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1250 Dead Air

I believe you are correct. I assume they wanted to have the xmtr closer to the city and they traded the height for more power. It reminds me when WLOA-FM had a rather high tower with a high-gain antenna which had all kinds of holes in their coverage area.

Do you remember when WLOA-FM went on the air witha 3 KW Federal transmitter driving a 10 KW Westinghouse FM amplifier, complete with aircraft-style meters with ultra violet lights? Those were the days when transmitters didn't look like upright freezers. The Federal was the loudest xmtr ever build. The blowers sounded like jet engines.
 
hypwr said:
I believe you are correct. I assume they wanted to have the xmtr closer to the city and they traded the height for more power. It reminds me when WLOA-FM had a rather high tower with a high-gain antenna which had all kinds of holes in their coverage area.
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I have verified WRYT-FM and WTAE-FM. They were indeed out at the Buena Vista site through about 1973. That's when the dropped from 800' HAAT (with 15.5 kW) to 500' HAAT (with 50 kW) and moved to one of the AM sticks. There's a gap in the Broadcasting Yearbooks I have on hand so I can't cite the exact year.

Do you remember when WLOA-FM went on the air witha 3 KW Federal transmitter driving a 10 KW Westinghouse FM amplifier, complete with aircraft-style meters with ultra violet lights? Those were the days when transmitters didn't look like upright freezers. The Federal was the loudest xmtr ever build. The blowers sounded like jet engines.
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What I remember best about WLOA was the stentorian legal ID: "These are Pittsburgh's good music stations...WLOA and WLOA-FM BradDOCK". The emphasis was on the second syllable of the COL. As far as power, during the good music era, 96.9 was running 68 kW at 490' HAAT on the hill that could clearly be seen from Kennywood. It was later (circa 1980) after Benns bought the station that they went to the tall stobe tower with 15 kW at 930' HAAT. So, by my count, William Matta's FM has been on three different towers:

1-The AM red/white stick overlooking Braddock.
2-The tall strobe-lit monster next to the AM overlooking Braddock.
3-The current one up near WMNY's daytime site.

If Chuck Brinkman ever drops by, I'm sure he can straighten this all out.
 
Please extend my greetings to Chuck when you see him. I always enjoyed working with him at KQV. I hope his health is improving.

By the way, I think the Gannon College in Erie is still using a Westinghouse xmtr., with a new exciter, of course.
 
It certainly appears that way. M-Su 6a-12m is down to 1600 AQH, which is a 0.8 share and a 0.1 rating, for 12+, 600 M18-49, 400 M25-54, and only 300 M18-34.
 
I noticed this morning that 970 was already simulcasting Mike and Mike along with 1250.
In the retail biz I believe they call that a "soft opening".
 
I caught that this morning as well, also that they still had Tony Bruno (Fox Sports Radio) on last night which makes me wonder if either Greg Linelli is on vacation or if another cost cutting move by Clear Channel by ending Greg's morning show a couple of weeks early.
 
I knew when they first made the announcement of picking up ESPN radio that they said Linelli would be involved in other projects for Clear Channel, but I don't recall them saying anything about ending his show prematurely, which is why I was wondering if they just cancelled it early or if Greg had a vacation planned and just didn't mention it on the air. I understand wanting to run Mike and Mike instead of Stephen A Smith in his absense, but given the rest of the syndicated programming has remained from FSR led me to believe that maybe something had happened which they hadn't originally planned for.
 
Announcements on 1250 telling you to tune down the dial to 970 for Mike and Mike are
sure to follow (the same way that they "passed the torch" on Penn State sports to KQV)
 
T-minus 36 hours until they hampsterdance off into history.

In truth it seems everything at 1250 is already on autopilot.
They are hitting almost none of their breaks or spots on-time.
I heard a stern PSA the other day about underage drinking and
talking to your kids about preventing it. When it ended they cut
back to the network feed just in time to catch "does not apply
in Massachusetts".

Any new rumors about what 540 will be doing come Saturday?
 
At 11:59:50 Radio Disney started on 1250 no Station ID . I can't get AM 540 nighttime's 500 watt signal here . So I don't know what their doing. Happy New Year to Every one From Phil Z
 
Curious here about 540 also . Can't pick it up in Eastern Ohio when its dark outside....guess i'll dial it up when the sun rises in the morning!
 
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