WXPO NEWS 6/7 — BIRMINGHAM

WXPO CABLEVISION INFO SERVICE CH 6/7

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA ★ RED MOUNTAIN TOWER ★ EST. 1961 --:--:--

WXPO 6/7

★ BIRMINGHAM'S INDEPENDENT VOICE ★ RED MOUNTAIN ★

INDEPENDENT BROADCAST LICENSE
FREQUENCY: VHF CH.6 / UHF CH.7
TOWER ELEVATION: 1,640 FT ASL
OWNER: [PRIVATE — ON FILE WITH FCC]
OPERATIONS: 24 HOURS / 365 DAYS

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LATEST HEADLINES — PRESS P200 FOR FULL STORIES

★ RARE APRIL SNOWFALL BLANKETS MAGIC CITY — 5 INCHES REPORTED
★ IRON BOWL STAYS AT LEGION FIELD — FOR NOW
★ WXPO TOWER MAINTENANCE — INTERFERENCE REPORTS UNDER REVIEW
★ BIRMINGHAM BARONS MOVE TO HOOVER METROPOLITAN STADIUM
★ FCC APPROVES WXPO POWER INCREASE — NEW ALLOCATION PENDING

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⚠ SIGNAL ADVISORY — RED MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS

ONGOING — ENGINEERING DEPT

WXPO ENGINEERING HAS DETECTED ANOMALOUS CARRIER FREQUENCIES IN THE UHF BAND FOLLOWING ROUTINE TOWER INSPECTION. BROADCAST CONTINUITY IS NOT AFFECTED. ENGINEERS ARE MONITORING. PRESS P600 FOR ENGINEER'S LOG.

★ WXPO NEWS 6/7 — BIRMINGHAM, AL ★

RARE SNOWFALL PARALYZES MAGIC CITY

APRIL 3, 1987

FIVE INCHES OF SNOW FELL ON BIRMINGHAM THURSDAY, THE HEAVIEST APRIL SNOWFALL ON RECORD FOR THE AREA. SCHOOLS CLOSED. ROADS IMPASSABLE ON HIGHLAND AVENUE AND RED MOUNTAIN APPROACHES. WXPO REMAINED ON AIR THROUGHOUT, BROADCASTING FROM EMERGENCY GENERATOR POWER AFTER THE PRIMARY GRID FLUCTUATED AT 3:17 A.M. — ENGINEERS NOTE THE TIMING COINCIDED WITH DETECTED CARRIER ANOMALY ON THE TOWER ARRAY.

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PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE CANCELED — BIRMINGHAM LOSES HOST

SEPTEMBER 8, 1988

BIRMINGHAM WILL NOT HOST THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN GEORGE BUSH AND MICHAEL DUKAKIS. THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS WITHDREW SPONSORSHIP CITING "UNREASONABLE DEMANDS" BY BOTH CAMPAIGNS. WXPO NEWS HAD PLANNED FULL LIVE COVERAGE FROM DOWNTOWN. REPORTER STORMY CUMMINS HAD REQUESTED PRESS CREDENTIALS. REQUEST WAS DENIED. NO OFFICIAL REASON GIVEN.

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WBRC SOLD TO GREAT AMERICAN — LOCAL MEDIA CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES

MARCH 1987

TAFT RADIO AND TELEVISION HAS SOLD WBRC CHANNEL 6 TO GREAT AMERICAN RADIO AND TV CORPORATION. WTTO ALSO CHANGED HANDS THIS YEAR. WXPO REMAINS THE ONLY INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED NEWS STATION IN THE BIRMINGHAM MARKET. OWNERSHIP OF WXPO HAS NOT CHANGED — AND WILL NOT. — STATION MANAGEMENT

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BILL ELLIOTT SETS 212 MPH RECORD AT TALLADEGA

APRIL 30, 1987

DRIVER BILL ELLIOTT SET A WORLD QUALIFYING RECORD OF 212.809 MPH AT TALLADEGA SUPERSPEEDWAY, THE FASTEST RECORDED TIME IN NASCAR HISTORY. WXPO SPORTS COVERED THE EVENT LIVE FROM THE INFIELD. REPORTER WENDY BLOWZ CALLED IT "A SOUND YOU FEEL IN YOUR CHEST FOR THREE DAYS AFTER."

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ANONYMOUS GROUP ACQUIRES WXPO BROADCAST LICENSE

SEPTEMBER 1987 — INTERNAL

WXPO CABLEVISION LLC HAS CONFIRMED A CHANGE IN MAJORITY OWNERSHIP. THE ACQUIRING PARTY IS DESCRIBED IN FCC FILINGS AS A PRIVATE INVESTMENT GROUP. NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED. EXISTING STAFF HAVE BEEN RETAINED. STATION OPERATIONS ARE UNCHANGED. WXPO EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE REMAINS ABSOLUTE. — STATION MANAGEMENT

★ WXPO WEATHER SERVICE — BIRMINGHAM METRO ★

CURRENT CONDITIONS — RED MOUNTAIN OBSERVATION POST

TEMP: 67°F / 19°C
HUMIDITY: 71%
WIND: SSW AT 8 MPH
BAROMETER: 30.02 FALLING
VISIBILITY: 12 MILES

TOWER INSTRUMENTS: NOMINAL
CARRIER MONITOR: 13.703909 HZ — ANOMALOUS

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7-DAY OUTLOOK — GREATER BIRMINGHAM

MON: PARTLY CLOUDY — HIGH 71°
TUE: CHANCE OF STORMS — HIGH 68°
WED: CLEARING — HIGH 74°
THU: SUNNY — HIGH 78°
FRI: INCREASING CLOUDS — HIGH 72°
SAT: THUNDERSTORMS — HIGH 66° ⚠
SUN: [DATA PENDING — TOWER INTERFERENCE]

WXPO METEOROLOGIST: STORMY CUMMINS

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⚠ WEATHER NOTE FROM STORMY CUMMINS

THE SATURDAY STORM SYSTEM HAS AN UNUSUAL ATMOSPHERIC SIGNATURE. BAROMETRIC PRESSURE DROPPED .14 INCHES IN 47 MINUTES TUESDAY NIGHT. TOWER SENSORS RECORDED AN EM PULSE IMMEDIATELY PRIOR. THIS PATTERN HAS APPEARED TWICE BEFORE IN 1987. I HAVE ASKED ENGINEERING TO PRESERVE THE SENSOR LOGS. — S. CUMMINS, METEOROLOGIST/REPORTER

★ WXPO NEWS 6/7 — STAFF DIRECTORY ★

STORMY CUMMINS

METEOROLOGIST / GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER

STORMY CUMMINS JOINED WXPO IN SEPTEMBER 1987 FOLLOWING A BRIEF STINT IN PAGEANTRY AND A JOURNALISM DEGREE FROM BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE. SHE COVERS WEATHER, HUMAN INTEREST, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

CUMMINS HAS DRAWN ATTENTION FOR HER UNUSUALLY DETAILED WEATHER ANALYSIS AND HER WILLINGNESS TO FOLLOW A STORY WHEREVER IT LEADS — INCLUDING, ON TWO OCCASIONS, INTO RESTRICTED TOWER ACCESS AREAS.

MANAGEMENT HAS BEEN INFORMED. MANAGEMENT HAS CHOSEN NOT TO ACT.

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WENDY BLOWZ

SENIOR ANCHOR / TRAFFIC & GENERAL ASSIGNMENT

WENDY BLOWZ HAS ANCHORED THE WXPO EVENING NEWS SINCE 1982 AND IS WIDELY REGARDED AS THE FACE OF WXPO NEWS 6/7. A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA (BROADCAST JOURNALISM, 1979), SHE BRINGS PRECISION, POLISH, AND AUTHORITY TO EVERY BROADCAST.

BLOWZ COVERS TRAFFIC, CITY HALL, AND BREAKING NEWS. SHE IS THE MOST-RECOGNIZED LOCAL TELEVISION PERSONALITY IN THE BIRMINGHAM MARKET ACCORDING TO THE 1986 BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD READER POLL.

SHE HAS RECEIVED FOUR ALABAMA BROADCASTER AWARDS. SHE IS NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT HER COMPETITOR.

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ADDITIONAL STAFF

ROY HUCKABEE ........ SPORTS ANCHOR
DARLENE FITCH ........ PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
EDGAR POHL .......... CHIEF ENGINEER
[NAME WITHHELD] ..... STATION MANAGER (CONTRACT STAFF)

★ ABOUT WXPO — RED MOUNTAIN, BIRMINGHAM ★

STATION HISTORY

WXPO CHANNEL 6/7 HAS BROADCAST FROM ITS TOWER ATOP RED MOUNTAIN SINCE MARCH 1961, MAKING IT ONE OF THE LONGEST-OPERATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION STATIONS IN THE SOUTHEAST.

THE STATION WAS FOUNDED BY A PRIVATE INVESTMENT GROUP WHOSE MEMBERS HAVE NEVER BEEN PUBLICLY IDENTIFIED. FCC LICENSE RECORDS DESCRIBE THE OWNERSHIP ENTITY AS "WXPO CABLEVISION LLC" WITH REGISTERED OFFICES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA.

IN ITS 26 YEARS ON AIR, WXPO HAS NEVER ACCEPTED A NETWORK AFFILIATION. ITS EDITORIAL POLICIES HAVE NEVER BEEN SUBJECT TO OUTSIDE REVIEW. IT HAS RESISTED EVERY ACQUISITION OFFER.

THE TOWER ITSELF PRE-DATES THE STATION BY SEVERAL YEARS. ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE IS NOT DOCUMENTED IN AVAILABLE RECORDS.

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⚠ FCC LICENSE STATUS — CURRENT

LICENSE: ACTIVE — RENEWAL PENDING (DUE 1990)
POWER OUTPUT: 100KW (VHF) / 316KW (UHF)
TOWER HEIGHT: 1,640 FT ASL
CONTOUR: COVERS 14-COUNTY AREA
VIOLATIONS ON FILE: NONE

NOTE: FCC INQUIRY FILED RE: UHF CARRIER ANOMALY (SEP 1987). STATION RESPONSE SUBMITTED. MATTER PENDING.

★ WXPO ENGINEERING LOG — RESTRICTED ★

⚠ THIS PAGE IS INTENDED FOR INTERNAL STATION USE ONLY.
EQUIPMENT STATUS AND ANOMALY LOGS ARE DOCUMENTED HERE.
PUBLIC ACCESS IS PERMITTED UNDER WXPO TRANSPARENCY POLICY.

ANOMALY LOG — TOWER ARRAY — 1987

APR 03 — 03:17 — CARRIER DETECTED: 13.703909 HZ
SOURCE: UNKNOWN. NOT MATCHING ANY LICENSED FREQ.
DURATION: 4 MIN 47 SEC. THEN GONE.

JUL 22 — 22:14 — SECOND DETECTION. SAME CARRIER. SAME DURATION.
EQUIPMENT CHECKED — ALL NOMINAL.
POHL NOTE: "IT IS NOT US."

SEP 30 — 03:17 — THIRD DETECTION. SIGNAL STRONGER.
INSTRUMENTS CLOCKED AT 13.703909 HZ FOR 9+ MIN.
TOWER LIGHTS CYCLED WITHOUT COMMAND.
POHL FILED INCIDENT REPORT WITH FCC.

DEC 31 — 23:47 — DETECTION. CONTINUOUS UNTIL 00:00.
NEW YEAR'S EVE. ALL STAFF PRESENT FOR BROADCAST.
THREE ENGINEERS REPORT HEARING A TONE.
AUDIO EQUIPMENT SHOWS NO RECORDING OF SAME.

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ENGINEER NOTE — E. POHL — DEC 31 1987

"I HAVE BEEN AN ENGINEER FOR 31 YEARS. I HAVE NEVER ENCOUNTERED A CARRIER AT THIS FREQUENCY BEFORE. IT DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY PUBLISHED FREQUENCY ALLOCATION TABLE. I ASKED THE FCC. THEY ASKED ME NOT TO SUBMIT FURTHER INQUIRIES ON THIS MATTER. I HAVE SUBMITTED THREE MORE."

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TICKER DATA ARCHIVE — FOR SYSTEM USE

ALL TICKER TRANSMISSIONS ARE LOGGED HERE FOR COMPLIANCE. ENCODED STRINGS ARE STANDARD CABLE INFORMATION SERVICE FORMAT.

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⚠ WXPO 6/7 — FINAL BROADCAST: NOVEMBER 14, 1999 — THIS SITE IS ARCHIVED ⚠

WXPO BROADCAST LICENSE ACQUIRED BY VRIL COMMUNICATIONS CORP. | ALL PROGRAMMING HAS CEASED.

LAST UPDATED: NOVEMBER 13, 1999 — 11:58 PM CST ★ STORMY'S INVESTIGATIONS — NOW ARCHIVED ★

BREAKING VRIL COMMUNICATIONS ACQUISITION OF WXPO BROADCAST LICENSE CONFIRMED — NOV. 13, 1999

TOP STORIES

VRIL COMMUNICATIONS ACQUIRES WXPO — FINAL BROADCAST NOV. 14

By WXPO Staff | November 13, 1999

After 38 years of independent operation, WXPO Channel 6/7 will broadcast for the last time tomorrow evening. Vril Communications Corporation completed its acquisition of the WXPO broadcast license at 4:47 p.m. Wednesday. The anonymous private ownership group that has held the license since 1987 declined to comment. All staff have been notified. No positions will transfer to the new ownership. [Read more]

CUMMINS: "THEY NEEDED THE FREQUENCY MORE THAN THE STATION"

By Stormy Cummins | November 13, 1999

In what will be her final report for WXPO, investigative reporter Stormy Cummins connects the Vril acquisition to a pattern of media consolidation she has documented over the past two years. "This was never about the station," she writes. "It was about what the tower on Red Mountain has been broadcasting." [READ FULL INVESTIGATION]

F5 TORNADO — OAK GROVE — ONE YEAR LATER

By Roy Huckabee | April 8, 1999

One year after the F5 tornado killed 32 people in Oak Grove, Rock Creek, and McDonald Chapel, communities continue to rebuild. WXPO covered the disaster live from the field. Our coverage archive remains available. The storms produced the strongest electromagnetic readings ever recorded by the WXPO Red Mountain sensor array — readings that, according to our engineering staff, "should not have been possible given the equipment in use."

UNEXPLAINED BOOMS CONTINUE OVER MOUNTAIN BROOK

By Stormy Cummins | September 1999

WXPO 1998 broadcast on unexplained booms

Residents in Mountain Brook, Forest Park, and surrounding areas report a series of double-boom events with no confirmed source. Jefferson County EMA has received multiple reports. National Weather Service ruled out earthquakes. Cummins' investigation has identified a correlation between boom events and power fluctuations at the WXPO tower array. FCC has asked her to stop filing requests.

SLOSS FURNACES LAUNCHES HALLOWEEN HAUNT — PARANORMAL REPORTS PRECEDE EVENT

October 1998

Sloss Furnaces will open its first annual "Fright Furnace" haunted attraction this October, capitalizing on decades of documented paranormal reports at the landmark Birmingham ironworks. Birmingham Police records include more than 100 incident reports of unexplained activity at the site — steam whistles operating without pressure, workers reporting physical contact from unseen entities, and in 1947, three supervisors found locked unconscious in the boiler room. WXPO previously covered the Sloss incidents in 1994 and 1996. Both segments were pulled before broadcast.

★ STORMY CUMMINS — INVESTIGATIONS ARCHIVE ★

WHO OWNS THE FREQUENCIES OVER RED MOUNTAIN?

By Stormy Cummins | August 1999

Since 1987, WXPO engineering has logged repeated detections of an unlicensed carrier frequency at 13.703909 Hz — a frequency that does not appear in any FCC allocation table. The signal appears regularly at specific intervals, notably at 3:17 a.m. and 10:47 p.m. The FCC has declined three separate FOIA requests from this reporter regarding the frequency's origin. Vril Communications' recent infrastructure filings list "Red Mountain frequency rights" as an acquired asset — before the WXPO purchase was announced.

STATUS: PULLED BEFORE BROADCAST — REASON: "LEGAL REVIEW"

THE APRIL 8 READINGS — WHAT DID THE TOWER SEE?

By Stormy Cummins | June 1998

On the night of the Oak Grove F5 tornado, WXPO tower sensors recorded electromagnetic readings that chief engineer Edgar Pohl described as "outside the range of our instruments' ability to measure." The readings preceded the tornado touchdown by 11 minutes. Pohl has preserved the sensor data. Cummins has a copy. Three engineers have independently confirmed the anomaly.

STATUS: AIRED — FCC CITATION ISSUED THREE DAYS LATER

MEDIA CONSOLIDATION IN ALABAMA: THE VRIL PATTERN

By Stormy Cummins | October 1999

In the past 24 months, Vril Communications Corporation has acquired broadcast licenses or controlling interests in 14 Alabama media properties. In every case, the acquisition followed an FCC investigation of the target station. In every case, editorial direction changed within 60 days of acquisition. WXPO is next.

STATUS: FINAL REPORT — FILED AND SEALED — NOV. 13 1999

SLOSS FURNACES: WHAT THE ENGINEERS REALLY FOUND — 1994

By Stormy Cummins | ARCHIVED — NEVER BROADCAST

Stormy Cummins reporting from Sloss Furnaces

In autumn 1994, WXPO sent a two-person crew to Sloss Furnaces to investigate a new wave of paranormal incident reports. The crew returned with audio recordings that engineering staff refused to label or log. The segment was pulled by station management before a cut was completed. The audio recording has not been found. Cummins has filed three internal requests for its location. She has received no response.

THE SEPTEMBER BUYOUT — WHO SIGNED THE CHECK?

By Stormy Cummins | March 1988

In her sixth month at WXPO, 24-year-old reporter Stormy Cummins filed a routine follow-up on the station's September 1987 ownership transfer. FCC records list the new owner as Crescent Media Partners — no listed officers, no public phone number, and a registered address that is a P.O. box in Wilmington, Delaware. Existing staff were retained "at the new owner's request," though no one at WXPO has ever met anyone from Crescent Media. Cummins placed three calls to the Delaware number. None were returned.

STATUS: STORY KILLED — MANAGEMENT CITED "INSUFFICIENT SOURCING"

WXPO NEWS 6/7 — BIRMINGHAM

Y2K COUNTDOWN — BIRMINGHAM PREPARES

November 1999

Jefferson County Emergency Management is urging residents to stock water and non-perishables ahead of the January 1 millennium rollover. WXPO will broadcast live coverage through midnight — our final broadcast before the Vril Communications handover takes effect.

CITY STAGES CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY

June 1999

The beloved downtown Birmingham music and arts festival marked its 10th year this summer. WXPO has been a media partner since the first event in 1989. This year's event drew an estimated 220,000 attendees over three days in Linn Park.

THREE MORE ADVERTISERS PULL FROM WXPO — CITING "EDITORIAL CONCERNS"

September 1999

Three regional advertisers have terminated contracts with WXPO, citing concerns about the station's editorial direction. All three made contact with Vril Communications in the same week. Coincidence has not been confirmed.

WXPO WEATHER — STORMY CUMMINS

CURRENT CONDITIONS — BIRMINGHAM METRO

            Temperature: 52°F / 11°C

            Humidity: 68%

            Wind: NNW at 12 MPH

            Barometer: 30.11 and rising

            Red Mountain Tower Instruments: ANOMALOUS

            Carrier Reading: 13.703909 Hz

            MOON-G6Y6-GCU3

STORMY'S NOTE — NOVEMBER 1999

Stormy Cummins, Meteorologist

The 13.703909 Hz carrier signal has been active continuously for 72 hours as of this writing. In 12 years of monitoring, it has never sustained this long. I don't know what that means. I think it means something is about to happen.

I will be at my post tomorrow night for the final broadcast. If you're reading this after we go dark — you know how to find the signal. It doesn't stop just because we do.

— S. Cummins

WXPO STAFF — BIRMINGHAM'S OWN

Stormy Cummins

METEOROLOGIST / INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER

Stormy Cummins joined WXPO in 1987 after a brief career in competitive pageantry and a journalism degree from Birmingham-Southern College. What began as a weather desk assignment evolved into one of the most consequential investigative careers in Alabama broadcasting — though "consequential" here means three FCC citations, seven pulled segments, and eleven advertiser exits.

Cummins is known for her willingness to follow a story past the point where a reasonable person would stop. She is also known for the weather reports, which are extremely good, and occasionally alarming. She has been the subject of editorial review on four occasions. She has not changed.

Filing her final report for WXPO tomorrow. Nov. 14, 1999.

Wendy Blowz

SENIOR ANCHOR — EVENING NEWS

Wendy Blowz has anchored the WXPO Evening News since 1982 and is the most recognized face in Birmingham television. A graduate of the University of Alabama (Broadcast Journalism, 1979), she brings precision, authority, and a finely-tuned instinct for when a segment is about to go off-script.

Four Alabama Broadcaster Awards. Two Edward R. Murrow nominations. One formal HR filing she will not discuss. Her relationship with her colleague Stormy Cummins is best described as "professionally adversarial in a way that has been extremely good for ratings."

Wendy will not be joining Vril Communications after the acquisition. This was her decision.

Buck Tanner

SPORTS DIRECTOR

Buck Tanner has called WXPO sports since 1978, which means he has personally narrated more Friday night high school football than several small countries have had wars. He played one season of junior college ball at a school that no longer exists, a fact he brings up during nearly every broadcast.

Tanner has correctly called the final score of the Iron Bowl — both teams, exact margin — every year since 1987. He attributes this to "just having a feel for it." Station management has stopped asking. The sportsbook in Gulf Shores has not.

Off-air, Tanner coaches Pee Wee football, runs the church softball league, and owns four different blazers, all the same blazer.

Edgar Pohl

CHIEF ENGINEER — RED MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS

31-year broadcasting veteran. Has maintained the WXPO tower array since 1972. Filed 47 FCC anomaly reports. Received 0 responses. Retiring when the lights go out tomorrow. Has preserved all equipment logs. Will not say where.

ABOUT WXPO — 38 YEARS ON RED MOUNTAIN

STATION HISTORY: 1961 – 1999

WXPO Channel 6/7 signed on March 3, 1961, broadcasting from a tower atop Red Mountain that had stood, for purposes unknown, since the late 1950s. The founding ownership group — listed in FCC records only as "WXPO Cablevision LLC" — has never publicly identified itself.

In 38 years of operation, WXPO has declined every network affiliation offer, resisted 11 acquisition approaches, survived three FCC investigations, and remained the only independently owned and operated news station in Central Alabama.

In September 1987, majority ownership was transferred to a new private investment group. The previous owners signed a nondisclosure agreement. The new owners have never been identified by name. Their instructions to station management, delivered through a law firm in Jefferson County, have been consistent: "Keep the tower running. Don't change the frequency. Don't sell."

The last instruction held until November 1999, when the license was acquired by Vril Communications Corporation for an undisclosed sum. The anonymous ownership group's representatives did not respond to media inquiries. The law firm closed the week after the sale completed.

FINAL STATEMENT — WXPO STATION MANAGEMENT

November 13, 1999

"WXPO has served Birmingham for 38 years. We have told the truth as best we could, and when we couldn't air it, we kept it. The equipment on this tower is old. The frequency is real. The signal doesn't need us to keep going. It was going before we got here. We expect it will continue." MOON-8HGR-D4RE

CONTACT WXPO

WXPO News 6/7
Red Mountain Broadcast Tower
Birmingham, Alabama 35209

Main Line: (205) 555-0160
Newsroom: (205) 555-0161
Stormy Cummins Direct: (205) 555-0167
Engineering: (205) 555-0169

Note: As of November 14, 1999, all WXPO phone lines will be transferred to Vril Communications. Messages left after that date will not be received by current staff.