[BC] Comparing the audio in the Big '50's

[Mike Erickson]

I had heard the opposite in my 15 years at WFAN.  The MW50 was only the main a few years before the 317 came aboard.  The 317 had many hours on it when it was made the aux in 1997.

Jim Seaman is correct... the MW50 was a chore to get going when it had been off.  Every Thrusday was "transmitter day" on City Island and the MW50 would run from 10a-11a once a week.  Later when the 317 was the aux, we would run that on the air.  When HD came about, I would pick a sporting event once a week to run the 317 on since we didn't run HD for sports.  Usually it was a Sun afternoon Mets game.

There are a dozen or so airchecks on reelradio.com of WNBC in the 5am hour in 1988 (going from the overnight Time Machine oldies show to Imus).  The overnights were on the 317 for sure, I don't hear a transmitter switch at all.  Except for the reverb dropping off at 5:30am there is no other audible change.

Mike Erickson

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Brent Hall <HallLB at ldschurch.org> wrote:
>The 317C 2 at WNBC had very few hours because at the time Imus went nuts if it was on the air during his show.
>What did Imus know about transmitters? Did he have a first phone?

>~

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