Klac 570 & kfwb 980

[alok]

How long have these two stations been sharing their antenna site ? It does not look like they share towers but they are located on the same property with 570 non-DA day and 2 tower DA night and 980 non-DA day & night.
There are three towers at the site.

Al

 

[Art Landing]

Can't answer your question definitively. but I remember visiting the site in the sixties, so its been over fifty years, To the best of my knowledge the stations have never shared common ownership so their sharing of a transmitter site has been puzzling.

According to the below article the move of KFWB was in 1965 (my visit was a few years later), but no explanation as to why.

https://www.fybush.com/sites/2006/site-060714.html

 

[michael hagerty]

Can't answer your question definitively. but I remember visiting the site in the sixties, so its been over fifty years, To the best of my knowledge the stations have never shared common ownership so their sharing of a transmitter site has been puzzling.

According to the below article the move of KFWB was in 1965 (my visit was a few years later), but no explanation as to why.

https://www.fybush.com/sites/2006/site-060714.html

Art: Scott has his dates a little off. The move to the KLAC site was in 1958, to make way for the construction of what was then Fedco and is now Target, at the corner of LaCienega and Rodeo. We used to shop there in the early 60s, when it was Fedco. Even by then, acreage for something like a transmitter site in Los Angeles was getting scarce and expensive, so diplexing an existing site made sense.

 

[davideduardo]

Can't answer your question definitively. but I remember visiting the site in the sixties, so its been over fifty years, To the best of my knowledge the stations have never shared common ownership so their sharing of a transmitter site has been puzzling.l

No more puzzling than former WNBC sharing with WCBS or nearly every station in Hawai'i sharing with two or three other stations... none of which were orignally co-owned. Where land is expensive or good sites hard to find and get zoned, shearing is very common.

In LA we have 3 stations at the KBLA site, two at the KTNQ site as other examples.

The only reason we don't see more of this practice is that complex and different directional arrays do not always offer options to be shared by second or third stations.