[BC] WPAT

Peter peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com
Tue Apr 1 22:32:10 CDT 2008


On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Scott Fybush wrote:
>
>> The FM transmitter must've been on Empire before then, during Bob  
>> Orban's time. It was atop the Chrysler Building when I was there  
>> and Chief Engineer Kenny Stout later moved it to the World Trade  
>> Center where it remained until 9/11/01 when the "big bad wolf"  
>> blew down our house.
>
> I think (and it pains me to say it!) that Bob might have been  
> mistaken about WPAT being on Empire. I'm pretty sure the FM went  
> from the AM towers in Clifton (where it was originally on 103.5 way  
> back when, then taken silent, then revived on 93.1 in 1957), then  
> up into the Passaic Hills somewhere (I may be confusing this one  
> with WVNJ-FM), then Chrysler, then WTC, and only came to Empire  
> after 9/11.

Anyone remember the original occupants of "Alford", the shared FM  
antenna at Empire?




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