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WTAM 1100 tower site
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A few years ago, iHeart sold off some of their tower sites to Vertical Bridge. Seems to me not long after that, they sold off chunks of the land surrounding the WLW tower.
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iHeartMedia, Inc. Announces Sale of a Select Portfolio of Its Radio Towers to Vertical Bridge for $400 Million
Company Converts to Lease Arrangement To Continue To Use Those Towers To Broadcast Its Radio Stations December 11, 2014 – New York, NY – iHeartMedia, Inc. (OTCBB: IHRT), one of the leading global media and entertainment companies, announced today the sale of a select portfolio of its tower...
Shopping Area Planned Under WLW-AM's Iconic Mason Tower
WLW-AM's iconic diamond-shaped radio tower and historic transmitter building on Tylersville Road soon will be casting their shadows on retail stores,…
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kenglish
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How are these deals working out? I would wonder about interference complaints from tenants...., "I just moved next door to the airport (hog farm/whatever). Make the planes (animal smells, etc) go away."
Isn't WSB surrounded by a mall?
Isn't WSB surrounded by a mall?
Best one is two 50 kw stations in LA, 1020 and 1150, using the directional system originally built when KGBS became Ten-Q and went fulltime in the 70's. They redesigned the system, with counterpoise wiring on the roofs and above the parking and open areas and built a bunch of huge warehouses there. The walls were done with grounded mesh, too. Has worked fine with no problems for the last 22 years.
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kenglish
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One day, some Karen will look up and see there are towers there. Counterpoises can't hide towers forever 😜 .
Trees can't either, as Ritner Nesbitt could tell you. Actually, you'd have to ask his widow. The stress killed him.
Trees can't either, as Ritner Nesbitt could tell you. Actually, you'd have to ask his widow. The stress killed him.
There was a station in Ormond Beach that had a trailer park on their tower farm. One trailer/.mobile home was tucked under a guy wire.
Aren't there a few other stations at that site?
OK all, I went to checkout the WSB tower site when I was in Atlanta afew years back, the "little mall" it is surrounded by doesn't look "like a great mall" The tower is right in the middle of it with guys coming right down to the walkways in and out of stores ,the tower guy anchors are raised and protected so you can't get to them.
I asked WSB once if test they ever did test to see if this build up around the tower base affected the signal,in anyway . . . I never got a response.
The craziest I've ever seen was on a cross country trip . . in Wallace,ID a station had two towers separated by I-90. Then you got the old KFMB 760 ( now KGB ) in San Diego with the freeway between 2 of 3 towers . . . like Dave said the 1020/1150 station in LA on a warehouse roof. The station in Roanoke,VA ( 960 ) in a shopping mall, looks like nightime site is only there now.
I have seen all these above sites except 1020/1150.
Al
I asked WSB once if test they ever did test to see if this build up around the tower base affected the signal,in anyway . . . I never got a response.
The craziest I've ever seen was on a cross country trip . . in Wallace,ID a station had two towers separated by I-90. Then you got the old KFMB 760 ( now KGB ) in San Diego with the freeway between 2 of 3 towers . . . like Dave said the 1020/1150 station in LA on a warehouse roof. The station in Roanoke,VA ( 960 ) in a shopping mall, looks like nightime site is only there now.
I have seen all these above sites except 1020/1150.
Al
And appropriately enough, it's called "Towers Shopping Center":
There was a lounge called "Radio Bar" in Miami Beach, FL. It was located under the still functioning tower of WMBM-AM and the bar occupied the former studio of either that AM, or an FM that was also once located on that site. It had a cool logo with the antenna incorporated into it, and there were lots of radios used as decor, both 1970s and 80s stereos with backlit meters and displays as well as "boom box" type radios hanging on the walls of the place. Unfortunately though popular and often busy, it closed down a few years ago.
That tower—to the best of my knowledge—has not been owned by the owners of WWWE/WTAM since they moved back in 1975. The land itself, and the original WTAM transmitter building, was owned by Carl Smith’s engineering company, and he may have owned the tower, too.
I highly doubt that you’d see the tower taken down. Indeed, it’s also used by WAKS, WZAK and a whole host of other things.
I highly doubt that you’d see the tower taken down. Indeed, it’s also used by WAKS, WZAK and a whole host of other things.
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