[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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