[BC] Any manned transmitter sites left?

[Brent Hall]

The KSL-TV transmitter site is manned 24/7 mainly because most of the FM
stations in town are located in the same building. The site is accessible by
helicopter only in the winter, and the stations all split the cost. The
transmitter site orginally had it's own tram, but was condemned several years
ago as being unsafe. All the TV stations in town pooled together, and built a
separate building for HDTV.
-Brent

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  For years the FCC required a licensed operator on duty at a transmitter
whenever it was on the air.  For stations with remote located transmitters
this meant maintaining a full staff of engineers at the transmitter site.
Over the years this requirement was eased and finally eliminated all
together, but as late the 1970s many large stations still maintained fully
staffed transmitter sites even after remote control was permitted.

Today things have changed dramatically and instead of having a staff of
engineers to maintain a transmitter you are more likely to find one lone
engineer charged with maintaining several different transmitter sites.

I'm curious if there are any stations today that still have manned
transmitter sites or is this truly a relic of a bygone era?

  - Nat Kayle
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