BESCO: From the Beginning

From 1973 through 1976 R. E. Witkovski opened BESCO’s Caribbean operation, living in Aguadillo, Puerto Rico and rebuilding 36 AM and FM in Puerto Rico including Culebra and Vieacus Islands, all of the Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

BESCO maintained a 3000 sq. ft. warehouse at the old Ramey Air Force Base where Flemming International Air Freight Lines operated daily flights to Miami, Dallas and St. Louis, providing us with convenient transportation to and from the Caribbean at modest prices, without going through San Juan’s overly congested port of entry. We helped develop Western Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Ponce and Arecibo into a useful alternative.

Our main sales office was at WNEL in Caguas, just down the Autopista, twenty minutes from San Juan.

“It’s hard to believe but with over 100 stations in Puerto Rico I drove over 20,000 miles a year, 3 years in a row,” says Witkovski.

BESCO, over the years, has screened and qualified engineers so we now are capable of entire installations of AM-FM short wave. You can see, as supplier of Trans-reps of over 235 manufacturers and totally guaranteed installation, we are unique in the “most experienced” of Broadcast Groups but also are a real friend to the “first time” owner with little or no experience.

R.E. Witkovski, over the last 35 years has built – from the ground up – and fully operated several groups of radio stations and one TV station, and currently owns 12 full AM/FM. Over the last 12 years Witkovski has re-located major upgrades to the #5 radio market in America – the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. We are now on the final build-out of two high power 100,000 watt FM stations located in the highest growth area of north Texas, both on an existing 2034-foot candelabra tower.

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For 5 years in the 80’s Witkovski published “I.D.,” an information dissemination magazine which was a monthly publication delivered to 12,000-plus broadcasters in the USA, 700 in Canada and 370 in Mexico and Central America.

 “Our main goal was to have a quality communication link between broadcasters in North and South America and a way to buy, sell and trade equipment among themselves.”

Also, I.D. was able to help 63 advertisers to reach what was then an untouched market – since this was before the Internet. Since its beginning BESCO has had a reputation for taking on and completing difficult and unusual challenges.

The most successful pirate ship, Radio Carolina, was built not once but twice over a 20 year span for European entrepreneurs Peter Murtha and Ronan O’Reilly

BESCO supplied all equipment for such world famous Christian broadcasters as

§        High Adventure Ministries

§        Far East Broadcasting

§        Dr. Gene Scott’s stations throughout Asia, Philippines and the Caribbean.

§        1 million watt “ShortWave Live” from Denton County, Texas serving the world with positive programming.

§        Mr. Witkovski was also appointed receiver of AM 540 south of Dallas in Ennis, Texas where he took over its operation for 18 months at the directive of a district judge in Waxahaxie, Texas. Under Witkovski’s guidance and operation AM 540 paid all of its creditors, “100% cents-on-the-dollar” but also had a cash surplus of $282,000 once he sold the daytime AM with a good signal up into Oklahoma.

Witkovski says “My operational skills are limited and it certainly is not what I do best” but his affiliation for many years with media giants such as Gordon McLendon, Todd Storz (a fellow Nebraskan), Don Burden, Bill Armstrong and others has given him the understanding to surround himself with the correct people, best suited for each task.

“You can see that, since 1957, broadcasting is all I’ve done. And now, at 66 years old, my interests have widened and BESCO will remain ‘a first class operation’ with the continued efforts of my stepson of 42 years, Rob Malany and son Rich. This is a family business built upon honesty, integrity and innovation.”

·        If you are upgrading we welcome the opportunity to offer you TOP DOLLAR for your unneeded transmitter, “where-is, as-is!” And we pay all shipping.

·        Remember to ask about our Profit Sharing Trade In Plan.

Dallas:       972-931-6055 (Home Office)
Florida:            321-960-4001 (Rob - Office)
Tyler, Texas:            903-521-8354 (Rich – Lab and Warehouse)
Email:                        robmalany@comcast.net

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