[BC] Longest license on same frequency

[Scott Fybush]

WMCA actually started in 1925, and on 880 kc. It moved to 810 the next
year, then in 1928 went to a sharetime with WNYC on 570 (WNYC was there
first, beginning in 1924!)

WMCA finally got 570 to itself in 1933 when it moved WNYC up the dial to
daytime-only operation on 810. (Later 830, now 820.)

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Fred Gleason wrote:

> 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.