[BC] WPAT

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Original Message:
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From: Mark Humphrey mark3xy at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:37:58 -0400
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
Subject: Re: [BC] WPAT


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
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WRVR on 106.7 was also on the Alford antenna.WRVR later became WKHK then
WLTW during format changes. As Asst CE I remember the combiners where up
near the top 2 floors of Empire just below 102. WBAI and WBLS transmitter
rooms where neighbors on the 81st floor.

As far as WVNJ-FM, the original 100.3 transmitter was in West Orange near
the top of that hill just south of I-280. Near the corner of Prospect Ave
and Rt 10. The main studio & AM site in Livingston, NJ had a backup FM on
the middle AM tower which was about 500 ft while the 2 AM towers each side
of that where about 300 ft. That became todays's Z-100 WHTZ and the FM tx
moved to Empire also. 

Several FM and TV stations maintain backup sites at West Orange. WFME and
WFMU also transmit from there.

George Kowal  CBNT

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