{"id":10466,"date":"2011-10-06T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2011-10-06T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:37:24","slug":"goal-is-to-revive-original-wtmp-in-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10466","title":{"rendered":"Goal Is To Revive Original WTMP In 30 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY TAMECA JOHNSON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Freelance Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>30 days. That\u2019s the goal set by those working to return R&amp;B and community talk show programming to the Tampa area.\u00a0 The group overseeing the mission is hustling around the clock to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Organization of Black Affairs has spent the past month facilitating talks with potential investors to revive R&amp;B, Classic Soul and community informational programming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to wrap up in a 30 day window, if it is going to be done,\u201d says <strong>James Ransom<\/strong>, spokesperson for TOBA.<\/p>\n<p>WTMP was the area\u2019s R&amp;B leader for 57 years.\u00a0 Original programming was abruptly brought to a stop five weeks ago when Davidson Media Group took over the lease of the station, along with the call letters, website, FM 96.1 and AM 1150 dials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ransom<\/strong> says it appears the quickest and least expensive way to get a format similar to the original WTMP back on the air is to enter into a Lease Management Agreement on another AM dial.\u00a0 According to<strong> Ransom<\/strong>, \u201cIt literally takes seven to 10 days to get back on the air once everything is in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, TOBA is still receiving letters of interest from potential investors.\u00a0 Those letters should be mail to: TOBA \u2013 Economic Development Committee, P. O. Box 3485, Tampa, Florida 33601.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY TAMECA JOHNSON Freelance Writer 30 days. That\u2019s the goal set by those working to return R&amp;B and community talk show programming to the Tampa area.\u00a0 The group overseeing the mission is hustling around the clock to make it happen. The Tampa Organization of Black Affairs has spent the past month facilitating talks with potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}