[BC] Negativity

[Andy Soule]

In my travels I have found that every group has its palaces and shantys. 
The situation seems to relate directly to the local market managment.

As to CC, They had a couple of bad things going on here, and I reported them 
to Mike Gideon (it wasn't in his region) and they were corrected.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid at wrko.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Negativity


>>>I did do my homework and I do know what I am saying. Do you see the
> tree growing at the base of a tower at Clear Channel's WKOX?
> http://gallery.bostonradio.org/miscellany/100-01124-med.html I wonder
> it this was included in their pattern calculations. Here is another
> view of the all too typical Clear Channel transmitter site.
> http://gallery.bostonradio.org/miscellany/100-01122-med.html Just
> like I said, just satellite dishes and weeds. Note that tree is
> between the towers!<<
>
> I was one of the engineers that built the WKOX site, and two utterly
> deceptive photos don't prove a damn thing.  The first was taken with an
> extremely long lens (the photographer had to have used a tripod,
> otherwise zooming in at that distance would have blurred the photo); in
> reality that tree is nowhere near the fence or the tower base.  The
> second photo shows some trees and shrubs, but again, they're nowhere
> near the tower bases.  (And as for the boom-box trailer that shows in
> the second photo, that was not originally WJLT's, as another photo in
> the series claims.  It was originally purchased and outfitted for WKOX
> and the old WVBF.  I know.  I and another engineer were working there
> when it was purchased, and we installed all the equipment in it.)
>
> Finally:  Before you come into a publicly accessible forum and accuse an
> entire company of shoddy engineering practices, you need to show us some
> proof.  Two photos of one site doesn't cut it.  I know a few CC
> engineers, and have seen their transmitter sites.  Those sites do not
> fit the description of "dishes and weeds," not by a long shot.  As far
> as I'm concerned, this is yet another unwarranted slam against CC, right
> up there with the Minot EAS story and the Dixie Chicks boycott.  Prove
> me wrong.
>
>
>
> Sid Schweiger
> IT Manager, Entercom New England
> WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WKAF
> WMKK - WRKO - WVEI AM/FM
> 20 Guest St / 3d Floor
> Boston MA  02135-2040
> Phone: 617-779-5369
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> E-Mail: sid at wrko.com
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