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WPGC Tribute Site to celebrate July 4th Weekend with
Internet Stream of Vintage Airchecks from the '60's & '70's

The WPGC Tribute Site is pleased to announce it will be streaming excerpts from the station's special year-end countdown shows, covering select years between 1967 - 1980 beginning at 12:01 AM EDT on Thursday, July 1st and continuing through midnight on Sunday, July 7th.

The WPGC Tribute Site is not affiliated in any way with WPGC Radio or Infinity Broadcasting today, and is devoted to the station's glory years as one of America's most prominent Top 40 stations during the '60's & '70's.

Still under development at press time, the site will, in addition to vintage airchecks, eventually include station jingles, commercials, promos, sweepers, listener 'Sound-Offs', newscasts and on air contesting.

Additionally, printed materials including weekly playlists, newspaper articles, sales kits and guest essays from station alumni will appear on the non-profit site established for educational & research purposes.

To hear the year-end countdown shows, internet listeners can access the streamed audio by opening their Windows Media Player, clicking on FILE>OPEN URL and entering : mms://largelee.dnsalias.net
in the address box that appears as seen below.

 

 

Media Contact : largelee@prodigy.net

(July 1, 2002- Morningside, MD)

 

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We are very sorry to report the untimely passing of former WPGC General Manager Charles Giddens on Sept. 12th, 2001.  From 'Radio & Records':

    Giddens, who co-founded and was Managing Director of Media Venture Partners, died yesterday morning in a Naples, FL hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage on Monday. He was 57. Giddens, who lived in Naples, spent more than 30 years in broadcasting. He was a station owner and Group VP of Marriott’s First Media in Greenbelt, MD before Media Venture Partners was formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987.  In lieu of flowers, Charles' widow, Joanne, and their daughters Cassandra & Kelly have requested that donations be sent to the Garden of Hope and Courage at Naples Community Hospital, P.O. Box 234, Naples, FL 34106.

The fund was created in memory of the Media Venture Partners co-founder, who died last week at age 57 of a brain aneurysm. Contributions can be made payable to the University of Georgia Foundation, with "Charles Giddens Scholarship Fund" in the memo line of your check, and mailed to the foundation (attn.: Bill Herringdine) at 824 S. Milledge Ave., Athens, GA 30602. The fund will be directed to the Grady College of Telecommunications and Journalism, where it will provide a yearly scholarship to a student attending the Univ. of GA & Grady College.

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