[BC] Re: WTMJ Correction

[Mike McCarthy]

It WAS WTMJ...but when they were at their old site in Brookfield.  The 
built their current site in the early 90's.  The sectionalized tower now 
stands at a FM as their FM tower with pieces of the top section scattered 
about doing duty as STL TX towers.

I know....I supervised the disassembly of the sectionalized tower in August 
of 1996.

MM

At 01:51 PM 7/23/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>
>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
>
>
>
>***************************************
>
>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
>
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