[BC] Re: WLW

[James Somich]

Check this out
http://www.bayarearadio.org/schneider/belmont.shtml
According to this site, GE built the 50KW transmitter for KNBC in 1932 and
NBC disguised it as an RCA.

On 12/29/06, Xmitters at aol.com <Xmitters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/29/06 11:36:46 AM Central Standard Time,
> broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:
>
> << Stanley
>
> No Doubt that GE was an old company, but electrical equipment, switch
> gear.
> transformers and appliances were the main business other
> than  Broadcast.  I
> would like to hear of some early GE transmitter dates.   My recollection
> that
> either General Electric or Westinghouse  built the AC  distribution &
> control
> panel for the RCA  BTA-5D transmitter I  had.
>
> Dave >>
>
> Stanley
>
> You need to call Dan Churchill at Commercial Radio in Cavendish, Vermont.
> He
> knows a lot of the RCA history, RCA and Westinghouse relationships early
> in
> the broadcasting business, etc. Dan is a wealth of historical information.
> At
> one time, Westinghouse built transmitters for RCA to sell, above a
> particular
> power level. I don't remember the dates or the power levels. Dan would
> know :-)
>
>
> Jeff Glass
> Northern Illinois University
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