It's not illegal to booby-trap in PR?
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Audacy Deals Imminent In Phoenix
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Not in that manner. No different than an electric fence. And because I had to turn it on when a break-in was taking place, it was self-defense.
IMHO the neighborhood wasn't terrible when I was working there several years ago. With the light rail station across the street and ASU nearby, it was usually bustling with activity and felt reasonably safe, at least in the daytime. Parking and area traffic were always a hassle. The building is very tired and a bit scary in certain places but with lots of character and history. I predict Audacy will get a small fortune for the property and move the stations into much smaller rented space. Chances are the new owner will demolish it.
They have it wrong..I was CE there for years. KSLX main and aux are on their own tower. KALV main and aux are on their own tower. The towers are only 50' apart. Databases are messy.
They recently put barricades up to try to keep people from speeding through the alley past the side door; the barricades were stolen.
That building was more square feet than anyone needed 25 years ago with 2 floors largely empty.
They make great tent poles......I've heard.
At one time Metro Traffic occupied a lot of that space. Then they sold Metro to iHeart about 15 years ago, so the space has been empty ever since. Selling the building makes that empty space someone else's problem.
Why don’t they lease the space out?
When was Metro on Central? I started working at Metro in 2003 and by then they had already been at the Scottsdale Airpark for a few years.
To my knowledge, Metro was always at the Scottsdale Airpark. iHeart bought them in 2012 and they moved in with us in the iHeart building at 44th and Van Buren in April of 2013.
IIRC, the top floor of the 840 N. Central building should not be occupied by anybody. Something about being unsafe, though I don't recall exactly why. Asbestos? It was being used as storage space for awhile.
As far as Metro, 15 years ago would have been 2008, when CBS owned the building A quick Google search tells me that CBS Radio had a contract with Metro for a decade starting in 2007, but the network was owned by Westwood One until the sale to Clear Channel/iHeart a few years later.
Scott @fybush visited 840 N. Central in 2015 because of course he did---and it's what I remember from visits there in the 80s, 90s and 2000s:
Upstairs is the GM and other management-type offices. There's also a conference room up there, and I remember being in there for a Y95 news conference after some bonehead stunt Tim Hattrick and Glenn Beck pulled in Scottsdale backfired.
I don't think Metro ever had its operation up there.
Site of the Week 11/20/2015: Phoenix studios, 2015
Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH In a market like Phoenix, a lot can change in a few years. When
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Upstairs is the GM and other management-type offices. There's also a conference room up there, and I remember being in there for a Y95 news conference after some bonehead stunt Tim Hattrick and Glenn Beck pulled in Scottsdale backfired.
I don't think Metro ever had its operation up there.
Just to clarify, I was referencing the 3rd floor. Rumored by folks who worked there to be haunted...
There's a third floor?
Never knew. Building doesn't look tall enough. I thought it was just the two and the rooftop (where many veterans of many different stations there have told stories of consumption of various substances).
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It's a bit confusing as it's a combination of 2 or 3 buildings joined together over the years. From the 2nd floor where the management offices, kitchen and conference room are, there's a short stairway up to the scary 3rd floor. Which IIRC is technically the 2nd floor above the front part of the building facing Roosevelt (above the lobby, studios, programming/promotions offices). That 3rd floor is mainly storage in rooms that someone told me were once classrooms for a school. Not sure if that's accurate but I can see it being a school at one time. That's where you really get a feel for how old the place is. Corrections are welcome if any of this is wrong!
Ha! That's my old red Volkswagen Tiguan in the pic at 840 N. Central. And the late great Bryan Allen in the KMLE studio.Scott @fybush visited 840 N. Central in 2015 because of course he did---and it's what I remember from visits there in the 80s, 90s and 2000s:
Site of the Week 11/20/2015: Phoenix studios, 2015
Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH In a market like Phoenix, a lot can change in a few years. Whenwww.fybush.com
Upstairs is the GM and other management-type offices. There's also a conference room up there, and I remember being in there for a Y95 news conference after some bonehead stunt Tim Hattrick and Glenn Beck pulled in Scottsdale backfired.
I don't think Metro ever had its operation up there.
So when I was there, the GM was in the front corner of the first floor; when Jorgy bought it that became his office. Second floor was Gary Edens and Frank Foster (Frank was the graphic artist who did the logos for Edens and stayed on for Sundance.) I don't recall if anyone took over the Edens office after his year was up. There was the conference room next to the stairs, and if you walked through the conference room there were a couple of offices; this became the music office for KZON and next to it was the callout research room for Y-95. Sundance did continue to do callout research out of that room for awhile, under the stewardship of Becky Henry (former research director at KNIX).
Then there's the ladder to the satellite dish on the roof and the door to the third floor, which was a treasure trove of KOY history. Dave Chamberlin had me talk Jorgy into selling a bunch of excess old equipment that went on to power Skyview News - old Rockwell Collins consoles, old mics, old cart decks that were all up on the third floor. There was a huge music library room with the old KOY music library, filing cabinets of old memos and photos... it was a place to get lost and soak in the history of the place.
Metro bought Skyview Traffic; Skyview News became MetroSource, and Metro took over the Skyview traffic/news operation at the Scottsdale Airpark. I'm not aware of Metro moving out of the Airpark before selling to iHeart and moving to Van Buren as TTWN.
If there was a ghost on the third floor at 840 N. Central, it left me alone.
If you went above the drop ceiling in what was once the KOY News Center (this would be the room on the first floor that connected the front and rear hallways, across from engineering, there was some mural with a cowboy and a lasso that had been up there forever.
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When we had all the old-timers in for the 75th Anniversary, Bill Close was telling stories I wish I could unhear.
They didn't. They were at the Airpark when I joined iHeart in October of 2012, and we were constructing their newsroom at 44th an Van Buren the day I started. They moved in six months later and I joined that group then.
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