true. According to FCC records, those calls were not requested but sequentially assigned, as the Commerce Department did in those days. Someone just made up that World’s Gardens story to match the calls. And here’s some Harrisburg radio history for you: WHP did not acquire the WHP calls until 1929. Prior to that it had been WMBS, which stood for Mack’s Battery Service, and licensed to Lemoyne. KDKA? That’s anyone’s guess.

]]> Comment on Calling all Call Letters!!! by spark.9 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-16 spark.9 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:36:43 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/#comment-16 WSBA - Susquehanna Broadcasting Appell - Rusty WSBA – Susquehanna Broadcasting Appell – Rusty

]]> Comment on Growing up as a teenager in South Central Pa by YaYa http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/02/09/growing-up-as-a-teenager-in-south-central-pa/comment-page-1/#comment-15 YaYa Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:17:42 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/02/09/growing-up-as-a-teenager-in-south-central-pa/#comment-15 I grew up in Middletown and had to lie to my dad about going to The Raven, which of course was where I <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">desperately</span> wanted to spend Saturday nights listening to the greatest soul music in the country. The O'Jays, Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions, The Four Tops, the Mag Men ... I can still hardly believe all that talent was playing in a poorly rendered fake gothic block building surrounded by corn fields just a few miles from my home. Remember going through the "great entryway" over the wooden door suspended over the moat -- ha Ha!! But what's really gotten me thinking about The Raven is watching the fabulous new DVDs of the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and seeing Jimi Hendrix burn so hot that if it weren't for that cool Monterey crowd, the whole place would have gone up in flames! I remember a rumor or myth that Hendrix had played The Raven as a sideman for some band, maybe Little Richard, I don't know. Does anyone have anything to add to that? I love telling that story but have no idea if it's really true!! I grew up in Middletown and had to lie to my dad about going to The Raven, which of course was where I desperately wanted to spend Saturday nights listening to the greatest soul music in the country. The O’Jays, Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions, The Four Tops, the Mag Men … I can still hardly believe all that talent was playing in a poorly rendered fake gothic block building surrounded by corn fields just a few miles from my home. Remember going through the “great entryway” over the wooden door suspended over the moat — ha Ha!! But what’s really gotten me thinking about The Raven is watching the fabulous new DVDs of the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and seeing Jimi Hendrix burn so hot that if it weren’t for that cool Monterey crowd, the whole place would have gone up in flames! I remember a rumor or myth that Hendrix had played The Raven as a sideman for some band, maybe Little Richard, I don’t know. Does anyone have anything to add to that? I love telling that story but have no idea if it’s really true!!

]]> Comment on Calling all Call Letters!!! by Bored Member http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Bored Member Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:01:16 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/#comment-14 Not sure about those. I'll try to find out. Oh, here's another Harrisburg one that I know. I ran into someone at WGCB, channel 49, the Christian station in Red Lion, PA. They told me that their letters mean: "God, Christ, Bible". I assumed that it was "Good Christian Broadcasting", but they told me that it was the former. Not sure about those. I’ll try to find out. Oh, here’s another Harrisburg one that I know. I ran into someone at WGCB, channel 49, the Christian station in Red Lion, PA. They told me that their letters mean: “God, Christ, Bible”. I assumed that it was “Good Christian Broadcasting”, but they told me that it was the former.

]]> Comment on Calling all Call Letters!!! by Administrator http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Administrator Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:21:08 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/03/19/calling-all-call-letters/#comment-13 Excellent subject, so what does KDKA stand for? Just dying to know. WPHL- is obviously Philadelphia but how about WITF- the public TV letters, What do they mean. I have no clue. Excellent subject, so what does KDKA stand for? Just dying to know. WPHL- is obviously Philadelphia but how about WITF- the public TV letters, What do they mean. I have no clue.

]]> Comment on The news about Gospel music by President http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/02/15/the-news-about-gospel-music/comment-page-1/#comment-12 President Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:07:25 +0000 http://pmmbh.org/blog/2007/02/15/the-news-about-gospel-music/#comment-12 Please help us gather more information on the following Gospel Songwriters in Pennsylvania: William James Kirkpatrick Dunncannon,Perry Co. PA Elisha A Hoffman Orwigsburg,Schuylkill Co. PA Robert Lowery Philadelphia, PA Danial Brink Towner Rome, Bradford Co. PA James McGranahan Adamsville, PA Ira David Sankey Edinburgh, Lawrence Co. PA Please help us gather more information on the following Gospel Songwriters in Pennsylvania:

William James Kirkpatrick Dunncannon,Perry Co. PA
Elisha A Hoffman Orwigsburg,Schuylkill Co. PA
Robert Lowery Philadelphia, PA
Danial Brink Towner Rome, Bradford Co. PA
James McGranahan Adamsville, PA
Ira David Sankey Edinburgh, Lawrence Co. PA

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