[BC] "24" At the tansmitter site

Craig Bowman craig1
Tue Mar 20 14:59:00 CDT 2007


Don't do it!

Craig Bowman
Durand, MI

Kevin Trueblood wrote:
> I thought that looked like an AM site!  The fiancee wouldn't let me 
> rewind the DVR to verify, and I was going to check it out again when I 
> got home tonight.  That's awesome!
>
> Kevin Trueblood
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> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:11:31 -0700
> From: PeterH5322 <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com>
> Subject: Re: [BC] "24" At the tansmitter site
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>> Had 50000 WATT STATION on the front of the building
>
> KMPC/710 ... easy to photograph as it is in Van Nuys, not far from all
> the studios.
>
> That was one of the original RCA BTA-50F installations, and it had a 10
> kW RCA next to to 50F.
>
> I presume a Nautel or equal has long since replaced the 50F.
>
> 'PC was still running the 50 days and the 10 nights, when I last visited
> that site in 1964, and the 50F was still running ... and running ... and
> running.
>
> It was an all-new installation in 1947, having moved from Beverly Hills,
> and 5 kW, to LA and 50/10 kW.
>
> 'PC is one of only two Class Bs in the US which are protected by a
> co-channel Class A, KIRO, in this case. (The other is 1510 in Boston,
> being protected by WLAC).
>
> According to my family's oral history, my maternal uncle E.J. Krause
> owned the station until it was purchased by the Richards group (WJR, et
> al).
>
> 'PC was KEJK before it was KMPC ... "The Station of the Stars".
>
> The "stars" you noticed on the building probably were part of the "The
> Station of the Stars" logo.
>
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