[BC] WPAT

[Mark Humphrey]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Peter <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com> wrote:

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

The July 67 IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting has a detailed article
about this antenna, which mentions that nine stations were using it by
January 67, including WHOM-FM (92.3), WQXR (96.3), WOR-FM (98.7),
WPIX-FM (101.9), and WLIB-FM (107.5) -- but there's not a complete
list. I would guess the other early users were WNYC-FM (93.9), WEVD-FM
(97.9), WBAI (99.5), 104.3 (WNCN), and WRFM (105.1).

WPIX left Empire in the early '70s for WTC, then realized this wasn't
such a good idea (due to intermod interference and building
penetration problems in midtown) and came back.

Mark