[BC] Longest license on same frequency

[Fred Gleason]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 08:27:09 pm Bill Harms wrote:
> Does anyone know if there are any stations and license successors in the
> USA which have stayed on the same frequency longer than KHQ, KLSN, KAQQ,
> etc has on 590? According to the FRC records, KHQ changed to 590 on 11
> November 1928 and its license successors has stay there since.

IIRC, WMCA New York has been on 570 kHz with the same call letters 
continuously since 1922 or thereabouts.  They started with a longwire antenna 
on top of the McAlipin Hotel in mid-town Manhattan (hence the call letters), 
then moved to a two tower end-fire array in Queens at 1 kW.  They moved to 
their current site in the New Jersey Meadowlands in 1940, at which time the 
array changed to a three tower DA-1 at 5 kW.

When I was Chief at the station (a lifetime ago it seems -- late 80s!), the 
correspondence with the Commission regarding the move to the Meadowlands was 
still in the engineering files -- I remember reading that they applied for 
the site move on an 'emergency basis', because their old site in Flushing had 
been condemned by the City of New York to make way for what is now LaGuardia 
Airport.  Because it was a 'forced' move, that was how they managed to 
finagle the 5 kW power increase as well.

Cheers!


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