FCC Takes New Stand On Station
The Miami Herald
Nov. 2,  1956

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has decided to permit the new owners of radio station WMFJ Daytona Beach Fla to continue its operation pending commission action on a protest which followed sale of the station in the summer of 1955. The decision announced Thursday reversed and canceled a previous commission order directing return of the station to the former owner W. Wright Esch pending consideration of the protest. Thursday was the deadline for the proposed return. The commission in June 1953 without a hearing authorized Esch to sell the station to a newly formed company WMFJ Inc. headed by Harold Kaya of New York City. Theodore Granik and William H Cook protested the sale contending they had a prior option to buy the station from Esch. The commission dismissed the protest but Granik and Cook obtained a federal court order here requiring the commission to consider their protest. Granik and Cook also took the matter into Florida state courts and the Volusia County Circuit Court recently held there was no contract under which Esch was required to sell WMFJ to Granik and Cook This decision has been appealed In canceling its order for return of the station to Esch the commission upheld. WMFJ's contentions that the public interest would suffer. The new owners set forth that programming would be adversely affected and "innocent third parties” such as employees and advertisers would be inconvenienced.

1961-The Federal Communications Commission granted increase daytime power from 250 watts to 1 kilowatt.

Dick Y. Clark-1957-1962-Mornings/Program Director/1958-General Manager/Program Director/1959-General Manager/ 1961-Station Manager/Program Director/1964-Commercial Manager-WMFJ, Inc./1966-Station Manager/Mornings-Daytona Broadcasting, Inc./1972-General Manager-Walter-Weeks Broadcasting Company

Bob Bacon-1964-Mornings-WMFJ, Inc.