[BC] Re: HD Receiver

[ACN]

Glen, KOMO in Seattle literally gave their FM license back to the FCC.

The tower holding the FM antenna, was constructed in their parking 
lot at 4th North and Denny in the heart of downtown Seattle.

The story, told at one of our Pioneer Broadcasters meetings in 
Seattle, is that the manager came back from lunch one day and was 
having a problem finding a parking place.   He asked what that tower 
was in our parking lot and was told that was for our FM.    To which 
he responded that no one listens to that, get it out of here.

I have to assume it is a true story.  He was married to one of the 
daughters of the founding, Fisher Family.

Tom
www.radiotvhistory.org

----- Original Message ----- From: Glen Kippel
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:11 PM


"Elevator music"?  Perhaps.  Most of early FM was classical music for the
hi-fi aficionados with their McIntosh, Marantz, or if they couldn't afford
that, then Fisher or Scott setups with Acoustic Reasearch AR-2's or maybe
Klipsch speakers.  Or, as you say, background music for stores.  One boss of
mine thought "FM" was short for "fine music." (!)  And one station I worked
for, a not-for-profit Christian station, bought their FM license for $1 in
1969 because the owner of the license (and operator of an AM) thought FM
would never amount to anything.