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U mean channel 66 . Anyway if Entercom will want to sold old 94.7 tower site but we don’t know yet. Plus I want to know when wfme am moving to new site.
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U mean channel 66 . Anyway if Entercom will want to sold old 94.7 tower site but we don’t know yet. Plus I want to know when wfme am moving to new site.
I know a good column that will have all the details when the time comes for that.
And no, I meant channel 68. The 66 came later, and was at a different site in its analog days. And Entercom was only a tenant at West Orange. It has never owned that tower and won't have anything to sell when it becomes a tenant at Lyndhurst instead.
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Hey Scott u mean wfut tv I remember that crazy that on channel 68 when I first move in NYC from Korea
WWHT ... The Fat TV! I remember those commercials on WOR-TV on cable in the early '80s. WHT stood for Wometco Home Television, a pay-TV service that transmitted a scrambled over-the-air signal.
Very controversial, in that the FCC frowns on putting a pay wall on the public airwaves. I believe their deal was the signal was only scrambled in prime time. The rest of the day, they were free TV. But to view the movies, one needed to subscribe and receive a decoder that only worked on this one channel.
It's diplexed with WNYC.
When I saw your post mentioning U together with 68, I thought it was a pun regarding the old U68 music video channel (an OTA alternative to MTV).
I believe the pioneer of pay-TV was WHCT (channel 18) in Hartford.
WSMW Worcester (Channel 27) did the same thing around the same time. Cheap syndicated programming daytime, scrambled movies at night. If the FCC had reservations about the scheme, as TheBigA knows/guesses/surmises, it sure had a funny way of saying no!
An ad in the Hartford Courant indicates WHCT's subscription programming began in 1962, some eight years before WSMW signed on, and roughly 18 years before channel 27 added a pay wall.
The debate over subscription TV over broadcast lasted from the mid-50s, when the first STV systems were proposed, well into the 1970s.
WHCT was indeed the pioneer STV authorization, receiving FCC approval in 1961 but not beginning operation until 1962. There's a good history of the WHCT Phonevision experiment and early STV in general here:
http://www.uhftelevision.com/articles/whct.html
While over-the-air STV had a bit of a flourish of success in the late 70s, by the early 80s it was overtaken by cable's ability to deliver multiple channels of subscription content. That's when the WHT STV system went away on channel 68 and was replaced, briefly at least, by U68... and then home shopping.
Did any of these stations scramble 24/7? That was the loophole.
Here's a nice bird's eye view of the current transmitter site, courtesy of Bing.
https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=dade...73.918447&lvl=19&style=g&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
Looks like they might have trouble selling their lawn mower to anyone in the neighborhood when they leave.
https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=dade...73.918447&lvl=19&style=g&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
Looks like they might have trouble selling their lawn mower to anyone in the neighborhood when they leave.
Correct...there is no grass in Maspeth. Except the stuff the warehouse guys smoke.
Whatever lawn remains around the WFME towers can be eliminated through irrigation from Newtown Creek.
So, if they perhaps sold the license without a site... what potential diplex or triplex sites might be available with tower placement that could be made to work?
Speaking of diplexing and triplexing, I am told (and of course can't verify) that the rather recent rebuild of all AMs in Cuba has some installations with 4 and 5 AMs on a single tower. Since they have no known directional systems there, that makes it a bit easier and converts the combiner/rejector to just very accurate passbands into (and back out of) the tower.
I am just amazed... I panned around the area, and it seems that even an occasional tree is rare.
I guess they need loads of warehouses and supply depots to provide for all the people living in those 1,400-foot-high pencil-thin condos in Manhattan that cost more than I have made in my entire lifetime!
It's been that way for a very long time. Close and easy proximity to NYC, highways, and airports. You'll see the same thing, also owned by ProLogis, along the NJ Turnpike if you travel down to Exit 8. In fact all along the NE corridor from Richmond to Boston. Some of it is for regional retail, but also for regional mail-order distribution (Dell, Amazon, etc)
Channel 57 in Philly eventually did.
I'm not sure any housing should be built there, however. The area around Newtown Creek is insalubrious at best.
From New York: The Toxins Lurking in Newtown Creek
As regards the 1560 tower site, a reprise of Scott Fybush's tour (Francophone pun optional): https://www.fybush.com/sites/2008/site-080321.html
It lasted two years (83-85) Perhaps they got a waiver? Or this is the start of the FCC's period of deregulation.
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