[BC] Re: WTMJ Correction

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/22/05 9:31:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

WTMJ is  just up the road from our 1130.... we have the filters to prove 
it  ;-)

WTMJ doesnt run sectionalized.  They have 4 towers that are 90  degrees, 
and two they add at night that are about 70 degrees.

We  are certainly in tower land.... WTMJ with six and ours with nine.

Kent  Winrich
Clear Channel Milwaukee



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Kent:
 
I stand corrected,  I thought it was WTMJ.  I know I did a remote  for a 
station in that area that had a taller tower for daytime and it was  sectionalized 
during the DA operation.  The reason I remember the  incident,  as the remote 
engineer,  the station would call at pattern  change time because we had to 
have the announcer pause for the pattern  change.  After the third night of 
this (which I guessed was standard  procedure) I asked why they took 4 seconds to 
change pattern?
 
The man on duty explained that they had a contactor located on the tower to  
change its electrical height during pattern change and they wanted to be 
certain  that it changed properly because if it burned something, someone had to  
climb the tower to check or repair the switch.  My feeble brain recalls  this 
from over 30 years ago when I was doing a Texas Rangers - Brewers  game.  Bob 
Yuker was doing color.
 
Hey Jerry Clabundy was once chief at WRIT with the nine towers,, long time  
ago.
 
Thanks
 
Dave