{"id":721,"date":"2023-09-21T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wmpg50.wpengine.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2023-09-21T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:07:28","slug":"on-air-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/on-air-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"ON-AIR SIGN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made this sign for MPG around 1990 as I was relocating the station to Portland from Gorham and from mono to stereo. The first stereo board was an old Gates board that had run at Country music WPOR just down the street. The ON AIR sign is acrylic reverse-painted on glass and it amazes me it is still in existence in that raucous, rowdy, rambunctious, boisterously rakish radio studio. That original MPG stereo Gates board is now at 500 kW shortwave giant WBOQ in northern Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made this sign for MPG around 1990 as I was relocating the station to Portland from Gorham and from mono to stereo. The first stereo board was an old Gates board that had run at Country music WPOR just down the street. The ON AIR sign is acrylic reverse-painted on glass and it amazes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"wmpg50","author_link":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/author\/wmpg50\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50.wmpg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}